Grande Otelo

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1915-10-18 (78 years old)

Deathday

1993-11-26

Place of Birth

Ubêrlandia, MInas Gerais, Brazil

Grande Otelo

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.

Acting

2020

Searching for Makunaima

as Archive footage

1982

Fitzcarraldo

as Station Master

1969

Alibi

as tranviere

1976

The Agony

as Sinhô

1969

Macunaima

as Black Macunaíma / Macunaíma's son

1993

1978

1952

I Loved a Bookie

as Passarinho

1975

O Rei do Baralho

as Rei do Baralho

1957

Rio, Northern Zone

as Espírito da Luz Soares

1974

Getúlio Vargas

as (archive footage)

1970

The Hullabaloo Family

as Divina Dama

1997

It's All Brazil

as Self (archive footage)

1954

Matar ou Correr

as Ciscocada

1950

1956

1957

1957

1986

1949

Também Somos Irmãos

as Moleque Miro

1988

Natal da Portela

as Seu Napoleão

1977

Lucio Flavio

as Dondinho

2024

Othelo The Great

as Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo)

1949

Carnaval no Fogo

as Empregado do Hotel

1990

Welles' Language

as Narrator

1960

Vai Que é Mole

as Brancura

1975

1987

Jubiabá

as Jubiabá

2020

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

as Self (archive footage)

2005

Othelo

as Self

1982

The Brazilwood Man

as Príncipe Tourvalou de Blesi

1965

Samba

as Freitas

1984

Quilombo

as Babá

1976

1983

1971

O Barão Otelo no Barato dos Bilhões

as João Otelo dos Anzóis Carapuça

1957

Metido a Bacana

as Coalhada

1977

1962

The Cosmonauts

as Zenóbio

1978

1977

Sweet Thieves

as Ruy Zebra

1967

Doomed Lovers

as Focinho

2019

Memórias do Grupo Opinião

as Self (archive footage)

1965

Crônica da Cidade Amada

as (episódio "Um Pobre Morreu")

1974

The Star Rises

as Grande Otelo

1952

Três Vagabundos

as Rapadura/Milk Shake

1948

1939

1988

Abolition

as Himself

1989

1968

1939

1983

Fala Mangueira!

as Narrator

1943

Samba em Berlim

as Empregado da pensão

1976

1971

O Donzelo

as Motorista de Taxi

1972

2008

1940

Laranja da China

as Boneco de Pixe

1941

Black Diamonds

as Empregado da tendinha

2022

The Welles Raft

as Himself (Archive Footage)

2019

Pressed, Ripped Apart

as (archive footage)

1981

Brasil

as Self (archive footage)

2020

O Samba é Primo do Jazz

as (imagens de arquivo)

2014

Naked Eye

as Self (archive footage)

1970

The Heirs

as Americo

Production

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