Actor Atilio
Pozzobón died
Teleshow
Septemeber
12, 2020
The renowned artist passed away at the age of 82. He was a figure in
Argentine humor classics such as "La revista dislocada" and
"Telecónicos". He also made his mark on the big screen and in
the world of advertising.
Atilio
Pozzobón, a renowned film, television, theater
and publicity actor, died this
Saturday at the age of 82, according to the Argentine Association of
Actors.
Teleshow He wanted to find out the reasons for the death, but the
artist's family prefers to keep the details for their privacy, at least for
now.
A native of Llavallol, a district
of Lomas de Zamora, he spent his days listening to the wooden radio that was in
his home, while his father worked in a factory. On Sundays, as I walked
through the streets of the neighborhood, I heard that La
revista dislocada was playing in every house, the hit comedy program
of the moment, created and scripted by Délfor Dicásolo. His friends told him that because of his ability to do imitations, he
should try his luck there.
Despite
his mother's refusal and that for him it was "an odyssey" to travel
to Buenos Aires,
he went to radio Splendid. “There was a guard and an impressive wooden
gate. I went in and got to the door and asked to speak to Mr. Délfor. 'The
little guy is busy,' they told me. They thought I wanted to see the
program ... But after a while, because of those things that nobody knows why
they happen, the guy came back and told me: 'The petiso is waiting for you.' I
was trembling ... Délfor received
me and said: 'What can you do, kid?' "Pozzobón said in
an interview with Telefe Noticias.
“I
did 20 imitations, one after the other, and he said 'it may be'. At that
moment Cacho Fontana ,
who was the announcer of the program, enters. There was a piano and he threw himself on top laughing. Délfor told
me: 'Come on Sunday, kid, I'll write you news. ' When I got home my mom
asked me how I had been. I told him: 'On Sunday I put The Dislocated Magazine and you are
going to listen to your son.' I think the pressure went up to 30 or so,
"he said.
He worked uninterruptedly from
1959 to 1976. Much of his career
was linked to sports journalism , mainly as a chronicler of the
broadcasts of the rise of La oral
deportivo, on radio Rivadavia, in addition to his work on radio Belgrano
and El Mundo. For 17 years he had his own program, Get up with joy , which began at five
in the morning on Radio del Pueblo.
He
was also a figure on black and white television. It came to Telecomics , an emblematic television
program of the 1960s. He stood out for the character of the Boca Fanatic, one of the great
attractions of the cycle. He was a man who lost his temper in all
conversations and could not help but exclaim his passion for the colors blue
and gold, and his idolatry for Antonio
Rattín, captain and figure of the team at that time. "Fanatic me?", Was the catchphrase
that popularized.
The character led him to be the
star of the advertising of Cigarrillos Boca and to establish a friendship with the president of the club Alberto José Armando. Its
popularity allowed it to be the visible face of many other brands throughout
its trajectory.
At
that time the doors of the cinema were opened to him, with films such as The town already has a curator, The Picnic of
the Campanelli and Rosarigasinos. In
the '90s Juan José Campanella turned
his career upside down and, far from humor, called him to play the chef of the
restaurant run by the characters of Ricardo Darín and Héctor Alterio in Son
of the Bride. Later, the director hired him again in Luna de Avellaneda and El Hombre de tu vida. There were almost
50 feature films in which he participated.
On a personal note, he had several
ups and downs during the years that he accompanied his wife (whom he met on a
train trip on the Roca Railroad, between Llavallol and Temperley) during her
long illness. She passed away in
1983 and he never rebuilt his love life. "Continuing was
difficult because I had to learn a lot of things that I did not know," he
said about it.
Like
his characters, he always showed himself as a simple, neighborhood person: “ Everything that I have done for me was a dream . Every
actor I meet says nice and nice things to me. I realized that all
distinctions and compliments are caresses to the soul. And the soul, when
it receives caresses, is very happy”.
POZZOBON, Atilio (Atilio
Angel Pozzobón)
Born: 3/24/1938,
Llavallo, Lomas
de Zamora, Argentina
Died: 9/12/2020, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Atilio Pozzobón’s western – actor:
Lucky Luke – 2009 (barman)
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