Eleazar "El Chelelo" García | |
Birth Date: | September 28, 1924 |
Birth Place: | El Rancho de Las Guerras, Mier, Tamaulipas, Mexico |
Death Date: | August 24, 1999 |
Death Place: | Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico |
Occupation: | Actor |
Eleazar García Sáenz (September 28, 1924 - August 24, 1999) was a Mexican character actor best remembered as Antonio Aguilar's comic sidekick. Eleazar originally is from a ranch called, El Rancho de Los Guerras, current municipality of Miguel Aleman near Mier, Tamaulipas Mexico. García was known professionally as Chelelo and was one of the three main norteño comedians of Mexican cinema, along with Eulalio González and Alejandro Reyna.
He died on 24 August 1999 after three years of struggle to recover from embolism.[1] His son Eleazar Lorenzo García Gutiérrez (1957-2011) was known as Chelelo Jr.[2]