Antonio Gasalla’s secrets: Del Conherero a mentor from Clan Caniggia

Antonio Gasalla It was the last of the capocomic of an extinct era of which they were also part Enrique Pinti and Tato Bores. Popular as few, he was one of the founders of Café-Concert with Carlos Perciavallebegan at the under and then filled theaters for a decade until it moved to TV. Wrote and acted for five decadeshe reinvented himself and remained in force, despite being known for his strong character, for taking care of his private life and being a mentor of the most freaks of TV as the unforgettable grandmother, the public employee or Barbara Don´t Werry.

He was next to Susana Giménez For more than a decade like grandmother and starred “More respect that I am your mother” of Hernán Casciari In 2009 at the Metropolitan Theater. There he embodied a Mirta Bertottia 52 -year -old housewife who had to deal with a crazy family.

But before “Bread and circus”, “Gasalla y Corrientes”, “Gasalla For Export”, “Gasalla 77”, “El Maipo is El Maipo” and “Gasalla is Gasalla”, “Gasalla in Intensive Therapy”, “Maipo 100 % Gasalla”, “Maipo Made in Gasalla”, among others. Your friendship with Lino Patalano Del Maipo had it for several seasons in that room.

Although few know it, He studied dentistry but left to resume the National School of Dramatic Arts, He started at the under and climbed into the varieré and the popular. He said to be the inventor of the word “Conhero” (Garment of dress that the vedettes use in the theater), revealing that he first began doing it with a cork but nobody wanted to use it, until he came to do it as he is currently known. The first to use the conhero was the actress Cecilia Narova, In a work of his.

In 1985 he starred in the film “Waiting for the float”, where he played the role of “Mom Cora”, next to China Zorrilla, Enrique Pinti, Juan Manuel Tenuta, Luis Brandoni, Mónica Villa and Betiana Blum. Thence “Grandma” that endured forever in the collective memory and that it costs to take off from the grandmother who makes today Campi In the current version.

In 1988 he debuted at ATC with “The world of Antonio Gasalla” who made his characters and his sympathy for a massive and faithful audience for thirteen years. In ´97 he launched “gasalla on TV” with the participation of Pons Norma and Roberto Carnaghi, accommodating the Under artists as Alejandro Urdapillata and Humberto Tortonesealso to the numerous humorists unknown at that time in the media Carlos Parrilla and Atilio Veronelli.

About summoning these little known actors for the moment, Gasalla He said in an interview: “I always worked with actors who just started. As I also started on TV, I felt more comfortable. Although there was always someone with many years of laburo, such as Pons Norma. I have known Klemm for more than thirty years, and it seemed to me to put it in the program was to approach in an almost dislocated way to very important painters he has in his gallery. By Mariana Nannis all the channels fought: That was what had fun and what still has fun of her. That he becomes an almost patriotic thing, where he takes sides intensely for or against someone who is the woman of a football player. ”Without a doubt a visionary who discovered the clan Caniggia

In 2004 he returned with “Gasalla on screen” And in 2006 he returned with “Classics 2” to the Nogaró Theater from Punta del Este.

In 2007 he starred, together with Nito Artaza and Luciana Salazar, “Cristina in Wonderland” at the Teatro de Mar del Plata and continued with the magazine with characters such as Claudia Fernández and Ximena Capristocelebrating the 100 years of the Maipo Theater.

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One of the last images of Antonio Gasalla in 2023 when he received the Martin Fierro to the trajectory.

In 2012 he was part of the jury of “Dancing for a dream”, next to Carmen Barbieri, Moria Casán, Marcelo Polino, Aníbal Pachano and Flavio Mendozabeing the best of the jurors of so many who would follow later.

His last work was in 2019, he made his last work in Mar del Plata Gasalla, next to your friend Marcelo Polinoalready Maximiliano de la Cruz, Pepe Ochoa and Luciana “Lula” Rosenthal. There he displayed the most successful characters of his career as an actor, interspersing monologues and sketches.

In September 2020, during health restrictions on the Covid-19 pandemic, he announced his retirement as an artist and three years later, after a robbery he suffered in his Recoleta department in April 2023, he was admitted to a private clinic to evaluate his state of health and cognitive capacity at the request of his relatives. July 9, 2023 Gasalla He was honored at the Martín Fierro Awards for his career years, receiving the Trajectory Award.