Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Miguel Ángel Álvarez
Álvarez was also known as "El Men"
Born	August 25, 1936 (1936-08-25) San Juan, Puerto Rico
Died	January 16, 2011 (2011-01-17) (aged 74) Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Nationality	Puerto Rican
Occupation	Comedian and actor
Known for	“Barrio Cuatro Calles”

Miguel Ángel Álvarez, also known as "El Men," (August 25, 1936– January 16, 2011), was a Puerto Rican journalist, comedian and actor.

Álvarez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and when he was a child his family moved to Bayamón, Puerto Rico, where he was raised and received his primary and secondary education.

Álvarez began his artistic career as a radio announcer, working for radio station WIAC, which was broadcasting out of Yauco and Bayamón. On October 31, 1950, Álvarez was among a group of reporters who covered the gunfight at Salón Boricua between Vidal Santiago Díaz, a Nationalist who was the personal barber of Pedro Albizu Campos, and forty police and National Guardsmen during the Nationalist attack of San Juan. This event made Puerto Rican radio history because it was the first time that an event of this nature was transmitted live via the radio airwaves to the public in general.

He later participated on the radio show El Tremendo Hotel (The Tremendous Hotel), starring Ramón Rivero "Diplo", and later Álvarez was contracted to do radionovelas (radio soap operas).

The Puerto Rican playwright Francisco Arriví invited Álvarez to appear in three of his plays. The three plays in which Álvarez made his theatrical debut were Club de Solteros (Bachelors Club), El Caso del Muerto en Vida (The Case of the Living Dead), and María Soledad (Lonely Maria). On one occasion Álvarez was asked to stand in for Jacobo Morales in the theater production of El Cielo se rinde al Amanecer (The Sky Surrenders at Dawn) because Morales was feeling ill and he had to learn the script that very night. He acted alongside Juano Hernández in the play "Widows Walk" which was presented at the University of Puerto Rico Theater.