Jaime Costa

Acting

Jaime Costa

Born 1897-12-27 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jaime Rodrigues Costa, better known as Jaime Costa (Rio de Janeiro, December 27, 1897 - Rio de Janeiro, January 30, 1967), was a Brazilian actor, one of the most important in the history of national theater. He released almost 200 original works by Brazilian authors and introduced Luigi Pirandello, Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller to the national stage. His most notable work was in Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, staged in 1951, where he played Willy Loman, the protagonist. He also acted in film and television.

Acting credits

Tristezas Não Pagam Dívidas poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tristezas Não Pagam Dívidas

1943

Alô Alô Carnaval poster
6.1

Two authors go look for a business to finance their dream musical.

Alô Alô Carnaval

1936

Blue Sky poster
9.0

The Companhia de Esquetches Musicados do Teatro 'Brasil' is in crisis. After the debut of a new play failed, impresario Artur Fernandes, despite protests from Nini del Mar—the company's star—decides to hire Vitorino, the only writer who understands the audience's tastes and the company's artistic capabilities, to write the next play.

Blue Sky

1941

Bom Mesmo É Carnaval poster
6.5

Colonel Polidoro is the political chief of the small town of Passaroca. Near the city hall elections, he decides to help his candidate by setting up an adult literacy course. For this, he needs to find a competent teacher and decides to go to Rio de Janeiro with this function. False moralist that is, ends up falling in the revelry, meets a beautiful dancer and invites the girl to spend the carnival on his farm. Drunk, he confuses the addresses and causes his driver to take the dancer in place of the teacher to Passaroca, which will cause a lot of confusion.

Bom Mesmo É Carnaval

1962

O Viúvo Alegre poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Viúvo Alegre

1960

Os Dois Ladrões poster
9.0

The sophisticated thief Mão Leve and his simple-minded accomplice Jonjoca take from the rich to give to the poor. Their new mission is raising funds in order Mão Leve's brother can study abroad. But great care must be taken lest the honest boy discovers the origin of the money.

Os Dois Ladrões

1960

No artwork available
9.0

When a woman discovers her husband's infidelity, she decides to get divorced. But he still loves her, and learning that another guy has fallen for her, decides to change places with him. He would be the lover.

Love for Three

1958

Cidade Mulher poster
8.0

A theater manager about to go bankrupt decides to accept help from his daughter and her boyfriend to save the family's finances, which she does with the sponsorship of a rich man.

Cidade Mulher

1936

Malandros em Quarta Dimensão poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Malandros em Quarta Dimensão

1954

A Gigolette poster
10.0

Only a fragment of the film survives. Taking advantage of Carnival season, Álvaro devises a Machiavellian plan to seduce a young woman. When she shows up at his house to deliver a bundle of clothes, he shows her a beautiful gigolo dress and invites her to the town's dances. They would only be for two or three hours. Liz accepts, and together they go out dressed as a gigolo, he as an Apache. Liz has fun with Álvaro, and at one point, they decide to go to the beach. Dizzy from champagne and dancing, she loses consciousness, waking up alone. Desperate, Liz runs to Álvaro's house and discovers that he has left for the north. Disoriented, she wanders the streets until she meets Maneco, an employee of Dr. Elzman. Maneco takes her to the doctor's house, and Liz tells him everything that happened. The doctor, fond of the young woman, decides to protect her.

A Gigolette

1924

Mulheres, Cheguei! poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mulheres, Cheguei!

1959

Quanto Mais Samba Melhor poster
7.0

A nationalist musician, Hélio, plans to stage a samba show at a luxury hotel nightclub. The owner, Ademar, influenced by his daughter Marisa, is only interested in big jazz acts. Hélio, aided by Bebeto and Dorothéia, presents a fake Dorothy Bridge and a Sunday Júnior, parodies of Eartha Kitty and Sammy Davis Junior. While being covered by these fake artists, Hélio searches for a singer for a repertoire based on Carmen Miranda.

Quanto Mais Samba Melhor

1961

O Grito da Mocidade poster
7.5

The lives of five young medical interns in in the emergency ward of a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.

O Grito da Mocidade

1937

Matemática Zero, Amor Dez poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Matemática Zero, Amor Dez

1958

Macumba na Alta poster
5.5

A small-time con man is run down by a drunken young millionaire . The former blackmails the other into being taken in the family mansion.

Macumba na Alta

1959

Osso, Amor e Papagaios poster
9.0

A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.

Osso, Amor e Papagaios

1957

O Pão Que o Diabo Amassou poster
8.0

A ruthless loan shark doesn't realize the evil that he has done to his own family: his son is waist-deep in resentment, and his daughter- married to an unsuccessful lawyer - ends up prostituting herself.

O Pão Que o Diabo Amassou

1957

O Samba da Vida poster
NR

An ordinary thief and two accomplices invade a mansion whose owners traveled to Buenos Aires. They settle there with the whole family, until the real owners return. The owner's natural son saves the thief's situation when he threatens to reveal some compromising documents.

O Samba da Vida

1937

A Pensão de D. Estela poster
9.0

The story takes place in a boarding house, on the verge of bankruptcy, where the most different characters parade: a solitary woman, a womanizer singer, a musical group, an unemployed doctor, a football player and a radio singer, and where everyone gets involved to pay the mortgage that threatened the pension.

A Pensão de D. Estela

1956

A Viúva Valentina poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

A Viúva Valentina

1960

Tudo Legal poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tudo Legal

1960

Favela dos Meus Amores poster
NR

Two young men from Paris bring "wonderful civilizing ideas" into the brain. But, as they returned without pity, they began to call for an auction of the furniture and objects of art that garrison their "garconiére", last vestige of the passage of opulence. The great idea would be to install a cabaret in the favela for tourists in search of new sensations and also for the inhabitants of the city. On the hill, one of the boys experiences the greatest surprise: he found there, living among the humble, teaching to read to the children, Rosinha, an enchanted little princess, queen of the hill.

Favela dos Meus Amores

1935

Quem Matou Anabela? poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Quem Matou Anabela?

1956

Family Football poster
10.0

Professor Leônidas Jau is an enemy of football, and in conferences and articles he throws all his hatred against the sport. Friendenreich, his son, however, loves the sport. Leonidas then has a falling out with his son, which may be saved.

Family Football

1939