Roberto Gómez Bolaños

He was only 5’6”. One of the funniest Hispanic/Latin-American comedians. Roberto Gómez Bolaños (21 February 1929 – 28 November 2014), more commonly known by his pseudonym Chespirito, was a Mexican screenwriter, actor, comedian, film director, television director, playwright, songwriter, and author. He is widely regarded as one of the most important Spanish-language comedians of the 20th century. He was internationally known for writing, directing, and starring in the Chespirito (1968), El Chavo del Ocho (1971), and El Chapulín Colorado (1972) television series. The character of El Chavo is one of the most iconic in the history of Hispanic/Latin-American television, and El Chavo del Ocho continues to be immensely popular, with daily worldwide viewership averaging 91 million viewers per episode.

Works

El Chavo del Ocho

The mishaps of Chavo, an 8-year-old orphan boy who lives in a barrel. Together with Quico, Chilindrina, Ñoño and La Popis, Chavo experiences a series of humorous entanglements.

Release Date1973-02-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd El Chavo del Ocho

Episode Count9

Vote Count1982

Chespirito

Release Date1970-10-15

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd

Episode Count[ 641 ]

Vote Count395

Lo Mejor del Chavo Del Ocho 1 e 2

Release Date2005-08-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd El Chavo del Ocho / Chaves

Vote Count1

A Day in the Life

The documentary tracks 19 hours of broadcasting from several brazilian TV channels making live surfing between channels. The result was edited latter.

Release Date2010-10-28

Charactersd Chaves (El Chavo) (archive footage )

Vote Count9

El Chapulín Colorado

Release Date1973-02-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Chapulin / Doctor Chapatin / Chespirito / Chómpiras / El Flaco / Charles Chaplin / Mesero majadero / Soldado Shakespeare

Episode Count289

Vote Count740

Best of El Chavo, Vol. 1

A cap, a barrel, and an eight year old boy surrounded by his friends from the neighborhood have been the essential elements for the entertainment for millions of views around the world. Created by comic actor Roberto Gomez Bolanos, El Chavo del 8 made its mark on Mexican Television and has left us with everlasting memories of entertainment for our families. Its sketch comedy format appeals to young and old alike. El Chavo del 8 still airs in syndication all over Latin America.

Release Date1973-11-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd El Chavo del 8

Vote Count2

La hermana Trinquete

Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.

Release Date1970-09-03

Charactersd Fat tourist's husband

Vote Count5

El Chanfle

Although he always wanted to become a professional soccer player, El Chanfle has settled for being the props boy and water boy for Mexican soccer's Club América, whose coach they both have trouble getting along with because of the Chanfle's heightened sense of honesty and cleanliness on the court, something the rigid coach does not share. When he is asked to cheat during a game he refuses and is fired from his job, but his friend, the team doctor will try to get him back. At the same time, his wife Tere announces to be pregnant, and trying to sell a gun in order to make money for their future, unintentionally scares a old man, Chato, with it, who now seeks revenge.

Release Date1979-01-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd El Chanfle

Vote Count93

El Chanfle 2

is the continuation of the Mexican film El Chanfle (1979) Chespirito, which aired in theaters in 1982. At that time the cast of the neighborhood (with some absences: the Carlos Villagran, who decided not to continue working with Roberto Gomez Bolaños by a personal decision, he left in 1979. Ramon Valdez next year decides to accompany him, also leaving to work with Chespirito. returned with him in 1981, but a health problem that was detected in the early 80's, was prevented from participating in this film), it left room for the story of a lowly stagehand football team that achieves his dream beside his wife Tere, of having a child. In this film, the situation is a little different.

Release Date1982-01-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd El Chanfle

Vote Count54

El cuerpazo del delito

Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.

Release Date1970-07-09

Charactersd Goliath (segment "La Rebelde")

Vote Count9

Don Ratón y Don Ratero

A tap dancing exterminator is mistaken for an out-of-town hit man by two rival gangs, each hoping to acquire his services.

Release Date1983-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Ratón Pérez

Vote Count9

Los Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada

Los Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada

Release Date1970-10-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Episode Count3

Operación carambola

Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.

