Pepe Arias

Pepe Arias, pseudonym of José Pablo Arias (Buenos Aires, January 16, 1900 - Buenos Aires, February 23, 1967), was an actor and comedian. Argentine.

Biography

He studied two years at the Naval Military School, but was expelled for "lack of vocation". He took to the stage for the first time in 1916, at the Excelsior Theater, when he was incorporated into the De Rosas-Aranaz-Luis Arata company. He then joined the company of the brothers César and Pepe Ratti (1921), and later the Francisco Payá Company directed by Rafael De Rosa (1922). He was part of other companies such as that of Elías Alippi-Marcelo Ruggero-José Otal (1930).

By 1931 he had already created his own revue company at the Teatro Maipo.

He made his film debut in 1933 with Tango!, where he played Bonito. Pepe Arias participated in twenty-four films, among them Kilometro 111 (1938), El haragán de la familia (1940), Ghosts in Buenos Aires (1943), Food Market (1954) and The Mayor's Lady (1967).

From 1934 he entered the world of radio as a comedian, reciting his famous monologues. He worked at the radio stations Stentor, Belgrano, El Mundo and Splendid, in Argentina, and at Radio Carve, in Montevideo. He continued his stage work until the end of 1966. He is the great-uncle of actor and presenter Ronnie Arias (1962-).

In 1948 he worked with Niní Marshall, Héctor Monteverde, Diana Montes, Sara Antúnez, Renata Fronzi, Harry Dressel, Héctor Ferraro and Carlos Fioriti, in the play Canciones del mundo premiered at the Casino Theater.

He was married from March 28, 1930 to July 31, 1934 with the Peruvian star Carmen Olmedo, but their relationship frayed due to the star's jealousy and bad temper that precipitated the couple's breakup. He later married his inseparable companion Petrona Petra Bustos.

In 1989, the journalist Carlos Inzillo published the book Dear Filipipones, an affective bio-film-x-ray of Pepe Arias (Corregidor), which includes a portrait of the actor by Hermenegildo Sábat.

Death

At the end of 1966, while he was acting in the satirical comic play La revista del Tío Vicente by Carlos A. Petit and Francisco Reimundo, he suffered a cardiac decompensation as a result of an asthma attack. He died shortly after, on February 23, 1967. His remains rest in the Pantheon of the Argentine Association of Actors in the Chacarita Cemetery. Arias was 67 years old.

Filmography

• The lady of the mayor (1966).
• The woman of the shoemaker (1965).
• Stars of Buenos Aires (1956).
• Abbot market (1954).
• Any night (1951).
• All a hero (1949).
• Fúlmine (1949).
• Rodríguez supernumerario (1948).
• The most honest woman in the world (1947, not commercially released).
• Captain Perez (1946).
• The Six Blue Barbecue (1945).
• My girlfriend is a ghost (1944).
• I win the war. (1943).
• The Star Manufacturer (1943).
• Academias de idiomas en Buenos Aires (1942).
• Professor Zero (1942).
• Brother Joseph (1941).
• Napoleon (1941).
• Gold Arrow (1940).
• The Haragan of the Family (1940).
• The Crazy Serenata (does Joseph, The Great Dorbal and the Crazy Serenata, 1939).
• Kilómetro 111 (1938).
• Master Levita (1937).
• Right outside! (1937).
• Poor Perez. (1937).
• Puerto Nuevo (1934).
• Tango! (personage: Nice, 1933).

Theater

• National Day (1916) by Alfredo Palacios.
• The useless life (1916)
• Summer Crazy (1916).
• Dad of the year (1924)
• Zas-tras (1925)
• Here come the beauties (1926)
• Stéfano (1928)
• The good pig (1930)
• The Army of Salvation (1930)
• Come and see the beasts (1930)
• The Abbot Market (1930)
• The history of the year 31 (1931)
• Arias is a rich guy (1931)
• Pa' the 32 this is a jaw (1931)
• Christopher Columbus in collective (1936)
• Songs of the world (1948)