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
- Katharsys
- The Welles Raft as Himself (Archive Footage)
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
- Pressed, Ripped Apart as (archive footage)
- Memórias do Grupo Opinião as Self (archive footage)
- Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo as Self (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
- Jequitibá as Seu Francisco
- It's All True as Self
1990
- Escolinha do Professor Raimundo as Eustáquio
- A, E, I, O... Urca as Ele mesmo
- Welles' Language as Narrator
- Boca de Ouro
1989
- Republic as Patápio dos Prazeres
- Jardim de Alah as Alah
1988
- Natal da Portela as Seu Napoleão
- Abolition as Himself
1987
- Mandala as Jonas Caetano Barbosa
- Running Out of Luck
- Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion as Self
- Jubiabá as Jubiabá
- 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
- Little Missy as Justo de Sá
- It's Not All True as Himself
- Exu-Piá, Coração de Macunaíma
- Brasa Adormecida
1985
- A Gata Comeu as Self
1984
- Quilombo as Babá
1983
- Fala Mangueira! as Narrator
- Parahyba Mulher Macho as Seu Pedro
1982
- Chico Anysio Show as Eustáquio
- Fitzcarraldo as Station Master
- The Brazilwood Man as Príncipe Tourvalou de Blesi
1981
- O Amor é Nosso! as Pica-Pau (na peça "Viveiro de Pássaros")
- Obrigado, Doutor as Dico
- 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
- Maria, Maria as Preto Maravilha
- A Noiva da Cidade as Líbero
- Bloody Gold
- A Noite dos Duros as Bides
- As Aventuras de Robinson Crusoé as Sexta-Feira
1977
- The Trapalhões as Ele mesmo (em Uberlândia)
- Lucio Flavio as Dondinho
- The Force of Xango as Beicinho
- Sweet Thieves as Ruy Zebra
1976
- O Flagrante
- The Agony as Sinhô
- Carioca Tigre as Omero
- Tem Alguém na Minha Cama
- Ladrão de Bagdá
- Bahia
1975
- Bravo! as Malaquias
- Aventuras d'um Detetive Português
- Assim Era a Atlântida
- Chinese Viola as Self
- Deixa, Amorzinho... Deixa
- King of the Cards as Rei do Baralho
1974
- Getúlio Vargas as (archive footage)
- The Star Rises as Grande Otelo
1973
- Os Ossos do Barão as bêbado
- O Negrinho do Pastoreio
1972
- Uma Rosa com Amor as Pimpinoni
- Cassy Jones, the Magnificent Seducer as Porteiro do teatro
- Semana de Arte Moderna as himself
1971
- Bandeira 2 as Zé Catimba
- Caso Especial as Nogueira
- Linguinha x Mr. Yes as Cassius Ali
- O Barão Otelo no Barato dos Bilhões as João Otelo dos Anzóis Carapuça
- Se Meu Dólar Falasse... as Tisiu
- Sebastião Prata, ou Bem Dizendo, Grande Otelo as Self
- O Donzelo as Motorista de Taxi
- Cômicos... + Cômicos...
1970
- Não Aperta, Aparício as Tonico
- The Rowdy Family as Divina Dama
- Em Ritmo Jovem
- The Heirs as Americo
1969
- Macunaima as Black Macunaíma / Macunaíma's son
- A Doce Mulher Amada as Leo
- Alibi as tranviere
1968
- Massacre no Supermercado as Zé Gatinho
- The Outsiders
1967
- A Rose for Everyone
- Doomed Lovers as Focinho
1965
- Bairro Feliz as Compositor de Escola de Samba
- Crônica da Cidade Amada as (episódio "Um Pobre Morreu")
- Samba as Freitas
1962
- Assault on the Pay Train as Cachaça
- The Cosmonauts as Zenóbio
1961
1960
- Vai Que é Mole as Brancura
1957
- De Pernas Pro Ar as Faísca
- A Baronesa Transviada as Benedito
- Rio, Northern Zone as Espírito da Luz Soares
- Metido a Bacana as Coalhada
- Pé na Tábua
- Com Jeito Vai
1956
- Depois Eu Conto as Veludo
1954
- Malandros em Quarta Dimensão
- Paixão nas Selvas
- Matar ou Correr as Ciscocada
1953
1952
- Barnabé, You Are Mine as Abdula
- Três Vagabundos as Rapadura/Milk Shake
- I Loved a Bookie as Passarinho
- Carnaval Atlântida as Miro
1950
- Aviso aos Navegantes as Azulão
1949
- O Caçula do Barulho
- Também Somos Irmãos as Moleque Miro
- ... E o Mundo Se Diverte
- Terra Violenta
- Carnaval no Fogo as Empregado do Hotel
1948
- That's What I'm Gonna Do 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
- Onde Estás, Felicidade? as Sebastião
- Family Football as Gibi