
Acting
Lafayette Galvão
Born — Died
1931-06-07 — 2019-07-07
Place of birth
Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Known for
Acting
Credits
34 titles
Lafayette Urbano Galvão (Pouso Alegre, July 12, 1931 — Rio de Janeiro, June 7, 2019) was a Brazilian actor, voice actor, writer and screenwriter.
Known for
6.3Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.
Young Hearts
1995
8.4The adventures of a man with amnesia who struggles to rediscover his past while learning to live in the present.
Walking the Clouds
1999
6.8Quinzinho and João Victor are identical twins separated at birth, unaware of each other's existence. The brothers eventually draw closer, guided by their instincts.
Dance with Me
1981
7.4Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Secrets of Sand
1993
9.0No synopsis available yet.
A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão
1990
8.0In the backlands, the drover Ricardo marks the destiny of young Maria. Years later, in Xique-Xique, a mistake between two identical women rekindles passions, separations, and an impossible love.
Maria, Maria
1978
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
7.0Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of making a documentary about the action of the Death Squad. At the time, the press still had some freedom to disseminate the work of these death squads formed by police officers of various ranks, and that he acted on the outskirts of cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The victims of police repression (as today) were men, poor and black, and this condition is supposed criminals.
Você Também Pode Dar um Presunto Legal
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
O Demoninho de Olhos Pretos
2008
1970s · 4 titles
Documentary wich tries to capture the iconoclastic spirit of the 1922 Week of Modern Art, to tell about the beginning of cinema made in the city of São Paulo.
Paulicéia Fantástica
1970
3.7No synopsis available yet.
Luz, Cama, Ação!
1976
8.0Two rival gangs of bandits, led by the dangerous Orelha de Lata and the Tropeço brothers, are devastating the same region. The film follows the attempts of a pair of two failed friends, the clumsy and silly Flic and Floc, to manage a funeral home that they inherited - and which can be very profitable, depending on the number of murders in the city.
E Ninguém Ficou em Pé
1974
9.0No synopsis available yet.
O Grande Desbum
1978
Series credits
6.3Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.
Young Hearts
1995
8.4The adventures of a man with amnesia who struggles to rediscover his past while learning to live in the present.
Walking the Clouds
1999
6.8Quinzinho and João Victor are identical twins separated at birth, unaware of each other's existence. The brothers eventually draw closer, guided by their instincts.
Dance with Me
1981
7.4Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Secrets of Sand
1993
9.0No synopsis available yet.
A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão
1990
8.0In the backlands, the drover Ricardo marks the destiny of young Maria. Years later, in Xique-Xique, a mistake between two identical women rekindles passions, separations, and an impossible love.
Maria, Maria
1978
7.6No synopsis available yet.
Coração Alado
1980
8.4The soap opera's central theme is life after death, inspired by the philosophy of Allan Kardec, the codifier of Spiritism. The character who drives the plot is Alexandre, a delinquent who kills himself in prison after being convicted of robbery followed by homicide and goes on to torment the lives of all those he considers responsible for his tragic fate.
A Viagem
1994
In 1889, a conflict arose between the decadent and ruined rural aristocracy following the liberation of slaves and a new class of wealthy individuals, comprised of entrepreneurs emerging from the republican industrial class, interested in free labor. In the city of Ouro Negro, in the interior of São Paulo state, the conservative, aristocratic, and monarchist Almeida Santos family, which traditionally dominated the region, began to lose ground to the Lobo Ferraz family, representing the nascent progressive and republican bourgeoisie.
Dead Gods
1971
7.5After an unjust imprisonment, friends return to the town of Remanso, facing betrayals and lost loves, while battling a corrupt lawyer.
Bachelor Party
1992
7.0Farmer Selena is a strong-willed young woman who won't rest until she uncovers a secret kept by her mother Camila: the identity of her father.
Summer Affair
1998
7.3The story begins with the arrival of millionaire Antônio Carlos Volpone in Brazil. After living in Cairo for 18 years, he returns to his homeland for two reasons: first, to clarify the murder of his father-in-law, Dr. Telles, of which he was accused; second, to get closer to his ex-wife Estela, now married to Orlando Aranha. The millionaire also attracts media attention, and reporter Amélia Bicudo decides to investigate his life. To mislead his enemies and move freely, Volpone uses numerous disguises: the executive Anabela Freire, the doctor Nilo Peixe, the industrialist Augusto Melo Sampaio, and the driver André Silva. With the help of his loyal secretary and friend, Mosca, he confronts his main rival, Orlando Aranha, and Renata, Orlando's sister, who holds secrets about the murder of Estela's father.
Um Sonho a Mais
1985
8.7No synopsis available yet.
Dona Beija
1986
5.9Adaptations of 40 short stories of brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues, written between 1951 and 1961. The stories were considered scandalous at the time as Rodrigues used immoral characters and black humor to satirize the hypocrisy and repression in people's daily lives.
A Vida Como Ela É...
1996
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Perdidos de Amor
1996
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Tudo ou Nada
1986
8.7When the men go to war, the women also battle. This tale takes place in the XIX century, during a terrible civil war. Italy’s revolutionary leader Garibaldi must choose between two loves: a sweet aristocratic lady or a brave woman who leaves her husband to accompany him into battle. This super-production recounts the saga of women who do not go to war but must bear pain, solitude and new passions while their husbands and fathers fight the battles.
Seven Women
2003
6.0In love since childhood, Flô and Arnaldo join forces in the fight for the abolition of slavery. They will have to face challenges and prejudices to be able to live their love.
Sinhazinha Flô
1977
6.1Arriving in Lisbon from London, Basílio falls in love with his cousin Luísa, but he must go to Brazil, promising he will eventually marry her. As time goes by, he sends her a letter ending the relationship and she marries Jorge, an engineer. One of Jorge's rich aunts dies, leaving him a small fortune and her former maid Juliana. Juliana gets hold of love letters between Luísa and Basílio and starts to blackmail her employer.
Cousin Bazilio
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Musicalíssima
1965
NRBrutal murders take set during the new production of "Marilia De Dirceu" at the Theatro Municipal in Rio De Janeiro. When Cristina Andreatti, daughter of famous Brazilian musician - Gastão Andreatti, takes the lead role, replacing La Carlota Alencastro, Cristina falls on the hands of a mysterious masked man who claims to be Alfredo do Vale, a musician who was killed in a brutal accident years ago.
O Fantasma da Ópera
1991
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Plantão de Polícia
1979
7.0A doctor harbors a platonic passion for Rosinha, who is always leaning out of her window, observing the events of the small town where she lives. One day, the doctor is called by Rosinha's family to treat her and discovers that the young woman lives in a wheelchair. The two begin a relationship and, at the end of the story, Rosinha recovers and is able to walk again.
Rosinha do Sobrado
1965
7.5After suffering a plane crash, Leo receives a blood transfusion and, some time later, discovers that he ended up contracting the AIDS virus. Desperate, he does his best to find out the identity of the bearer of the blood he received, and suffers from the prejudice of friends and people close to him.
O Portador
1991
3.0In 1920, in the Minas Gerais town of Bom Jesus da Moóca, La Mamma tries to protect her seductive son Manfredo Antônio from jealous husbands and a plot that threatens her reputation.
La Mamma
1990
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Rua da Matriz
1965


