Rubén Aguirre Fuentes (Spanish pronunciation: [ruˈβen aˈɣire
ˈfwentes]; 15 June 1934 â€" 17 June 2016) was a Mexican actor and
comedian. He was best known for his character Profesor Jirafales in
Televisa's 1970s television show El Chavo del Ocho. Aguirre also
participated in another well known television show of the era, El
ChapulÃn Colorado, albeit less frequently.Rubén Aguirre was born in
Santa Anita in Saltillo, Coahuila.In his book Después de Usted (After
You, a common phrase used by his character Professor Jirafales),
published in February 2015, he wrote about the difficulty of finding
higher education institutions in Mexico during the mid 1950s, since
there were very few schools. This is why in his late teenage years, he
moved to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to study in one of the most
renowned universities of that time, the Escuela Superior de
Agricultura "Hermanos Escobar", where he studied Agricultural
Engineering.Once in Juárez, he would regularly cross into the United
States, since according to his memoir, "it was so easy to cross the
border back then, I remember I would put on my college jacket on and
since the gringo would see that you were a student, he would let you
through". Rubén Aguirre worked many times as a gardener in El Paso to
make ends meet.
ˈfwentes]; 15 June 1934 â€" 17 June 2016) was a Mexican actor and
comedian. He was best known for his character Profesor Jirafales in
Televisa's 1970s television show El Chavo del Ocho. Aguirre also
participated in another well known television show of the era, El
ChapulÃn Colorado, albeit less frequently.Rubén Aguirre was born in
Santa Anita in Saltillo, Coahuila.In his book Después de Usted (After
You, a common phrase used by his character Professor Jirafales),
published in February 2015, he wrote about the difficulty of finding
higher education institutions in Mexico during the mid 1950s, since
there were very few schools. This is why in his late teenage years, he
moved to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to study in one of the most
renowned universities of that time, the Escuela Superior de
Agricultura "Hermanos Escobar", where he studied Agricultural
Engineering.Once in Juárez, he would regularly cross into the United
States, since according to his memoir, "it was so easy to cross the
border back then, I remember I would put on my college jacket on and
since the gringo would see that you were a student, he would let you
through". Rubén Aguirre worked many times as a gardener in El Paso to
make ends meet.
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