Elias Gleizer | |
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Elias Gleizer in 2006. | |
Born | Ilicz Glejzer 4 January 1934 (1934-01-04) São Paulo, Brazil |
Died | 16 May 2015 (2015-05-17) (aged 81) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1959-2014 |
Ilicz Glejzer (4 January 1934 – 16 May 2015), better known as Elias Gleizer, was a Brazilian comedian and actor.
Born in São Paulo, Gleizer was the son of two Polish Jewish immigrants, a shoemaker and a housewife. He began his artistic career at age 12, playing the violin in a youth orchestra. In 1956 he won the award for best actor in an amateur festival, and in 1959 he made his television debut on TV Tupi. His first major work was Joseph of Egypt, a 1964 telenovela. In 1984 he started an intense collaboration with the Rede Globo, acting in Free to Fly, and then appearing in dozens of telenovelas and miniseries.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1965 | Quatro Brasileiros em Paris | Policial | |
1971 | Diabólicos Herdeiros | ||
1980 | O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima | Padre Rosendo | TV series |
1988 | Fera Radical | Donato Orsini | |
1989 | Tieta | Jairo | |
1992 | Pedra sobre Pedra | TV series | |
1992-1993 | Despedida de Solteiro | Vitório | 203 episodes |
1993-1994 | Sonho Meu | Zé | |
1999 | Terra Nostra | Padre Olavo | TV series |
2000 | Uga-Uga | Ceguinho | TV series |
2003 | Sítio do Picapau Amarelo | Berloque | TV series |
2004 | Didi Quer Ser Criança | Seu Tião | |
2006-2007 | Pé na Jaca | Giácomo | 159 episodes |
2009 | Divã | Agenor | |
2009 | Caminho das Índias | Cadore | 95 episodes |
2010-2011 | Passione | Diógenes Santarém | 68 episodes |
2013 | Flor do Caribe | Manolo Gutierrez | TV series |
2014 | Boogie Oogie | Padre Claudius | TV series, (final appearance) |
References
- ^ "Morre o ator Elias Gleizer, aos 81 anos" [Actor Elias Gleizer dies at age 81]. Universo Online (in Portuguese). 16 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ "Morre, aos 81 anos, o ator Elias Gleizer". Terra (in Portuguese). 16 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
External links
Categories:- 1934 births
- 2015 deaths
- Male actors from São Paulo
- Brazilian male film actors
- Brazilian male television actors
- Brazilian male comedians
- Brazilian people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Jewish Brazilian male actors
- 20th-century Brazilian male actors
- 21st-century Brazilian male actors
- Commanders of the Order of Ipiranga
- Comedians from São Paulo
- Jewish male comedians