--- name: "Édgar Vivar Villanueva" canonical: "https://film.one/person/edgar-vivar" fi1m_id: "edgar-vivar" imdb_id: "nm0900232" tmdb_id: 51906 wikidata_id: "Q3112903" roles: ["Actor"] born: "28 December 1948" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-05T04:35:19.996107+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Édgar Vivar Villanueva ## Identity Édgar Vivar Villanueva - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/edgar-vivar - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** edgar-vivar - **IMDb ID:** nm0900232 - **TMDB ID:** 51906 - **Wikidata ID:** Q3112903 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dgar_Vivar, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3112903, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0900232/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51906 Actor. Born 28 December 1948 in Mexico City, Mexico. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 28 December 1948, Mexico City, Mexico - **Also known as:** Edgar Vivar, Édgar Vivar - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dgar_Vivar, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3112903, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0900232/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/51906 ## Biography Édgar Ángel Vivar Villanueva, also credited as Edgar Vivar or Édgar Vivar, is a Mexican actor and comedian. He began his acting career in theatre in 1964 and later studied medicine at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Universidad Iberoamericana, qualifying as a doctor specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology before practising briefly. In the early 1970s he was recruited by Roberto Gómez Bolaños (Chespirito) for the television series *El Chavo del Ocho*, in which he played Señor Barriga and his son Ñoño; he also portrayed El Botija in *Chespirito* and *El Chapulín Colorado*. These roles brought him international recognition across Latin America, Spain and the United States. Vivar has continued to work in film and television, appearing in *Bandidas* (2006) and as Balaban in *The Orphanage* (2007), as well as in later series such as *Vecinos*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, es.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Orphanage* (2007), Fi1m 81, as Balaban — [page](https://film.one/film/the-orphanage.md) ## Complete filmography (53) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose* (2025), series, as Director de cine - *El precio de educarlos* (2024), Actor - *The Roommate* (2024), Actor - *No Corre: Partiu Entrega* (2023), series, as Seu Manolo - *Jefecita* (2023), Actor - *Perdona nuestros pecados* (2023), series, as Rosendo - *Soy inocente* (2023), Actor - *Tal para cual* (2022), series, Actor - *Eagle and Jaguar, The Legendary Warriors* (2022), as Abuelito Quizán (Voice) - *When I'm Young* (2022), as Fotografo - *Recurring Patients* (2022), as Jaimes - *Skinny Dipping* (2022), as Tío Chema - *Documentário - 50 Anos de Chaves* (2022), Actor - *The Red Grasshopper 3D* (2021), Actor - *Antes que Amanezca* (2021), Actor - *Mighty Victoria* (2021), as Don Edgar - *Tod@s Caen* (2019), as Sr. Daniel - *Orsai* (2019), as Edmundo Rivero - *Overboard* (2018), as Gastroenterologist - *I'm Not A Rebel* (2017), as Obispo - *Buscando Nirvana* (2017), as Director - *Sinister Circle* (2015), as Director de Hospital Psquiatrico - *El Padrino de Bodas* (2014), Actor - *Fachon Models* (2014), as Claudio Mancera - *Actors, Inc.* (2013), Actor - *Love Taste like Chocolate* (2013), as Edgar - *Acción en Movimiento* (2013), Actor - *Brujos contra Chamanes* (2011), Actor - *Juan and the Sheep* (2011), as Enrique - *Panza, Cachete y Nana...!* (2011), Actor - *By Day and by Night* (2010), Actor - *Guardians of the Lost Code* (2010), as Zompul Balám - *Para Volver a Amar* (2010), series, as Renato - *La mano de Satán* (2010), Actor - *All Inclusive* (2008), as Taxista - *The Orphanage* (2007), as Balaban — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-orphanage.md) - *Bandidas* (2006), as Expl. Bank Manager - *Lo Mejor del Chavo Del Ocho 1 e 2* (2005), as Señor Barriga / Senhor Barriga; Ñoño / Nhonho - *Vecinos* (2005), series, as Don Hipólito - *Amarte así, Frijolito* (2005), series, as Don Pedro - *Best of El Chavo, Vol. 1* (2001), as El Señor Barriga / Ñoño - *Alguna Vez Tendremos Alas* (1997), series, as Sebastián Medina - *Música de Viento* (1989), Actor - *Escuadrón sida* (1987), Actor - *Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie* (1984), as Feldwebel Erstarren - *Don Ratón y Don Ratero* (1983), as Kilos - *El mas valiente del mundo* (1983), Actor - *El Chanfle 2* (1982), as Dr. Nájera - *Chespirito* (1980), series, Actor - *El Chanfle* (1979), as Dr. Nájera - *El Chapulín Colorado* (1973), series, as Barriga - *El Chavo del Ocho* (1973), series, as Señor Barriga / Ñoño - *Episódios Perdidos: Uma História*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Édgar Viviar at the ITESM-CCM in the "Requiem for Agustin Lara" (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/5693589/gallery-7003158f7071.jpg) Édgar Viviar at the ITESM-CCM in the "Requiem for Agustin Lara" (2014) — Salcedo95, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/%C3%89dgar_Viviar_02.JPG/1280px-%C3%89dgar_Viviar_02.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Edgar Vivar na CCXP 2024 em São Paulo.](https://film.one/media/person/5693589/gallery-7bca47741083.jpg) Edgar Vivar na CCXP 2024 em São Paulo. — Fronteira, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Edgar_Vivar_na_CCXP_2024%2C_S%C3%A3o_Paulo%2C_dezembro_de_2024_%285%29.jpg/1280px-Edgar_Vivar_na_CCXP_2024%2C_S%C3%A3o_Paulo%2C_dezembro_de_2024_%285%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Edgar Vivar at the ITESM-CCM in the "Requiem for Agustin Lara" (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/5693589/gallery-90328a46d2c9.jpg) Edgar Vivar at the ITESM-CCM in the "Requiem for Agustin Lara" (2014) — Salcedo95, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/%C3%89dgar_Viviar_03.JPG/1280px-%C3%89dgar_Viviar_03.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Edgar Vivar na CCXP 2024 em São Paulo.](https://film.one/media/person/5693589/gallery-1e80af1a914f.jpg) Edgar Vivar na CCXP 2024 em São Paulo. — Fronteira, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Edgar_Vivar_na_CCXP_2024%2C_S%C3%A3o_Paulo%2C_dezembro_de_2024_%287%29.jpg/1280px-Edgar_Vivar_na_CCXP_2024%2C_S%C3%A3o_Paulo%2C_dezembro_de_2024_%287%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Édgar Vivar Villanueva](https://film.one/media/person/5693589/gallery-36f5cd93c32c.jpg) Édgar Vivar Villanueva — Image via TMDB - ![Édgar Vivar Villanueva](https://film.one/media/person/5693589/gallery-ed562a2aa560.jpg) Édgar Vivar Villanueva — Salcedo95, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/%C3%89dgar_Viviar_01_%28cropped%29.JPG/500px-%C3%89dgar_Viviar_01_%28cropped%29.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Edgar Vivar na CCXP 2024 em São Paulo.](https://film.one/media/person/5693589/gallery-d809d4e11d19.jpg) Edgar Vivar na CCXP 2024 em São Paulo. — Fronteira, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Edgar_Vivar_na_CCXP_2024%2C_S%C3%A3o_Paulo%2C_dezembro_de_2024_%286%29.jpg/1280px-Edgar_Vivar_na_CCXP_2024%2C_S%C3%A3o_Paulo%2C_dezembro_de_2024_%286%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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