Radio presenter, television presenter and voice actor Mario Beutwhich achieved great popularity in the 60s of the last century, He died in Barcelona at the age of 91his family has informed.
Born in 1933 in Arenys de Mar (Barcelona), Mario Beut Padrós was the son of singers and actors Mariano Beut Martínez and Carme Padrós.
Beut was studying third year of law and sixth year of piano when he was discovered by a head of programs at Radio Barcelona during an amateur theatrical performance, and thus began a radio career that led him to go through the microphones of this station, Cadena Ser, Radio Miramar, RNE and COPE, among others.
At the moment of greatest success in his professional history, between 1959 and 1969, he managed to make 14 programs a week. It also accumulated many awardsamong which four Ondas Awards and the Popular Award from the Pueblo newspaper stand out.
From the radio he jumped to television, being one of the pioneer presenters of TVE in entertainment programs and contests, which gave him great popularity at a national level.
He made his debut in this medium in 1961 with the program Yesterday news, today money of TVE, which was followed by many others, such as look for your partner, Smile please, the longest word, noon club, seen and heard y We know Spain.
Mario Beut in ‘Seen and Heard’
He reached the highest levels of popularity with the program Union make force (1964), an audience phenomenon at the timeand in 1966 he received a tribute at the Municipal Sports Palace in Barcelona, attended by more than 15,000 people.
In addition to working on radio and television, he devoted himself to dubbing movies and lent his voice to actors such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Luis Trintignant, George Peppard, Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier.
Mario Beut’s farewell ceremony will take place tomorrow at 12 noon at the Les Corts funeral home in Barcelona.
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