Grande Otelo
Born: 1915-10-18 in Ubêrlandia, MInas Gerais, Brazil
Died: 1993-11-26
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2024
- Othelo The Great as Self (archive footage)
2023
- The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2022
- The Welles Raft as Himself (Archive Footage)
- Katharsys
2020
- Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self (archive footage)
- Searching for Makunaima as Archive footage
- O Samba é Primo do Jazz as (imagens de arquivo)
2019
- Memórias do Grupo Opinião as Self (archive footage)
- Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo as Self (archive footage)
- Pressed, Ripped Apart as (archive footage)
2014
- Naked Eye as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Paulo Gracindo - O Bem Amado as Self
2008
- A Paz é Dourada as Lepto
2005
- Othelo as Self
1997
- Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional as Self
- It's All Brazil as Self (archive footage)
1994
- Cachoeiro em Três Tons as Self
1993
- Rebirth as Seu Francisco
- It's All True as Self
1990
- A, E, I, O... Urca as Ele mesmo
- Escolinha do Professor Raimundo as Eustáquio
- Welles' Language as Narrator
- Boca de Ouro
1989
- Jardim de Alah as Alah
- Republic as Patápio dos Prazeres
1988
- Abolition as Himself
- Natal da Portela as Seu Napoleão
1987
- Jubiabá as Jubiabá
- Mandala as Jonas Caetano Barbosa
- Running Out of Luck
- Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion as Self
- Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman as Self
- Black Fragments of Samba - Cariocas, The City Musicians as Self
- Black Fragments of Samba - Paulo Moura, Infinite Music
1986
- It's Not All True as Himself
- Exu-Piá, Coração de Macunaíma
- Sinhá Moça as Justo de Sá
- Brasa Adormecida
1985
- A Gata Comeu as Self
1984
- Quilombo as Babá
1983
- Fala Mangueira! as Narrator
- Parahyba Mulher Macho as Seu Pedro
1982
- Fitzcarraldo as Station Master
- Chico Anysio Show as Eustáquio
- The Brazilwood Man as Príncipe Tourvalou de Blesi
1981
- Brasil as Self (archive footage)
- Noel por Noel
1980
- Água Viva as Canivete
- O Bem-Amado as Boca de Tramela
- Grandes Nomes as Self
- Asa Branca: A Brazilian Dream
1979
- Feijão Maravilha as Benevides
1978
- A Noiva da Cidade as Líbero
- Bloody Gold
- As Aventuras de Robinson Crusoé as Sexta-Feira
- A Noite dos Duros as Bides
1977
- The Bunglers as Ele mesmo (em Uberlândia)
- Lucio Flavio as Dondinho
- Sweet Thieves as Ruy Zebra
- The Force of Xango as Beicinho
1976
- The Agony as Sinhô
- Carioca Tigre as Omero
- Bahia
- Ladrão de Bagdá
- O Flagrante
- Tem Alguém na Minha Cama
1975
- Bravo! as Malaquias
- King of the Cards as Rei do Baralho
- Assim Era a Atlântida
- Chinese Viola as Self
- Aventuras d'um Detetive Português
- Deixa, Amorzinho... Deixa
1974
- Getúlio Vargas as (archive footage)
- The Star Rises as Grande Otelo
1973
- Os Ossos do Barão as bêbado
- O Negrinho do Pastoreio
1972
- Cassy Jones, the Magnificent Seducer as Porteiro do teatro
- Uma Rosa com Amor as Pimpinoni
- Semana de Arte Moderna as himself
1971
- O Barão Otelo no Barato dos Bilhões as João Otelo dos Anzóis Carapuça
- Cômicos... + Cômicos...
- Caso Especial as Nogueira
- Bandeira 2 as Zé Catimba
- Linguinha as Cassius Ali
- Se Meu Dólar Falasse... as Tisiu
- Sebastião Prata, ou Bem Dizendo, Grande Otelo as Self
- O Donzelo as Motorista de Taxi
1970
- The Heirs as Americo
- The Hullabaloo Family as Divina Dama
- Em Ritmo Jovem
- Não Aperta, Aparício as Tonico
1969
- Macunaima as Black Macunaíma / Macunaíma's son
- Alibi as tranviere
- A Doce Mulher Amada as Leo
1968
- The Outsiders
- Massacre no Supermercado as Zé Gatinho
1967
- A Rose for Everyone
- Doomed Lovers as Focinho
1965
- Crônica da Cidade Amada as (episódio "Um Pobre Morreu")
- Samba as Freitas
1962
- The Cosmonauts as Zenóbio
- Assault on the Pay Train as Cachaça
1961
1960
- Vai Que é Mole as Brancura
1957
- Rio, Northern Zone as Espírito da Luz Soares
- De Pernas Pro Ar as Faísca
- Metido a Bacana as Coalhada
- A Baronesa Transviada as Benedito
- Com Jeito Vai
- Pé na Tábua
1956
- Depois Eu Conto as Veludo
1954
- Paixão nas Selvas
- Malandros em Quarta Dimensão
- Matar ou Correr as Ciscocada
1953
1952
- Carnaval Atlântida as Miro
- I Loved a Bookie as Passarinho
- Três Vagabundos as Rapadura/Milk Shake
- Barnabé, You Are Mine
1950
- Aviso aos Navegantes as Azulão
1949
- O Caçula do Barulho
- Também Somos Irmãos as Moleque Miro
- Terra Violenta
- ... E O Mundo Se Diverte
- Carnaval no Fogo as Empregado do Hotel
1948
- É Com Este Que Eu Vou as Lamparina
1945
1944
1943
- Tristezas Não Pagam Dívidas
- Moleque Tião
- Caminho do Céu
- Samba em Berlim as Empregado da pensão
1941
- Blue Sky as Chocolate
- Black Diamonds as Empregado da tendinha
1940
- Laranja da China as Boneco de Pixe
1939
- Family Football as Gibi
- Onde Estás, Felicidade? as Sebastião