Roberto Gómez Bolaños was a Mexican actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director best known for creating the characters El Chapulín Colorado, Chespirito, and El Chavo del Ocho for popular television series. He was internationally renowned as the most important Latin American humorist and wrote, directed, and starred in many successful comedy shows. The character of El Chavo continues to entertain millions of daily viewers worldwide and Gómez Bolaños remained a hugely influential figure in television until his death from heart failure in 2014 at age 85.
Roberto Gómez Bolaños was a Mexican actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director best known for creating the characters El Chapulín Colorado, Chespirito, and El Chavo del Ocho for popular television series. He was internationally renowned as the most important Latin American humorist and wrote, directed, and starred in many successful comedy shows. The character of El Chavo continues to entertain millions of daily viewers worldwide and Gómez Bolaños remained a hugely influential figure in television until his death from heart failure in 2014 at age 85.
Roberto Gómez Bolaños was a Mexican actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director best known for creating the characters El Chapulín Colorado, Chespirito, and El Chavo del Ocho for popular television series. He was internationally renowned as the most important Latin American humorist and wrote, directed, and starred in many successful comedy shows. The character of El Chavo continues to entertain millions of daily viewers worldwide and Gómez Bolaños remained a hugely influential figure in television until his death from heart failure in 2014 at age 85.
Roberto Gomez Bolaños more commonly known by his pseudonym Chespirito,
or "Little Shakespeare" was a Mexican screenwriter, actor, comedian, film director, television director, playwright, songwriter, and author. He is widely regarded as the most important Latin and Spanish-language humorist of all time. He was internationally known for writing, directing, and starring in the Chespirito (1968), El Chavo (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 continues to be immensely popular, with daily worldwide viewership averaging 91 million viewers per episode. On 28 November 2014, Chespirito died from heart failure as a complication of Parkinson's disease at the age of 85, in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico.