Portrait of Grande Otelo

Grande Otelo

Acting

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.

Born: October 18, 1915

Place of Birth: Ubêrlandia, MInas Gerais, Brazil

Filmography

2024
Othelo The Great

as Self (archive footage)

2022
The Welles Raft

as Himself (Archive Footage)

2020
Searching for Makunaima

as Archive footage

2020
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

as Self (archive footage)

2020
O Samba é Primo do Jazz

as (imagens de arquivo)

2019
Pressed, Ripped Apart

as (archive footage)

2019
Memórias do Grupo Opinião

as Self (archive footage)

2014
Naked Eye

as Self (archive footage)

2008
2005
Othelo

as Self

1997
It's All Brazil

as Self (archive footage)

1993
1993
Reborn

as Seu Francisco

1990
A, E, I, O... Urca

as Ele mesmo

1990
Welles' Language

as Narrator

1989
Republic

as Patápio dos Prazeres

1988
Abolition

as Himself

1988
Natal da Portela

as Seu Napoleão

1987
Mandala

as Jonas Caetano Barbosa

1987
Jubiabá

as Jubiabá

1986
1986
Sinhá Moça

as Justo de Sá

1985
1984
Quilombo

as Babá

1983
1983
Fala Mangueira!

as Narrator

1982
Fitzcarraldo

as Station Master

1982
The Brazilwood Man

as Príncipe Tourvalou de Blesi

1981
Brasil

as Self (archive footage)

1980
O Bem-Amado

as Boca de Tramela

1980
1980
Água Viva

as Canivete

1979
Feijão Maravilha

as Benevides

1978
1978
1977
Sweet Thieves

as Ruy Zebra

1977
1977
The Bunglers

as Ele mesmo (em Uberlândia)

1977
Lucio Flavio

as Dondinho

1976
The Agony

as Sinhô

1976
1976
1975
King of the Cards

as Rei do Baralho

1975
Bravo!

as Malaquias

1975
1974
The Star Rises

as Grande Otelo

1974
Getúlio Vargas

as (archive footage)

1973
1972
Uma Rosa com Amor

as Pimpinoni

1972
1971
Linguinha

as Cassius Ali

1971
Bandeira 2

as Zé Catimba

1971
Caso Especial

as Nogueira

1971
O Barão Otelo no Barato dos Bilhões

as João Otelo dos Anzóis Carapuça

1970
The Heirs

as Americo

1970
The Hullabaloo Family

as Divina Dama

1969
Macunaima

as Black Macunaíma / Macunaíma's son

1969
Alibi

as tranviere

1968
1967
Doomed Lovers

as Focinho

1965
Crônica da Cidade Amada

as (episódio "Um Pobre Morreu")

1965
Samba

as Freitas

1962
The Cosmonauts

as Zenóbio

1960
Vai Que é Mole

as Brancura

1957
Rio, Northern Zone

as Espírito da Luz Soares

1957
1957
Metido a Bacana

as Coalhada

1956
1954
Matar ou Correr

as Ciscocada

1952
I Loved a Bookie

as Passarinho

1952
Três Vagabundos

as Rapadura/Milk Shake

1950
1949
Também Somos Irmãos

as Moleque Miro

1949
Carnaval no Fogo

as Empregado do Hotel

1948
1943
Samba em Berlim

as Empregado da pensão

1941
Black Diamonds

as Empregado da tendinha

1941
Blue Sky

as Chocolate

1939
1939