Grande Otelo
Acting
Biography
Grande Otelo, pseudonym of Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata OMC (Uberlândia, October 18, 1915 – Roissy-en-France, November 26, 1993), was a Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, producer and composer. He was an artist in Rio's casinos and in the so-called revue theater, he participated in several successful Brazilian films, including the famous chanchadas in the 1940s and 1950s, which he starred in in partnership with the comic Oscarito, and the film version of Macunaíma, made in 1969. He is often cited as one of the most important actors in Brazilian history.
Born: October 18, 1915
Place of Birth: Ubêrlandia, MInas Gerais, Brazil
Known For
Feijão Maravilha
Bravo!
A widowed conductor rediscovers love when he meets a young woman from the countryside, but doubts about his music make him question his competence and distance himself from the woman he loves.
Romance Proibido
The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.
Chico Anysio Show
Chico Anysio Show
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
O Bem-Amado
Escolinha do Professor Raimundo
Rio, Northern Zone
A talented songwriter of sambas is forced to face the social injustices of the city around him.
A Gata Comeu
Filmography
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as Lepto
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as Seu Francisco
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as Eustáquio
as Ele mesmo
as Narrator
as Patápio dos Prazeres
as Himself
as Seu Napoleão
as Jonas Caetano Barbosa
as Jubiabá
as Himself
as Justo de Sá
as Self
as Babá
as Seu Pedro
as Narrator
as Eustáquio
as Various Characters
as Station Master
as Príncipe Tourvalou de Blesi
as Self (archive footage)
as Boca de Tramela
as Self
as Canivete
as Benevides
as Sexta-Feira
as Bides
as Líbero
as Preto Maravilha
as Ruy Zebra
as Beicinho
as Ele mesmo (em Uberlândia)
as Ele mesmo
as Dondinho
as Sinhô
as Omero
as Rei do Baralho
as Malaquias
as Self
as (archive footage)
as bêbado
as Pimpinoni
as Porteiro do teatro
as himself
as Cassius Ali
as Zé Catimba
as Nogueira
as João Otelo dos Anzóis Carapuça
as Tisiu
as Americo
as Divina Dama
as Tonico
as Leo
as Black Macunaíma / Macunaíma's son
as tranviere
as Zé Gatinho
as Focinho
as (episódio "Um Pobre Morreu")
as Freitas
as Cachaça
as Zenóbio
as Brancura
as Espírito da Luz Soares
as Faísca
as Coalhada
as Veludo
as Ciscocada
as Passarinho
as Miro
as Rapadura/Milk Shake
as Azulão
as Moleque Miro
as Empregado do Hotel
as Lamparina
as Empregado da pensão
as Empregado da tendinha
as Chocolate
as Gibi
as Sebastião