The dear actor and humorist Antonio Gasalla died at 84. Last week he had received the medical discharge after staying almost ten days hospitalized because of a severe pneumonia picture. The multiteatro gave the news on X (former Twitter) and said His death “closes a humor page in our country”.
“The news of the death of Antonio Gasalla closes a page of humor in our country. Our condolences to his brother Carlos and family,” said the official X of the multiteatro.
Antonio Gasalla died
According to the latest information from the actor’s health status, last week he received the discharge of an emergency hospitalization in the Otamendi Sanatorium Since March 5 by a Severe dehydration frame and an important decline in red blood cells. I had been a few days ago.
A month ago he had been hospitalized for a similar picture and in June 2024 he was hospitalized for two weeks, due to strong pneumonia that had joined other complications.
The Argentine Association of Actors He also fired the capocomic in X: “We said goodbye to the actor, author and director Antonio Gasalla, affiliated with our union since 1966. Undisputed referent of humor, creator of characters that are part of the Argentine popular culture.” In 2000, he received from the association and the Senate of the Nation the Podestá prize to the honorable trajectory.
Death of Antonio Gasalla: the characters that marked the national humor in theater, cinema and television
With an extensive career in theater, movies and television programs, their participations They have caused laughter and their characters are already part of the Argentine popular culture. He studied at the National School of Dramatic Art, where he met Carlos Perciavalle, with whom he would later carry out theatrical projects.
In 1966, the duo starred Help Valentinohis first success. In 1973, he worked with Enrique Pinti, when writing works such as Bread and circus, gasalla and currents, Maipo is Maip among others
His consecration as an actor arrived in 1985, when he starred in the film Waiting for the floatwith a cast composed of China Zorrilla, Enrique Pinti, Juan Manuel Tenuta, Luis Brandoni, Mónica Villa and Betiana Blum. The feature film was a total success, which promoted his career and positioned his character, Mama Cora, as one of the most remembered of national cinema.
Source: Ambito
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