Zózimo Bulbul

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-09-21 (76 years old)

Deathday

2013-01-24

Place of Birth

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Zózimo Bulbul

Biography

A Brazilian filmmaker, actor, producer and screenwriter, Jorge da Silva, better known by his stage name Zózimo Bulbul, is regarded as a household name of black Brazilian cinema. He was also the founder of Rio de Janeiro's Black Cinema Center ("Centro Afro Carioca de Cinema"). As an actor, he worked in over 30 features, and was directed by filmmakers such as Glauber Rocha (in "Terra em Transe"), Carlos Diegues ("Quilombo") and Antunes Filho ("Compasso de Espera"), becoming the first black man to play a main character in a Brazilian TV soap opera, in 1969's "Vidas em Conflito". His debut as a filmmaker was 1974's black and white short "Alma n...

Acting

1980

Giselle

as Jorge

2005

República Tiradentes

as Self / Interviewer

2005

Samba no Trem

as Self / Interviewer

2006

In Evil Hour

as Carmichael

1974

1979

Parceiros da Aventura

as Motorista da greve

1973

Compasso de Espera

as Jorge de Oliveira

2005

1962

Five Times Favela

as (segment "Pedreira de São Diego")

1967

O Engano

as Amante

1968

The Naked Man

as Homem da mudança

1974

1967

Entranced Earth

as Repórter

1970

1970

2002

The Forest

as Procópio

1984

Quilombo

as Stone Man

1970

1967

The Girl from Ipanema

as Jovem na Praia

1975

2012

Paper and Sea

as João Cândido

1974

Brutos Inocentes

as João Capataz

2006

Production

2006

Referências

as Director

1974

1974

Artesanato do Samba

as Screenplay

1974

1973

Soul in the Eye

as Director

1988

Abolition

as Director

1974

1988

Abolition

as Writer

1973

2001

Pequena África

as Director

2005

2005

Samba no Trem

as Director

2005

Samba no Trem

as Writer

2012

2006

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