John Herbert
Birthday: Born in 1929-05-17 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Deathday: 2011-01-26
John Herbert Buckup (São Paulo, May 17, 1929 – São Paulo, January 26, 2011) was a Brazilian actor, director and producer. In some works, he was credited as Johnny Herbert. He was married to the actress Eva Wilma, from 1955 to 1976, and both are parents to the actress, Vivian Buckup, born in 1956 and John Herbert Junior (Johnnie) born in 1958. With Eva Wilma, he had great success on Brazilian television in the 1950s and 60s, with the series Alô Doçura.
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Uga-Uga
Character: Veludo Herrera
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Cabocla
Character: Vigário Gabriel
Brasil República, 1918. Luís Jerônimo is a rich young man. Womanizer, spends all night on the street drinking and having fun with prostitutes, the boy finds out that he has an injury to his right lung. Advised by Edmundo Esteves, his doctor, he decides to spend a season at a cousin's farm in the small town of Vila da Mata in Espírito Santo, in search of fresh air, to prevent the disease from developing into tuberculosis....
Malhação
Character: Nabucodonosor Pereira (Nabuco)
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....
Malhação
Character: Horácio Barreto
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....
Água Viva
Character: Jaime Alves Cardoso
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Perigosas Peruas
Character: Cervantes
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A Viagem
Character: Agenor Barbosa
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Que Rei Sou Eu?
Character: Bidet Lambert
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Três Irmãs
Character: Álvaro Gutierrez (Excelência / Tubarão Branco)
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O Mapa da Mina
Character: Wagner Amaral
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O Sheik de Ipanema
Character: Dino
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Maçã do Amor
Character: Rocco
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Campeão
Character: Nóbrega
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Mania de Querer
Character: Jonas Bustamanti
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Plumas & Paetês
Character: Márcio
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Vereda Tropical
Character: Celso Vilela
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O Homem Proibido
Character: Alberto Villani
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Gaivotas
Character: Henrique
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O Profeta
Character: Heitor
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Éramos Seis
Character: Mr. Hilton
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Aritana
Character: Danilo Bezerra
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O Machão
Character: Mário Maluco
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As Divinas… e Maravilhosas
Character: Hélio
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Os Imigrantes
Character: Ramón
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Lua Cheia de Amor
Character: Urbano
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O Quinto dos Infernos
Character: Lobato
O Quinto dos Infernos was a 2002 mini Brazilian historical comedy television series. It was written by Carlos Lombardi, and directed by Wolf Maya and 48 episodes were produced. The protagonist was Marcos Pasquim....
Cortina de Vidro
Character: Filipe
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Sai de Baixo
Character: Eurico
It follows the lives of the members of a dysfunctional family, their maid and the doorman of the apartment building in which they lived....
Movie Credits
Dioguinho
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Candinho
Character: Quincas
Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother....
E o Espetáculo Continua
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The Seven Vampires
Character: Rogério
A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show....
Love Slaves of the Amazons
Character: Hotel Clerk
A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."...
Case of the Naves Brothers
Character: Dr. Alamy
After their relative and associate runs way, the Naves brothers inform the police of the incident, who end up arresting them under the accusation of murdering the missing person. The brothers are tortured in order to confess a crime they did not commit while their wives are raped....
Transplante de Mãe
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The Palace of Angels
Character: Carlos Eduardo
Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends transform a small apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", at first securing money and success, but......
Forever
Character: Médico
Marked by her father's strong presence, since he is a rich and powerful businessman, the beautiful Berenice investigates his love life, to feel closer to him. With her findings, their relationship becomes mixed with a strong sense of seduction....
O Gosto do Pecado
Character: Eneas
After his wife leaves him, Júlio starts an affair with his secretary....
Matar ou Correr
Character: Bill
"High Noon" spoof. Kid Bolha and Ciscocada, two clumsy swindlers, arrive at a violent Old West town called Citydown where, by mistake, one of them is appointed Sheriff. They're intent on facing the dreaded Jesse Gordon, a gunman who kills for pleasure....
A Grande Vedete
Character: Paulo
Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One day she meets young author Paulo and falls for him; but he is in love and engaged to ballerina Vilma, and misunderstandings abound....
Rio Fantasia
Character: Carlos
Quartet from Northeast Brazil arrive in Rio de Janeiro, to try their luck in the big city....
Bebel, Garota Propaganda
Character: Marcos
Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom....
Uma Pulga na Balança
Character: Alberto Motta Freixoso
Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives....
Floradas na Serra
Character: Flávio Abreu
Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão....
The Torturer
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Zionists hire a hitman to kill a Nazi war criminal exiled in a Latin American country, where he's being protected by the local dictator. Get ready for gunshots; sex scenes; strange form of tortures; a cocaine-addict priest who helps the dictatorship; contemptous remarks and behavior from the main "hero"; amusing sequences of Chuchu having fun with beautiful women pretending to be James Bond; and the wimp colonel who is in love with a male prostitute. It's all good and fun to watch but remember ...
Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
Character: Bem-Te-Viu
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Retrato Falado de Uma Mulher Sem Pudor
Character: Johnny Gravatinha
A model is found dead in the bathtub of her own mansion. A policeman tries to investigate, inquiring the rich and powerful men who knew her....
