Hugo Carvana
Born: 1937-06-04 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 2014-10-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Hugo Carvana de Hollanda (Rio de Janeiro, June 4, 1937 – Rio de Janeiro, October 4, 2014) was a Brazilian film and television actor and director. Initially associated with scoundrel-type characters during his early career, he played parts in many Brazilian New Wave (Cinema Novo) films. He later moved on to starring and directing comedies, such as his directorial debut, the self-starred "Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo!" (1973) and his last film "A Casa da Mãe Joana 2" (2013). During his later career, he was also a recurring actor in Brazilian soap operas. Carvana died in October 4, 2014, from complications caused by a lung cancer.
Filmography
2024
- Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico” as Self (archive footage)
2023
2022
- O Canto Livre de Nara Leão as Self
2021
2019
- Memórias do Grupo Opinião as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Carvana as Self
2017
- Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas as Self
2016
- Pitanga as Self
2015
- Chico: Brazilian Artist as Self
- Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: As Noivas de Copacabana - O Filme as Delegado Adroaldo de Lima
2014
- Rio, I Love You as Manoel (segment "Dona Fulana")
- Éramos Todos Loucos as Self
2013
- Golden Oldies 2 ... (Director)
- Giovanni Improtta as Cantagalo
2012
- O Brado Retumbante as Jorge Mourão
2011
- Não Se Preocupe, Nada Vai Dar Certo! as Zimba
2010
2009
- Love Stories Only Last 90 Minutes as Taxi driver
2008
- Golden Oldies as Salomão
- Milagrez as Self
2007
- Tropical Paradise as Belisário Cavalcanti
- Lost and Found as Juiz
2006
- JK as Jorge Sampaio
- Depois do Transe as Self
- The Greatest Love of All as Salvador
- O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento as Self
2005
- Mais uma Vez Amor as Dr. Alvarez
- A Degola Fatal as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Like a Wave as Sinésio Paiva
2003
- Celebrity as Lineu Vasconcelos
- God Is Brazilian as Quincas Batalha
- Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria as Beggar
- Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth as Self / Interviewee
- Abry as (voice)
2002
- Desejos de Mulher as Atílio Rodrigues
- Lara as Ator Premiado
- Fluminense Football Club - Centenário de uma Paixão
2001
- Um Anjo Caiu do Céu as Sargento Garcia
- Sonhos Tropicais as Macedo
- Movie Theaters of Rio as Self
2000
- O Cabeça de Copacabana as Haroldo Soares
1999
- Walking the Clouds as Wagner Macieira
- O Belo e as Feras
- Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei as Queiroz
1998
- Summer Affair as Jacinto Azevedo
1997
- Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional as Self
- The Naked Man as Taxista
- Chaos and Confusion as Figurante 1 no Festival de Gramado
1996
- Sai de Baixo
- G.R.E.S. Concentração as Narrator
1995
- Cara & Coroa as Aníbal Santoro
- Cutie Pie... Her Loves and Sins as Irmão Fidélis
1993
- Fera Ferida as Numa Pompílio de Castro
- Black August as Luiz Magalhães
- Vênus de Fogo as Delegado Eurico Braga
1992
- Of Body and Soul as Agenor
- As Noivas de Copacabana as Delegado Adroaldo de Lima
1991
- O Dono do Mundo as Lucas Veronese
- Vai Trabalhar Vagabundo II: A Volta as Dino
1990
- Gente Fina as Guilherme Paiva
- Assim na Tela Como no Céu
- Boca de Ouro as Caveirinha
1988
1987
- Leila Diniz as Clyde
1986
- Roda de Fogo as Paulo Costa
1985
- De Quina Pra Lua as Silva
- Avaete, Seed of Revenge as Ramiro
1984
- Power Play as Alfredo Fraga Dantas
- Bete Balanço as Tony
- Águia na Cabeça as Turco
1983
- Bar Esperanza as Zeca
1981
- Chico Total as maior contador de histórias de Piripiri
- Glauber Rocha: Morto/Vivo
1980
- To the Last Drop as Narrator(voice)
- O Homem do Morcego as Narrador
1979
- Plantão de Polícia as Waldomiro
1978
- Alô Tetéia
- Mulheres de Cinema as Narrator
- Se Segura, Malandro! as Paulo Otávio
1977
- The Trapalhões as Ele mesmo (em Florianópolis)
- Anchieta, José do Brasil as Diogo Álvares
- Tent of Miracles as Fausto Pena
- Sea of Roses as Sérgio
1976
- Un animal doué de déraison as Hugo
- The Fall as José
- Gordos e Magros
1975
- Cuca Legal as Celso Maranhão (Jacaré)
- Gabriela as Dr. Argileu Palmeira
- Ipanema, Adeus
- Arquitetura de Morar as Narrator
- Veredas de Minas
1974
- Pilar as Narrador
- Bullock Cart as Narrator
- Chorinhos e Chorões as Narrador
- A Man and His Cage as Tino
- Na Casa de Rio Vermelho as Narrator (voice)
1973
- Humor Amargo
- Tati, a Garota as Capitão Peixoto
- All Nudity Shall Be Punished as Representative
- Go To Work You Bum! as Dino
1972
- Love, Carnival and Dreams as Malandro
- Câncer as Homem
- When Carnaval Comes as Lourival
- Procura-se uma Virgem
1971
- Klaxon
- O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil as Dr. Gestaile
- The Lion Has Seven Heads as Português
- A Indústria do Solúvel as Narrador
- Tatu Bola
- Brazil in Cannes
1969
- Macunaima as Man with duck
- Antonio das Mortes as Delegado Mattos
- The Angel Was Born as Santamaria
- Pedro Diabo Loves Rosa Meia Noite as Detetive Athiê
- Vampire's Dream
- Garden of War
- Time of Violence
- A Criação Literária de João Guimarães Rosa
- Dramática Popular as Narrador
1968
- José Lins do Rego as Narrador
- On Borrowed Time as Passos
- The Man Who Bought the World as Cabo Jorge
- The Brave Warrior as Union Hanger-On
- Before, the Summer as Homem atropelado
- How Are You, Well?
1967
- Entranced Earth as Álvaro
- Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo as Self
- Colagem as Narrator
- O Engano as Marido
- Oito Universitários as Narrador
1966
- The Big City as Pereba
1965
- The Deceased
- Crime de Amor as Glicério
- The Dare as Journalist
1964
- The Guns as José
1962
- The Unscrupulous Ones as Photographer
- Esse Rio que Eu Amo