Actor
Grande Otelo
111 years · Ubêrlandia, MInas Gerais, Brazil · 131 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 131
Othelo The Great
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema
2023 · Self (archive footage)
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
2023 · Actor
The Welles Raft
2022 · Himself (Archive Footage)
On Kanopy
Katharsys
2022 · Actor
Searching for Makunaima
2020 · Archive footage
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020 · Self (archive footage)
O Samba é Primo do Jazz
2020 · (imagens de arquivo)
Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Pressed, Ripped Apart
2019 · (archive footage)
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Naked Eye
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado
2009 · Self
A Paz é Dourada
2008 · Lepto
Othelo
2005 · Self
It's All Brazil
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997 · Self
Cachoeiro em Três Tons
1994 · Self
It's All True
1993 · Self
A Embaixatriz do Samba
1991 · Self
Troca de Cabeça
1991 · Actor
Boca de Ouro
1990 · Actor
Welles' Language
1990 · Narrator
Abolition
1988 · Himself