Jorge Porcel
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Jorge Raúl Porcel De Peralta (born September 7, 1936) is a comedy actor from Argentina. He is nicknamed El Gordo De America (The Americas' Fat Guy). Porcel is often considered, along with Alberto Olmedo, one of Argentina's greatest comic actors of the twentieth century.
Porcel made a total of 48 movies, starting with 1962's Disloque en Mar del Plata, and ending with El Profesor Punk (1988). Many of these 48 movies were collaborations with Olmedo. Among the movies they did together was 1986's Rambito Y Rambon: Primera Mision. (Little Rambo and Big Rambo: First Mission)
Many of Porcel and Olmedo's movies in the 1980's were adult-oriented comedies. Conservative Argentine authorities rated these movies as PM-18 (age 18 and above), except for some movies planned for family audiences, which had "tamer" content. These movies are considered to be the pinnacle of Argentina's sexploitation movie genre. Most of these movies were directed by Gerardo Sofovich or his brother Hugo.
Porcel had many TV hit shows as well, including Operación Ja Ja (both the 1960's original and the 1980's remake) and Polémica en el Bar (Debate at the café), where he had celebrated moments of comedy with fellow comedian Juan Carlos Altavista. Most of these TV efforts were linked to the Sofovich brothers.
After he retired from filming movies in Argentina, he moved to Miami, where he starred in a risqué late-night variety show named A la cama con Porcel (To Bed with Porcel) on the Telemundo network, and was given a cameo in Hollywood production Carlito's Way.
He is currently touring Latin America to promote an autobiography, visiting such places as Puerto Rico and some other countries in that endeavor. He has also become a newborn Christian.