Flávio Galvão

Acting

Flávio Galvão

Born 1947-07-30 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Flávio José Galvão de França (São Paulo, July 30, 1947) is a Brazilian actor, announcer and former voice actor. He began his artistic career in dubbing, working at the AIC São Paulo studios, until moving into television and cinema, having worked on the biggest broadcasters in the country, such as Tupi, Globo, Cultura and RecordTV.

Acting credits

Gabriela poster
5.9

In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels.

Gabriela

1983

Two-Edged Knife poster
5.9

Paulo is a rich lawyer who has a happy and comfortable family life, with his kid and very loyal to his wife. But when he finds out that the woman is cheating on him with his business partner and best friend, he decides to execute a perfect plan that involves murdering both and easily getting away with murder. However, Paulo's plans are about to be ruined due to some unpredictable factors involving powerful people, plenty of money, the kidnap of his son and a tenacious inspector following his steps.

Two-Edged Knife

1989

The Honest Candidate poster
6.0

João Ernesto Ribamar is a corrupt politician running for the presidency. He is in the runoff election, ahead on the polls, when he receives a "mandinga" (curse) from his grandmother, which makes him unable to lie. Now the problem begins: How to win an election by telling only the truth?

The Honest Candidate

2014

Excitation poster
6.3

Helena and Renato are a couple who leave the big city to live in the comfort of a beach house and help Helena recover from her nervous breakdowns. But before long, she begins to suffer from increasingly disturbing hallucinations, and the household appliances seem to come to life.

Excitation

1977

Um Breve Encontro poster
NR

Laura remembers an affair that just ended: for a few weeks, she and a married doctor, Alec, met every Thursday for lunch in a train station and a movie. They fell in love in this short period together. Based on the story by Noel Coward, and shot for Grupo Bandeirantes' tele-theatre.

Um Breve Encontro

1968

The Brazilwood Man poster
5.0

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.

The Brazilwood Man

1982

O Fim de Arsênio Godard poster
NR

In 1883, in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Navy rebelled against the country's government (an episode known as the Navy Revolt). Six months of intense fighting caused incalculable material and human losses. Inside one of the Navy ships, a deserter is captured. The commander punishes the French mercenary with the most unlikely of punishments: the torture of silence.

O Fim de Arsênio Godard

2013

S.O.S.: Women to the Sea poster
6.7

Recently divorced Adriana tries to get revenge on the woman who took her husband away from her by going on a European cruze along with them.

S.O.S.: Women to the Sea

2014

No artwork available
7.0

Count Dracula, taking on the new identity of Vladimir, leaves Transylvania and goes to Brazil in search of his son Rafael. This vampire romance was conceived to be a potential telenovela, but only ended up running as a TV miniseries with four installments because the network that financed it went under.

Dracula, a Love Story

1980

Happily Ever After poster
5.3

Fernanda is content with her life until she meets Miguel, a drug addict, bisexual male prostitute. She becomes captivated by him and leaves her family behind in favor of a new life filled with sex and debauchery.

Happily Ever After

1985

Sonhos Tropicais poster
9.3

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt.

Sonhos Tropicais

2001

The Mystery of Sintra poster
5.4

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.

The Mystery of Sintra

2007

Senhora poster
7.5

A beautiful and poor woman buys herself a rich husband after inheriting a great deal of money.

Senhora

1976

Behind the camera