Roberto Gómez Bolaños
Birthday: Born in 1929-02-21 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Deathday: 2014-11-28
Roberto Gómez Bolaños (21 February 1929 – 28 November 2014), more commonly known by his pseudonym Chespirito, was a Mexican screenwriter, actor, comedian, film director, television director, playwright, songwriter, and author. He is widely regarded as one of the most important Spanish-language comedians of the 20th century. He was internationally known for writing, directing, and starring in the Chespirito (1968), El Chavo del Ocho (1971), and El Chapulín Colorado (1972) television series. The character of El Chavo is one of the most iconic in the history of Latin American television, and El Chavo del Ocho continues to be immensely popular, with daily worldwide viewership averaging 91 million viewers per episode.
TV Credits
Animal nocturno
Character: Self
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De pé a pá
Character: Self
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El Chavo del Ocho
Character: El Chavo del Ocho
The mishaps of Chavo, an 8-year-old orphan boy who lives in a barrel. Together with Quico, Chilindrina, Ñoño and La Popis, Chavo experiences a series of humorous entanglements....
Los Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada
Character:
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El Chapulín Colorado
Character: Chapulin / Doctor Chapatin / Chespirito / Chómpiras / El Flaco / Charles Chaplin / Mesero majadero / Soldado Shakespeare
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Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Self
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Chespirito
Character:
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Chespirito: Sin querer queriendo
Character: Self / Chavo del 8 (archive footage)
Miniseries that follow the life and career of Mexican actor, comedian and producer Roberto Gómez Bolaños, known for being the creator of El Chavo del 8, El Chapulín Colorado and Chespirito....
Movie Credits
Best of El Chavo del 8, Vol. 1
Character: El Chavo del 8
A cap, a barrel, and an eight year old boy surrounded by his friends from the neighborhood have been the essential elements for the entertainment for millions of views around the world. Created by comic actor Roberto Gomez Bolanos, El Chavo del 8 made its mark on Mexican Television and has left us with everlasting memories of entertainment for our families. Its sketch comedy format appeals to young and old alike. El Chavo del 8 still airs in syndication all over Latin America....
Charrito
Character: Charrito
Charrito is the villain actor in a movie, which is filmed in a town, that only produces headaches to the director, for being extremely distracted...
El zángano
Character:
Capulina reaches Mexico City and sweating buckets trying to work with his uncle, the billionaire strict resting all day surrounded by a bunch of beautiful women....
Música de Viento
Character:
Mr. Quevedo is a public relationist in a real estate company managed by Mr. Cepeda. Mr. Cepeda has become rich through fraudulent practices. Mr. Martinez is a client who was victimized by Mr. Cepeda; thus he appears one day at the real estate office looking for Mr. Cepeda but instead he found Mr. Quevedo and appoints him with a gun, Mr. Quevedo farts unintentionally due to the menacing situation. Mr. Quevedo teaches the audience to bravely act according to the own values. —Elizabeth Kahl...
Don Ratón y Don Ratero
Character: Ratón Pérez
A tap dancing exterminator is mistaken for an out-of-town hit man by two rival gangs, each hoping to acquire his services....
Dos locos en escena
Character: Don Juan
Viruta and Capulina, magicians working in a theater where the actors delegate dishonest ratchets, is assassinated by two stagehands to remove payroll and left her body in the clubhouse Cristas singer Virutas girlfriend. He and Capulina move the body in a trunk to utility room but the trunk is base off and the body is in the Viruta's room. A lush Chasing Coquis showgirl girlfriend Capulina, stains of red paint and falls asleep, believing him dead detectives accuse Capulina and Viruta of murder....
El Chanfle
Character: El Chanfle
Although he always wanted to become a professional soccer player, El Chanfle has settled for being the props boy and water boy for Mexican soccer's Club América, whose coach they both have trouble getting along with because of the Chanfle's heightened sense of honesty and cleanliness on the court, something the rigid coach does not share. When he is asked to cheat during a game he refuses and is fired from his job, but his friend, the team doctor will try to get him back. At the same time, his w...
El Chanfle 2
Character: El Chanfle
is the continuation of the Mexican film El Chanfle (1979) Chespirito, which aired in theaters in 1982. At that time the cast of the neighborhood (with some absences: the Carlos Villagran, who decided not to continue working with Roberto Gomez Bolaños by a personal decision, he left in 1979. Ramon Valdez next year decides to accompany him, also leaving to work with Chespirito. returned with him in 1981, but a health problem that was detected in the early 80's, was prevented from participating in ...
Las tres magnificas
Character: Manolo
Small-town priest invites his three rambunctious nieces to visit him....
Operación carambola
Character: Carlitos / Scorpio Leader's Deputy #1
Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack....
La princesa hippie
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Twins separated at birth; one grows up to inherit the crown of San Marciano, and the other works in a pawnshop in Mexico City....
El cuerpazo del delito
Character: Goliath (segment "La Rebelde")
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios....
Chespirito: El Niño Que Somos
Character: Self / Chavo del 8
As a child, Roberto Gómez Bolaños dreamed of being a soccer player or an engineer; acting seemed ridiculous to him. But as time went by he discovered his true calling. First as a writer and then as an actor, he gave life to several characters, including two of the most popular in the history of Mexican television....
The Crazy World of the Youth
Character:
Pop-star who performs incognito is pressed into service to seduce a young woman who has rejected four childhood friends of his....
Dos Criados Malcriados
Character:
Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros....
Lo Mejor del Chavo Del Ocho 1 e 2
Character: El Chavo del Ocho / Chaves
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La hermana Trinquete
Character: Fat tourist's husband
Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent....
El amor de María Isabel
Character: Instructor Manejo (uncredited)
Follow up to Maria Isabel. Newly wed to a rich man, Maria Isabel must still struggle with being branded as a lowly maid and endure the scorn of her adoptive daughter and the infidelity of her husband....