Tato Cifuentes

{{Short description|Chilean-born Argentine actor, singer and ventriloquist}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Tato Cifuentes

| image = Tato Cifuentes.jpg

| birth_name =Héctor Raúl Cifuentes Lira

| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|10|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Santiago, Chile

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|7|30|1925|10|14|df=y}}

| death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina

| occupation = Actor, singer, ventriloquist

| years_active = 1948–1982

}}

Héctor Raúl "Tato" Cifuentes Lira (14 October 1925 – 30 July 2017) was a Chilean-born Argentine actor, singer and ventriloquist. In his career, he performed in Argentine and Uruguay.

Career

Cifuentes traveled to Argentine in 1950 and would remain there until his death in 2017.{{cite book |last=Sueiro |first=Victor |title=Crónica loca de maravillas, curiosidades, rarezas y misterios de la Argentina |year=1980 |editor=V.S.D. |location=Buenos Aires |page=172}} He was an honorary guest at the 1975 Viña del Mar International Song Festival. During his final years of his career, he had a cameo in Los Copihues, a film from Guayaquil, Ecuador.

His career began in the early 1950s. He was known for his movie roles Cuidado con las imitaciones (1948), Imitaciones peligrosas (1949) and Tiempo de crear (1962). His best known singles were "El mambo de la chocolata", "Los Tatines", and "El relojito".

Personal life

Cifuentes was married five times and had one son. He suffered from male breast cancer in 2008, which he had to undergo chemotherapy.{{cite web|url=http://buscador.emol.com/noticias/Tato+Cifuentes|title=Tato Cifuentes - Noticias - Buscador Emol|website=buscador.emol.com}} Cifuentes, who was married six times, had a critical moment in 2008 when he was diagnosed with breast cancer, for which he had to undergo several chemotherapy sessions.{{Cite web |title=Tato+Cifuentes - Noticias - Buscador Emol |url=http://buscador.emol.com/noticias/Tato+Cifuentes |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=buscador.emol.com}}

Death

Cifuentes was hospitalized in July 2017 after falling in the shower of his home in Buenos Aires.{{cite web|url=http://www.adnradio.cl/noticias/sociedad/padre-de-tatin-lucha-por-su-vida-tras-accidente-domestico/20170710/nota/3515722.aspx|title=Padre de 'Tatín' lucha por su vida tras accidente doméstico|publisher=}} He later died at a hospital in Buenos Aires of cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by pneumonia on 30 July 2017 at the age of 91.{{cite web|url=http://www.ahoranoticias.cl/noticias/tendencias/202494-a-los-91-anos-murio-el-reconocido-humorista-y-ventrilocuo-tato-cifuentes.html|title=A los 91 años murió el reconocido humorista y ventrílocuo Tato Cifuentes|first=Felipe|last=Anaiz|date=30 July 2017 |publisher=}}

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Category:1925 births

Category:2017 deaths

Category:Argentine male film actors

Category:Chilean male film actors

Category:20th-century Argentine male singers

Category:20th-century Chilean male singers

Category:Chilean emigrants to Argentina

Category:20th-century Argentine male actors

Category:20th-century Chilean male artists