Tomas Muñiz
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Tomás Muñiz (born on August 4,1900 in Cabo Rojo and died on September 9,1963 in Hato Rey) was a well known Puerto Rican radio and television producer. He is sometimes respectfully called by the general public in Puerto Rico Don Tomás Muñiz Souffront.
Muñiz worked as a young man producing radio shows, establishing his own radio station. He was one of the first persons to give José Miguel Agrelot work. He also worked with a large number of other entertainers, notably Luis Vigoreaux.
Tomás Muñiz met Juan Bautista García, an immigrant from Corsica, when they became neighbors during the 1940s. The two men and their families forged a friendship, and, when Tomás Muñiz was working across the island on show business related events, Mr. García often helped by doing various things, not including any participation in the events themselves.
Tomás Muñiz later on became a television producer for Ricavision, a major competitor of WAPA-TV and Canal 2.
Tomás Muñiz was the patriarch of a show business family: one of his sons, Tommy, is a comedy legend in Puerto Rico, as is his grandson Rafo Muñiz, also a television producer. Yet another grandson, Pedro Muñiz, starred as Alfonsina Molinari's father in the short lived 1989 television show Maripili and is also a television producer.
After both Tomás Muñiz and Juan Bautista García were dead, Tommy Muñiz created Los Garcia, a show based on Mr. García and his family and which became one of the most successful comedies in Puerto Rican television history.
