José Lewgoy

Acting

José Lewgoy

Born 1920-11-16 · Veranópolis, Brésil

José Lewgoy was a Brazilian actor (Veranópolis, November 16, 1920 — Rio de Janeiro, February 10, 2003). Since 1940, he acted in more than one hundred films, including Fitzcarraldo with German actor Klaus Kinski and studied at Yale University. In 1973, he participated in the film by Colombian director Carlos Mayolo, La mansión de Araucaíma, in the role of Graciliano "Don Graci". The film is based on a story of the same name by writer Álvaro Mutis, winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2001.

Acting credits

Fitzcarraldo poster
7.6

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Fitzcarraldo

1982

Kiss of the Spider Woman poster
7.0

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.

Kiss of the Spider Woman

1985

Três Vagabundos poster
7.0

A scientist swaps the mind of banker and an idiot by accident.

Três Vagabundos

1952

Blame It on Rio poster
5.8

Matthew Hollis is man on holiday in Rio with his best friend. Both men have teenage daughters with them. When Matthew falls for his best friend's amorous daughter named Jennifer, they embark on a secret, if slightly one-sided relationship. Jennifer's father is furious when he finds out about the 'older man' in his daughter's life, and sets out to hunt him down with the aid of Matthew!

Blame It on Rio

1984

Here Comes the Baron poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Here Comes the Baron

1951

Cobra Verde poster
6.9

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.

Cobra Verde

1987

Mortal Sin poster
7.0

The eccentric members of a wealthy Brazilian family each go through personal torment, debauchery and intense guilt. The father has made a fortune in the slaughterhouse business and ignores the feelings of his wife and his workers. When the mother threatens to leave, the father begs for her to stay and continue the hollow charade of their marriage for the sake of social appearances.

Mortal Sin

1970

No artwork available
8.0

Erotic comedy divided in three episodes.

As Secretárias... Que Fazem de Tudo

1975

The Patriot poster
4.8

Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.

The Patriot

1998

Assim Era a Atlântida poster
8.1

No synopsis available yet.

Assim Era a Atlântida

1975

Diário da Província poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Diário da Província

1978

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo poster
7.5

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

1967

Boca poster
3.6

A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.

Boca

1994

Barnabé, You Are Mine poster
7.0

A cleaner accidentely stills a secret formula and get mistaken for the heir prince of an old kingdom.

Barnabé, You Are Mine

1952

O Flagrante poster
8.0

Five friends decide to enjoy Mardi Gras without their wives, leaving them home. But one of the wives doesn't accept this arrangement and tries to get even.

O Flagrante

1976

Tensão no Rio poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tensão no Rio

1984

Chatô, The King of Brazil poster
5.2

The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.

Chatô, The King of Brazil

2015

Moon Over Parador poster
5.8

Underappreciated actor Jack Noah is on location in Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse... to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.

Moon Over Parador

1988

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Curumim

1980

Tabu poster
6.5

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade.

Tabu

1983

Burning Sands poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Burning Sands

1952

Intimacy poster
4.5

Guia de Filmes indicates: "melodrama addressing the massification of large urban centers and the contradictions of consumer society and advertising. It is the first independent production by the firm of Vera Fischer and Perry Sales, and also, the first film directed by Englishman Michael Sarne in Brazil; however, he retired before completion and the film was finished by Perry Salles, marking his directorial debut ".

Intimacy

1976

I, I, I José Lewgoy poster
7.0

Documentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.

I, I, I José Lewgoy

2011

Engraçadinha poster
5.3

After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.

Engraçadinha

1981

Behind the camera