
Acting
Xavier López
Born — Died
1935-02-17 — 2023-03-25
Place of birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
35 titles
Xavier López Rodríguez (17 February, 1935 - 25 March, 2023), better known as Chabelo, was a Mexican-American actor, comedian and television host. He hosted a children's program entitled En familia con Chabelo, which aired for forty-eight years. He studied medicine, which he practiced for four years in a private sanatorium where he was a partner. At the same time and while still studying, he missed classes in order to make frequent visits to the facilities of the building known as Televicentro, inaugurated in 1952, owned by the alliance of Mexican radio stations, Telesistema Mexicano, which would later become Televisa. There he met the producer, Luis de Llano Palmer, who offered him work as …
Known for
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
1997
8.2Jorgito is a rebellious and insolent student who doesn't mince words when it comes to making fun of his teachers. Maestra Canuta and Director Rigoberto Patiño are the butt of all his jokes and they do not hesitate to give him severe punishments when they realize that Jorgito's sharp tongue is attacking them. This comedy program shows a group of irreverent students who, through their jokes, make fun of the current political and social situation in Mexico. Nobody is saved from the ridicule and the occurrences of these kids who, behind their harmless appearance, hide sharp criticism and double meaning jokes.
Cero en conducta
1999
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La Escuelita VIP
2004
9.2La Carabina de Ambrosio was a variety television program broadcast between 1978 and 1987 presented as a Comic-Magical-Musical Show. It was produced by Humberto Navarro. It was hosted by figures such as Gualberto Castro, César Costa, Fito Girón and Manolo Muñoz. Some of the sketches of the broadcast were Guillo and the altar boy (Chabelo and the host in turn), La escuelita (Gualberto Castro, La pájara Peggy, Guillo, el Vulgarcito), the ventriloquist and Pujitos (César Costa and Chabelo), La Palabra Canta (Alejandro Suárez) and Mercado de Lágrimas (parody of Valle de Lágrimas and soap operas of the time) and parodies of the musical hits of the moment.
La Carabina de Ambrosio
1978
4.0A sophisticated device falls into Hermelinda's hands and when the Soviets and Arabs try to retrieve it, an international witchcraft war breaks out.
Agente 0013 - Hermelinda Linda 2
1986
3.0Famous internet celebrity Werevertumorro is called by a strange person to carry out an operation, if he doesn't do it the guy will threaten to kill his girlfriend. Werever will have to destroy a virus that kills humans with his friends, also involved.
Mision W2M
2013
Film credits
2010s · 5 titles
3.0Famous internet celebrity Werevertumorro is called by a strange person to carry out an operation, if he doesn't do it the guy will threaten to kill his girlfriend. Werever will have to destroy a virus that kills humans with his friends, also involved.
Mision W2M
2013
6.41963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumour that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a local policeman, has 72 hours to investigate the Mongolian Conspiracy.
The Mongolian Conspiracy
2019
4.4After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it will for sure turn it upside-down.
The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro
2014
6.5In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since most are illiterate. Young Emilio quickly learns to read and write but feels saddened by the mostly difficult stories sent by relatives, that moved north to Denver, Colorado in pursuit of a better future. One day Teo becomes disabled and Emilio takes over the mail route and with great imagination, he changes the letters to happy and optimistic stories. Within days, the village is transformed. The elders, once hopeless, lonely and sad, are now happy and enthusiastic, enjoying the "supposed" success their loved ones write from the United States. But the enjoyment is short lived, as they realize that all the wonderful stories are the same...
Cartas a Elena
2012
5.3Chuyín Venegas and Cornelio Barraza were the biggest stars of popular music and cinema of the 80's. "The Goldfinches of Rosarito" had no equal as musical superstars, but after ten years of success, they parted ways. Now held in a mansion in Paris, Chuyín is launching a new album and international tour. But the ghosts of the past and the loneliness will make him change his solo plans and return to the seaside village where he and Cornelius met as children, to live the last musical adventureof "The Goldfinches of Rosarito".
Flying low
2013
2000s · 2 titles
3.8Five stories blend with love, sex, the emptiness of being unloved, passion and desire: Carlos and Susana go to some uncle´s apartment to make love. Meanwhile, Benito, an 80-year-old, performs a serenade to his wife. His neighbor Adela is told that her mother has Alzheimer and that she will be relocated since the Buenos Aires building she lives in will be demolished. Amado catches his son Carlos stealing his money. Gabriel asks Martha´s parents for her hand in marriage but they condition them to get married at their favorite church. And Patricia, 40, a creative agent, sexually abuses Joel, who directs a beer commercial.
Amar
2009
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Club eutanasia
2005
1990s · 1 titles
1980s · 6 titles
4.0A sophisticated device falls into Hermelinda's hands and when the Soviets and Arabs try to retrieve it, an international witchcraft war breaks out.
