Ricardo Waddington
Ricardo Waddington (Rio de Janeiro, December 22, 1960) is a Brazilian television director.
Ricardo Waddington (Rio de Janeiro, December 22, 1960) is a Brazilian television director.
Release Date1987-03-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd esquiador
Episode Count173
Vote Count1
Release Date1983-10-24
Charactersd vendedor da seção de joias da loja Mesbla
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
It tells the story of young people who dream of a modeling career and the rise of their lives. It all starts when the Sex Appeal agency, led by Edgar and Cecilia, runs a contest that will award the winner two hundred thousand dollars and the possibility of living abroad. The main competitors are Angel, Vilma, Eva and Claudinha. They will do anything to earn, even things they would never imagine doing.
Release Date1993-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Cosme
Episode Count19
Vote Count6
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.
Release Date1995-04-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count313
Vote Count36
Donatela and Flora, two friends who became rivals. One of them committed a homicide and pretends to be innocent. There are two versions for the same story. Who, after all, is telling the truth? Donatela or Flora?
Release Date2008-06-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count197
Vote Count40
Inspired on Jorge Amado's romance "Tieta do Agreste", the plot is set on the fictional city of Santana do Agreste, at Brazil's northwest, and has as main theme Tieta's life turnarounds. Twenty-five years after being chased out of town by her father Zé Esteves, she returns to her home town seeking revenge against everyone who mistreated her and laugh at her face in the past.
Release Date1989-08-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count197
Vote Count24
Monarchists and republicans meet in Araruna, a small fictional town in the interior of São Paulo, in 1886. The novel portrays the love story of the beautiful and wealthy Sinhá Moça - daughter of the slave, Barão Ferreira de Araruna, and sweet and submissive Mother Candida - , with the young abolitionist lawyer Dr. Rodolfo Fontes - son of Dr. Fontes, and the housewife Inêz. Together, they face the difficulties in the campaign for the abolition of slaves.
Release Date2006-03-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count185
Vote Count12
Fátima Accioly is a young, callous woman who wants to be rich and successful at any price. After selling her family's house in the country, she heads to Rio and gets to know dress man César who is unscrupulous himself. Meanwhile, her mother Raquel stays behind without home and money, but finally tries to find her daughter in the big city. Both women come in contact with the rich Roitman family which changes their lives forever.
Release Date1988-05-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count204
Vote Count31
Helena is an independendent woman with strong emotions. More than a dedicated mother, she is also a friend to her daughter. Her daughter is experiencing difficulties in her marriage with Marcelo because of his renewed interest in a formoe girlfriend. Marcelo‘s mother deslikes Helena and would like nothing better to see her son‘s marriage destroyed. Helena starts her life over again when she falls in love at first sight with Atilio, whom she marries. Although of poor health, her daughter wants to have a baby, believing that by fulfiling her husband‘s dream, she can save her marriage. As fate would have it, mother and daughter fall pregnant at the same time, each giving birth to a boy.
Release Date1997-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count191
Vote Count24
Twenty years after seeing his family decimated by gunmen, Ben Silver returns to Albuquerque to take revenge on the person responsible for the massacre, but falls in love with his rival's daughter.
Release Date2005-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count173
Vote Count5
Three young people decide to search for missing friends and relatives. When they find a community in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, they face great adventures.
Release Date2013-11-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count155
Vote Count6
Release Date1991-05-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count197
Vote Count10
In Rome, Armando confesses to Father Guido Bellini that he is being hunted by a criminal organization led by a young man with paranormal powers. Some time later, Guido discovers that Armando has died and, feeling guilty for not having tried to prevent the man's murder, decides to leave the priesthood and return to Brazil. In the city of São Paulo, Guido dedicates himself to the study of paranormal phenomena in order to combat the organization led by César Zapata and his son Fred, the powerful young man to whom Armando referred. To confront the Zapatas, Guido relies on the help of Alef, also a paranormal young man who does not yet have full control of his powers. Alongside his fight against the criminal organization, Guido has a romance with Débora, Alef's mother. His main opponent, César, also likes Débora and does everything to separate her from Guido. He wages a veritable war against the former priest, using Fred's evil powers.
