Gianfrancesco Guarnieri

Acting

Gianfrancesco Guarnieri

Born — Died

1934-08-06 — 2006-07-22

Place of birth

Milan, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Gianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri (August 6, 1934 Milan, Italy - July 22, 2006 São Paulo, Brazil) was an Italian–Brazilian actor, director, lyricist, poet and playwright naturalised Brazilian. He was an outstanding artist in the Theater of Arena in São Paulo and his most important work was "They Don't Wear Black Tie". In 2006, Guarnieri was honored in the 18th edition of the Shell Theatre Prize for his contribution to the Brazilian theater.

Known for

The Next Victim poster
7.4

A young law student starts to work as a detective, decided to uncover the identity behind a series of murders, as well as who is next.

The Next Victim

1995

Belíssima poster
5.4

Júlia and Pedro suffer from the cruelty of their grandmother, Bia Falcão. Júlia runs the luxurious Belíssima factory and falls in love with Nikos, a friend of her sister-in-law Vitória.

Belíssima

2005

No artwork available
8.0

Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

Secrets of Sand

1973

Mandala poster
8.0

Jocasta, an 18-year-old sociology student and daughter of communist activist Túlio Silveira, is actively involved in the country's political landscape. She is in love with Laio—her polar opposite—a disengaged, esoteric young man who lives off his wealthy father's allowance. A mystic, Laio makes no move without consulting his guru and friend Argemiro, whom he turns to upon learning of Jocasta's pregnancy. The cowrie shell reading reveals that his son is destined to kill him and enter into a romantic relationship with his mother. Terrified, Laio disappears with the child immediately after birth, aided by Argemiro—who loves Laio and loathes Jocasta. Twenty-five years later, Jocasta is a successful yet restless woman searching for her missing son. She is estranged from Laio, who has spent recent years expanding his father's fortune through involvement in underground gambling. On a highway, he encounters Oedipus, unaware that the young man is his son.

Mandala

1987

Pátria Minha poster
8.1

Four stories intertwine, revolving around moral dilemmas of life in society. A secret unites student Alice and mega-businessman Raul Pelegrini, who are major ideological opponents.

Pátria Minha

1994

Rainha da Sucata poster
7.8

Maria do Carmo becomes wealthy through her father's business dealings and becomes a successful businesswoman, but she retains the habits of her humble past.

Rainha da Sucata

1990

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 7 titles

1970s · 7 titles

Series credits

The Next Victim poster
7.4

A young law student starts to work as a detective, decided to uncover the identity behind a series of murders, as well as who is next.

The Next Victim

1995

Belíssima poster
5.4

Júlia and Pedro suffer from the cruelty of their grandmother, Bia Falcão. Júlia runs the luxurious Belíssima factory and falls in love with Nikos, a friend of her sister-in-law Vitória.

Belíssima

2005

No artwork available
8.0

Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

Secrets of Sand

1973

Mandala poster
8.0

Jocasta, an 18-year-old sociology student and daughter of communist activist Túlio Silveira, is actively involved in the country's political landscape. She is in love with Laio—her polar opposite—a disengaged, esoteric young man who lives off his wealthy father's allowance. A mystic, Laio makes no move without consulting his guru and friend Argemiro, whom he turns to upon learning of Jocasta's pregnancy. The cowrie shell reading reveals that his son is destined to kill him and enter into a romantic relationship with his mother. Terrified, Laio disappears with the child immediately after birth, aided by Argemiro—who loves Laio and loathes Jocasta. Twenty-five years later, Jocasta is a successful yet restless woman searching for her missing son. She is estranged from Laio, who has spent recent years expanding his father's fortune through involvement in underground gambling. On a highway, he encounters Oedipus, unaware that the young man is his son.

Mandala

1987

Pátria Minha poster
8.1

Four stories intertwine, revolving around moral dilemmas of life in society. A secret unites student Alice and mega-businessman Raul Pelegrini, who are major ideological opponents.

Pátria Minha

1994

Rainha da Sucata poster
7.8

Maria do Carmo becomes wealthy through her father's business dealings and becomes a successful businesswoman, but she retains the habits of her humble past.

