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El Chavo ("The Kid/The Boy", Spanish chavo also meaning "cent"), also known as El Chavo del Ocho ("The Kid/Boy from Number Eight") during its earliest episodes, was a Mexican television sitcom series created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños (Chespirito) and produced by Televisa.
El Chavo Animado (El Chavo: The Animated Series in English) is a Mexican animated series based on the live action television series El Chavo del Ocho, created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños, produced by Televisa and Ánima Estudios. It aired on Canal 5, and repeats were also shown on Las Estrellas and Cartoon Network Latin America.
Portrayed by Roberto Gómez Bolaños; Years: 1972–1992; El Chavo del Ocho is an 8-year-old orphan and the main character of the series. "Chavo" is a Mexican Spanish slang for "kid" or "boy"; Chavo's real name is unknown, but is supposed to be Chente, short for Vicente, after a supposed friend that nobody has ever met and according to Chavo, looks a lot like himself.
Villagrán in 2015. On April 1st, 2000, in an El Chavo del Ocho special which reunited all the actors from the series to honor the career of Chespirito (except Ramón Valdés, Angelines Fernández, Raúl Padilla, Horacio Gómez Bolaños, who had all passed prior to the special, and Ana Lilian de la Macorra, who was unable to attend), Villagrán and Chespirito saw each other for the first time ...
Meza was born in Juchipila, Zacatecas, the daughter of Emilia García and Hector Meza. [2] She was cast by Roberto Gómez Bolaños to play Doña Florinda [es; pt] (and later Popis []) in the Televisa sitcom El Chavo del Ocho, which would become a major international hit.
At first he was called "El Chavo del 8" because this series was broadcast on channel 8 of Mexican TV (today Nu9ve), but when the program began to be broadcast on another channel due to its popularity, the character himself explained to the rest that it was a false belief that he lived in the barrel of the patio and the "8" was because he lived ...
Chespirito saw something else in his brother, however, and soon, he convinced Horacio to try it out as an actor. As a result, Horacio Gómez Bolaños got the character "Godínez" on El Chavo del Ocho. Horacio Gómez Bolaños appeared less frequently than his co-stars on both of Chespirito's shows.
Raúl "Chato" Padilla García (17 June 1918 – 3 February 1994) was a Mexican actor, and a member of Chespirito's comedy troupe, famous for his character in El Chavo del Ocho, Jaimito, el cartero ("Jaimito, the Mailman").