Clavillazo Biography

Publish date: 2024-05-20

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José Antonio Hipólito Espino Mora, better known as Clavillazo , was a Mexican comedian and actor, born on August 13, 1910, in Puebla, Mexico. The second of eleven children, his parents set up a butcher shop in Teziutlán, which in a few years became a success, where young José worked since he was 10 years old. Barely at the age of 20, he experienced his first tragedy, when his sister Bertha, his confidant and almost his second mother, died from a smallpox epidemic. In his adolescence, he ran away from his hometown to live in Mexico City, but his father forced him to return and looking for something he was passionate about, he began working as an occasional actor at the Teatro Variedades, today Victoria, from Puebla. By the age of 33, Clavillazo settled permanently in Mexico City, selling perfumes on the streets and in tents, which brought him closer to entertainment personalities and helped him start his career in small roles, until he reached the Company. of Fernando Soler, whom, throughout his life, he recognized as his great teacher. He had the good idea of ​​saving to pay for his own tent, but when he managed to have enough money, he spent it on a night of partying and the next day he had to look for work again, finding a vacancy as a nightstand. He eventually returned to tentpole theater and vaudeville, where he used nicknames like Chumiate and Polidor and began to be one of the most popular and beloved comedians. To highlight his comedy, he drew nails in his eyes, hence the name Clavillazo arose. He managed to have his own tent, which he named Bertha in honor of his sister and shortly after he worked in film, achieving great successes such as Legs of Gold (1957), The Phenomena of the Carnival of the Stars (1962), The Mocking Ghosts (1965), Ratero (1979), among others. Actor, comedian, producer and real estate businessman, Clavillazo died on November 24, 1993, in Mexico City, at the age of 83.

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