Viruta y Capulina (English: Viruta and Capulina), performed by Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine, were a Mexican double act featured in film, television, theatre, radio, and comic books from 1957 to 1967. [1] [2]
Viruta y Capulina (English: Viruta and Capulina), performed by Marco Antonio Campos and Gaspar Henaine, were a Mexican double act featured in film, television, theatre, radio, and comic books from 1957 to 1967. [1] [2]
Roberto Gómez Bolaños was the writer of their television program, Cómicos y canciones, and also wrote or co-wrote 24 of their films. Gómez Bolaños later remembered, "When I met [Viruta], he had just gone through a crisis of alcoholism and they had told him that he would die in a couple of weeks. We worked together for nearly 17 years and he never tasted a drop of alcohol, but he could never quit smoking." [3]
Viruta and Capulina's first feature film, Se los chupó la bruja , was shot in 1957 and released the following year by Películas Nacionales. Upon viewing the film for the first time during a private screening, Capulina said that he felt "desolate" and told his wife that he would "never again work in film." [1] However, the film was screened for eight weeks and became a box-office hit. [1]
Five of their films were shot in color: La odalisca No. 13, Cascabelito, Barridos y regados, Buenos días, Acapulco, and Dos pintores pintorescos.
By 1962, the films of Viruta and Capulina were often associated with "bad quality" films and television programs. [1] In response, Capulina said that he and Viruta never had "the slightest freedom to choose stories." [1] Viruta went on to write the stories of two of their films, Cascabelito (1962) and Los reyes del volante (1965).
Viruta and Capulina starred in 34 films. They made cameo appearances (actuaciones especiales in Spanish) in two films: Viaje a la luna (1958), a comedy starring Kitty de Hoyos and Corona and Arau (another comedy duo), and La vida de Pedro Infante (1966), a Pedro Infante biopic. They appeared in a total of 36 films, including the two cameos. Jaime Salvador directed the duo's first film and eight more, Agustín P. Delgado also directed nine, Gilberto Martínez Solares directed four, Fernando Cortés directed three and one cameo, Miguel Morayta directed three, father and son René Cardona and René Cardona Jr. directed two each, and Miguel Zacarías directed one and the final cameo.
| Year | Title | Production company | Director | Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | La sombra del otro | Producciones Dyana | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Francisco Javier Camargo (based on his radio series) Fernando de Fuentes (film adaptation) María Luisa Algarra and Josefina Vicens (additional dialogue) |
| 1958 | Se los chupó la bruja | Filmadora Chapultepec | Jaime Salvador | Pedro de Urdimalas and Pedro Galindo (original story) Ramón Pérez P. and Pedro de Urdimalas (film adaptation) Jaime Salvador (screenplay) |
| Viaje a la luna | Brooks y Enríquez | Fernando Cortés | Fernando Galiana and Fernando Cortes (story) Carlos Sampelayo (adaptation) | |
| Los legionarios | Producciones Zacarías | Agustín P. Delgado | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (original story) Agustín P. Delgado (film adaptation) | |
| La odalisca No. 13 | Producciones Zacarías | Fernando Cortés | Carlos Sampelayo (story) Fernando Cortés (adaptation) | |
| Muertos de miedo | Filmadora Chapultepec | Jaime Salvador | Pedro de Urdimalas and Pedro Galindo, Jr. (original story) Eduardo Galindo (adaptation) | |
| A sablazo limpio | Brooks y Enríquez | Fernando Cortés | Fernando and José Luis Galiana (story) Fernando Cortes and Carlos Sampelayo (adaptation) | |
| 1959 | Angelitos del trapecio | Producciones Zacarías | Agustín P. Delgado | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (original story) Agustín P. Delgado (adaptation) |
| 1960 | Los tigres del desierto | Producciones Zacarías | Agustín P. Delgado | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (original story) Agustín P. Delgado (adaptation) |
| Dos locos en escena | Producciones Zacarías | Agustín P. Delgado | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story and dialogue) Agustín P. Delgado (film adaptation) | |
| Dos criados malcriados | Producciones Zacarías | Agustín P. Delgado | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (original story) Agustín P. Delgado (adaptation) | |
| El dolor de pagar la renta | Producciones Zacarías | Agustín P. Delgado | Roberto Gómez Bolanos (story and dialogue) Agustín P. Delgado (film adaptation) | |
| Cómicos y canciones | Alameda Films | Fernando Cortés | Fernando Galiana (story) Fernando Galiana and Fernando Cortés (adaptation) | |
| Los desenfrenados | Producciones Zacarías | Agustín P. Delgado | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (original story) Agustín P. Delgado (adaptation) | |
| 1961 | Limosneros con garrote | Filmadora Chapultepec | Jaime Salvador | Pedro de Urdimalas and Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story) Jaime Salvador (adaptation) |
| Un par... a todo dar | Filmadora Chapultepec | Jaime Salvador | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story) Jaime Salvador (adaptation) | |
| Pegando con tubo | Filmadora Chapultepec | Jaime Salvador | Pedro de Urdimalas and Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story) Jaime Salvador (adaptation) | |
| Dos tontos y un loco | Filmadora Chapultepec | Miguel Morayta | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story) Miguel Morayta (adaptation) | |
| 1962 | Qué perra vida | Filmadora Chapultepec | Jaime Salvador | Jaime Salvador (story and adaptation) |
| Cascabelito | Filmadora Chapultepec | Jaime Salvador | Marco Antonio Campos (story) Jaime Salvador (adaptation) | |
| En peligro de muerte | Producciones Zacarías | René Cardona | Alfredo Zacarías (story and adaptation) Roberto Gómez Bolaños (comedic collaboration) | |
| 1963 | Los invisibles | Filmadora Chapultepec | Jaime Salvador | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story and adaptation) |
| Barridos y regados | Filmadora Chapultepec | Jaime Salvador | Tito Davison (story) Jaime Salvador (adaptation) | |
| 1964 | Buenos días, Acapulco | Producciones Zacarías | Agustín P. Delgado | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story and adaptation) |
| Los astronautas | Producciones Zacarías | Miguel Zacarías | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story) Miguel Zacarías (screenplay) | |
| La edad de piedra | Producciones Zacarías | René Cardona | Alfredo Zacarías (story and film comedy) | |
| 1965 | Los reyes del volante | Producciones Zacarías | Miguel Morayta | Marco Antonio Campos (story) Roberto Gómez Bolaños (film comedy) |
| 1966 | La vida de Pedro Infante | Producciones Zacarías | Miguel Zacarías | Miguel Zacarías (film drama) |
| Cada quién su lucha | Producciones Zacarías | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Alfredo Zacarías (story) Roberto Gómez Bolaños (film comedy) | |
| Dos meseros majaderos | Producciones Zacarías | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story and film comedy) | |
| La batalla de los pasteles | Producciones Zacarías | Agustín P. Delgado | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story and film drama) | |
| La cigüeña distraída | Producciones Zacarías | Emilio Gómez Muriel | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story and film comedy) | |
| 1967 | Detectives o ladrones..? | Atenea Films | Miguel Morayta | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story and film drama) |
| Dos pintores pintorescos | Producciones Zacarías | René Cardona Jr. | Alfredo Zacarías (story) Roberto Gómez Bolaños (film comedy) | |
| Un par de robachicos | Producciones Zacarías | René Cardona Jr. | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story and film comedy) | |
| El camino de los espantos | Producciones Zacarías | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Roberto Gómez Bolaños (story and film comedy) |