Person Details

Birthday: 1933-12-09 00:16:55

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Monte Santo de Minas, Brazil

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Movie Involvements: 53

TV Involvements: 25


Most Famous Work

Biography

Milton Gonçalves (December 9, 1933) is a Brazilian actor. He's one of the most famous black actors in Brazil, having collaborated twice with acclaimed director Hector Babenco. Gonçalves started his career in São Paulo, in an amateur group. As he moved to a professional group, he met Augusto Boal, who was looking for an actor to play an old black man. Joining Boal's Teatro de Arena, Milton Gonçalves found an open environment for political, philosophical and artistic discussion, where he was not discriminated for his race. Gonçalves wrote four plays, one of which was staged by the Teatro Experimental do Negro and directed by Dalmo Ferreira. "There I learnt everything I know about Theater. It was fundamental for my comprehension of the world." A Black Movement activist, Milton Gonçalves tried a political career, in the 1990s, as a candidate to Rio de Janeiro state governorship. Father of actor Maurício Gonçalves, he is married to Oda Gonçalves since 1966.

Most Famous Work

Celebridade
Average
8

Celebridade

(2003) Self
Cobras & Lagartos
Average
7

Cobras & Lagartos

(2006) Jair dos Santos
A Favorita
Average
8

A Favorita

(2008) Deputado Romildo Rosa
Pecado Capital
Average
9

Pecado Capital

(1975) Dr. Percival Garcia
Side by Side
Average
9

Side by Side

(2012) Afonso Nascimento
Araponga
Average
6

Araponga

(1990) Zé dos Couves
Sinhá Moça
Average
6

Sinhá Moça

(2006) Pai José
Baila Comigo
Average
6

Baila Comigo

(1981) Otto Rodrigues

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2021 Orlando
N/A
Alfredo Vianna
Gasparian
2020 Self
2019 Orlando
Dr. Louveira
Agenor (fase 3)
(archive footage)
Ele mesmo
2018 Eliseu
2017 N/A
Cristovão Souza Damião
Narrador
2016 Self
Waldemar de Brito
2015 Monsenhor Fidélis
N/A
2014 N/A
Ancelmo de Monteiro Costa
Governador
Juvenal
2013 Ozires
N/A
2012 Afonso Nascimento
Roberval
2011 Pastor
N/A
2010 Delegado Morais
Presidente Dantas
Pai
2009 N/A
Self
Self
Coronel Caetano
Self
2008 Deputado Romildo Rosa
Tesoura
2007 Diretor Severo
Zinho
Narrador
2006 Padre
Narrator
Jair dos Santos
Pai José
2005 Euclides Arquimedes (voice)
presidente da empresa
Zé das Bicicletas
N/A
N/A
2004 Hélio Hipólito
2003 Závos
Self
uncredited
Chico
Padre Arnaldo
2002 Cônego
2001 Delegado Ferreira
Otávio
2000 Himself
Saxofonista (voz)
1999 Inácio
Campelo
1998 Padre Clemente
1997 N/A
N/A
Self
N/A
1995 Jovildo Siqueira
1993 N/A
1992 Sergeant
Alberto Nunes
1991 Narrator
Batista
1990 Francisco
Zé dos Couves
Judge
1989 Flavio
1988 Carlo
Natal da Portela
1987 Apolinário Santana
Freitas
N/A
1986 Pai José
1985 N/A
Mestre Lídio Corró
Pedro
Promotor Lourival Prata
Cacareco
1984 N/A
Reginaldo
1981 Bráulio
Otto Rodrigues
1979 N/A
Bené
Turista
1977 Luquinha
132
1976 Macumbeiro
1975 Dr. Percival Garcia
N/A
Filó
1974 Rainha Diaba
1973 Zelão das Asas
1971 N/A
Ladrão 1
Archive Footage
1970 N/A
1969 N/A
Jiguê
Severino
N/A
Urtiga
N/A
N/A
1968 N/A
N/A
1967 N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1966 N/A
N/A
Bira
1965 Agenor
N/A
N/A
N/A
1964 N/A
N/A
1963 N/A
1962 Black Man Working
(segment "Couro de Gato")
1960 N/A
1958 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing


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