Lafayette Galvão

Lafayette Urbano Galvão (Pouso Alegre, July 12, 1931 — Rio de Janeiro, June 7, 2019) was a Brazilian actor, voice actor, writer and screenwriter.

Works

Young Hearts

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

Charactersd Seu Emílio

Episode Count199

Vote Count37

Dance with Me

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.

Release Date1981-03-16

Charactersd Castro

Episode Count165

Vote Count3

Walking the Clouds

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

Release Date1999-03-22

Charactersd médico

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

Dona Beija

Release Date1986-03-31

Charactersd Juiz Alfredo Costa Pinto

Episode Count89

Vote Count5

Bachelor Party

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

Release Date1992-06-01

Charactersd Padre Celso

Episode Count207

Vote Count2

Secrets of Sand

Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

Release Date1993-02-01

Charactersd médico

Episode Count4

Vote Count31

A Viagem

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.

Release Date1994-04-11

Charactersd André Jordão

Episode Count167

Vote Count23

Um Sonho a Mais

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.

Release Date1985-02-04

Charactersd Padre Antonelli

Episode Count155

Vote Count3

Summer Affair

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.

Release Date1998-01-12

Charactersd Coronel Epaminondas Camargo

Episode Count191

Vote Count3

Sinhazinha Flô

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.

Release Date1977-10-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Januário

Episode Count82

Vote Count2

Coração Alado

Release Date1980-08-11

Charactersd Delegado Teófilo

Episode Count185

Vote Count5

Maria, Maria

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.

Release Date1978-01-30

Charactersd Bensabath

Episode Count119

Vote Count2

Seven Women

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.

Release Date2003-01-07

Charactersd Padre Vilar

Episode Count51

Vote Count28

A História de Ana Raio e Zé Trovão

Release Date1990-12-12

Charactersd Nicolau

Episode Count251

Vote Count4

Perdidos de Amor

Release Date1996-10-28

Charactersd Isidoro

Episode Count160

Vote Count1

O Portador

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.

Release Date1991-09-10

Charactersd Janjão

Episode Count8

Vote Count2

Dead Gods

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.

Release Date1971-03-08

Charactersd Plínio Salinas

Episode Count64

Vote Count3

Tudo ou Nada

Release Date1986-09-15

Charactersd Perácio

Episode Count136

Vote Count1

La Mamma

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.

Release Date1990-10-08

Charactersd Presidente do Clube dos Cornos

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

Cousin Bazilio

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.

Release Date1988-08-09

Charactersd Alves Coutinho

Episode Count16

Vote Count7

Rosinha do Sobrado

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.

Release Date1965-08-03

Charactersd Bento

Episode Count50

Vote Count1

Luz, Cama, Ação!

Release Date1976-03-22

Charactersd Adalberto

Vote Count3

Uma Aventura do Zico

Rich and spoiled kid, frustrated for not being chosen to join the soccer lessons his idol Zico was going to give, asks his father to clone the player. But a small girl smells something fishy going on and asks her friends to help save the Brazilian soccer star.

Release Date1998-06-09

Charactersd Vô Gaspar

Vote Count8

Campeão

Release Date1982-12-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count131

Vote Count1

Satiricom

Satiricom

Release Date1973-04-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count128

A Vida Como Ela É...

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.

Release Date1996-03-31

Episode Count2

Vote Count9

Plantão de Polícia

Release Date1979-05-25

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Paulicéia Fantástica

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.

Release Date1970-04-13

Vote Count1

O Fantasma da Ópera

O Fantasma da Ópera

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.

Release Date1991-10-15

Episode Count37

Adorável Trapalhão

Epitácio is the driver of a widower musical entrepreneur. Concerned with the boss' happiness, Epitácio tries to find him a wife and introduces him to Lucy, the children's teacher, who dreams of becoming a singer.

Release Date1967-06-01

Vote Count6

Rua da Matriz

Release Date1965-04-26

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

O Demoninho de Olhos Pretos

Release Date2008-01-01

O Grande Desbum

Release Date1978-10-31

Vote Count1

E Ninguém Ficou em Pé

Two 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.

Release Date1974-06-04

Vote Count1

Você Também Pode Dar um Presunto Legal

Amid 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.

Release Date2006-07-05

Vote Count1