José Lewgoy
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José Lewgoy | |
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Born | |
Died | February 10, 2003 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | (aged 82)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1949–2003 |
José Lewgoy (November 16, 1920 – February 10, 2003) was a Brazilian actor. He is recognizable to many art-house cinema fans as the man who played Don Aquilino in Werner Herzog's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo.
Biography[]
He was born in Veranópolis, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to a Russian father and an American mother, who met in New York. He died in Rio de Janeiro. He was considered one of the best actors in Brazil, and was usually typecast as a villain.
Selected filmography[]
- S.O.S. Noronha (1957)
- Entranced Earth (1967)
- Una rosa per tutti (1967)
- Mortal Sin (1970)
- Pra Quem Fica, Tchau (1971)
- Fitzcarraldo (1982)
- Blame It on Rio (1984)
- Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
- La Mansión de Araucaima (1986)
- Cobra Verde (1987)
- The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema (1988)
- O Sorriso do Lagarto (1991)
- Perfume de Gardênia (1992)
- O Quatrilho (1995)
- Anjo Mau (1997, TV Series)
External links[]
- José Lewgoy at IMDb
Categories:
- 1920 births
- 2003 deaths
- People from Rio Grande do Sul
- Brazilian people of American descent
- Brazilian people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Brazilian male television actors
- Brazilian male film actors
- Brazilian male stage actors
- Jewish Brazilian male actors
- 20th-century Brazilian male actors
- 21st-century Brazilian male actors
- Brazilian actor stubs