Release Date1968-08-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Carlitos / Scorpio Leader's Deputy #1

Vote Count36

El amor de María Isabel

Follow up to Maria Isabel. Newly wed to a rich man, Maria Isabel must still struggle with being branded as a lowly maid and endure the scorn of her adoptive daughter and the infidelity of her husband.

Release Date1968-04-30

Charactersd Instructor Manejo (uncredited)

Vote Count6

Charrito

Charrito is the villain actor in a movie, which is filmed in a town, that only produces headaches to the director, for being extremely distracted

Release Date1984-03-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Charrito

Vote Count24

Las tres magnificas

Small-town priest invites his three rambunctious nieces to visit him.

Release Date1970-03-04

Charactersd Manolo

Vote Count4

El Chavo: The Best of Don Ramón

The best of Don Ramon.

Release Date2006-03-21

Charactersd El Chavo del Ocho

Vote Count1

Dos locos en escena

Viruta and Capulina, magicians working in a theater where the actors delegate dishonest ratchets, is assassinated by two stagehands to remove payroll and left her body in the clubhouse Cristas singer Virutas girlfriend. He and Capulina move the body in a trunk to utility room but the trunk is base off and the body is in the Viruta's room. A lush Chasing Coquis showgirl girlfriend Capulina, stains of red paint and falls asleep, believing him dead detectives accuse Capulina and Viruta of murder.

Release Date1960-01-01

Charactersd Don Juan

Vote Count7

Música de Viento

Mr. Quevedo is a public relationist in a real estate company managed by Mr. Cepeda. Mr. Cepeda has become rich through fraudulent practices. Mr. Martinez is a client who was victimized by Mr. Cepeda; thus he appears one day at the real estate office looking for Mr. Cepeda but instead he found Mr. Quevedo and appoints him with a gun, Mr. Quevedo farts unintentionally due to the menacing situation. Mr. Quevedo teaches the audience to bravely act according to the own values. —Elizabeth Kahl

Release Date1989-09-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count25

El Ciudadano Gómez

Release Date1970-10-14

Charactersd Ciudadano Gómez

Episode Count9

Vote Count1

Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose

Miniseries that follow the life and career of Mexican actor, comedian and producer Roberto Gómez Bolaños, known for being the creator of El Chavo del 8, El Chapulín Colorado and Chespirito.

Release Date2025-06-05

Charactersd Self / Chavo del 8 (archive footage)

Episode Count8

Vote Count443

Chespirito: El Niño Que Somos

As a child, Roberto Gómez Bolaños dreamed of being a soccer player or an engineer; acting seemed ridiculous to him. But as time went by he discovered his true calling. First as a writer and then as an actor, he gave life to several characters, including two of the most popular in the history of Mexican television.

Release Date2001-01-10

Charactersd Self / Chavo del 8

Vote Count11

Animal nocturno

Release Date2006-04-16

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

De pé a pá

Release Date1996-01-07

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Las Lunas del Auditorio

Release Date2002-09-04

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

TV o no TV

TV o no TV

Release Date2008-11-11

Charactersd Self - Actor 'Chespirito'

Episode Count1

Atrevete a Vivir

The life of Florinda Meza, from her difficult childhood to her romance with Roberto Gómez Bolaños "Chespirito" and the mourning of his death.

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

In the Shadow of the Moon

Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia.

Release Date1999-08-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

Dos tontos y un loco

Crown-prince of a primitive country goes to Mexico for college. Wacky hijinks ensue.

Release Date1961-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count6

El Chavo: The Animated Series

El Chavo Animado is a Mexican animated series based on a live-action TV series of the same name, created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños.

Release Date2006-10-21

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count518

Un novio para dos hermanas

Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin sister, is convinced that the girl in the party is Pili. And the sisters do not know they are in love with the same man, which will lead to an unexpected conflict.

Release Date1967-07-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count23

Elisa Before the End of the World

10-year-old Elisa, whose parents are about to lose their new car due to financial problems, plans a bank robbery.

