Efraín López Neris
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This Puerto Rican actor, producer and cinematographer has had a long trayectory in Puerto Rico's national artistic scene.
Born in Caguas in April 1937, he had his start in Puerto Rican television in the 1960's by joining the cast of various comedy shows. He was the first host of "La Camara Comica" (a take on the popular american show "Candid camera".
Among his memorable TV characters, "Don Florito" gave homage to the great opera singers. His "Candido" presented us with a naive married man with too much confidence in his painter friend (mi amigo el pintor), but perhaps his "Don Lolo" character was the most popular, as a very old man with very sharp comments.
As a silver screen actor, López Neris has been cast in films such as "Wedding Ring" (CBS), "Los que nunca amaron" (Mexico), "Mientras Puerto Rico duerme", "La vida de Rafael Hernandez", "Muchacha", "Mas alla del Capitolio", "Harbor Lights" (Columbia Pictures), "Up the sandbox" with Barbra Streisand, and more recently in "Angelito mio".
A graduate from the Colegio Universitario de Mayaguez, and with post graduate studies at the Herbert Berghoff Studio and Bown Adams Studio in the U.S., López Neris behind the camera work includes directing credits, being productions like "El Corral", "En la distancia", "La ventana", "La palomilla", 'Isabel la negra" (Life of Sin), "Candido", "El ultimo dia", and "Caguas, centro y corazon de Puerto Rico".
As a television artistic director, he has done work on "Marcano el show", "El show de Luis Vigoreaux", "Con lo que cuenta el pais", "El gran bejuco", and "Burundanga".
He has past credits as creative director of shows like "Camara comica", "El show de Tommy", "Esto no tiene nombre", "Los Garcia", "Los genios" and "El show de López Neris".
His theatre credits include acting, directing and/or producing in plays such as "La tia de Carlitos", "Una sola puerta hacia la muerte", "Amordio", "Club de solteros", "Sida", "Yo, Juan Ponce de Leon, and "Le pegue un cuernito".
Efraín Lopez Neris was also part of the 1960's political parody show "El efecto de los rayos gamma sobre Eddie López" (now known as Los Rayos Gamma).