Rainha da Sucata

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Telerromance

1981

Helena poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Helena

1987

Cortina de Vidro poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Cortina de Vidro

1989

Razão de Viver poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Razão de Viver

1996

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Tempo e o Vento

1967

Que Rei Sou Eu? poster
7.3

In the imaginary king of Avilan, the bastard prince Jean Pierre leads a popular group against councilors who will invade Rainha Valentine's palace and take away the power.

Que Rei Sou Eu?

1989

A Muralha poster
6.7

A Muralha is a Brazilian telenovela that first aired on TV Excelsior in 1968. It is based on a novel by Diná Silveira de Queirós.

A Muralha

1968

Jogo da Vida poster
8.5

The cheerful and outgoing Jordana lived alongside Silas for 20 years, helping him become wealthy. Despite this, he abandons her to run away with the opportunistic Carla. After the separation, Jordana faces financial difficulties. She then meets Dona Mena, an eccentric and lonely old woman abandoned by her family. Jordana takes care of Dona Mena and, when she dies, inherits four bronze cupids containing a million dollars. The problem is that the cupids disappear without a trace. The cupids become the subject of a fight between Dona Mena's nephews, Loreta and Carlito. The two are the villains of the story. Jordana, however, ends up falling in love with Carlito. In the final chapters, Jordana manages to recover the cupids and rebuild her life. She has the help of her friend Vieira.

Jogo da Vida

1981

Cambalacho poster
8.4

The story follows the lives of Naná and Gegê, a pair of con artists. Gegê is the uncle of Tina Pepper, a Tina Turner fan who dreams of becoming a famous singer.

Cambalacho

1986

Dez Vidas poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dez Vidas

1969

Éramos Seis poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Éramos Seis

1977

O Mapa da Mina poster
7.0

The main plot revolves around a hidden treasure. The story begins when a gang steals ten million dollars worth of diamonds in Uruguay. To escape the police, one of the thieves, Rodolfo Torres de Almeida, flees to Argentina. His partner, Ivo Simeone, travels to São Paulo with the jewels. Ivo decides to hide the precious stones and, to ensure he doesn't forget the hiding place, has a map tattooed above the buttocks of a girl, the daughter of his neighbor. The thief takes care to photograph the girl so he can identify her in the future. Ivo is arrested and, eight years later, when he gets out of jail, he is run over and killed. Before dying, however, he manages to tell his son Rodrigo the secret about the treasure map. The young man follows the clues given by his father and discovers that the young woman with the tattooed map is Elisa, a novice nun cloistered in a convent, about to take perpetual vows.

O Mapa da Mina

1993

Os Inocentes poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Os Inocentes

1974

Cabocla poster
9.0

The soap opera critiques the power struggles among rural politicians in the 1920s. Joaquim is shocked when a doctor reveals that his son, Luís Jerônimo, has a lung lesion. To recover his health, the young man leaves Rio de Janeiro for Colonel Boanerges's farm in Vila da Mata, Espírito Santo. There, he meets Zuca, and the two fall in love. Zuca is the colonel's goddaughter and the fiancée of the fearless cowboy Tobias, who refuses to accept the possibility of losing her to the outsider. Zuca and Luís Jerônimo face numerous obstacles in pursuing their love. Their romance is also threatened by the arrival of Pepa in Vila da Mata; having been in love with Luís Jerônimo back when he lived in Rio, she tries by every means possible to drive the couple apart.

Cabocla

1979

Vereda Tropical poster
7.8

The story revolves around the conflicts within Silvana and Oliva's family—her mother and paternal grandfather—who are fighting for custody of Zeca after the child's father dies.

Vereda Tropical

1984

The Summer Sun poster
7.0

Unhappy in her marriage, Rachel decides to separate from her husband, the businessman Virgílio. Determined to turn her life around, she moves from Petrópolis to the southern zone of Rio de Janeiro with her daughter, Clara, and goes to live in her mother Laura's house in Ipanema. There she falls in love with the charming, but gruff, Heitor, owner of a mechanic shop. He lives with his sister, Irene, in an old townhouse, one of the main settings of the telenovela.

