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4 unusual facts about Benito Castro


Benito Castro

Arturo "Benito" Castro Hernandez (born June 5, 1946, in Mexico City, Mexico), is a Mexican musician, singer, song-writer, actor, imitator, most famous as a comedian, and as a member of Los Hermanos Castro (The Castro Brothers).

As a teenager, Benito joined his cousins' musical group Los Hermanos Castro.

His comedy skits portraying a sun-tanned, raggedy cut-off jean, flip-flop wearing beach bum in Acapulco was a take off of Bob Denver's role on "Gilligan's Island."

María Elena Saldaña

On one of the comedies, Andale!, Saldaña first met Benito Castro; the two starred in the segment "La Güereja y El Papagringo," which, in 1998 would become, under different producers, a television series of its own as La Güereja y Algo Más.



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