Antônio Pitanga

ActorDirectorDirectingWriter Jun 13 (age 86) Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 1961–2026 (65 year career)

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Biography

Antônio Luiz Sampaio OMC (Salvador, June 13, 1939), better known as Antônio Pitanga, is a Brazilian actor and filmmaker, who became internationally known for playing several roles on films of the Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s.

Known For

Film

The Clone

Sebastião "Tião"

Film

The Given Word

Mestre Coca

Film

Nosso Sonho

Seu Américo

Film

The Man Who Challenged the Devil

Preto Velho

Film

Zuzu Angel

Policial gentil

Film

The Guns

Voice

Film

Side by Side

Túlio

Film

The Turning Wind

Firmino

Filmography

Acting (156)

Movies (122)

Tony Odyssey

2026

as Humberto

The Taste of the Blackberry

Coisa de Novela

as Vicente

Malês

as Pacífico Licutan

Same Old West

as Ermitão

Cartografia das Ondas

2025

Milton Gonçalves, Além do Espetáculo

2025

as Self

Falas da Vida

2025

Margeado

2025

as Silvério

Sérgio Ricardo: Uma Outra História do Cinema Novo

A Vilã das Nove

as Modesto Estrella

Aunt Virginia

as Tavares

Nosso Sonho

as Seu Américo

Tinnitus

as Inácio

Wedding Games

as Marcelo

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

2023

9.0

Favela do Papa

2023

as Self

Lenita - Traces of a Lady

2023

as Self

The Coup d'État Factory

as Antônio Pitanga

Our Children

as Rodrigo

A Força do Gigante

as Self

Memory House

as Cristovam

The Good Cinema

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar

2021

as Self (archive footage)

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

as Self

A Day with Jerusa

as Yoyo

Porfírio do Amaral: A Verdade Sobre o Samba

as Self

Os Escravos de Jó

as Jérèmie Valés

Memórias do Grupo Opinião

2019

as Self

Pressed, Ripped Apart

2019

as (archive footage)

O Poder Negro

2018

Possessões

2018

as Pai Joaquim

Carvana

2018

as Self (archive footage)

Bandeira de Retalhos

2018

as João da Lua

Riscados pela Memória

Running After

as Garçom Othelo

Barravento Novo

O Cinema Foi à Feira

as Ele mesmo

Pitanga

as Self

For Sale or Rent

as Seu Capô

O Terno do Zé

as Pai Pedro de Oxum Aiê

The Great Kilapy

2012

as Pai de Joãozinho

7.0

Água de Meninos – A Feira do Cinema Novo

2012

as Himself

A Promessa de Gerônimo

2012

as Geronimo

I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips

as Pastor Isaías

Premonição

as Seu Antero

Lula, the Son of Brazil

2010

as Seu Cristóvão

5.5

Lágrimas de Ogum

2009

The Man Who Challenged the Devil

2007

as Preto Velho

6.9

Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha

2007

5.0

Referências

2006

as Self

The Passenger: Adult Secrets

as Delegado

Zuzu Angel

as Policial gentil

Bom Dia, Eternidade

as Calunga

A Degola Fatal

2005

as Self (archive footage)

Girls from ABC

2003

as Seu Aurélio

5.8

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

2003

as Self

5.8

Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria

2003

as Coice

6.5

A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar

2000

7.0

Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion

2000

as Joaquim

5.8

Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei

as Valentim

Como Ser Solteiro

as Self

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

1997

as Self

O Marajá

1993

as Tato

8.5

Barrela: Escola de Crimes

1990

1.0

The Fifth Monkey

1990

as Drunk at the Party

Dedé Mamata

No Tempo de Glauber

Eternamente Pagu

as Herculano

The Manor of Araucaima

as Cristobal

The King of Rio

as Geraldão

Chico Rei

Quilombo

as Acaiuba

Bandidos da Falange

Rio Babilonia

as Bira

The Brazilwood Man

as César

The Age of the Earth

as Black Christ

Jorge Amado no Cinema

Na Boca do Mundo

as Antônio

SRTV 307 – Cinemateca: Almoço na Cinédia – nosso cinema 80 anos

1978

Black Goddess

1978

The Force of Xango

1977

as Young Tônho Tiê (Uncredited)

4.0

Cordão de Ouro

1977

as Cosme

Sweet Thieves

1977

as Fuleiro

7.0

Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber

as Self

Bahia

Deadly Cruelty

as Deca

Jouez Encore, Payez Encore

1975

5.0

Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável

1974

as Amâncio

Joanna Francesa

Vozes do Medo

Câncer

When Carnaval Comes

as Cuíca

Uma Nega Chamada Tereza

Lost Love Juliana

República da Traição

Corisco, o Diabo Loiro

1969

as Zé Baiano

Compasso de Espera

1969

as Assis

8.8

The Woman of Everyone

as Vampiro

Tropico

Garden of War

Golias Contra o Homem das Bolinhas

1969

Mar Corrente

1967

as Luiz

Cangaceiros de Lampião

as Cravo Roxo

Colagem

The Big City

as Calunga

Plantation Boy

as Zé Guedes

My Home Is Copacabana

Samba

as Paulo's friend

Esse Mundo é Meu

as Toninho

The Guns

as Voice

Senhor dos Navegantes

1964

Sol Sobre a Lama

1963

as Bom Rojão

5.0

Lampião, King of the Badlands

1963

7.5

Ganga Zumba

1963

as Ganga Zumba / Antão

The Turning Wind

as Firmino

Tocaia no Asfalto

as Matador de Caxias

The Given Word

as Mestre Coca

A Grande Feira

as Chico Diabo

Bahia of All Saints

as Pitanga

Justino

A Cabeça do Santo

Television (34)

Anything Goes

2025

as Salvador Gomes

6.2

Clube Spelunca

2025

Children of the Church Steps

as Célio

Perfect Love

as Dom Vitório

Dois em Cena: Encontro de Gerações

In Your Place

as Gesiel

Thin Air

as José Nazário

Sonhadores

2016

as Zinho

Lilyhammer

as Blind Man

Side by Side

as Túlio

Celebridade

as Comandante Roberto

The Clone

as Sebastião "Tião"

A Próxima Vítima

as Kléber Noronha

O Fantasma da Ópera

as operário do teatro

Kananga do Japão

as Bira

Olho por Olho

as Detetive Baba-Ovo

Corpo Santo

as Patrício

Dona Beija

as Moisés

Tenda dos Milagres

as Exú

Partido Alto

as Jacaré

Meu Destino É Pecar

as Dioclécio

Chico Anysio Show

Rosa Baiana

as Raimundo

Boundless Lands

as Viriato

A Viagem

as Damião

Ovelha Negra

as Dito Preto

Os Ossos do Barão

as Misael

Jerônimo, o Herói do Sertão

1972

as Zabumba

Caso Especial

1971

6.0

O Homem Que Deve Morrer

1971

as Lucas Pé-na-Cova

Sangue do Meu Sangue

1969

as José do Patrocínio

7.0

Dez Vidas

1969

as José do Patrocínio

Vidas em Conflito

1969

as Robson

Ana

1968

as Antônio

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

Malês

Director

Quilombo

Assistant Director

Na Boca do Mundo

Director

Na Boca do Mundo

Story