Luis Gustavo

Acting

Luis Gustavo

Born 1934-02-02 · Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Luis Gustavo Sánchez Blanco (February 2, 1934 — September 19, 2021) was a Spanish-Brazilian actor. Born in Gothenburg, Sweden, he was the son of a Spanish diplomat, Luis Amador Sánchez Fernández, working in Sweden, and Elena Blanco Castañera, a Spanish woman. He came to live in Brazil at four years old, when his father arrived in the country to become the Spanish ambassador. He started working as an assistant director at TV Tupi, accompanying his sister, the actress Helenita Sanches, appointed by Cassiano Gabus Mendes, the station's artistic director and his brother-in-law. Soon after, he had already participated in several films, telenovelas, and telethons until he starred as the eponymous anti-hero in the 1968 telenovela Albert, the Rockefeller. Since then he has consolidated his artistic career acting in several soap operas and films, mainly in comedy roles.

Acting credits

Casinha Pequenina poster
6.2

In colonial Brazil, rich farmer and owner of slaves is blackmailed by a lady; to get rid of the problem, he involves innocent countrymen in a diabolical plan.

Casinha Pequenina

1963

Mamonas: Eu Te Ai Lóve Iú poster
8.6

The documentary retraces the band's meteoric rise, as they became the biggest phenomenon in Brazilian music in 1995 — and one of the most remarkable in the country's history.

Mamonas: Eu Te Ai Lóve Iú

2026

Amada Amante poster
4.8

A family leaves a small town in the state of São Paulo to move to Rio de Janeiro when the father gets a job promotion there. In Rio, everyone of them will fall prey to the city's sinful ways.

Amada Amante

1978

Mord in Rio poster
6.2

Barbara Leen owns a coffee export company based in Rio de Janeiro. The company has long since been infiltrated by smugglers, without Barbara knowing about it. The criminals are smuggling diamonds. Barbara's boyfriend is a journalist and tries to get to the bottom of the matter. But during his research he comes across more and more deaths. Eventually, however, he comes across the nightclub owner Leila and her lover Dumont. They appear to be the masterminds.

Mord in Rio

1963

Lenita - Traces of a Lady poster
NR

A deck of cards discovered at an antiques fair reveals the eccentric past of a famous Arabian horse breeder, the photographer and filmmaker Lenita Perroy.

Lenita - Traces of a Lady

2023

Romeo and Juliet Get Married poster
6.0

The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck by a handsome man, Romeu, that she sees rooting for the Palmeiras' chief rivals, the Corinthians. After meeting the same man again in the middle of eye exam, Julieta and Romeu quickly become a couple. However, in order to avoid incurring the wrath of her parents, Romeu is forced to pretend to be an adoring Palmeiras fan, an increasingly difficult task for the die-hard Corinthiano.

Romeo and Juliet Get Married

2005

Party Crashers poster
5.8

"Party Crashers" chronicles the amusing encounter between Marco Polo (Marcelo Adnet), a Copacabana trickster, and Beto (Eduardo Sterblitch), a shy and insecure man, on the New Year's Eve in Rio. Together they crash parties and create a lot of confusion in search of the beautiful Laura.

Party Crashers

2012

Albert, the Rockefeller poster
6.5

Adaptation of the successful Brazilian TV series "Beto Rockefeller". Albert is a cunning poor man who pretends to be rich, using his congeniality and lack of morals to mix among rich people.

Albert, the Rockefeller

1970

Sede de Amar (Capuzes Negros) poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sede de Amar (Capuzes Negros)

1978

Sai de Baixo: O Filme poster
5.4

Based on the classic Brazilian television series that conquered audiences during Sunday night prime time on TV Globo, with improv that happens like in scenes of a play. The feature film’s structure maintains the members of a middle-class family from São Paulo, their maid, and the building’s doorman. It’s the return of iconic characters like Caco Antibes, Magda and Ribamar, and also new characters.

Sai de Baixo: O Filme

2019

The Adventures of Mario Fofoca poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Adventures of Mario Fofoca

1983

O Sobrado poster
8.5

Based on Erico Verissimo's masterpiece, O Sobrado follows the Terra-Cambará family during the siege imposed to their house by enemies due to political differences. As the siege goes, the family tensions start to show off.

O Sobrado

1956