Release Date1997-06-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count20

La cigüeña distraída

Release Date1966-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count16

Pegando con tubo

Developmentally-challenged guy and is caretaker get drafted into he police force and take part in the manhunt for a bank robber.

Release Date1961-07-19

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count12

The Red Grasshopper 3D

More agile than a turtle, stronger than a mice, nobler than a lettuce, his shield is a heart: this is the impossible story of how the Scarlet Grasshopper became the clumsiest and most amazing superhero of them all.

Release Date2021-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count2

Dos pintores pintorescos

Two house-painters go to art school. Also bad guys try to kill them.

Release Date1967-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count12

Los reyes del volante

Comedy film starring Viruta and Capulina.

Release Date1965-11-25

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Vote Count6

¡En peligro de muerte!

Release Date1962-11-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count17

Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas

Release Date1997-01-06

DepartmentSound

JobSongs

Episode Count235

Vote Count2

The Specter's Road

A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)

Release Date1967-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count23

¡Que vivan los muertos!

Release Date1998-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Romance sobre ruedas

A sporty new car is gifted to two young men who work at an auto factory, and they have to time-share it between them.

Release Date1969-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

La Chilindrina en apuros

Release Date1994-04-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count69

Los astronautas

Viruta and Capulina are recruited by a group of Venusian space women to serve as an example of ideal males for their planet, much to the dismay of the men of Venus and the fiendish Martians.

Release Date1964-03-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count12

Limosneros con garrote

Low-rent vaudeville entertainers lose their venue and try to find mainstream jobs to support the foundling child they're raising.

Release Date1961-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7

¡Ahí, madre!

In a neighborhood of Mexico City, inhabit different characters. From a hardened general, suffering from delusions of persecution, to a recruit; two brothers dedicated to teaching music; two treasure hunters restless, and a friendly concierge who lives with her son, the popular Gordolfo Gelatino.

Release Date1970-11-12

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count7

Detectives o ladrones..?

Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.

Release Date1967-06-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count18

Dos meseros majaderos

Comic duo are stalked by a serial killer.

Release Date1966-09-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

Los Caquitos

Los Caquitos

Los Caquitos is a sketch comedy of the Chespirito television comedy program that ran from 1980 to 1995. It was created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños, who also played one of the title characters, "El Chómpiras".

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Chaves (Max Exclusivo)

Release Date1973-02-26

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Los Invisibles

The "Wizard" jewel thief made one of his misdeeds, to be discovered by the business owner, he gets into a toy store, and one of the dolls placed the brilliant he stole. Chip and Capulina are inventors and repairers, candles and grooms daughter of the owner of the toy factory. Capulina accidentally discovers a painting that makes him invisible things. A secret detective Interpool, began a series of investigations to find the thief who has also robbed the invention and fail to commit more crimes. Wrapped in a sea of confusion, Chip and Capulina attempt to resolve this mess.

Release Date1963-07-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

La princesa hippie

Twins separated at birth; one grows up to inherit the crown of San Marciano, and the other works in a pawnshop in Mexico City.

Release Date1969-05-14

Vote Count5

The Crazy World of the Youth

Pop-star who performs incognito is pressed into service to seduce a young woman who has rejected four childhood friends of his.

Release Date1967-12-08

Vote Count4

Fray Dollar

The branch of a bank in a small town is in bankruptcy. To regain the trust of the people, they offer the town's priest the position of Bank Manager, who in turn, begins to carry out all kinds of loans and social aid to the people.

Release Date1970-01-01

Vote Count1

Dos Criados Malcriados

Don Antonio quiere casar a una de sus dos hijas Tere o Lorena con un conde. Para eso alquila una mansión y contrata a los criados Viruta y Capulina, para atender al conde y a sus invitados. Pero los criados descubren que el conde y sus invitados son unos rateros.

Release Date1960-07-21

Vote Count9

El zángano

Capulina reaches Mexico City and sweating buckets trying to work with his uncle, the billionaire strict resting all day surrounded by a bunch of beautiful women.

Release Date1968-09-11

Vote Count7