Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes () (19 October 1922 – 18 May 1999) was a Brazilian playwright. He was born on October 19, 1922 in

Salvador, Bahia Salvador (English: ''Savior'') is a Brazilian municipality and capital city of the state of Bahia. Situated in the Zona da Mata in the Northeast Region of Brazil, Salvador is recognized throughout the country and internationally for its cuisine ...

. He started writing plays at age 15 and later wrote

soap operas A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...

. He wrote the first ever colored soap opera in Brazilian television, and the one with the highest rating of all time. He was also a writer of numerous Brazilian TV shows, miniseries, and a few movies.

Keeper of Promises ''O Pagador de Promessas'' (, ''Keeper of Promises''The title translates literally as ''The Payer of Promises'', but the film has been known by several other names in the English-speaking world, such as ''Keeper of Promises'', ''The Given Word'' a ...

was the first ever Brazilian movie to be nominated for an Oscar, and the only South American to ever win the

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. In 1950 he married Brazilian telenovelist

Janete Clair Janete Clair (born Jenete Stocco Emmer; April 25, 1925 – November 16, 1983) was a Brazilian television, radio play, and novel writer. TV series in Brazil continued to be based on her work fifteen years after her 1983 death from cancer in Rio ...

and in their 33 years of marriage they had three children. She died in 1983 and six years later he remarried, to Bernadeth Lyzio. With her he had two daughters,

Mayra Dias Gomes Mayra Dias Gomes (born 15 December 1987) is a Brazilian author, reporter, media personality and professional wrestling personality. She currently plays the role of May Valentine on NWA Powerrr. Early life Mayra Dias Gomes is a Brazilian wri ...

, a writer, and Luana Dias Gomes, a student of Economics at Stanford University. He died in a car accident in

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, in 1999.

Main works

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'' *''A Revolução dos Beatos'' *''O Santo Inquérito'' *'' O Bem Amado'' *''O Rei de Ramos'' *''

Roque Santeiro ''Roque Santeiro'' is a Brazilian primetime telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 24 June 1985 and ended on 21 February 1986, replacing ''Corpo a Corpo'' and was replaced by ''Selva de Pedra''. It was created by Dias Gom ...

'' *''A Ponte dos Suspiros'' *''Verão Vermelho'' *''Assim na Terra como no Céu'' *''Bandeira 2'' *''O Espigão'' *''Saramandaia'' *''Sinal de Alerta'' *''Expresso Brasil'' *''Mandala'' *''Araponga'' *''As Noivas de Copacabana'' *''

Irmãos Coragem ''Irmãos Coragem'' is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 8 June 1970 and ended on 12 July 1971, with a total of 328 episodes. It's the ninth "novela das oito" to be aired on the timeslot. It is created and ...

'' *''Decadência'' *''Fim do Mundo''

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* 1922 births 1999 deaths Brazilian male writers People from Salvador, Bahia Authors of Brazilian telenovelas Road incident deaths in Brazil Male television writers 20th-century screenwriters {{Brazil-writer-stub