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Jorge Raúl Porcel De Peralta (born September 7,
1936) is a comedy actor from Argentina. He is
nicknamed El Gordo De America (The Americas' Fat
Guy). Porcel is often considered, along with
Alberto Olmedo, one of Argentina's greatest comic
actors of the twentieth century.

Porcel made a total of 48 movies, starting with
1962's Disloque en Mar del Plata, and ending with
El Profesor Punk (1988). Many of these 48 movies
were collaborations with Olmedo. Among the movies
they did together was 1986's Rambito Y Rambon:
Primera Mision. (Little Rambo and Big Rambo: First
Mission)

Many of Porcel and Olmedo's movies in the 1980's
were adult-oriented comedies. Conservative
Argentine authorities Motion picture rating
system|rated these movies as PM-18 (age 18 and
above), except for some movies planned for family
audiences, which had "tamer" content. These movies
are considered to be the pinnacle of Argentina's
sexploitation movie genre. Most of these movies
were directed by Gerardo Sofovich or his brother
Hugo Sofovich|Hugo.

Porcel had many TV hit shows as well, including
Operación Ja Ja (both the 1960's original and the
1980's remake) and Polémica en el Bar (Debate at
the café), where he had celebrated moments of
comedy with fellow comedian Juan Carlos Altavista.
Most of these TV efforts were linked to the
Sofovich brothers.

After he retired from filming movies in Argentina,
he moved to Miami, where he starred in a risqué
late-night variety show named A la cama con Porcel
(To Bed with Porcel) on the Telemundo network, and
was given a cameo in Hollywood production
Carlito's Way.

He is currently touring Latin America to promote
an autobiography, visiting such places as Puerto
Rico and some other countries in that endeavor. He
has also become a newborn Christian.

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