Aníbal de Mar (born Evaristo Simón Domínguez, October 26, 1918 – February 22, 1980) was a Cuban actor who played the character of El Tremendo Juez in the radio show ''

La Tremenda Corte La Tremenda Corte was a radio comedy show produced from the Radiocentro CMQ Building in Havana, Cuba. The scripts were written by Cástor Vispo, a Spaniard who became a Cuban citizen. The show was aired nonstop from 1942 to 1961. Later, the format ...

'' (1942) that even nowadays is still broadcast by several latinoamerican radio stations, forming a funny duo with

Leopoldo Fernández (Tres Patines) Leopoldo Augusto Fernández Salgado (26 December 1904 – 11 November 1985) was a Cuban comedian, known as ''Jose Candelario Tres Patines'' or ''Pototo'', maker and performer of the radio and TV program La Tremenda Corte, which is still presen ...

, with whom he joined to make the musical-comedy duo of Pototo and Filomeno.

Biography

Anibal de Mar was born in Yateras Guantanamo province, to the east of

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Island. He started his artistic career in 1934 working at all the theaters on the island. He had the ability to embody many characters at the same time accomplishing a show in

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with Don Pancracio and Felipitos's characters (playing father and son) it was brought to TV in later years in the movie Una Aventura Peligrosa (A dangerous Adventure) (1939) He did two episodes as the Chinese detective Chan Li Po whose author was Félix B. Caignet, also the author of the

radionovela A radionovela (also known as serial radiofónico or simply serial) is a type of radio drama first broadcast in Latin America in the early 20th century. Radionovelas are typically melodramas or soap operas which are issued in chapters, in contrast t ...

El Derecho de Nacer (The right to Be Born) (1948), and it was one of the first big radio hits in Cuba playing the Chinese detective. He made the first movie with audio filmed in Cuba as Chan Li Po called "La Serpiente Roja" (The Red Snake) in 1937, with supporting actress Pituka de Foronda and actor Carlos Badias and directed by Ernesto Caparros. Among other films he participated on were "Romance Musical" with the contribution of great actor

Otto Sirgo Otto Sirgo (, born Otto Sirgo Haller; December 19, 1946 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban actor and director of Mexican telenovelas and theater. He is the son of Cuban actor Otto Sirgo and Mexican actress Magda Haller and was married to Maleni Moral ...

, Rosita Fornés and the great actress Enriqueta Sierra, Elsa Valladares, Olga Chorens, Normita Suarez y Rita Montaner, "

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soy yo" (Hitler is me) with Adolfo Otero and Julito Diaz, following with "Musica, Mujeres y Piratas" (Music, Women and Pirates) "hotel de Muchachas" (Lady's Hotel) and "Ole!...Cuba" In 1947 he dubbed into Spanish the Chinese character in "El Pequeño Mr. Jim" in the Metro Goldwyn Mayer in New York city in the United States. He worked in radio stations as CMKD, CMKC, in

and in CMQ, COCO, RHC in

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External links

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Web no oficial del programa ''La tremenda corte''.

Aníbal de Mar
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mar, Anibal De 1918 births 1980 deaths Cuban radio actors 20th-century Cuban male actors Cuban male film actors Cuban male stage actors Cuban male voice actors