Release Date1993-09-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count185
Vote Count3
A traffic accident causes four women's destinies to intertwine. In the series, the four enter a pact of revenge against the men who hit them and caused them to suffer. Auxiliadora struggled to help her husband Alcebíades prosper, but when he leaves her for a younger woman, is thrown out of the house. The shy Tatiana was engaged to Fortunato, who failed to show up at their wedding. The Babalu hurricane caught mechanic Raí in bed with another woman. Abigail, a preppy psychologist who is struggling in a failing marriage, decides superficially to continue it but revolts against her husband, Gustavo, who humiliates her in public at a congress. Gustavo has custody of Ângela, a girl who longs to know her true father, Bruno. Her mother died in the childbirth, traumatizing him.
Release Date1994-10-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count233
Vote Count6
A mature and successful woman, Helena becomes involved with Edu, who is twenty years her junior. She battles prejudice in order to live her love, but their romance fizzles out when she realizes that her daughter Camila has also fallen in love with him. Her dilemma grows even worse when she discovers that the girl has leukemia. Helena must disclose the real identity of Camila‘s father in order to try and find a compatible bone marrow donor. In order to save her, she decides to give up her new love and have another baby with her daughter‘s father.
Release Date2000-06-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count209
Vote Count20
Release Date1987-10-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count185
Vote Count2
Waldomiro Cerqueira is a powerful businessman who built his empire exploiting mineral deposits and suddenly finds himself under threat of losing it due to family conflicts.
Release Date1999-01-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count209
Vote Count9
The Enchanted Tale is an epic telenovela encircled by castles, kings and outlaws that tells a majestic love story between Azucena and Jesuino: two noble spirited young people who are unaware of their true origins. Beautiful Azucena and her hero Jesuíno go through many adventures in their determination to stay together.
Release Date2011-04-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count143
Vote Count16
In 1934 two supposed brothers survived an avalanche in the Himalayas: the millionaire Franz Hauser (Bruno Gagliasso), who is saved by Buddhist monks, and Manfred (Carmo Dalla Vecchia), rescued by a team of climbers. Manfred returns to Brazil with a terrible secret: he sabotaged Franz’s equipment in order to take his place in the family business. After an exhaustive search, Ernest Hauser gives his son up for dead and appoints his bastard son as the director of the Hauser Group.
Release Date2013-09-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count173
Vote Count16
In the swing of the 70s, two women fight for the love of the same man without knowing their fates were already intertwined.
Release Date2014-08-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count185
Vote Count12
Cristiano Vilhena is a young man from the countryside who dreams of high society, risking his happiness alongside Simone.
Release Date1986-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count155
Vote Count6
Imagine a strong and tender hearted woman, a confused man and a villain capable of everything to get money. We have the perfect love triangle to a classic love story.
Release Date2009-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count161
Vote Count8
The series surrounds the damaged relationship between a saxophonist and a woman who falls in love for a former boyfriend, whom she had left to marry him.
Release Date2003-02-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count203
Vote Count20
The story's theme is spiritualism, viewed through the lens of past-life regression. Floriano Ferraz is a skeptical sculptor tormented by severe shoulder pain and visions of a woman dying at his feet. Exhausted, and encouraged by his master and friend, the craftsman Quirino, he seeks the help of psychiatrist Ulisses. Through regression techniques, he discovers that in 1880, in the city of Petrópolis, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, he was Lieutenant Belmiro, in love with the young Valentina. The young woman, married to an older man, is seriously injured while trying to flee with her beloved. After suffering a sword blow, she loses her balance and falls from the third floor of a mansion, at Belmiro's feet. Before dying, however, Valentina arranges a meeting with the lieutenant in the future. The experience completely transforms Floriano's life, and he decides to abandon everything, including his girlfriend Antônia, to pursue his past.
Release Date1996-09-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count173
Vote Count2
It tells the story of two contrasting realities in the early 20th century: The construction of a railway in the Amazon rainforest and the glamorous life of Rio de Janeiro, where politicians and big businessmen lived. Consuelo is a young pianist heading toward the Amazon with her husband, Alonso. On the way, the two have an accident, and Alonso ends up losing his life. Alone and helpless, Consuelo gets lost in the middle of the forest, being weak and very sick. However, she ends up being supported by Joe Caripuna, a local Indian who welcomes the girl. The two become great friends, and Joe falls in love with the girl. He takes her to live around the railroad workers' camp, where she meets Dr. Richard Finnegan, who takes care of her health and all the workers who were in a dramatic situation. Richard also falls in love with Consuelo, who repays love, but the difficulties of work and the situations in which they find themselves make it difficult for them to get closer.
Release Date2005-01-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count35
Vote Count4
Renato Villar is an ambitious businessman. After discovering a brain tumor, his life takes a turn, and he decides to settle his debts and live his true love.
