RIP Mario Beut

 

Radio announcer Mario Beut dies at 89

MAN OF RADIO, THEATER, DUBBING AND TELEVISION

His face and voice were very popular during the 50's, 60's and 70's

La Vanguardia

By: James Collell

8/7/2022

 

The popular radio player Mario Beut Padrós (1933-2022) was a multifaceted man. Apart from radio, he dedicated himself to theater, dubbing, television and advertising. He died last Saturday in Barcelona at the age of 89. The journalist experienced professional conditions in which exercising a certain job allowed him to dedicate himself to others that were very similar. In addition, Beut played the piano, he attended his entire degree, and not too long ago he still entertained his neighbors on Sunday mornings.

Circumstantially born in Arenys de Mar, he grew up in Barcelona's Eixample, a city where football could still be played in the street at the time. Of course, the balls were made of cloth and paper. The practice he obtained doing amateur theater at the Salesian school enabled him to master the basic rules of declamation: pay attention to commas, silences, rhythms. He passed the tests of merit that Luis Escobar's company had called. Not much time passed until, by chance, Jaume Torrents, head of programs at Radio Barcelona, ​​saw him at a performance of The Glass Zoo in the dome of the Coliseum and offered him a job at the station. It was a major turning point in his life. The first steps behind the microphones were in radio plays.

Mario Beut had studied Law, as well as music, but once he focused on his radio career, he worked on numerous channels such as Radio Miramar, Radio Barcelona, ​​La Ser and La Cope, where he was still active ten years ago. He soon realized that broadcasters, especially foreign ones, naturally valued announcers but, primarily, they were looking for good directors and screenwriters. Wasting no time, he began to write stories and narratives and sought sponsors to make his own programs. There was a time when he managed thirteen weekly programs on the Ser chain.

Mario Beut's career as a dubbing actor is not so well known. He in total he put the voice in more than two hundred films. Among other well-known faces on the big screen, he has dubbed Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sidney Poitier, Jean-Louis Trintignant, George Peppard and Tony Curtis. Between the 1960s and 1970s, he made his debut on Televisión Española presenting entertainment programs and contests such as Do we know Spain? The latter became so popular that many theaters delayed the projection of his films until the end of the television broadcast.

In 1958 he was awarded the Ondas award for best actor for his work on Radio Barcelona, ​​and in 1960 the award for best announcer. Mario Beut spent the last few years caring for his wife, who was ill with Alzheimer's, from whom he was widowed shortly after. Optimistic and empathetic by nature, he visited the newsroom of La Vanguardia in the summer of 2015 and could still be identified by the powerful and determined tone of voice that came through the airwaves. A serious man, a friend of his friends, who thought that before you couldn't go to work in a shirt and without a tie. He was then compiling in a book a selection of the many interviews he had done on the radio.

He leaves two children. The wake takes place this Monday at the Les Corts funeral home. The ceremony is held at twelve noon.

 

BEUT, Mario (Mario Beut Padros)

Born: 5/5/1933, Arenys de Mar, Barcelona, Spain

Died: 8/6/2022, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

 

Mario Beut’s westerns – voice actor:

Cimarron – 1960 [Spanish voice of Russ Tamblyn]

Flaming Star – 1961 [Spanish voice of Richard Jaeckel]

Warlock – 1961 [Spanish voice of Frank Gorshin]

How the West Was Won – 1963 [Spanish voice of Barry Harvey]

Cattle King – 1964 [Spanish voice of Robert Ivers]