Gerardo Sofovich

Argentine businessman, television presenter, comedian, scriptwriter and director

Businessman
dramaturge
television host
actor
comedian
scriptwriter
film director

Partner(s)Carmen Morales (1965-1995)
Sofía Oleksak (2009-2011)ParentManuel Sofovich (father)RelativesHugo Sofovich (brother) , Gustavo Sofovich (son)

Gerardo Andrés Sofovich (March 18, 1937 – March 8, 2015) was an Argentine businessman, dramaturge, television host and presenter, comedian, scriptwriter, and director.

He was the producer of Polémica en el bar and La noche del Domingo, two of the most popular Argentine TV shows of the 1970s and 1980s. Sofovich also hosted A la manera de Sofovich and Sin Límite SMS, which were broadcast on Canal 9. During the 1970s and 1980s he directed several picaresque films starring comedians Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel. As a businessman, he backed up major shows on Buenos Aires' Corrientes Avenue theaters ^{[citation needed]}, and the first businessman to present the first Argentine transvestite in his musical shows,Jorge Perez Evelyn.

Health problems

Sofovich suffered a heart attack in 1992 at age 55. He had 15 stents put in and had twelve 12 angioplasties. On October 8, 2014, it was revealed that Sofovich had been connected to an artificial respirator and was sedated at Clinica Suizo-Argentina hospital after suffering a pulmonary infection, which complicated his health chronic obstructive pulmonary disease condition.^[3] He died on March 8, 2015, aged 77, one week and three days before his 78th birthday.^[4]

References

^ "Murió Gerardo Sofovich". La Nación (in Spanish). March 8, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
^ "Murió Gerardo Sofovich a los 77 años" (in Spanish). Radio Brisas. March 8, 2015. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
^ "Gerardo Sofovich está grave". Última Hora (in Spanish). October 8, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
^ "Argentine TV legend Gerardo Sofovich dies". Buenos Aires Herald (in Spanish). March 8, 2015. Archived from the original on March 9, 2015.