Grande Otelo
Actor
- Born
- October 18, 1915 · Ubêrlandia, MInas Gerais, Brazil
- Died
- November 26, 1993 (age 78)
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.
Known for
Fitzcarraldo
March 2, 1982
Macunaima
September 3, 1969
Lucio Flavio
February 1, 1977
Rio, Northern Zone
August 26, 1957
Assault on the Pay Train
September 2, 1962
It's All True
October 17, 1993
Quilombo
June 3, 1984
Samba
February 1, 1965
The Brazilwood Man
February 22, 1982
Cassy Jones, the Magnificent Seducer
June 10, 1972
Jubiabá
September 17, 1987
The Agony
December 30, 1976
Acting136
- 2024Othelo The Great as Self (archive footage)
- 2023Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2023The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
- 2022The Welles Raft as Himself (Archive Footage)
- 2022Katharsys
- 2020Searching for Makunaima as Archive footage
- 2020Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self (archive footage)
- 2020O Samba é Primo do Jazz as (imagens de arquivo)
- 2019Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo as Self (archive footage)
- 2019