Jorge Porcel
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Born | Jorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta 7 September 1936 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Died | 16 May 2006 | (aged 69)
Occupation(s) | Actor, television host |
Jorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxoɾxe raˈul poɾˈsel de peˈɾalta]; 7 September 1936 – 16 May 2006), known as Jorge Porcel, was an Argentine comedy actor and television host.[1] He was nicknamed El Gordo de América (America's Fat Guy). Porcel is considered, along with Alberto Olmedo, one of Argentina's greatest comic actors of the twentieth century.
Film career
Porcel worked in 49 movies, starting with 1962's Disloque en Mar del Plata, and ending with Carlito's Way (1993). Many of these 49 movies were collaborations with Olmedo. Among the movies they did together was 1986's Rambito y Rambón: Primera Misión. (Little Rambo and Big Rambo: First Mission)
Many of Porcel and Olmedo's movies in the 1970s and 1980s were adult-oriented comedies. Conservative Argentine authorities
Films
- El gordo Villanueva (1964)
- Disloque en Mar del Plata (1964)
- Disloque en el presidio (1965)
- Villa Cariño (1967)
- Coche cama, alojamiento (1967)
- Villa Cariño está que arde (1968)
- Desnuda en la arena (1969)
- Flor de piolas (1969)
- El bulín (1969) – Carlos Paiva
- Los debutantes en el amor (1969)
- Pasión dominguera (not released – 1970)(aka 'Los Hinchas' in Argentina)
- Los caballeros de la cama redonda (1973)
- Hoy le toca a mi mujer (1973)
- Los doctores las prefieren desnudas (1973) – Jorge Peralta
- La casa del amor (1973)
- Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos (1974)
- Hay que romper la rutina (1974) – Jorge Portillo
- Mi novia el... (1975) (aka 'Mi novia el travesti in Argentina') – Mozo restaurant (uncredited)
- Maridos en vacaciones (1975) – Jorge Portillo
- El gordo de América (1976)
- Los hombres sólo piensan en eso (1976) – Jorge
- Basta de mujeres (1977) – TV preacher
- Las turistas quieren guerra (1977) – Jorge
- El Gordo catástrofe (1977) – Catrasca
- Desnudas (1977)
- Fotógrafo de señoras (1978) – Jorge Catrasca
- Encuentros muy cercanos con señoras de cualquier tipo (1978) – Jorge
- Custodio de señoras (1979) – Jorge Peralta
- Expertos en pinchazos (1979) – Jorge
- Así no hay cama que aguante (1980) – Jorge
- A los cirujanos se les va la mano (1980) – Jorge
- Departamento compartido (1980)
- Te rompo el rating (1981) – Jorge Fetuccini
- Las mujeres son cosa de guapos (1981) – Jacinto Busarda
- Amante para dos (1981) – Fat man in restaurant
- Un terceto peculiar (1982) – Jorge
- Los fierecillos indomables (1982) – Jorge Pietrabuena
- Los fierecillos se divierten (1983) – Jorge
- Los extraterrestres (1983) – Jorge
- Los reyes del sablazo (1984) – Jorge Pelongo
- Sálvese quien pueda (1984) – Jorge
- Mírame la palomita (1985) – Cayetano
- Los colimbas se divierten (1986) – Jorge
- Rambito y Rambón, primera misión (1986)
- Los colimbas al ataque (1987) – Soldado Jorge Pumba
- Galería del terror (1987)
- Atracción peculiar (1988) – Jorge Trolombatti
- El profesor punk (1988) – Profesor Pancurulo
- Carlito's Way (1993) – Reinaldo "Ron" Saso
Television career
Porcel had many TV hit shows as well, including Operación Ja Ja (both the 1960s original and the 1980s remake) and Polémica en el bar (Debate at the Café), where he had celebrated moments of comedy with fellow comedian Juan Carlos Altavista. Most of these TV efforts were linked to the Sofovich brothers. He also did Las Gatitas Y Ratones de Porcel (Little Cats & Mice of Porcel).
After he retired from filming movies in Argentina, he moved to
Porcel's health deteriorated with time, due to his struggles with
Porcel died in a
Music
In 1980 he recorded a bolero record called Pure heart (Spanish: Puro Corazón (1980)) . Jorge Porcel loved music and in his shows he used to sing boleros, as in Las gatitas y ratones de Porcel (Porcel's kittens and mice) (where he was frequently accompanied by piano player Mike Rivas) and at ¿Lo viste a Porcel? (Have you seen Porcel). With his character Don Mateo he took part in a record from the show Operacióm Ja-Já (Operation Ha ha) singing along with Rolo Puente, Leo Dan's hit «Libre, solterito y sin nadie» (Free, single and with nobody).
Comics
In 1970's decade, for several years, Cielosur Editora published several magazines dedicated to TV characters, as Piluso, Minguito and El Gordo Porcel. Las aventuras del Gordo Porcel (The adventures of Porcel the Fat Man) was the title of the one dedicated to Jorge. The usual play -with drawings by Francisco Mazza- consisted of el Gordo getting in trouble and several confusions, during the time in between the feasts of food prepared by his mother, who he lived with. Other frequent characters are his girlfriend and his dog Banana, who had his own comic.
See also
References
- ^ "Jorge Porcel – Filmografía, Biografía, Fotos | cinenacional.com". cinenacional.com. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
External links
- Jorge Porcel at IMDb
- Jorge Porcel at Cinenacional.com (in Spanish) (archive)
- Obituary at Canada.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-03-12)
- Jorge Porcel at Find a Grave