Release Date1986-08-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count179
Vote Count6
The hypochondriac lawyer Arthur, the model Maria, the religious Elizabeth, the hardworking Guinevere, and the womanizing personal trainer Lancelotti reunite after 25 years in the fictional town of Deus me Livre, in the interior of São Paulo. Determined to correct past mistakes and start their lives anew, they end up rekindling old flames. This is the main plot of Pé na Jaca, which, starting with the reunion of the five childhood friends, shows a frantic hunt for fortune, seasoned with hilarious romantic entanglements.
Release Date2006-11-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count179
Vote Count7
Written by Manoel Carlos, “The Presence of Anita” is an amazing story about love, passion and the traps of destiny. Anita is an angel faced teenager who seduces a writer, destroying his family and his life. According to her, nothing is coincidence. Destiny is already written and she cannot change her fate.
Release Date2001-08-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count16
Vote Count23
Release Date1990-10-29
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count173
Vote Count5
Brasil República, 1918. Luís Jerônimo is a rich young man. Womanizer, spends all night on the street drinking and having fun with prostitutes, the boy finds out that he has an injury to his right lung. Advised by Edmundo Esteves, his doctor, he decides to spend a season at a cousin's farm in the small town of Vila da Mata in Espírito Santo, in search of fresh air, to prevent the disease from developing into tuberculosis.
Release Date2004-05-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count167
Vote Count12
Biology professor Edu is an idealistic man who moves with his son Lipe to the charming, fictional town of Nova Aliança, in Minas Gerais, in search of a better quality of life. Edu is engaged to Amelinha, daughter of the wealthy and greedy rancher João Mourão. But this relationship becomes unstable when Edu falls in love with the dreamy lawyer Clara, daughter of Lígia and the experienced lawyer Raul Gouveia. Edu is a single father and tries to always be present in Lipe's life, attempting to keep him away from his mother, Mariana, whose drug addiction prevented her from raising her son. Edu's future father-in-law, João Mourão, is the biggest businessman in Nova Aliança: he owns a farm, a dairy, a meatpacking plant, and a transportation company. João takes issue with Edu when he discovers that the young man is a strong defender of nature and environmental protection laws, which turns him into a rival in the fight for a stretch of virgin forest.
Release Date2002-02-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count185
Vote Count6
Helena is a sweet, honest, sensitive and a warrior woman who faces the premature pregnancy of her daughter Joyce, who in turn is abandoned by her boyfriend, the irresponsible Caio. The biggest problem is the girl's father, Assunção, Helena's ex-husband, who does not accept the situation. Lonely and alone, Helena awakens a passion for the endocrinologist Carlos Alberto, and has her feelings matched. But Carlos is committed to the possessive Paula. The girl's parents, Zuleika and Rômulo, anxiously await their daughter's wedding with Carlos, who will save the family from financial decay. But Carlos is the type of man that women don't really forget. Even married to Paula and in love with Helena, he is still harassed by ex-wife Sheyla, who is not satisfied with having lost him and dreams of a rapprochement.
Release Date1995-07-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count209
Vote Count11
Release Date2006-12-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
A young medical doctor discovers some paranormal abilities. He can operate people with the assistance of the spirits of dead people.
Release Date2010-08-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count9
Vote Count7
Release Date2021-09-04
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
Release Date2018-07-14
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
Meet Sereia, a young and beautiful singer whose world of fame and fortune is interlaced with envy and hate. Her murder in the midst of carnival shocks the entire country and the hunt for her killer reveals a new suspect with each new day of investigation. Holding the status of a big-budget thriller, the miniseries brings about mysticism, sensuality and suspense that hooks the viewer until the astonishing end.
Release Date2013-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count17
Release Date1985-10-21
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count164
Vote Count2
Disillusioned, Congressman Paulo Ventura takes over the Chamber following a maneuver by his adversaries. However, the deaths of the Speaker and his deputy give him the chance to do things differently.
Release Date2012-01-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count1
Release Date2000-04-08
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count4
Adapted from the series aired in 2001. Looking for inspiration during the holidays, Nando sees Anita as the ideal character for his novel. She lives in a townhouse where a passionate crime happened in the past. Intense, Anita seduces Nando and awakens to
Release Date2015-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
The trajectory of the five irreverent boys who conquered Brazil with hits like Pelados em Santos and Vira-Vira was the theme of this special.
Release Date2008-07-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1