Emilio Aragon

Emilio Tomás Aragón Álvarez, known at the beginning of his career as Milikito (Havana, April 16, 1959), is a comedian, actor, clown, musician, Spanish singer, presenter, producer, film director, screenwriter, composer and audiovisual entrepreneur. He is known internationally for his participation in the television program The Great Goose Game and the series Family Doctor . He is the son of the famous clown Emilio Aragón Bermúdez (Miliki), from whom he took his circus nickname: Milikito. He belongs to the fourth generation of clowns of the Aragón family. He was the honorary president of the La Sexta television network, at its creation.

Biography

He was born in Havana, where he lived until 1960 and then moved with his family to Spain. Belonging to the Aragón family saga, he is the son of Emilio Aragón Bermúdez (Miliki) and Rita Violeta Alvarez.

He began his career in the program El gran circo de TVE in 1977, with the name Milikito, along with his father, his uncle Gabriel Aragón Bermúdez (Gaby) and his cousin Alfonso Aragón Sac (Fofito). In 1981 he abandoned this program that had been popularly called Los Payasos de la Tele and two years later he presented in the 1983-1984 season of Spanish Television the space Ni en vivo ni en direct which based its content on humorous sketches. Later, in September 1984, the musical Barnum premiered in Madrid, created by Mark Bramble, Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart, and from which He was executive producer, protagonist and responsible for the lyrics in Spanish.

He achieved great popularity in the mid-1980s as a presenter. At this time he will be in charge of the program Saque Bola on Canal Sur accompanied by José María Fraguas. For this work he obtained the Gold TP for the most popular character on Canal Sur. But his rise to fame will come with the VIP program on Telecinco; an evening contest that he will direct from Monday to Friday together with the director Daniel Écija and with the collaboration in the presentation of Belén Rueda. The space will obtain good acceptance and as a result of this the children's version of it will soon be addressed, VIP Guay for Saturdays co-presented by Ana Chávarri and Raquel Carrillo, and VIP Noche . It will be in the latter where, due to its mix of contest and gala, he will acquire his most remembered image of those years with his tuxedo accompanied by sports shoes, as well as his most emblematic word: "Dabuten";. He was also accompanied by the Mexican singer Thalía and the members of the female group Cacao Maravillao. He also makes a small cameo in the movie Martes y Trece: El robobo de la jojoya in 1991.

In 1992, the then president of the Zeta Group Antonio Asensio took control of Antena 3 and undertook a major renovation of its entire staff. After "La Regala", a special Christmas program recorded at the Palau Sant Jordi in front of 15,000 people, Emilio Aragón and his team will be their most recognizable signing, and after giving him the direction of the Noche space, night, in the 1993-1994 season he will be put in charge of The great game of the goose, which became his greatest success on the network. Around this time and in company With his right hand, the aforementioned Daniel Écija, founded the production company Globomedia in 1993, which will conceive or adapt for Spain programs such as Qué me dice!, Caiga qué cae or < i>The Comedy Club, or series such as Compañeros or later 7 Lives, Aída, Los hombres by Pacoand many more.

In 1995 and after a time abroad he returned to Telecinco with a family series project that would ultimately result in his most remembered and recognized leading role by the public: Family Doctor, which remained on the air until December 1999. In it, and aside from his role as producer, he played the main character: Nacho Martín. After this bet, he continued on the same network between 2002 and 2003 for three seasons of the production Javier no longer lives alone in which he played a forty-year-old bachelor who took care of his nieces, although he did not manage to revalidate the success of its previous format. Finally in 2004 he tried his luck again on Antena 3 with Almost Perfect , although poor audience results led the network to cancel its broadcast after a second season with poor results.

Since 2006 he has been honorary president of the television network La Sexta, of whose shareholders Globomedia owns an important part. In it he presented the improvisation program Los unrepeables de Amstel and acquired the affectionate nickname of & # 34; El Señor de La Sexta & # 34; awarded by the I know what you did program. In 2009, Entremedias directed his first film, Pájaros de papel, with Imanol Arias, Lluís Homar and Carmen Machi. In 2012 he traveled to the United States to direct Robert Duvall in the film A Night in Old Mexico, which was released in May 2014.

