Gómez Bolaños, Roberto
Gómez Bolaños, Roberto
Byname of:
Roberto Gómez Bolaños
Born:
February 21, 1929, Mexico City, Mexico
Died:
November 28, 2014, Cancún (aged 85)

Chespirito (born February 21, 1929, Mexico City, Mexico—died November 28, 2014, Cancún) Mexican comic actor and writer who became a cultural icon in Latin America for the characters he created and portrayed on the family-friendly TV sketch-comedy show Chespirito and its various spin-offs. Gómez Bolaños, whose father was a painter and an illustrator for periodicals, grew up primarily in Mexico City. As a youth, he was active in sports, especially association football (soccer) and boxing, and he later studied engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1951 Gómez Bolaños took a copywriting job at an advertising agency, where ...(100 of 530 words)