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José Lewgoy

Acting Born Nov 16, 1920 Veranópolis, Brésil 24 credits

Biography

José Lewgoy was a Brazilian actor (Veranópolis, November 16, 1920 — Rio de Janeiro, February 10, 2003). Since 1940, he acted in more than one hundred films, including Fitzcarraldo with German actor Klaus Kinski and studied at Yale University. In 1973, he participated in the film by Colombian director Carlos Mayolo, La mansión de Araucaíma, in the role of Graciliano "Don Graci". The film is based on a story of the same name by writer Álvaro Mutis, winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2001.

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Known for

Hilda Hurricane

as Tenente Benedito

Força de um Desejo

as Felício Cantuária

Brava Gente

as Homero Bitencourt
Film

The Loft

as Kléber

Os Maias

as Abade Custódio

Labirinto

as Dr. Mateus de Toledo Galhardo

Full filmography

  • Hilda Hurricane (1998) as Tenente Benedito
  • Força de um Desejo (1999) as Felício Cantuária
  • The Trapalhões (1977) as Ele mesmo
  • Plumas & Paetês (1980) as Gustavo
  • Tieta (1989) as Leovigildo Trindade
  • Brava Gente (2000) as Homero Bitencourt
  • Água Viva (1980) as Kléber
  • O Outro (1987) as Agostinho Della Santa
  • Telerromance (1981) as Seu Leocádio
  • Anjo Mau (1976) as Augusto Noronha
  • Um Sonho a Mais (1985) as Guilherme Menezes (Nenê)
  • Os Maias (2001) as Abade Custódio
  • Dancin' Days (1978) as Horácio Pratini
  • Cavalo de Aço (1973) as Professor
  • Vida Nova (1988) as Samuel
  • Perigosas Peruas (1992) as D. Branco Torremolinos
  • Gente Fina (1990) as Olavo
  • Mad Love (1983) as Edgar Dumont
  • As Divinas… e Maravilhosas (1973) as Alonzo
  • Nina (1977) as Professor Frazão (Protógenes de Oliveira Frazão)
  • O Bofe (1972) as Barão
  • Feijão Maravilha (1979) as Ambrósio / Ambrásio
  • Despedida de Casado (1977) as Dr. José Farc
  • Labirinto (1998) as Dr. Mateus de Toledo Galhardo