Overview
- His death was confirmed by his son, Lalo Manzano, in a public communiqué listing his dates as July 18, 1938–December 4, 2025.
- Lalo Manzano said in a later interview that his father died from a respiratory arrest at 11:45 on December 4 in a hospital under medical care.
- Authorities and the family have not issued a formal medical report, so the respiratory-arrest detail remains a family account.
- Colleagues, including producer Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo, said a wake would be held Friday at García López on General Prim in Mexico City, and tributes were announced.
- Manzano was a pillar of Mexican comedy through Los Polivoces and as Don Arnoldo in Una familia de diez, with past reports noting a 2021 hospitalization for a severe biliary infection and the family’s denial of false death rumors earlier this year.