Lafayette Galvão

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

Film credits

Series credits

Young Hearts poster
6.3

Malhação 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

Walking the Clouds poster
8.4

The adventures of a man with amnesia who struggles to rediscover his past while learning to live in the present.

Walking the Clouds

1999

Dance with Me poster
6.8

Quinzinho 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

Secrets of Sand poster
7.4

Twin 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

A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão

1990

Maria, Maria poster
8.0

In 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

Coração Alado poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Coração Alado

1980

A Viagem poster
8.4

The 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

No artwork available
9.0

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

Bachelor Party poster
7.5

After an unjust imprisonment, friends return to the town of Remanso, facing betrayals and lost loves, while battling a corrupt lawyer.

Bachelor Party

1992

Summer Affair poster
7.0

Farmer 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

Um Sonho a Mais poster
7.3

The 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

Dona Beija poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Dona Beija

1986

A Vida Como Ela É... poster
5.9

Adaptations 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

Perdidos de Amor poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Perdidos de Amor

1996

Tudo ou Nada poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tudo ou Nada

1986

Seven Women poster
8.7

When 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

Sinhazinha Flô poster
6.0

In 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

Cousin Bazilio poster
6.1

Arriving 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

Musicalíssima poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Musicalíssima

1965

O Fantasma da Ópera poster
NR

Brutal 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

Plantão de Polícia poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Plantão de Polícia

1979

Rosinha do Sobrado poster
7.0

A 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

O Portador poster
7.5

After 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

La Mamma poster
3.0

In 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

Rua da Matriz poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rua da Matriz

1965