Amador Jacobo Bendayán Bendayán en-dah-IAN(November 11, 1920 – August 4, 1989)Gravestone: Amador Bendayán 4.8.89
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Biography

The son of Moroccan Jewish immigrants, Bendayán was born in Villa de Cura, Aragua, and was raised and educated in

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. He started his career in

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in 1937 as an

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. Bendayán gained a huge popularity for his comedies ''El Bachiller y Bartolo'' (1949–59) and ''La Bodega de la Esquina'' (1950–1960), and when it went from radio to

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, his popularity – and his audience – continued to grow. He also appeared in several

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and Venezuela from 1947 through 1971 and worked in ''The Amador News'', a satirical TV-news parody, in the mid-1960s. In 1968, Bendayán was hired by Radio Caracas Televisión to host ''Sábado Espectacular'', a five-hour marathon

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which lasted through 1971. A year later he moved to Venevisión, as the show was renamed '' Sábado Sensacional''. Bendayán hosted his show until 1988, a few months before his death in Caracas, aged 68. Gilberto Correa succeeded him as host of the show. Amador Bendayán was the founder and first president of ''Casa del Artista'', a cultural center which is located in a boulevard named after him, in an area next to the Santa Rosa church, a

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Selected filmography

*''Misión atómica'' (1947) *'' Yo quiero una mujer así'' (1951) *''Seis meses de vida'' (1951) *''Yo y las mujeres'' (1959) *''Si yo fuera millonario'' ka ''If I Were a Millionaire''(1962) *''El idolo'' (1963) *''Napoleoncito'' (1964) *''Escuela para solteras'' (1965) *''El Pícaro'' (1967) *''El Reportero'' ka ''The Reporter''(1968) *''Departamento de soltero'' (1971) *''O.K. Cleopatra'' (1971)

References

External links

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Casa del Artista
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