Antônio Pitanga
Born: 1939-06-13 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Known For: Acting
Biography
Antônio Luiz Sampaio OMC (Salvador, June 13, 1939), better known as Antônio Pitanga, is a Brazilian actor and filmmaker, who became internationally known for playing several roles on films of the Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s.
Filmography
2026
- Por Você
- Tony Odyssey as Humberto
- A Fúria as Pai de Santo
- The Taste of the Blackberry
- Fernando Coni Campos: Cada um Vive como Sonha as himself
2025
- Anything Goes as Salvador Gomes
- Milton Gonçalves, Além do Espetáculo as Self
- Malês as Pacífico Licutan
- Same Old West as Ermitão
- Coisa de Novela as Vicente
- Margeado as Silvério
- Cartografia das Ondas
- Clube Spelunca
- Tributo: Tony Tornado as Self
- Falas da Vida
2024
- Children of the Church Steps as Célio
- A Vilã das Nove as Modesto Estrella
- Sérgio Ricardo: Uma Outra História do Cinema Novo
2023
- Perfect Love as Dom Vitório
- Dois em Cena: Encontro de Gerações
- The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
- Aunt Virginia as Tavares
- Nosso Sonho as Seu Américo
- Tinnitus as Inácio
- Wedding Games as Marcelo
- Lenita - Traces of a Lady as Self
- Favela do Papa as Self
2022
- Memory House as Cristovam
- Our Children as Rodrigo
- The Coup d'État Factory as Antônio Pitanga
- A Força do Gigante as Self
2021
- In Your Place as Gesiel
- Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar as Self (archive footage)
- The Good Cinema
2020
- Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self
- A Day with Jerusa as Yoyo
- Porfírio do Amaral: A Verdade Sobre o Samba as Self
- Os Escravos de Jó as Jérèmie Valés
2019
- Memórias do Grupo Opinião as Self
- Pressed, Ripped Apart as (archive footage)
2018
- Running After as Garçom Othelo
- Bandeira de Retalhos as João da Lua
- Possessões as Pai Joaquim
- Carvana as Self (archive footage)
- O Poder Negro
- Riscados pela Memória
2017
- Thin Air as José Nazário
- Barravento Novo
2016
- Pitanga as Self
- Sonhadores as Zinho
- O Cinema Foi à Feira as Ele mesmo
2013
- For Sale or Rent as Seu Capô
2012
- Lilyhammer as Blind Man
- Side by Side as Túlio
- The Great Kilapy as Pai de Joãozinho
- Água de Meninos – A Feira do Cinema Novo as Himself
- O Terno do Zé as Pai Pedro de Oxum Aiê
- A Promessa de Gerônimo as Geronimo
2011
- I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips as Pastor Isaías
- Premonição as Seu Antero
2010
- Lula, the Son of Brazil as Seu Cristóvão
2009
2007
2006
- Zuzu Angel as Policial gentil
- The Passenger: Adult Secrets as Delegado
- Referências as Self
- Bom Dia, Eternidade as Calunga
2005
- A Degola Fatal as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Celebrity as Comandante Roberto
- Girls from ABC as Seu Aurélio
- Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth as Self
- Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria as Coice
2001
- The Clone as Sebastião "Tião"
2000
1999
- Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei as Valentim
1998
- Como Ser Solteiro as Self
1997
1995
- A Próxima Vítima as Kléber Noronha
1993
- Guerra Sem Fim as Deputado Azulão
- O Marajá as Tato
1991
- O Fantasma da Ópera as operário do teatro
1990
- A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão as Elomar
- Pantanal as Túlio
- The Fifth Monkey as Drunk at the Party
- Barrela: Escola de Crimes
1989
- Kananga do Japão as Bira
1988
- Olho por Olho as Detetive Baba-Ovo (Ofélio Fonseca)
- Dedé Mamata
1987
- Corpo Santo as Patrício
- Eternamente Pagu as Herculano
- No Tempo de Glauber
1986
- Dona Beija as Moisés
- The Manor of Araucaima as Cristobal
1985
- Tenda dos Milagres as Exú
- Tudo em Cima as Cheiroso
- The King of Rio as Geraldão
- Chico Rei
1984
- Partido Alto as Jacaré
- Meu Destino É Pecar as Dioclécio
- Quilombo as Acaiuba
1983
1982
- Chico Anysio Show
- Rio Babilonia as Bira
- The Brazilwood Man as César
1981
- Terras do Sem Fim as Viriato
- Rosa Baiana as Raimundo
1980
- The Age of the Earth as Black Christ
1979
- Jorge Amado no Cinema
- Na Boca do Mundo as Antônio
1977
- Sweet Thieves as Fuleiro
- The Force of Xango as Young Tônho Tiê (Uncredited)
- Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber as Self
- Cordão de Ouro as Cosme
1976
- Bahia
- Deadly Cruelty as Deca
1975
- Ovelha Negra as Dito Preto
- A Viagem as Damião
- Jouez Encore, Payez Encore
1974
- Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável as Amâncio
- Um Homem Célebre
1973
- Os Ossos do Barão as Misael
- Joanna Francesa
1972
- Jerônimo, o Herói do Sertão as Zabumba
- Câncer as Vagabundo
- When Carnaval Comes as Cuíca
- Vozes do Medo
1971
- Caso Especial
- O Homem Que Deve Morrer as Lucas Pé-na-Cova
1969
- Sangue do Meu Sangue as José do Patrocínio
- Dez Vidas as José do Patrocínio
- Vidas em Conflito as Robson
- Garden of War
- Compasso de Espera as Assis
- Corisco, o Diabo Loiro as Zé Baiano
- The Woman of Everyone as Vampiro
- Tropico
- Golias Contra o Homem das Bolinhas
1968
- Ana as Antônio
1967
- Mar Corrente as Luiz
- Cangaceiros de Lampião as Cravo Roxo
- Colagem
1966
- The Big City as Calunga
- Plantation Boy as Zé Guedes
1965
- Samba as Paulo's friend
- My Home Is Copacabana
1964
- The Guns as Voice
- Esse Mundo é Meu as Toninho
- Senhor dos Navegantes
1963
- Ganga Zumba as Ganga Zumba / Antão
- Lampião, King of the Badlands
- Sol Sobre a Lama as Bom Rojão
1962
- The Given Word as Mestre Coca
- The Turning Wind as Firmino
- Tocaia no Asfalto as Matador de Caxias
1961
- A Grande Feira as Chico Diabo
- Bahia of All Saints as Pitanga