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Andreas Leo Ateng Suripto (8 August 1942 – 6 May 2003), better known as Ateng, was a popular Indonesia
Indonesia
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n actor and comedian. He was famous for his shortness and at times, his Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...

 mustache. He was born Kho Tjeng Lie and is a Chinese Indonesian
Chinese Indonesian
Chinese Indonesians, also called the Indonesian Chinese, are an overseas Chinese group whose ancestors emigrated from China to Indonesia, formerly a colony of the Netherlands known as the Dutch East Indies...

.

Personal life and family

He married Theresia Maria Reni Indrawati, and had two sons named Alexander Agung Suripto and Antonius Aryo Gede Suripto.

He died in 2003 from throat illness in Jakarta.

Career

In the 1980s he was a star in a popular television show Ria Jenaka, broadcast by TVRI
TVRI
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, the Indonesian national television broadcasting company, playing the role of Bagong. He was also part of a four-man comedy troupe Kwartet Jaya with Bing Slamet
Bing Slamet
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, Iskak, and Eddy Sud.

Prior to his death, he produced a comedy series on SCTV called Gregetan.
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