Gerardo Andrés Sofovich (March 18, 1937 – March 8, 2015) was an Argentine businessman,

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, television host and presenter, comedian, scriptwriter, and director. He was the producer of '' Polémica en el bar'' and ''La noche del Domingo'', two of the most popular Argentine TV shows of the 1970s and 1980s. Sofovich also hosted ''A la manera de Sofovich'' and ''Sin Límite SMS'', which were broadcast on Canal 9. During the 1970s and 1980s he directed several

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films starring comedians

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and

Jorge Porcel Jorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta (; 7 September 1936 – 16 May 2006), known as Jorge Porcel, was an Argentine comedy actor and television host. He was nicknamed ''El Gordo de América'' (''America's Fat Guy''). Porcel is considered, along with A ...

.As a businessman, he backed up major shows on

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' Corrientes Avenue theaters. His late brother

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had a similar career as a film director and theater entrepreneur. Just before his death, he hosted another TV show, ''8 escalones'' (''8 steps'').

Health problems

Sofovich suffered a heart attack in 1992 at age 55. He had 15 stents put in and had twelve 12 angioplasties. On October 8, 2014, it was revealed that Sofovich had been connected to an artificial respirator and was sedated at Clinica Suizo-Argentina hospital after suffering a pulmonary infection, which complicated his health

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condition. He died on March 8, 2015, aged 77.

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