
Acting
Nov 15, 1920
Veranópolis, Brésil
José Lewgoy
Acting
Biography
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.
Feature Films (104)

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

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

"Lula, 'bon vivant' who subsists at the expense of small blows, goes on with his life without a present or future purpose. Basically, he just tries to forget having been abandoned by his fiancee Helena, who gave in to his father's imposition. The situations in which he gets involved from then on are paradoxical, trying to survive in the best possible way and spending money he doesn't have, but which comes to him in one way or another. On a day of complete despair, Lula meets a group of "hippies" and leaves catechized. Willing to anything, he becomes a preacher of new customs and new ethics of life. In turn, Helena, whose marriage had failed, dreams of meeting Lula again, hoping to return to his arms.
O Grande Gozador

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

Super Chacrinha and Glauber Rocha, two millionaires from the earthly plane of Varathrum, manipulate the people around them, including Deus and the Devil, so that their artistic industrial conglomerates grow.
Chaos and Confusion

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

The son of a millionaire who owns gold mines in Transopia, Africa, Antoine Leblanc, who lives in a mansion in Rio, one day receives a letter from his father asking him for help against the gold smugglers from Transopia to Brazil.
Bloody Gold

Four sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only requirement is that they ALL must be sober.
Black Palm Trees

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

Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
Entranced Earth
Television & Series (34)

The young and rich Patricia, daughter of Ambassador André Dumont's first marriage, is in love with and reciprocated by Luiz Carlos, a poor boy, son of the family's maid, Isolda. Whoever doesn't like to see her with the maid's son is her stepmother, Renata Dumont, André's wife. Renata is an ambitious woman who hides her humble origins and a secret from the past that unites her with Isolda. Career, she married the diplomat André, from a traditional family, with whom she had a son, Lipe.
Mad Love

Childhood friends Cidinha and Leda follow opposite paths, but envy the life the other has chosen. Belo's love and custody of their daughter lead them into a competition.
Perigosas Peruas

Nelson, a fishing champion, and his brother Miguel, a renowned plastic surgeon, compete for the love of Lígia, an ambitious woman who seeks to climb the social ladder by any means necessary.
Água Viva

Pedro da Maia, meets a beautiful woman called Maria Monforte with whom he gets married despite his father's objection. The marriage produces a son, Carlos Eduardo, and a daughter. Some time later, Maria Monforte falls in love with Tancredo and runs away to Italy with him, taking her daughter along. When Pedro finds out, he goes with his son to his father's house where he commits suicide. Carlos stays at his grandfather's house and is educated by him. Carlos, becomes a doctor and opens his own office. Later he meets a gorgeous woman, Maria Eduarda. The two fall in love and have dozens of nights together. Eventually Carlos finds out later that Maria lied to him about her past and he starts fearing the worst. In the end, Carlos finds out that Maria is his sister. He informs her that they are siblings and that they cannot live like this anymore. Carlos, to forget his tragedies, goes for a trip around the world.










