Rolando Barral, a Cuban-born actor and talk show host who was once considered the Johnny Carson of Spanish-language television, died in Miami on Monday of complications following surgery for a brain aneurysm. He was 62.
One of Cuba's most prominent leading men before fleeing to the United States in 1962, Barral starred in dozens of Spanish-language soap operas before becoming a television and radio host. "The Rolando Barral Show" was a hit that ran 10 years on the Spanish International Network, which later became Univision.
