Juan Carlos Mareco

Juan Carlos Mareco Iturburúa (January 20, 1926 – October 8, 2009[1]) was a Uruguayan actor and radio and television talk show host.

He achieved fame in Spain, Chile and Argentina from the 1960s onwards in comedy roles and as a television host in a variety of genres.

He debuted as actor in a local 1943 theatre production, El hombre más lindo del mundo (The Best-Looking Man in the World), and in Uruguayan film in a comedy, Detective a contramano (The Detective Goes the Wrong Way, 1949).

Nicknamed Pinocho (Pinocchio), he was cast by that stage name in a number of Spanish comedies during the 1950s and '60s, and was both the Spanish language voice actor and the foil for the South American version of Italian marionette Topo Gigio.

He returned to Argentine television after the 1982 Falklands War as host of a successful, no-frills afternoon talk show, Cordialmente.