efran lpez neris is a sephardi puerto rican actor producer and cinematographer that has had a long trajectory in puerto ricos national artistic sceneborn in caguas in april 1937 he had his start in puerto rican television in the 1960s by joining the cast of various comedy shows among his memorable television characters don florito parodied great opera singers and operatic arias a concept that predated that of adam sandlers opera man by at least fifteen years his candido had lpez portray an extremely naive married man who placed too much confidence in his wife and their mutual house painter friend mi amigo el pintor whose profession led quite well to dozens of double entendres about his wifes proclivities acknowledged by everyone but himself perhaps his don lolo character was his most popular one as a very old man with a very sharp tongue he originally portrayed the character as having parkinsons disease a trait which he later discontinued after protests from patient advocates a recent character vzquez has lpez portraying a dimwitted security guard with a penchant for food spanglish and politics who is also a strong and rather inept supporter of the new progressive party of puerto rico lpez played this character on some of sunshine logroos comedic productionslpez also had a popular radio program in his native city of caguas el show de lpez neris a comedic character from this era was mister emerson he staged a fake hijack in one of his programs which led to a police intervention dozens of phone calls of concerned listeners to the radio station protests by some of these when they learned that the hijack attempt was a hoax and perhaps led to the cancellation of the program soon afteras a film actor lpez neris has been cast in films such as wedding ring cbs los que nunca amaron mexico mientras puerto rico duerme la vida de rafael hernandez muchacha mas alla del capitolio harbor lights columbia pictures up the sandbox with barbra streisand and more recently in angelito miobeing an aficionado of cinematography from a very young age lpez graduated from the university of puerto rico at mayaguez with post graduate studies at the herbert berghof studio and bown adams studio in the us he produced and was the first host of la camara comica a take on the popular american show candid cameralpez neris behind the camera work includes directing credits being productions like el corral en la distancia la ventana la palomilla isabel la negra life of sin candido el ultimo dia and caguas centro y corazon de puerto ricoas a television artistic director he has done work on marcano el show el show de luis vigoreaux con lo que cuenta el pais el gran bejuco and burundangahe has past credits as creative director of shows like camara cmica el show de tommy esto no tiene nombre los garcia los genios and el show de lpez nerishis theatre credits include acting directing andor producing in plays such as la tia de carlitos una sola puerta hacia la muerte amordio club de solteros sida yo juan ponce de len and le pegue un cuernitoefran lopez neris was once part of the 1960s political parody show el efecto de los rayos gamma sobre eddie lpez now known as los rayos gamma