Anibal de Mar

Who is Anibal de Mar?

Anibal de Mar Samon Dominguez was an actor who played the character of El Tremendo Juez in the radio show La Tremenda Corte that even nowadays is still broadcast by several latinoamerican radio stations, forming a funny duo with Leopoldo Fernández, with whom he joined to make the musical-comedy duo of Pototo and Filomeno.

Anibal de Mar was born in Yateras Guantanamo province, to the east of Cuba Island. He started his artistic career in 1934 working at all the theaters on the island. He had the ability to embody many characters at the same time accomplishing a show in Santiago de Cuba with Don Pancracio and Felipitos's characters it was brought to TV in later years in the movie Una Aventura Peligrosa He did two episodes as the Chinese detective Chan Li Po whose author was Félix B. Caignet, also the author of the novel "El derecho de nacer" and it was one of the first big radio hits in Cuba playing the Chinese detective.

He made the first movie with audio filmed in Cuba as Chan Li Po called "La Serpiente Roja" in 1937, with supporting actress Pituka de Foronda and actor Carlos Badias and directed by Ernesto Caparros.