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About Tomás Muñiz
- Tomás Muñiz Souffront (August 4, 1900 – September 9, 1963) was a well known Puerto Rican radio and television producer.
- He is sometimes respectfully called by the general public in Puerto Rico as Don Tomás Muñiz, to differentiate him from his namesake and son, Tommy Muñiz As a young man, Tomás Muñiz worked as a real estate agent, and later as an advertising copy writer -and later executive- of the West Indies Advertising Company (WIAC).
- He later produced radio shows and administered the agency's radio station, WIAC-AM in San Juan.
- He was one of the first persons to give José Miguel Agrelot work.
- He also worked with a large number of other entertainers. Lucas Tomás Muñiz, Tommy, later on became owner of Teleluz, a major competitor of WAPA-TV and Canal 2. Tomás Muñiz was the patriarch of a show business family: one of his seven children, Tommy, is a media legend in Puerto Rico, his grandson Rafo Muñiz, is also a television producer and music promoter.
- Yet another grandson, Pedro Muñiz, starred as the father in the 1989 highly acclaimed sitcom Maripili which he also produced (521 episodes) television show he is also a film producer.
- Producer of the only Puerto Rican film ever nominated nominated for an Oscar, "Whatever happened to Santiago" in 1990
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