Francisco Milani
Birthday: Born in 1936-11-19 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Deathday: 2005-08-13
Francisco Milani (São Paulo, November 19, 1936 – Rio de Janeiro, August 13, 2005) was a Brazilian actor, voice actor, comedian, television director and politician. With a vast career in cinema, theater and TV, he stood out in comedy, directing and acting in classic humorous programs, such as Viva o Gordo and Chico Anysio Show. He made a name for himself by playing grumpy characters, the most memorable being the characters "Saraiva", from the comedy Zorra Total, and "Pedro Pedreira", from Escolinha do Professor Raimundo.
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Malhação
Character: Milton Coimbra
Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School....
Barriga de Aluguel
Character: Chiquinho/Ramon/Dartagnan/Salgado
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Cavalo de Aço
Character: Moraes
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O Homem Que Deve Morrer
Character:
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História de Amor
Character: Durval
Helena is a sweet, honest, sensitive and a warrior woman who faces the premature pregnancy of her daughter Joyce, who in turn is abandoned by her boyfriend, the irresponsible Caio. The biggest problem is the girl's father, Assunção, Helena's ex-husband, who does not accept the situation. Lonely and alone, Helena awakens a passion for the endocrinologist Carlos Alberto, and has her feelings matched. But Carlos is committed to the possessive Paula. The girl's parents, Zuleika and Rômulo, anxiously...
Sex Appeal
Character: Peçanha
It tells the story of young people who dream of a modeling career and the rise of their lives. It all starts when the Sex Appeal agency, led by Edgar and Cecilia, runs a contest that will award the winner two hundred thousand dollars and the possibility of living abroad. The main competitors are Angel, Vilma, Eva and Claudinha. They will do anything to earn, even things they would never imagine doing....
Sai de Baixo
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It follows the lives of the members of a dysfunctional family, their maid and the doorman of the apartment building in which they lived....
Zorra Total
Character: Saraiva / Pedro Pedreira
Zorra Total is a Brazilian television comedy broadcast by Globo Network. It was launched on March 25, 1999 and has aired on Saturdays, at 10p.m., ever since May 1999. The show is a sketch comedy show. It is the audience leader on its slot....
Zorra Total
Character: Pão Duro
Zorra Total is a Brazilian television comedy broadcast by Globo Network. It was launched on March 25, 1999 and has aired on Saturdays, at 10p.m., ever since May 1999. The show is a sketch comedy show. It is the audience leader on its slot....
Vamp
Character: Max
After making a Faustian bargain with a vampire for fame, a regretful young singer must find a sacred, lost artifact that might revert the curse....
Selva de Pedra
Character: Hélio Sales
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Cara & Coroa
Character: Juan Caruzo
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Armação Ilimitada
Character: Chefe
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Tenda dos Milagres
Character: Francisco Mata-Negros
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Meu Destino É Pecar
Character: Aprígio
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Final Feliz
Character: Vasco
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Escolinha do Professor Raimundo
Character: Pedro Pedreira
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Viva o Gordo
Character: Various Characters
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Viva o Gordo
Character: Sarney
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Mandala
Character: Efigênio Wallace
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Chico Anysio Show
Character: Various Characters
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Padre Cícero
Character: narrador
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O Casarão
Character: amigo de João Maciel
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Gaivotas
Character: Delegado João Leite
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Aritana
Character: Homero Ferraz
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Eu Prometo
Character: promotor
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Roda de Fogo
Character: Dr. Bento
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Irmãos Coragem
Character: Luiz
The fight for freedom and against oppression is the central theme of this soap opera that tells the story of the Coragem brothers: João, Jerônimo and Duda, in the city of Coroado....
Bandidos da Falange
Character: Dr. Pinheiro de Lemos
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Brava Gente
Character: encanador
Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights....
Brava Gente
Character: Narrador
Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights....
Louco Amor
Character: Vicente
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Casseta & Planeta, Urgente!
Character: locutor
Casseta & Planeta is a Brazilian group of comedians who run a TV show named Casseta & Planeta Urgente, broadcast by Rede Globo. The humour featured on the show is mostly satirical, relating to religious or ethical groups, and minorities. The group founded a company called Toviassu Produções Artísticas, whose name is an acronym composed of syllables from the phrase "Todo viado é surdo" – "Every gay is deaf"; which is the ending of a widely known Brazilian practical joke. Each one of the seven me...
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O Coronel e o Lobisomem
Character: Doutor Serapião
Colonel Furtado struggles to keep his lands, the Sobradinho Farm, and win the heart of his cousin Esmeraldina. In the process, he fights big beasts, experiences the taste of a bohemian life in town, fends usurers and thieves off, and uses all his cunning to get rid of haunting entities. His rival is the man he was brought up with, Pernambuco Nogueira, a werewolf....
Deus é um Fogo
Character: Narrador
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Eliana and the Secret of the Dolphins
Character: Skull (voice)
While filming a TV special about dolphins in Mexico, Eliana meets a biologist who warns her of an ecological danger, since the greedy Esquivel has stolen a crystal skull from the deep waters of the ocean. That's the start of a great adventure and a romance with the dolphin trainer....
They Don't Wear Black Tie
Character: Sartini
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men....
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Character: Self
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967....
Entranced Earth
Character: Aldo
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be....
Depois do Transe
Character: Self
The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."...
Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer
Character: Self
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A Terra Queima
Character: Narrador
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Character: Self (archive footage)
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes....
Crime no Sacopã
Character:
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Josué de Castro, Cidadão do Mundo
Character: Narrador
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Domingo em Família
Character: Hélio
An elderly couple, Dona Lu and Seu Souza, live in the district of Paty do Alferes, in a simple little house where they raised their children. When the tenant dies, the landlord's heirs evicted the couple, and it is up to the four children to decide their future....
Pecado na Sacristia
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O Padre Que Queria Pecar
Character: Beto
Shortly before becoming a priest, a young man decides to run away from the seminary and goes to Rio de Janeiro. There he will face a series of problems, most of them related to carnal temptations....
Esse Mundo é Meu
Character:
The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker....
O Circo das Qualidades Humanas
Character:
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Irma Vap: O Retorno
Character: Francisco Machado
After many flops, theatrical producer decides to stage a former hit, "O Mistério de Irma Vap". But he is going to face many problems to find the right actors and get the necessary permissions....
Vento Sul
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O Último Malandro
Character:
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Um Homem Sério
Character: Narrator
Hilário Pestana, the most famous, funniest and, ironically, saddest Brazilian actor, has died. He has passed through many stages of Brazilian cinema: the chanchadas, the Vera Cruz classics, the pornochanchadas, and even experimental movies. He was beloved by the public and had a gift for laughter, but he only desired to be a serious man....