Rubén Aguirre
| Rubén Aguirre | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Rubén Aguirre Fuentes 15 June 1934 Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico |
| Died | 17 June 2016 (aged 82) Puerto Vallarta, Mexico |
| Notable work | Profesor Jirafales in El Chavo del Ocho |
| Home town | Monterrey, Mexico |
Rubén Aguirre Fuentes (Spanish pronunciation: [ruˈβen aˈɣire]; 15 June 1934 – 17 June 2016) was a Mexican actor. He is best remembered for his characterization of Profesor Jirafales in Televisa's 1970s television show El Chavo del Ocho. Aguirre also participated in another well known television show of the era, El Chapulín Colorado, albeit less frequently.
Rubén Aguirre was born in Santa Anita in Saltillo, Coahuila.
In his book Después de usted, published in February 2015, he wrote about the difficulty of finding higher education institutions in Mexico during the mid 1950s. There were so few schools. This is why in his late teenage years, he moved to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to study in one of the most renowned universities of the time, the , where he decided to study Agricultural Engineering.
Once in Juárez, he would regularly cross in to the United States, since according to his memories, "it was so easy to cross the border back then, I remember I would put on my college jacket on and since the gringo would see that you were a student, he would let you through". Rubén Aguirre worked many times as a gardener in El Paso to make ends meet.
It was in Juárez, as well, where he began his career in the world of media as an unofficial radio host and bull fighting commentator. It was so big his passion to become a radio announcer that he paused his college education to travel to Mexico City to get his radio license.
He returned to Juárez and began working as a radio host; he married his wife Consuelo de los Reyes on October 22, 1960, finished his degree in Agricultural Engineering with a minor in Mechanized Systems and some time after he moved to Monterrey, Nuevo León, where he began his acting career and met Roberto Gómez Bolaños.
He began his acting career in Monterrey, Nuevo León, working with a character (a famous clown) named Pipo. His acting caught the eye of Mexican producer Roberto Gómez Bolaños who asked him to work with him in Mexico City. Aguirre went on to Mexico City where he worked on several television scripts with Gómez Bolaños, creator and main star of both El Chavo and El Chapulín Colorado.
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