Nicolás Mancera(1930-2011)

Nicolás Mancera, was a showman who journeyed with big success the decades of 1960 and 1970 of the Argentine television. Known like Pipo Mancera, he was born in Buenos Aires, on December 20, 1930, studied locution and he was employed also at radio and movies. In the years '60 it was unrolled like movies journalist on "Pantalla Gigante", a popular program of TV. During these years, also he led the musical "The night" and produced the movie "The calesita", at which big actor Hugo del Carril was employed. In the movies it made debut with "The crack", of José A. Martínez Suárez, brother of the well-known actress Mirta Legrand. In the above mentioned movie it is listened by a long radial comment. In 1965 was interpreted himself in "Rare bug", along with Luis Sandrini. Also it led like cartoon some chapters of "The Adventures of Hijitus", of García Ferré, what he speaks about his popularity those years. His biggest television success was Circular Saturdays (that Circular Saturdays of Pipo Mancera, his alias), expressed between 1962 and 1974. It was a program of 6 hours of duration with entertainments, reportages and music, but with spectacular aggregations of big Pipo Mancera, which to keep the viewer expectant, was not curtailing resources of big impact, how, for example, there was thrown in a trunk the River Plate chained to the best style Houdini, and to go out unharmed of such a prowess openly, and in living and live. Mancera was anticipated to much of those that the television Argentinian proposed like entertainment in the successive years, and it is possible to be said that with him there was born in Argentina the television format called "bus". It received in his program famous personages as Mastroianni, Sofía Loren, Pelé, Sandro, Joan Manuel Serrat, Raphael, and he was the first journalist in interviewing, in 1971, Diego Armando Maradona, when he was ten years old, in a video anticipatorio of what he would be the big soccer player. In the years '70 it finished his cycle Circular Saturday, returning in 1978 with a program that was not successful. It returned in 1983 with "Videoshow", of few transcendency. It produced programs in France and Italy, and in the years '90 it was called to reappear in TV with a different subject-matter. He was also a journalist of the newspaper reason, and he led a radial cycle after having been many years taken root in Uruguay. In 2005 it was re-carried for a documentary on Niní Marshall, big Argentine actress. In 2007 it returned with his traditional program in Chronic TV (Crónica TV), popular Argentine channel. He died of a heart attack, in Buenos Aires, on August 29, 2011