José Luis Coll

Spanish humorist, actor and writer. His father died when he was 1 year old, and his mother went into exile to Argentina after the Spanish Civil War was over, so he stayed in Cuenca with his brother, his uncle, his aunt and his grandparents, where he started his studies. Some years later he started studying Law, which he didn't finish, as he started to work for a journal in Cuenca and later in Radio Nacional de España. In 1955 he moved to Madrid to work as a secretary for César González Ruano, who presented him to Antonio Mingote and Álvaro de la Iglesia. Soon he started his collaboration in the weekly humor magazine 'Don José'. And later, he started acting for some period of time (the plays 'Ninette y un señor de Murcia', 'Amor', and 'Las mujeres sabias', and the musical shows 'Buenos días amor', and 'El baile de Savoy'). In 1959 he was collaborating with the journal La Codorniz, where he met Luis Sánchez Polack, with whom he would form some time later the comic duo 'Tip y Coll'. In