Héctor Raúl "Tato" Cifuentes Lira (14 October 1925 – 30 July 2017) was a Chilean-born Argentine actor, singer and ventriloquist.

During his final years of his career, he had a cameo in Los Copihues, a film from Guayaquil, Ecuador.

[2] Cifuentes, who was married six times, had a critical moment in 2008 when he was diagnosed with breast cancer, for which he had to undergo several chemotherapy sessions.

[3] Cifuentes was hospitalized in July 2017 after falling in the shower of his home in Buenos Aires.

[4] He later died at a hospital in Buenos Aires of cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by pneumonia on 30 July 2017 at the age of 91.