Chabelo turned 88: what job did the artist study at UNAM?

This Friday February 7the famous and iconic actor Xavier Lopez Rodriguezbetter known as chabelomeets 88 years of life. And it is that “the friend of all children” was born a February 17, 1935.

chabelo it’s an icono in Mexican pop culture, who has won the affection of several generations after positioning himself on Mexican television; This is why for several years, countless jokes have emerged about his supposed immortality.

And it is that chabelo has become a benchmark for mexican television after maintaining your program in force, In Family with Chabelo, for more than 40 years.

The actor and presenter was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and is the son of parents of León, Guanajuato. Something few people know about the life of chabelois that the actor and presenter He studied medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Before devoting himself to show business, Chabelo even He practiced his medical career in a private sanatorium.

His first steps in the artistic world were as a production assistant in Televicentrowhere was also cameraman and manager.

After that he studied Dramatic Arts, for four years he had the opportunity to go out with Ramiro Gamboa, who was known as Uncle Gamboin in the program Musical carousel. In said participation, he told a joke from which he derived the name with which he baptized the character he will play for the rest of his life: chabelothe character of a 13-year-old boy.

Xavier Lopez Chabelo participated in various programs such as The Well-Behaved Maidfrom 1970; Ambrosio’s Riflein 1978; The Cuchufleta, from 1995; The VIP schoolfrom 2004 and Simulatorsin 2009. On radio, he produced and starred Chabelo half hoursince 1961, for seven years.

On the big screen, he appeared in more than 30 films, including El Extra, with Mario Moreno Cantinflas, from 1962; The spoiled servant, with Mauricio Garces, in 1968; Chabelo and Pepito against the monsters, with Martin Ramos Arevalo, from 1973; Santo and Chabelo versus the Villains of Cataphyxis, featuring The Man in the Silver Mask from 1985, as well as The Mongolian Conspiracy, with Damien Alcazar, of 2019.

He is also a representative of the great musical successes of Mexican pop culture such as Goodbye Superman, Garabato Colorado, I am Chabelo and The Upside Down Kingdom. He has over 30 albums in his musical career.

Despite this fine career, Chabelo is generally remembered for the children’s game show and variety show As a family with Chabelo, which aired for exactly 48 years. The first broadcast of this iconic show was on November 26, 1967 and its last broadcast was on December 20, 2015.

Another of the curiosities of chabeloand that very few people know is that the actor was very close to representing our country, Mexico, in the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games. Xavier López was very good at Greco-Roman combat, and worked in the welterweight division. After winning a few local competitions and winning the National Championship, He was considered part of the Mexican delegation, and was even on the banner of the former president Miguel Alemán Valdés, at the Old Military College.

However, five days from the trip to Finlandthe authorities told him that I had to contribute 40 thousand pesos for his expenses, an amount he did not have at that time. This is what caused him to be replaced by the vice-champion of the national competition.