John Herbert

Acting

John Herbert

Born 1929-05-17 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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.

Acting credits

Maria 38 poster
8.0

Maria is a young woman who becomes a well-known crook in the bohemian district of Lapa, in Rio de Janeiro. She earns her living with little scams and tricks. Nevertheless, she is good-hearted, and that's why her latest cheat doesn't work at all.

Maria 38

1959

O Caçador de Esmeraldas poster
8.0

The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".

O Caçador de Esmeraldas

1979

The Delights of Life poster
6.7

Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role.

The Delights of Life

1974

O Petróleo é Nosso poster
9.0

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.

O Petróleo é Nosso

1954

O Gosto do Pecado poster
4.3

After his wife leaves him, Júlio starts an affair with his secretary.

O Gosto do Pecado

1980

Helga und die Männer - Die sexuelle Revolution poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Helga und die Männer - Die sexuelle Revolution

1969

Assim Era a Atlântida poster
8.1

No synopsis available yet.

Assim Era a Atlântida

1975

Ariella poster
5.0

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.

Ariella

1980

Candinho poster
7.1

Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.

Candinho

1954

No artwork available
3.1

As condition to inherit some assets, three women must turn three gay men into their lovers. Fighting for the money are also a charitable nun, a gay lawyer and a dissolute woman.

Deu Veado na Cabeça

1982

No artwork available
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro

1976

Rio Fantasia poster
8.5

Quartet from Northeast Brazil arrive in Rio de Janeiro, to try their luck in the big city.

Rio Fantasia

1956

Copacabana Palace poster
5.0

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.

Copacabana Palace

1962

Dioguinho poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dioguinho

1957

Tödlicher Karneval poster
8.0

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.

Tödlicher Karneval

1963

Bacanal poster
5.0

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.

Bacanal

1980

The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out poster
6.0

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.

The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out

1985

A Outra Face do Homem poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Outra Face do Homem

1954

The Torturer poster
4.6

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 that this is a product of its era, so it's quite possible to see some objectionable things. But for the most part it's never crass or insanely offensive.

The Torturer

1980

Love Slaves of the Amazons poster
4.5

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."

Love Slaves of the Amazons

1957

Forever poster
4.4

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.

Forever

1991

The Girl Next Door poster
5.6

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.

The Girl Next Door

1987

The Love Bug poster
4.4

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 insects flee and attack the world.

The Love Bug

1980

A Arte de Amar Bem poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Arte de Amar Bem

1970

Behind the camera

Ariella poster
5.0

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.

Ariella

1980

The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out poster
6.0

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.

The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out

1985

Tessa, a Gata poster
9.0

Tessa, Debora and Roberta have a strong bond. Surrounded by perverted men whose only pleasure is sadistic sex games, far out drug fantasies and to humiliate and abuse women, they must take action.

Tessa, a Gata

1982

Tessa, a Gata poster
9.0

Tessa, Debora and Roberta have a strong bond. Surrounded by perverted men whose only pleasure is sadistic sex games, far out drug fantasies and to humiliate and abuse women, they must take action.

Tessa, a Gata

1982

Cada um Dá o Que Tem poster
4.7

Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.

Cada um Dá o Que Tem

1975

Toda Donzela Tem Um Pai Que é Uma Fera poster
6.0

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.

Toda Donzela Tem Um Pai Que é Uma Fera

1966

Toda Donzela Tem Um Pai Que é Uma Fera poster
6.0

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.

Toda Donzela Tem Um Pai Que é Uma Fera

1966

Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente poster
4.4

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.

Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente

1976

Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente poster
4.4

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.

Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente

1976