If there is no snack, if there is no captain, without the sailor there is nothing. This was clear to the captain when he lost his partner. He has kept the elastic forever and has filed the hat that perhaps at that time was called something else, but now, if someone wants to buy it, he has to look for it as a “piluso”. Humberto “Coquito” Ortiz died at the age of 49 40. Few remember that the last thing he did on TV was in do not touch the buttonwith Alberto Olmedo, but without Piluso.

Humberto Ortiz was the grandfather of “Pochita”, a girl who played Moria Casán. He was 81. In the same year, the story of the captain and the sailor, which had begun 21 years earlier, ended. Logic indicates that it is difficult, but perhaps some specialists have written if there has been any other program that has gone through the five air channels. In other words, across all channels: there were no others at the time.

When he was tasked with putting together a character to introduce Huckleberry Hound and other milk hour cartoons, Olmedo called him Coquito. Well, to his friend Humberto Ortiz, to write the scripts for those introductory shorts that would last a few minutes. The character duo was also put together and it went so well that participation went to half an hour and then to the full hour.

The duo who led the afternoon

Everyone turned on the television and the duo was hegemonic in the afternoon. “How’s it going for you, Piluso?” he greeted the sailor and those interrupted telephone conversations began.

Few people today are in their 60s, ahead or a little behind, who have not received an education or trained their sensitivity with the humor of those big boys who spoke to them as peers and somehow they prepared them for the future by making money jokes or something.

The program started under the name of Captain Pilus and he spent 3 years in 9, one year in 7 and two in 2. It was the 1960s, the decade with the greatest impact. In parallel, “Coquito” did things to her.

A recommended for those who want to see him in a role outside the character is the film dear santiagosince 1965. Just as many things have been lost on television and many others are circulating with a harmful watermark, it is fortunate that many of the Argentine films are complete on YouTube.

Good, dear santiago It is a story that reproduces one of those captivating formulas of the time, with an unmanageable child, a humble singing hero, the girl they fall in love with, a dancing priest and the antagonist embodied in the rich with a submissive woman who starts to fuck and cruel until the plot softens him and ends up absolving him by assigning him the status of a repentant angel.

All with that post-Gardelian accent in the way of speaking.

There “Coquito”, or Ortiz, is “Pedrito”, a lazy boy pushed by Nelly Láinez on an impossible mission to please the young and beautiful Marta González. If you don’t want to see the whole movie, you can look for the specific scenes at 8.04, 17.57, 39.18 and especially one at 56.54, where a barber leaves poor “Pedrito” with half of his face unshaven. The humor!

successful screenwriter

Also for the cinema, “Coquito” wrote the screenplay The adventures of Captain Piluso (in the castle of terror)with some beautiful scenes of the duo, for example, in the crowd in Plaza Constitución and sharing the story with Martín Karadagián and some of the titans.

The “brand” has given a lot. Presentations, merchandising (a “Coquito” doll spins in the retro offers) and, there would be no shortage of records that have completed any television success. In Captain PilusLP with the unforgettable yellow label RCA Viktor, appears with Palito Ortega, a la Lennon / McCartney nac & pop, sharing the authorship of two tracks titled Grandma, let’s go to sleep Y Patrizia the cat.

Ortiz participated as an actor in musical comedies with the tango singer Olga Lamas and the actor Ubaldo Martínez. His character was that of a vagabond.

On TV, in addition to the duet of his life with Olmedo (which included his role as librettist for the pacifierthe program that Rosario started in 1973) had the occasion of its own show, at Cocco’s houseby Tevedos.

Olmedo used to appear in his friend’s personal exhibition, which has always helped. Off the set, when “Coquito” was organizing a party or event, appeared with the hat and rubber band to support it.

When the dictatorship has clawed

The duo was on TV in the 80s and 81s (in 13 and then in 11). But the censors of the dictatorship had stripped the Captain of his “rank” and his weapon. And his partner outfit, which, in Quico style, more than anything else seemed to recreate the clothes the boys wore to make them look well dressed. They said it lowered the image of the forces in power.

Humberto Ortiz was in the first season of do not touch the button. He was the grandfather of Pochita (Moria), a little friend of the indomitable boy Pirulo (Olmedo). That was the last. His punished voice, almost inaudible at the time, revealed the presence of laryngeal cancer that was cornering him. He died on October 11, 1982.

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