Agente 0013 - Hermelinda Linda 2
1986
5.2A family of three moves to a haunted house. The couple's 10-year-old son runs into the ghost of the house but isn't scared. He tells the ghost that since his father is a writer of horror novels he lost fear of horror stories. The ghost then confides in the boy that he is a lonely ghost on account of the modern world focused on so many material priorities. Child and ghost become best friends, playing together, telling stories and helping the ghost pay his rent by scaring people every month.
Mi fantasma y yo
1988
6.3An old man punishes his son for not having children, so he tells him his inheritance will go to someone else if he doesn't have a child in a year.
Macho Que Ladra No Muerde
1984
5.4Gambler with a heart condition races the clock to get his mausoleum finished. His wife and her lover wait on the sidelines.
La tumba de Matías
1988
5.6Street-vendor believes he's wanted for a murder he didn't commit, so he hides among the "gleaners" at the city dump.
Los pepenadores de aca
1985
4.7Constancio has to leave his wife and son because they're making him crazy. He leaves his fortune behind and falls in love with another woman.
Dos machos que ladran no muerden
1988
1970s · 5 titles
6.1Saucy-but-naive country girl moves to the big city to look for work.
La criada bien criada
1972
7.3An ordinary day's hike gets rough when two youngsters escape from the main group into the woods and, after finding a grotto, discover that there is more to it than just darkness.
Chabelo Y Pepito Contra Los Monstruos
1973
5.4Pepito The child misbehaves because his stepfather is scolding. Buy a sauceboat but when his cat rubs it a genie appears. The child understands that it is the magic lamp and asked all sorts of goodies and the solution of their tasks, but when he needs money stepfather tells of genius. The stepfather asked to topple his partner's plane. Pepito refuses and flees with the lamp and throws it into a river to avoid falling into its power. The stepfather drowns while trying to rescue him.
Chabelo Y Pepito en La Lampara Maravillosa
1972
7.8A commanding friend Pepito and Chabelo ask them to help uncover a gang who kidnaps children. They accept and are out to steal to join the band. Whenthey find that the band mesmerizes children with toys and then the kids are controlled by young boys and they controlled in turn by strangers with long hair and blue eyes.
Chabelo y Pepito Detectives
1974
6.0Parody western about a poofy gunslinger and his brothers.
Bang bang al hoyo
1971
1960s · 8 titles
7.2Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
The Extra
1962
7.9The farce starring Polivoces , creative Mexican comedians duo formed by Enrique Cuenca and Eduardo Manzano, in the roles of characters and Gordolfo Naborita respectively. When the child Gordolfo question the identity of his father, devoted Naborita recounts the story of his family in five innings , located in the contexts of the Stone Age , the Roman Empire , incursions of English pirates in the Caribbean , West American and the space race of the years after World War II .
El aviso inoportuno
1969
5.1Satan offers a weary ghost a chance for redemption through true love.
Autopsy of a Ghost
1968
8.3Comedy film starring Viruta and Capulina.
Los reyes del volante
1965
5.5Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, because it makes them look smart and modern.
¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
1964
8.0All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.
Escuela para solteras
1965
7.0Ranchera comedy -- the hero thinks his girlfriend has another suitor... but the suitor is really she herself in man-drag.
The Two Rivals
1966
6.8Twins separated at birth; one grows up to inherit the crown of San Marciano, and the other works in a pawnshop in Mexico City.
La princesa hippie
1969
1950s · 4 titles
5.8Sketch comedy and blackout gags -- format like Laugh-In. Number two in a series.
Nueva Chistelandia
1958
Collection of comedy sketches and blackout gags edited into feature-length movie. Laugh-In style.
Vuelve Chistelandia
1958
6.0In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.
Trip to the Moon
1958
Short-attention-span sketch comedy and black-out gags, assembled into a movie. Structured like TV show "Laugh-In". First of three in series.
Chistelandia
1958
Series credits
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
1997
8.2Jorgito is a rebellious and insolent student who doesn't mince words when it comes to making fun of his teachers. Maestra Canuta and Director Rigoberto Patiño are the butt of all his jokes and they do not hesitate to give him severe punishments when they realize that Jorgito's sharp tongue is attacking them. This comedy program shows a group of irreverent students who, through their jokes, make fun of the current political and social situation in Mexico. Nobody is saved from the ridicule and the occurrences of these kids who, behind their harmless appearance, hide sharp criticism and double meaning jokes.
Cero en conducta
1999
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La Escuelita VIP
2004
9.2La Carabina de Ambrosio was a variety television program broadcast between 1978 and 1987 presented as a Comic-Magical-Musical Show. It was produced by Humberto Navarro. It was hosted by figures such as Gualberto Castro, César Costa, Fito Girón and Manolo Muñoz. Some of the sketches of the broadcast were Guillo and the altar boy (Chabelo and the host in turn), La escuelita (Gualberto Castro, La pájara Peggy, Guillo, el Vulgarcito), the ventriloquist and Pujitos (César Costa and Chabelo), La Palabra Canta (Alejandro Suárez) and Mercado de Lágrimas (parody of Valle de Lágrimas and soap operas of the time) and parodies of the musical hits of the moment.
La Carabina de Ambrosio
1978

