Grande Otelo

ActorSound Oct 18 (died age 78) Ubêrlandia, MInas Gerais, Brazil 1935–2024 (89 year career)

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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 ofte…

Known For

Film

Fitzcarraldo

Station Master

Film

Macunaima

Black Macunaíma / Macunaíma's son

Film

Rio, Northern Zone

Espírito da Luz Soares

Film

Assault on the Pay Train

Cachaça

Film

Lucio Flavio

Dondinho

Film

It's All True

Self

Film

Escolinha do Professor Raimundo

Eustáquio

Film

Feijão Maravilha

Benevides

Filmography

Acting (159)

Movies (136)

Othelo The Great

2024

as Self (archive footage)

Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema

2023

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

2023

9.0

The Welles Raft

2022

as Himself (Archive Footage)

Katharsys

2022

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

2020

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

O Samba é Primo do Jazz

2020

as (imagens de arquivo)

6.0

Searching for Makunaima

2020

as Archive footage

Memórias do Grupo Opinião

2019

as Self (archive footage)

Pressed, Ripped Apart

2019

as (archive footage)

Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo

2019

as Self (archive footage)

Naked Eye

2014

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado

2009

as Self

5.8

A Paz é Dourada

2008

as Lepto

Othelo

2005

as Self

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

1997

as Self

It's All Brazil

1997

as Self (archive footage)

6.2

Cachoeiro em Três Tons

1994

as Self

It's All True

1993

as Self

7.6

A Embaixatriz do Samba

as Self

Troca de Cabeça

Welles' Language

as Narrator

Boca de Ouro

Jardim de Alah

as Alah

Abolition

as Himself

Natal da Portela

as Seu Napoleão

Black Fragments of Samba - Paulo Moura, Infinite Music

Jubiabá

as Jubiabá

Running Out of Luck

Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion

1987

as Self

Black Fragments of Samba - Cariocas, The City Musicians

1987

as Self

Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman

1987

as Self

Exu-Piá, Coração de Macunaíma

It's Not All True

as Himself

Brasa Adormecida

Quilombo

as Babá

Parahyba Mulher Macho

1983

as Seu Pedro

4.5

Fala Mangueira!

1983

as Narrator

Fitzcarraldo

1982

as Station Master

7.6

The Brazilwood Man

1982

as Príncipe Tourvalou de Blesi

4.5

Brasil

1981

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Noel por Noel

1981

6.0

Asa Branca: A Brazilian Dream

Bloody Gold

A Noiva da Cidade

as Líbero

As Aventuras de Robinson Crusoé

1978

as Sexta-Feira

5.0

A Noite dos Duros

1978

as Bides

The Force of Xango

as Beicinho

Lucio Flavio

as Dondinho

Sweet Thieves

as Ruy Zebra

Bahia

Ladrão de Bagdá

The Agony

as Sinhô

Carioca Tigre

as Omero

O Flagrante

1976

Tem Alguém na Minha Cama

1976

King of the Cards

1975

as Rei do Baralho

5.7

Deixa, Amorzinho... Deixa

1975

Aventuras d'um Detetive Português

1975

Chinese Viola

1975

as Self

6.0

Assim Era a Atlântida

Getúlio Vargas

as (archive footage)

The Star Rises

as Grande Otelo

O Negrinho do Pastoreio

1973

8.0

Cassy Jones, the Magnificent Seducer

1972

as Porteiro do teatro

5.2

Semana de Arte Moderna

1972

as himself

O Barão Otelo no Barato dos Bilhões

1971

as João Otelo dos Anzóis Carapuça

4.8

Se Meu Dólar Falasse...

1971

as Tisiu

5.0

Sebastião Prata, ou Bem Dizendo, Grande Otelo

1971

as Self

Cômicos... + Cômicos...

1971

O Donzelo

1971

as Motorista de Taxi

Em Ritmo Jovem

The Heirs

as Americo

Não Aperta, Aparício

as Tonico

The Hullabaloo Family

1970

as Divina Dama

6.0

Macunaima

1969

as Black Macunaíma / Macunaíma's son

6.9

A Doce Mulher Amada

1969

as Leo

Alibi

1969

as tranviere

5.0

Massacre no Supermercado

as Zé Gatinho

The Outsiders

A Rose for Everyone

Doomed Lovers

as Focinho

Samba

1965

as Freitas

2.6

Crônica da Cidade Amada

1965

as (episódio "Um Pobre Morreu")

Quero Essa Mulher Assim Mesmo

1963

The Cosmonauts

1962

as Zenóbio

6.2

Assault on the Pay Train

1962

as Cachaça

8.0

Um Candango na Belacap

1961

O Dono da Bola

1961

6.0

O Homem Que Roubou a Copa do Mundo

Vai Que é Mole

as Brancura

Os Três Cangaceiros

Mulheres à Vista

Entrei de Gaiato

Garota Enxuta

Pistoleiro Bossa Nova

É de Chuá!

...E o Bicho Não Deu

Mujeres de fuego

De Pernas Pro Ar

as Faísca

A Baronesa Transviada

1957

as Benedito

5.8

Rio, Northern Zone

1957

as Espírito da Luz Soares

Metido a Bacana

as Coalhada

Com Jeito Vai

Pé na Tábua

Depois Eu Conto

as Veludo

Malandros em Quarta Dimensão

Paixão nas Selvas

Matar ou Correr

as Ciscocada

A Dupla do Barulho

I Loved a Bookie

as Passarinho

Três Vagabundos

as Rapadura/Milk Shake

Carnaval Atlântida

1952

as Miro

7.1

Barnabé, You Are Mine

Aviso aos Navegantes

as Azulão

O Caçula do Barulho

... E O Mundo Se Diverte

Também Somos Irmãos

as Moleque Miro

Carnaval no Fogo

as Empregado do Hotel

Terra Violenta

1949

That's What I'm Gonna Do

1948

as Lamparina

The World is a Tambourine

Luz dos Meus Olhos

Não Adianta Chorar

Romance Proibido

Samba em Berlim

as Empregado da pensão

Tristezas Não Pagam Dívidas

Moleque Tião

Caminho do Céu

Black Diamonds

as Empregado da tendinha

Blue Sky

1941

as Chocolate

Laranja da China

1940

as Boneco de Pixe

Family Football

1939

as Gibi

Onde Estás, Felicidade?

1939

as Sebastião

João Ninguém

1936

Noites Cariocas

1935

Television (23)

Rebirth

1993

as Seu Francisco

7.8

Estados Anysios de Chico City

1991

9.5

Escolinha do Professor Raimundo

as Eustáquio

A, E, I, O... Urca

as Ele mesmo

Republic

as Patápio dos Prazeres

8.0

Mandala

1987

as Jonas Caetano Barbosa

Sinhá Moça

as Justo de Sá

A Gata Comeu

as Self

Chico Anysio Show

as Eustáquio

Chico Anysio Show

as Various Characters

Água Viva

as Canivete

O Bem-Amado

as Boca de Tramela

Grandes Nomes

as Self

Feijão Maravilha

as Benevides

Maria, Maria

as Preto Maravilha

The Bunglers

as Ele mesmo (em Uberlândia)

Bravo!

as Malaquias

Os Ossos do Barão

as bêbado

Uma Rosa com Amor

as Pimpinoni

Caso Especial

as Nogueira

Bandeira 2

as Zé Catimba

Linguinha

1971

as Cassius Ali

Gabriela, Cravo e Canela

1961

as Tuísca

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Crônica da Cidade Amada

1965

Songs