His son, Lalo Manzano, confirmed the news on social networks. He thanked everyone who respectfully joined in with their expressions of affection for the actor and comedian who is remembered for the program “Los Polivoces.”
Mexico City, December 5 (However).– Eduardo Manzano, Mexican actor and comedian known above all for being “The Polivoz”from the duet of the famous program “The Polivoces”a milestone of the 80s, has dead this Thursday. He was 87 years old.
His son, Lalo Manzano, confirmed the news this Friday in a social media post. Today the stage of life has lowered the curtain. My father, a comedian loved by thousands and a human being admired by all who knew him, has departed this world. “He was an extraordinary man, kind, intelligent and with a heart as big as his talent,” he said.
“Behind every joke there was a tireless worker, behind every applause there was a human being who deeply loved what he did, and behind every smile there was always a father who taught us to laugh even in the most difficult moments,” he added.
His legacy, said Lalo Manzano, also a comedian, “not only lives in the stages he illuminated, but in the people he transformed with a smile.” “Thank you, beautiful daddy, for every teaching and for having made our lives your masterpiece. Today the world applauds you once again. Rest in peace,” he said goodbye to his father.
One of the most famous characters created by “Los Polvoces”, the duo that Eduardo Manzano formed with Enrique Cuenca – who died in 2000 – was Gordolfo Gelatino, among others, such as the Hermanos Lelos, Andobas and Don Teofilito, Agallón Mafafas and Juan Garrison, Maistro and the Grasshopper, Púas and Molacho, Mary Pompis, among others.
Currently, Manzano was acting as Don Arnoldo López Conejo, in the comedy novel “Una familia de 10”, created by Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo, and broadcast on the Televisa network.
Ortiz de Pinedo said goodbye to him with a photo on social networks where Eduardo Manzano is accompanied by his father, Don Oscar Ortíz de Pinedo, “with the debutant imitators Eduardo Manzano and Enrique Cuenca ‘Los Polvoces’ in ‘LA FARMACIA DE TELEVICUENTO’ from the famous Varela program Advertising: SONRISAS COLGATE on TELESISTEMA MEXICANO, in the year 1960.”
In 2021, Eduardo Manzano was emergency hospitalized due to a bile infection. The comedian was admitted to a hospital in the Roma neighborhood and was treated with antibiotics administered via IV. He recovered.
However, in recent months Eduardo Manzano had been in poor health. Lalo Manzano, his son, did not disclose the causes of death.
According to media specialized in the world of entertainment, Eduardo Manzano was facing a period of fragile health that had deteriorated since his hospitalization in 2021.