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Name: Mario Kreutzberger

Age: 65
Occupation: Television host

Place of Residence: Miami, Florida

Bio: From Wikipedia: “Don Francisco (Born on December 28, 1940 in Talca, Chile) is the artistic name of Mario Kreutzberger, a Chilean television host. He was born into a Chilean-German Jewish family; his parents had fled to Chile escaping from Nazi persecution. Back in Chile, where TV was just beginning, Don Francisco started a TV show in 1962, and he named it Sábados Gigantes. In it, he adapted many of the formulas he had seen in American TV to the Chilean public. The show became an instant hit that has lasted 40 years. In 1985, the show began to be produced in Miami, Florida, with the same formula used in Chile, with the slightly different name of Sábado Gigante. Don Francisco immediately became a household name among Latino families across the United States, and in the following five years, television networks from all over Latin America started buying the show. Spain also became a show customer during that period, and with that, 99 percent of the world’s Spanish-speaking people knew who Don Francisco was.”

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