EfraÃn López Neris is a Sephardi Puerto Rican actor, producer and
cinematographer that has had a long trajectory in Puerto Rico's
national artistic scene.Born in Caguas in April 1937, he had his start
in Puerto Rican television in the 1960s by joining the cast of various
comedy shows. Among his memorable television characters, "Don Florito"
parodied great opera singers and operatic arias, a concept that
predated that of Adam Sandler's Opera Man by at least fifteen years.
His "Candido" had López portray an extremely naive married man who
placed too much confidence in his wife and their mutual house painter
friend ("mi amigo, el pintor"), whose profession led quite well to
dozens of double entendres about his wife's proclivities, acknowledged
by everyone but himself. Perhaps his "Don Lolo" character was his most
popular one, as a very old man with a very sharp tongue. He originally
portrayed the character as having Parkinson's disease, a trait which
he later discontinued after protests from patient advocates. A recent
character, "Vázquez", has López portraying a dimwitted security
guard, with a penchant for food, Spanglish and politics, who is also a
strong -and rather inept- supporter of the New Progressive Party of
Puerto Rico. López played this character on some of Sunshine
Logroño's comedic productions.López also had a popular radio program
in his native city of Caguas, 'El Show de López Neris'. A comedic
character from this era was Mister Ã'emerson. He staged a fake hijack
in one of his programs, which led to a police intervention, dozens of
phone calls of concerned listeners to the radio station, protests by
some of these when they learned that the hijack attempt was a hoax,
and perhaps led to the cancellation of the program soon after.As a
film actor, López Neris has been cast in films such as Wedding Ring
(CBS), Los que nunca amaron (Mexico), Mientras Puerto Rico duerme, La
vida de Rafael Hernandez, Muchacha, Mas alla del Capitolio, Harbor
Lights (Columbia Pictures), Up the Sandbox with Barbra Streisand, and
more recently in Angelito mio.
cinematographer that has had a long trajectory in Puerto Rico's
national artistic scene.Born in Caguas in April 1937, he had his start
in Puerto Rican television in the 1960s by joining the cast of various
comedy shows. Among his memorable television characters, "Don Florito"
parodied great opera singers and operatic arias, a concept that
predated that of Adam Sandler's Opera Man by at least fifteen years.
His "Candido" had López portray an extremely naive married man who
placed too much confidence in his wife and their mutual house painter
friend ("mi amigo, el pintor"), whose profession led quite well to
dozens of double entendres about his wife's proclivities, acknowledged
by everyone but himself. Perhaps his "Don Lolo" character was his most
popular one, as a very old man with a very sharp tongue. He originally
portrayed the character as having Parkinson's disease, a trait which
he later discontinued after protests from patient advocates. A recent
character, "Vázquez", has López portraying a dimwitted security
guard, with a penchant for food, Spanglish and politics, who is also a
strong -and rather inept- supporter of the New Progressive Party of
Puerto Rico. López played this character on some of Sunshine
Logroño's comedic productions.López also had a popular radio program
in his native city of Caguas, 'El Show de López Neris'. A comedic
character from this era was Mister Ã'emerson. He staged a fake hijack
in one of his programs, which led to a police intervention, dozens of
phone calls of concerned listeners to the radio station, protests by
some of these when they learned that the hijack attempt was a hoax,
and perhaps led to the cancellation of the program soon after.As a
film actor, López Neris has been cast in films such as Wedding Ring
(CBS), Los que nunca amaron (Mexico), Mientras Puerto Rico duerme, La
vida de Rafael Hernandez, Muchacha, Mas alla del Capitolio, Harbor
Lights (Columbia Pictures), Up the Sandbox with Barbra Streisand, and
more recently in Angelito mio.
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