- Born
- Died1986 · Philippines (heart failure)
- Birth nameArturo Vergara Medina
- Bentot was born in 1928 in San Simon, Pampanga, Philippines. He was an actor and director, known for Kababalaghan o kabulastugan? (1962), Tatlong mabilis (1965) and Tatlong mabilis sa Hong Kong (1965). He died in 1986 in the Philippines.
- Children
- An amateur boxer before becoming a hoofer and comic on stage with the Paquito Bolero troupe.
- He was loved as "Bitoy," the man-child son of Pugo, in the Tang-Tarang-Tang series authored by Virgilio 'Beer' Flores.
- One of his more famous gags as Bitoy had him hopping and skipping to the sari-sari store, with five centavos in his right hand to buy suka, and another five-centavos in his left hand, for toyo. He stumbled, and couldn't tell which five centavos was for what.
- Children with Petronia: Andrea, Nicanor and Erlinda.
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