The Summer Sun

1982

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Signo da Esperança

1972

Metamorphoses poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Metamorphoses

2004

Rosa Baiana poster
7.0

Rosa Baiana is a strong and courageous woman, the companion of Edmundo Lua Nova, who abandoned her with seven children to travel the world. Her children, Agenor, Ivan, Bráulio, Walter, Orestes, Cláudia, and Edinho, ended up connecting their lives to oil, working in the oil fields of Bahia, without, however, detaching themselves from their mother, the ultimate authority and final word in the family. Rosa imposes her personal worldview on everyone. The children don't dare contradict her, even when their lives conflict with their mother's standards. Until the day Edmundo Lua Nova returns home after twenty years away.

Rosa Baiana

1981

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nossa Filha Gabriela

1971

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Roda de Fogo

1978

Caso Especial poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Caso Especial

1971

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Camomila e Bem-Me-Quer

1972

Meu Pé de Laranja Lima poster
7.5

Zezé is a poor, intelligent, sensitive, and needy six-year-old boy. He lacks affection, which he doesn't find in his family – nobody has much patience with him. The mischievous little boy roams the streets getting into all sorts of trouble. He learns everything on his own, he's a "discoverer of things." When the family moves to a house with many trees in the yard, each sibling chooses one for themselves – one gets the mango tree, another the tamarind tree, and so on. Zezé is left with a small lime tree. However, this tree becomes such a good friend that they talk a lot and even play together. Zezé invents a fantasy world for himself where his great confidant is Minguinho, the lime tree. However, life teaches him everything too soon, and Zezé discovers pain and longing, as well as tenderness and affection in the lonely Portuguese man Manuel Valadares, or Portuga, as the boy calls him.

Meu Pé de Laranja Lima

1998

O Terceiro Pecado poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Terceiro Pecado

1968

Vidas Cruzadas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vidas Cruzadas

2000

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Os Estranhos

1969

Sabor de Mel poster
7.0

Laura is a beautiful woman, refined, elegant, mysterious, and calculating. A widow and millionaire, she owns a metalworking company, inherited from her husband, who committed suicide five years earlier to avoid bankruptcy. Since becoming a widow, Laura hasn't fallen in love with anyone. She lives in a bubble, waiting for someone to rekindle her heart.

Sabor de Mel

1983

Serras Azuis poster
7.0

The involvement of Lígia das Graças Paiva with Gaius Gutemberg Roldão. More than just children of rival families, they are survivors of a massacre that nearly wiped the city off the map. Under the curse that the blood of a Roldão cannot mix with that of a Paiva, both will face much trouble. However, the tragedy is softened by parallel stories: power struggles, union politics, revenge, betrayals, gossip, witchcraft, and even a character from Brazilian folklore: the headless mule.

Serras Azuis

1998

Canoa do Bagre poster
10.0

In Canoa do Bagre, on the coast of São Paulo, Juarez and Gustavo are former youth friends who took very different paths: the first became a powerful businessman after stealing his late boss's money, while the second prospered on his own merit with a transport company. Juarez's dream is to destroy the fishing village to expand his resort, but Gustavo is the biggest opponent and leads the residents against it. Juarez's life changes when Clarita, the woman who abandoned him in the past and made him become a bitter man, returns to discover that he is rich, bringing their daughter, Marilena.

Canoa do Bagre

1997

Anos Rebeldes poster
8.1

Mini series about the 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, when a politically engaged student falls in love with a left wing journalist's daughter who doesn't care for politics. The romance follows 15 years of Brazilian history, since President João Goulart deposition by military reactionary forces, until the first signs of restoration of democracy, in the 1980s.

Anos Rebeldes

1992

Mundo da Lua poster
7.0

The show features Lucas Silva e Silva, a boy who earns a recorder from his paternal grandfather, Orlando, at the age of 10. Amid the typical problems of moving from childhood to adolescence, Lucas creates stories on the tape recorder from how he would like things to be. He lives at his grandfather's house with his parents, Rogerio, a teacher who works out for three jobs and Carolina, who works in a boutique; the older sister, Juliana; and maid Rosa, who dates Marcelo and talks to broadcaster Ney Nunes on her radio.

Mundo da Lua

1991

Incidente em Antares poster
7.0

In the fictional town of Antares, a general strike prevents seven corpses from being buried in the local cemetery. The corpses then come back to life to demand the authorities the right to be buried.

Incidente em Antares

1994

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Encontro com o Passado

1967

Behind the camera