Actor Rodolfon Bebán is dead.
This Sunday the sad news of the death of actor Rodolfo Bebán. He was informed by the Argentine Association of Actors. He was 84 years old.
“With great sorrow we greet the actor and director Rodolfo Bebán. His vast artistic career includes unforgettable works in film, theater and television,” the entity, with which he had been affiliated since 1962, said in a tweet.
“We accompany their children, family and loved ones in this difficult time,” he added.
Claudio García Satur, Thelma Biral and Rodolfo Bebán
A news report published Friday in America claimed that Bebán had been hospitalized for years in a nursing home; and that he would suffer from depression.
Born in Ciudadela in 1938, Bebán spent his childhood in Morón where he became a “Gallito” fan, although he also had a football liking for Independiente. During his adolescence he discovered his passion for the theater. In an interview with Clarín in 2014, Bebán recalled what his beginnings in acting were like.
“I entered the theater following a friend, because the word ‘theater’ was forbidden in my mother’s house … I was separated from my father, who was an actor (Miguel Bebán). When I told him I wanted to be an actor, when I was 14 or 15, he almost killed me. The point is that one day I went with my friend to the back of the Morón Theater and we read that on the door it said ‘Extra needed for Fuenteovejuna’. He wanted us to come in and I didn’t want to know anything. But he puffed me up so much that he convinced me. And we did, we didn’t say text, but we were there, on stage, it was incredible, “he recalled.
Rodolfo Bebán with Alfredo Alcón, during an interview with Clarín in 2011. Photo: Fernando de la Orden
Bebán said that his mother never knew about that episode and decided to continue because of what would be his great passion. “Later I entered the theater school, where María Elena Sagrera, Bianco and Labat gave us lessons. They were romantics, lovers of this profession,” he recalled.
With titles consecrated on the small screen such as Malevo (1972) or Four men for Eve (1966), he recognizes in that reportage his notoriety on television, despite having passed through independent theater, working in Europe and working for years to improve the own training. “I did the Moreira on television. (Leonardo) Favio would not have noticed me if he hadn’t seen me on TV. And I swear that when he chose me the only ones who believed I could do it were Favio and I, nobody anymore”.
Claudia Lapacó and Rodolfo Beban.
During the success of the novel “Love Has Every Woman” he had memorable television couples with Bárbara Mujica and Thelma Biral. He was also attended by Claudia Lapacó, with whom Bebán married in 1966 and had two children.
Then he had a relationship for 18 years with Gabriela Gilli.
Rodolfo Bebán and Gabriela Gilli, during the novel Malevo.
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Source: Clarin