A Santa Donzela
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Jordão Magalhães, a young plastic artist from a small inland city, is hired to sculpt the statue of the local virgin patron. The model that inspires her is Verinha, with whom she maintains a loving relationship....
The Girl Next Door
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Middle-aged married journalist goes to the beach resort of Búzios, in Brazil, to write a book. Gradually, he falls in love with his neighbor's daughter, a beautiful teenager much younger than he, ignoring the social implications....
As Cariocas
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Ariella
Character: Diogo
Ariella, a lonely young woman, feels like a stranger in her own house. Ariella is discovering her sexuality and her arrogant mother Helena, her father Rodrigo and her brothers Clécio and Alfonso do not give any love or affection to her. One day Ariella discovers the secret of her despair and plots to take her revenge....
A Super Fêmea
Character: Leão Maia
Eva is a beautiful model who’s hired to star in a campaign to sell a marvelous new product: the male contraceptive pill. But it isn't easy to win the confidence of its target market, since they believe it causes impotence....
Joy of Living
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The boss of Gilberto, an exemplary employee, wants to marry him with his daughter, Elisabeth. But her cousin, an unattractive girl, appears to meet him. Gilberto, who leads a hectic life, knows Betty, independent girl by whom one falls in love. In the end, she discovers that she is the boss's daughter....
The Delights of Life
Character: Esteves
Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role....
O Petróleo é Nosso
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A lady, owner of a large area of land where it is believed there are several oil wells, is almost fooled by the president of a pseudo petroleum company into giving up her property for nothing, but is saved by his son's noble intervention....
Toda Donzela Tem Um Pai Que é Uma Fera
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General's daughter, who lives with her boyfriend without being married, gets in trouble when her conservative father decides to visit her. A friend decides to help them, but things only get worse....
Assim Era a Atlântida
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Cada um Dá o Que Tem
Character: Otávio
Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women....
Cleo e Daniel
Character: Rudolf Fluegel
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Assassinato em Copacabana
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A Hora Mágica
Character: Jorge
In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot....
Girl In Room 13
Character: Capitão Policial
A letter summons American detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murderess Louise Dunning. Marshall contacts Louise and learns that she murdered her husband only in self-defense. In the meantime, Marshall is set up as a pawn in a counterfeiting ring (they were the ones who sent him the letter), and unwittingly helps the police capture the criminals. Louise decides to remain in Brazil....
Der Satan mit den roten Haaren
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Copacabana Palace
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For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are intertwined with petty tricks against the backdrop of the famous carnival festivities. Three (sympathetic) accomplices are beaten to a punch in the hotel vault; three charming stewardesses are looking for entertainment, but their three Carioca host, musicians Tom Jobim, Luiz Bonfá, and João Gilberto, are married; a man, separated from his wife, wants to catch her in the act of adultery....
Tödlicher Karneval
Character: Inspector Britto
The shooting of a movie is to take place in Rio de Janeiro. The script states that an actor is to shoot himself. The director wants to demonstrate how he imagines this scene. When he takes the revolver and pulls the trigger, he actually falls to the ground. The crew is horrified when they realize that the ammunition was live and the director is lying dead on the floor. Inspector Moura is assigned to investigate the case. He suspects a jealous motive....
Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente
Character: Macedo
Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for his own wedding, cannot remember who the bride might be. In the third, a rich husband tries to find the tattooed man he saw escaping through his wife's bedroom window....
O Sexo Mora ao Lado
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Meus Homens, Meus Amores
Character:
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The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out
Character: Fernando
Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro....
The Love Bug
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According to an Amazonian indigenous legend, a certain insect, Anophelis sexualis, has aphrodisiac properties: one who is bitten by it will surely die if it does not have sex within two hours. Knowing this news, Hans Muller, a scientist, moves to the habitat of the insect and collects several specimens for research in his laboratory in the city of Ilha Bela, on the coast of São Paulo. There, besides the local administration and the population, there are several tourists. By an accident, the inse...
You Can't Take Anything from This World
Character: Vendedor
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Jeitosa, Um Assunto Muito Particular
Character:
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O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Character: Sócio da firma
Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil....
O Cangaceiro Sanguinário
Character: Cisso
After robbing and massacring a village, the head of a gang of bandits, Captain Jagunço, kidnaps Flô, Mayor Cisso's wife and tortures her....
Bacanal
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One car failure and a long bus ride to nowhere lead to a small Brazilian country town where two groups of guys and girls meet. This coincidences change the courses of their lives as they soon mingle and passion arises among them....
Cocky
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Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering the boy's hidden (and big) qualities......
Made in Brazil
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Segment 1: "Impossible Weekend." Desperate to attract the attention of a sexy teacher, a young man steals an experimental aphrodisiac from the laboratory and mixes it into the teacher's lunch. The result exceeds all expectations. ******** Segment 2: "A Chained Hurricane." A humble clerk, tired of enduring the ridicule of colleagues and mistresses about his sexual failure, decides to end his life; just then, hidden reserves awaken in him. Segment 3: ******** "Brazilian Miracle." Scientists create...
A Outra Face do Homem
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Em Cada Coração um Punhal
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Helga und die Männer - Die sexuelle Revolution
Character: Carlos
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Amor de Perversão
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Por Um Fio
Character: Presidente do banco
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The Adventures of Mario Fofoca
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O Caçador de Esmeraldas
Character: Armeiro
The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter"....
Por Um Céu de Liberdade
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