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Gender: Male
Place of birth: Livorno, Italy
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Movie Involvements: 14
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
Arduíno Colassanti (15 February 1936 – 22 February 2014) was an Italian-born Brazilian actor. With a 40-year span, Colassanti's mainly associated with films made during the 1960s an 1970s, under the Cinema Novo (Brazilian New Wave) movement. He's known for portraing the titular frenchman in 1971s "Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês" (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman). Seen as one of the main leading men of Cinema Novo by his distinguishable blond hair and blue eyes, during his career Colassanti was directed by filmmakers such as Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Leon Hirszman, Walter Lima Jr., Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Tereza Trautman and Luiz Carlos Lacerda. Born in Livorno, Italy, Colassanti was also a surfer and an pioneer in the early steps of aquatic photography in Brazil. He spent his twillight years in the city of Niterói, where he passed and was buried in 2014.
Most Famous Work
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
(1997) SelfO Caçador de Esmeraldas
(1979) Borba GatoMemória de Helena
(1969) RenatoQuilombo
(1984) BlaerThe Girl from Ipanema
(1967) Pedro PauloImprovised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
(1967) SelfOs Homens Que eu Tive
(1973) PeterThe Oyster and the Wind
(1997) MagariActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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2010 | N/A | |
Homem do Café | ||
2004 | Chefe dos Selvagens | |
2002 | Pescador | |
2000 | Parceiro de Bilhar - Rio | |
1997 | Magari | |
Self | ||
1993 | N/A | |
1987 | N/A | |
Pai | ||
1985 | N/A | |
1984 | Blaer | |
1982 | Cristo | |
1979 | Borba Gato | |
1978 | N/A | |
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1974 | N/A | |
1973 | Peter | |
1972 | N/A | |
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Tristão/Oxóssi | ||
1971 | Francês | |
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1970 | Porfírio | |
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1969 | N/A | |
Renato | ||
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1968 | Felipe | |
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1967 | Pedro Paulo | |
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Self | ||
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Camera
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1992 | Underwater Director of Photography | |
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