Juan Carlos Mareco (January 20, 1926 â€" October 8, 2009) was a
Uruguayan actor and radio and television talk show host. He achieved
fame in Spain, Chile and Argentina from the 1960s onwards in comedy
roles and as a television host in a variety of genres.Mareco was born
in Carmelo, Uruguay in 1926. He debuted as actor in a local 1943
theatre production, El hombre más lindo del mundo (The Best-Looking
Man in the World), and in Uruguayan film in a comedy, Detective a
contramano (The Detective Goes the Wrong Way, 1949). Given third
billing in Spanish director Alberto De Zavalia's El otro yo de Marcela
(1950). He later joined Argentine latin jazz drummer Tito Alberti as a
vocalist in Alberti's Jazz Casino Orchestra, touring throughout Latin
America until 1957. Mareco eventually relocated to Spain in 1962.
Nicknamed Pinocho (Pinocchio), he was cast by that stage name in a
number of Spanish comedies during the 1950s and '60s, and was both the
Spanish language voice actor and the foil for the South American
version of Italian marionette Topo Gigio.Settling in Argentina, he
earned four MartÃn Fierro Awards from 1967 to 1972, but after 1976,
faced political persecution in Argentina because of his Peronist
sympathies. He returned to Argentine television after the 1982
Falklands War as host of a successful, no-frills afternoon talk show,
Cordialmente.Mareco would received a total of eight MartÃn Fierro
awards, as well as a Konex Award for Best Television Host in 1991, and
remained on TV until his retirement.
Uruguayan actor and radio and television talk show host. He achieved
fame in Spain, Chile and Argentina from the 1960s onwards in comedy
roles and as a television host in a variety of genres.Mareco was born
in Carmelo, Uruguay in 1926. He debuted as actor in a local 1943
theatre production, El hombre más lindo del mundo (The Best-Looking
Man in the World), and in Uruguayan film in a comedy, Detective a
contramano (The Detective Goes the Wrong Way, 1949). Given third
billing in Spanish director Alberto De Zavalia's El otro yo de Marcela
(1950). He later joined Argentine latin jazz drummer Tito Alberti as a
vocalist in Alberti's Jazz Casino Orchestra, touring throughout Latin
America until 1957. Mareco eventually relocated to Spain in 1962.
Nicknamed Pinocho (Pinocchio), he was cast by that stage name in a
number of Spanish comedies during the 1950s and '60s, and was both the
Spanish language voice actor and the foil for the South American
version of Italian marionette Topo Gigio.Settling in Argentina, he
earned four MartÃn Fierro Awards from 1967 to 1972, but after 1976,
faced political persecution in Argentina because of his Peronist
sympathies. He returned to Argentine television after the 1982
Falklands War as host of a successful, no-frills afternoon talk show,
Cordialmente.Mareco would received a total of eight MartÃn Fierro
awards, as well as a Konex Award for Best Television Host in 1991, and
remained on TV until his retirement.
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