Person
Grande Otelo
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 18, 1915
- Died
- Nov 26, 1993
- From
- Ubêrlandia, MInas Gerais, Brazil
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.
Images
Credits
Fitzcarraldo
Macunaima
Lucio Flavio
Rio, Northern Zone
Assault on the Pay Train
The Trapalhões
It's All True
Quilombo
Samba
The Brazilwood Man
Cassy Jones, the Magnificent Seducer
Jubiabá
Jequitibá
A Gata Comeu
Escolinha do Professor Raimundo
The Agony
Carnaval Atlântida
Abolition