Antônio Pitanga

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Known For

Acting

Born

1939-06-13

Place of Birth

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Antônio Pitanga

Biography

Antônio Luiz Sampaio OMC (Salvador, June 13, 1939), better known as Antônio Pitanga, is a Brazilian actor and filmmaker, who became internationally known for playing several roles on films of the Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s.

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Known For

Celebridade

Celebridade

The Clone

The Clone

The Manor of Araucaima

The Manor of Araucaima

Aunt Virginia

Aunt Virginia

Jerônimo, o Herói do Sertão

Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria

Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria

The Coup d'État Factory

The Coup d'État Factory

Câncer

Câncer

Lilyhammer

Lilyhammer

Anything Goes

Anything Goes

Acting History

Milton Gonçalves, Além do Espetáculo as Self

Malês as Pacífico Licutan

Coisa de Novela as Vicente

Anything Goes as Salvador Gomes

Same Old West as Ermitão

Margeado as Silvério

Cartografia das Ondas

A Vilã das Nove as Modesto Estrella

Sérgio Ricardo: Uma Outra História do Cinema Novo

Wedding Games as Marcelo

Aunt Virginia as Tavares

Lenita - Traces of a Lady as Self

Our Dream as Seu Américo

Dois em Cena: Encontro de Gerações

Tinnitus as Inácio

Favela do Papa as Self

Perfect Love as Dom Vitório

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

A Força do Gigante as Self

The Coup d'État Factory as Antônio Pitanga

Memory House as Cristovam

Our Children as Rodrigo

In Your Place as Gesiel

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar as Self (archive footage)

The Good Cinema

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival as Self

Porfírio do Amaral: A Verdade Sobre o Samba as Self

A Day with Jerusa as Yoyo

Os Escravos de Jó as Jérèmie Valés

Pressed, Ripped Apart as (archive footage)

Memórias do Grupo Opinião as Self

Possessões as Pai Joaquim

Riscados pela Memória

Running After as Garçom Othelo

Carvana as Self (archive footage)

Bandeira de Retalhos as João da Lua

Barravento Novo

Thin Air as José Nazário

O Cinema Foi à Feira as Ele mesmo

Pitanga as Self

Sonhadores as Zinho

For Sale or Rent as Seu Capô

Side by Side as Túlio

The Great Kilapy as Pai de Joãozinho

O Terno do Zé as Pai Pedro de Oxum Aiê

Água de Meninos – A Feira do Cinema Novo as Himself

A Promessa de Gerônimo as Geronimo

Lilyhammer as Blind Man

I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips as Pastor Isaías

Premonição as Seu Antero

Lula, the Son of Brazil as Seu Cristóvão

Lágrimas de Ogum

Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha

The Man Who Challenged the Devil as Preto Velho

The Passenger: Adult Secrets as Delegado

Zuzu Angel as Policial gentil

Referências as Self

Bom Dia, Eternidade as Calunga

A Degola Fatal as Self (archive footage)

Girls from ABC as Seu Aurélio

Celebridade as Comandante Roberto

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth as Self

Apolônio Brasil, Campeão da Alegria as Coice

The Clone as Sebastião "Tião"

Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion as Joaquim

A Terceira Morte de Joaquim Bolívar

Mauá - O Imperador e o Rei as Valentim

Como Ser Solteiro as Self

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional as Self

A Próxima Vítima as Kléber Noronha

O Marajá as Tato

O Fantasma da Ópera as operário do teatro

The Fifth Monkey as Drunk at the Party

Barrela: Escola de Crimes

Kananga do Japão as Bira

Olho por Olho as Detetive Baba-Ovo

Eternamente Pagu as Herculano

Corpo Santo as Patrício

No Tempo de Glauber

The Manor of Araucaima as Cristobal

Tenda dos Milagres as Exú

The King of Rio as Geraldão

Quilombo as Acaiuba

Meu Destino É Pecar as Dioclécio

Partido Alto as Jacaré

Bandidos da Falange

Rio Babilonia as Bira

Chico Anysio Show

The Brazilwood Man as César

Boundless Lands as Viriato

Rosa Baiana as Raimundo

The Age of the Earth as Black Christ

Na Boca do Mundo as Antônio

Jorge Amado no Cinema

SRTV 307 – Cinemateca: Almoço na Cinédia – nosso cinema 80 anos

Cordão de Ouro as Cosme

Sweet Thieves as Fuleiro

The Force of Xango as Young Tônho Tiê (Uncredited)

Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber as Self

Deadly Cruelty as Deca

A Viagem as Damião

Ovelha Negra as Dito Preto

Jouez Encore, Payez Encore

Mestiça, a Escrava Indomável as Amâncio

Joanna Francesa

Os Ossos do Barão as Misael

Jerônimo, o Herói do Sertão as Zabumba

When Carnaval Comes as Cuíca

O Homem Que Deve Morrer as Lucas Pé-na-Cova

Uma Nega Chamada Tereza

Lost Love Juliana

República da Traição

The Woman of Everyone as Vampiro

Corisco, o Diabo Loiro as Zé Baiano

Dez Vidas as José do Patrocínio

Golias Contra o Homem das Bolinhas

Sangue do Meu Sangue as José do Patrocínio

Compasso de Espera as Assis

Ana as Antônio

Cangaceiros de Lampião as Cravo Roxo

Mar Corrente as Luiz

Plantation Boy as Zé Guedes

The Big City as Calunga

My Home Is Copacabana

Samba as Paulo's friend

The Guns as Voice

Senhor dos Navegantes

Esse Mundo é Meu as Toninho

Sol Sobre a Lama as Bom Rojão

Lampião, King of the Badlands

Ganga Zumba as Ganga Zumba / Antão

The Turning Wind as Firmino

The Given Word as Mestre Coca

Tocaia no Asfalto as Matador de Caxias

Bahia of All Saints as Pitanga

A Grande Feira as Chico Diabo

Tony Odyssey as Humberto