Other of his roles have been as a performer of casual musical albums such as You smell your feet, he has the title of pilot, and he is part of associations for solidarity purposes such as Acción Contra el Hambre (of which he is vice president), Intermón Oxfam, the No Drugs Committee and the Dales la Palabra Foundation. He is also part of the project 'No Hunger'. which aims to convince Al Gore so that his next documentary is directed against malnutrition due to the great social significance of his An Inconvenient Truth.

In 2017 he premiered the series Pulsaciones on Antena 3, where he is the director and screenwriter. In 2019, he decided to focus on his musical side and presented his album La Vuelta al Mundo , using the pseudonym Bebo San Juan. In 2021 he returns to present a television program, B.S.O , at # 0 on Movistar + in Spain.

Personal life

Son of the clown Emilio Aragón Bermúdez "Miliki" and the Cuban Rita Violeta Álvarez Fernández. He has three sisters, Rita Irasema, a singer and presenter, María del Pilar, a businesswoman for Globomedia and María Amparo, a set designer for The Great Game of the Goose and Doctor of the Family. Emilio married in Asturias on August 19, 1983 with Aruca Fernández-Vega Feijoó, belonging to a long line of prestigious ophthalmologists. They have three children: Icíar (1985), Macarena (1988) and Ignacio (1995).

TV shows

Movies

As an actor

As director

As a producer

Year	Title	Notes
2008	Carlitos and the field of dreams	Also composer

TV series

As an actor

As director

Year	Title	Chain	Notes
2017	Pulsations	Antenna 3	Also screenwriter

Discography

• Gaby Miliki Fofito and Milikito "There was once a record" (1977)
• Gaby Miliki Fofito and Milikito "How my nose stings" (1979)
• Gaby Miliki Fofito and Milikito "Singing always singing" (1980)
• Discoland (1980)
• You smell your feet. (1991)
• That's right. (1992)
• Trapped. (1993)
• To my 30-year-olds (1999)
• The Lomo's Sunny: Symphonytale (2004)
• The Plom Soldadet (version to Catalan) (2005)
• Bach to Cuba (2006)
• Carlitos and the field of dreams: Original soundtrack of the film Carlitos and the field of dreams (2008)
• Paper Birds: Original soundtrack of the film Pájaros de papel (2010)
• Longum Vitae Suspirium: Cantatata for baritone choir and orchestra (2011)
• A night in Old Mexico: Original soundtrack of the film One night in the Old Mexico (2013)
• Bebo San Juan: Round the world (2019)

DUBJAJE

• Stuart Little and Stuart Little 2: He put Stuart's voice in the Spanish version (in the original version was Michael J. Fox's voice).

Composer

• I compute the soundtrack of the film One night in Old Mexicoof which he was also director and producer.
• I compute the soundtrack of the film Paper Birdsfrom which he was also director, screenwriter and producer.
• I compute the cantata for baritone, choir and orchestra Longum Vitae Suspiriumfrom a selection of texts by José Saramago, commissioned by the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestra and the Fundación Autor.
• I compute the soundtrack of the film Carlitos and the field of dreamsHe was also his producer.
• I computer ballet music Snow White and led the orchestra.
• I compute the music of the cartoon series Eskimos in the Caribbeanseries devised by him.
• I compute the music and sang in the song choir of the cartoon series The maple village.
• I compute the music of the cartoon series Noeli (interpreted by her sister, Rita Irasema).
• Computer and played the tune of the television series 7 lives.
• Computer and played the tune of the television series Journalists.

shows

• World Circus Festival (1977)
• Barnum (1984)

Advertising

• Puleva (1992)
• El Corte Inglés (1996)
• "Playa and Mountain" (2016) (director)

Awards and nominations

Goya Awards

Golden Antenna

Silver Frames

Waves Awards

Golden TP

Emmy Awards