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Marco Antonio Campos
Marco Antonio Campos «Viruta» in La sombra del otro (1957).
Pseudonym	Viruta
Birth name	Marco Antonio Campos Contreras
Born	(1919-09-09)9 September 1919 Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico
Died	19 February 1996(1996-02-19) (aged 76) Mexico City, Mexico
Years active	1940–1996
Genres	Double act, slapstick
Spouse	María de los Ángeles

Marco Antonio Campos (9 September 1919 – 19 February 1996) was a Mexican comedian, actor, and singer best known as Viruta in the double act Viruta y Capulina with Gaspar Henaine. His best known role is as the straight man in the comic duo Viruta y Capulina along with Gaspar Henaine. Campos and Henaine worked together in 95 comedy films and one television series until they separated over work issues in 1969. He died in 1996 from an aortic aneurysm.

Selected filmography

• Comedians and Songs (1960)

Awards

• 2005, Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana

References

1. Mexican Film Performers--"C". Retrieved 30 December 2010.

External links

• Marco Antonio Campos at IMDb

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