Julio César Castro
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Julio César Castro, also known as Juceca (Montevideo, 6 May 1928 - Ib., 11 September 2003) was an Uruguayan comedian, narrator, actor and dramatist. He was mainly known by his character Don Verídico,[1] with which he developed a particular type of absurd humour tied to the rural world.
Biography[edit]
Julio César Castro was born in Montevideo in 1928.
In 1958 Castro began working as a communicator in the radio station "The spectator" and collaborated in several means of national press and foreigners like the magazines: "Now", "Misia dura", "March", "The popular", "The finger", "Guambia" in Montevideo and "El Porteño" and "Crisis" in Buenos Aires.
His big success was the character of "Don Verídico", with his pulpería "The spring" and his inigualables characters The Cover Olmedo, the Duvija, pPinkish Green and this mastery for the absurd humour mixed with deeply poetic moments.
As a play writer he authores two one man shows , both started by Nidia Telles: "The last evening" (Circular Theatre, in 1998) and "Thank you for everything". It was author of the cinematographic script that directed Guillermo Casanova on the tale "The trip to the sea", of Juan José Morosoli, where he also performed as an actor. Besides Horace Buscaglia, starred in the middays of the radio 44, "The tough ones".
Theatre/cinema[edit]
Castro was the author of the theatrical works: The last evening (Circular Theatre of Montevideo), The pink counterbass (theatres Larrañaga of Buenos Aires and Arteatro of Montevideo), they are deliberating (Open Theatre, Buenos Aires), Combating Love (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and several adaptations of his tales for casts of Uruguay and Argentina.
As actor and author, Juceca starred in The stray taleat the Theatre Circulate of Montevideo, with direction of Héctor Manuel Vidal, and One hundred birds flying in theatre The Galpón, with the direction of Horacio Buscaglia. Applauded by the criticism and the public, continued making his one man shows in diverse rooms of capital and interior of the country.
In Argentina he wrote scripts for television and during twenty-five years to the humorist Luis Landriscina, the one who catapulted definitively to Don Verídico like one of the most famous characters of the River of the Silver. By his part the actress Dahd Sfeir, from more than 20 years has being including texts of Julio César Castro in her´s successful one woman show.
In the cinematographic field participated in the feature film "The trip to the Sea" of Guillermo Casanova, based in the tale of the same name from Juan José Morosoli. There, Juceca fulfilled the double function of co-screenwriter and actor in the character Seven and Three Ten. Also it was screenwriter of the films "The dead person" and "Millionaires by force".
The presence of Juceca in the cinema happens also by his greater work, Don Verídico, which was registered in the four ‘Tales of Don Verídico', filmed in the eighties by the Uruguayan Walter Tournier.
Television/radio[edit]
Juceca Worked also in television in the programs Kaleidoscope, hosted by María Inés Obaldía, Of the same to the same, hosted by Omar Gutiérrez, and in National Television in a space typical of humour and reflection called "You talked too late". It was common to see it dressed like gaucho explaining, from the character, the tales of Don Verídico.
In the radio stands out , between others, his work in the microprograma daily of humour shared with Horace Buscaglia called "The tough ones", that aired in the AM FREE radio in Montevideo.[2]
Works[edit]
- Los cuentos de Don Verídico, Editorial Arca, 1972.
- La vuelta de Don Verídico, Editorial Arca, 1977.
- Entretanto cuento (30 th anniversary of Don Verídico, unpublished stories), Editorial Arca 1992.
- Don Verídico, Editorial Arca 1994.
- Don Verídico: Antología, Ediciones de la Banda Oriental, 1995.
- Los cuentos de Don Verídico, Archivo General de la Nación, Centro de Difusión del Libro, 1997. -Buenos Aires-
- Don Verídico se la cuenta, Editorial de la Flor, 1975.
- Más cuentos de Don Verídico, Editorial Neo Gráfica, 1982.
- Don Verídico: Recopilación, Editorial Imaginador, 1996.
- Nadie entiende nada
- Hay Barullo en el Resorte, 2005, posthumous work with unpublished stories.
- Fofeto Fulero
- El Resorte está de fiesta
