Marco Antonio Campos (9 September 1919 – 19 February 1996) was a Mexican comedian, actor, and singer best known as Viruta in the

double act A double act (also known as a comedy duo) is a form of comedy originating in the British music hall tradition, and American vaudeville, in which two comedians perform together as a single act. Pairings are typically long-term, in some cases f ...

Viruta y Capulina Viruta y Capulina ( en, Viruta and Capulina), performed by Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine, were a Mexican double act featured in film, television, theatre, radio, and comic books from 1956 to 1966. Career Viruta and Capulina's first feat ...

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Gaspar Henaine Gaspar Henaine (6 January 1927 – 30 September 2011), more commonly known by his pseudonym Capulina, was a Mexican comedian, actor, singer, film producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for partnering with Marco Antonio Campos as the do ...

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Retrieved 30 December 2010. His best known role is as the straight man in the comic duo

along with

. Campos and Henaine worked together in 95 comedy films and one television series until they separated over work issues in 1969. He died in 1996 from an aortic aneurysm.

Selected filmography

* '' Comedians and Songs'' (1960)

Awards

* 2005,

Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana (Casa de América Prize for American Poetry) is a literary prize awarded by the public consortium, "in order to stimulate new poetic writing in the Americas, with special attention to poems that open up ...

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* Comedians from Mexico City Male actors from Mexico City Mexican male comedians Mexican male film actors Mexican male television actors Golden Age of Mexican cinema 1919 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Mexican male actors Deaths from aortic aneurysm 20th-century comedians {{Mexico-film-actor-stub