Julio Jung

Julio Humberto Gonzalo Benito Jung del Favero (21 March 1942 – 6 June 2026) was a Chilean actor and comedian.

Life and career Son of Julio Jung Paulsen and María Antonieta del Favero Comis, he began his artistic career at the age of 18 in radio drama with Justo Ugarte, a career that would extend for more than half a century uninterrupted. He first married María Elena Duvauchelle, with whom he had his only child, the actor Julio Jung Duvauchelle, born in 1978 in political exile in Venezuela; later, he married the designer and businesswoman Tessa Aguadé Bru, daughter of the painter Roser Bru, who arrived in Chile as a child with her family on the ship SS Winnipeg after the Spanish Civil War.

Jung worked in virtually every genre: theater, film, and television. In the 1960s, he worked with the companies of Silvia Piñeiro, Susana Buqué, Los Cuatro, and Teatro el Ángel, before returning in 1966 to the Ictus group, where he remained until 1973. He was also one of the founders of the emblematic television program La manivela.

A neighbor of Interior Minister Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, he witnessed his assassination on June 8, 1971, at the hands of a commando unit of the Vanguardia Organizada del Pueblo (VOP).

He appeared on El show de Antonio Prieto on Channel 13 in Argentina.

On August 31, 1974, he made a brief but important appearance on Sábado Gigante, co-hosting the program with Armando Navarrete, a comedian known for his character Mandolino, in the absence of Mario Kreutzberger "Don Francisco," whose mother had passed away three days earlier.

In late 1974, after the September 1973 military coup—led by General Augusto Pinochet, which overthrew the government of socialist Salvador Allende—Julio Jung went into exile in Caracas, Venezuela, where he continued his acting career in theater (with El Nuevo Grupo Chocron, Chalbaud y Cabrujas, and at the Ateneo), film, and television (Radio Caracas TV and Venevisión). In Venezuela, he also played Rumildo, a character created by Mario Arancibia for a Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) advertising campaign that became an iconic figure in Venezuelan culture. He briefly returned to Chile in 1978 to participate in the comedy program Muchísimo, produced by Jorge Celedón on Canal 13 between June and August of that year.

In 1984, he returned permanently to Chile, where, with his wife María Elena Duvauchelle, he formed a theater company that performed at El Galpón de Los Leones for seven years, staging six plays. Simultaneously, he joined Canal 13, where he acted in television series and, along with Andrés Rillón, launched the program Mediomundo which became a cult classic.

In 1996, he was elected councilman for the Providencia district, serving until 2000. After completing his term, he was appointed by President Ricardo Lagos as Chile's cultural advisor in Barcelona. His tenure there culminated in the mega-event of the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures: Neruda in the Heart, held at the Palau Sant Jordi to celebrate the poet's centenary.

In 2018, he received a tribute from the Chilean Actors' Union for his career.

In 2016, he was again elected councilman for Providencia. He ran for reelection in 2021 but was not elected.

Jung died in Santiago on 6 June 2026, at the age of 84.

Filmography Films

Telenovelas

TV Series

TV Shows Alcance las estrellas: Programa concurso (Canal 13, 1970-1973) Juguemos a las 21 y Clases alegres: Programas que animó en la década de 1970 en TVN. La manivela: Programa de humor en TVN, Canal 13 y Canal 9 El niño de papel (Radio Caracas Televisión) Muchísimo (Canal 13, 1978) Bienvenidos (Venevisión, 1982-1984) Mediomundo (Canal 13, 1985-1987 y 1991-1992) - Varios personajes ¿Cuánto vale el show? (Chilevisión, 1994-1995) Dudo (Canal 13, 2013) - Invitado 4 teleseries para (Radio Caracas Televisión) 3 teleseries para (Venevisión)