Tomas Muñiz
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Tomas Muniz (born c. 1900, died c. 1965) was a well known Puerto Rican radio and television producer. He is sometimes respectfully called by the general public in Puerto Rico Don Tomas Muniz.
Muniz worked as a young man producing radio shows, establishing his own radio station. He was one of the first persons to give Jose Miguel Agrelot work. He also worked with a large number of other entertainers, notably Luis Vigoreaux.
Tomas Muniz met Juan Bautista Garcia, an immigrant from Corsica, when they became neighbors during the 1940s. The two men and their families forged a friendship, and, when Tomas Muniz was working across the island on show business related events, Mr. Garcia often helped by doing various things, not including any participation in the events themselves.
Tomas Muniz later on became a television producer for Ricavision, a major competitor of WAPA-TV and Canal 2.
Tomas Muniz was the patriarch of a show business family: his son, Tommy, is a comedy legend in Puerto Rico, as is his grandson Rafo Muniz, also a television producer. Yet another grandson, Pedro Muniz, starred as Alfonsina Molinari's father in the short lived 1989 television show Maripili and is also a television producer.
After both Tomas Muniz and Juan Bautista Garcia were dead, Tommy Muniz created Los Garcia, a show based on Mr. Garcia and his family and which became one of the most successful comedies in Puerto Rican television history.
