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Juan Alfonso Zayas Inclán (30 June 1941 – 8 July 2021), better known as Alfonso Zayas, was a Mexican actor and comedian. He was best known for his participation in many
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. In Mexico, Zayas participated in over 100 films. Zayas is remembered better by United States audiences for his participation, since 2000, in the
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Saturday evenings show,
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Career

Zayas' first participation as an actor came when he was cast for a theater play named "Irma la Dulce" ("Sweet Irma"), where he acted alongside
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, Roberto Guzman,
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and other actors. A few years after, Zayas began acting in TV shows. His first chance to participate in a movie came in 1950, at the age of 9, in a movie named " Azahares para tu boda" ("Orange Blossom for your Wedding"). Then, at the age of 17, Zayas participated in a film named "
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" ("Legs of Gold"). Zayas' career continued well into the 2010s, including a period in which he, alongside others such as Rafael Inclan,
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, Pedro Weber and many other actors of the era, became famous for participating in " ficheras", Mexican comedies with considerable sensual material and sex jokes on them. Among the most famous movies of that genre that Zayas acted on were 1991's " Transplante a la mexicana" ("Transplant, Mexican Style") and " El sexo me divierte" ("Sex Entertains Me"). He also acted on
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's TV show, " La criada bien criada" ("The Well Raised Maid". not to be confused with a Puerto Rican television show of a similar name called "La criada mal criada"), alongside legendary Mexican actress Maria Victoria. During 2000, Zayas began traveling to Miami, Florida, where he participated weekly on a sketch on Chilean show host Don Francisco's
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television show,
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. Zayas found constant work there and participated for more than one decade in the American show.


Personal life

Zayas was a native of
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. He had two sons. One, Alfonso Zayas, Jr., is also an actor. The other, who was his first son and who worked as a helicopter pilot, died at the age of 44 in a helicopter crash in 2005 in San Luis Potosi. He also had a daughter. His cousin is Rafael Inclan, another well known Mexican actor. In later life, Zayas was a resident of the Mexican city of
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Death

Zayas died of respiratory failure on the evening of July 8, 2021 in
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. He was buried in
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. Among the many celebrities who reacted with online messages upon learning of Zayas' death were actors Edgar Vivar (who had worked with Zayas during a filming in
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See also

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References

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