Ilicz Glejzer (4 January 1934 – 16 May 2015), better known as Elias Gleizer, was a Brazilian comedian and actor.
Born in
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...
, Gleizer was the son of two
Polish Jewish
The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the lon ...
immigrants, a shoemaker and a housewife.
He began his artistic career at age 12, playing the violin in a youth orchestra.
[ In 1956 he won the award for best actor in an amateur festival, and in 1959 he made his television debut on ]TV Tupi
Rede Tupi (; in English, Tupi Network) was a Brazilian television network free-to-air. Its parent broadcaster, located in the city of São Paulo, was the first TV station to operate in the country, being inaugurated on 18 September 1950 by journ ...
.[ His first major work was ''Joseph of Egypt'', a 1964 ]telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...
.[ In 1984 he started an intense collaboration with the ]Rede Globo
TV Globo (, "Globe TV", or simply Globo), formerly known as Rede Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air Television broadcasting, television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Gr ...
, acting in ''Free to Fly'', and then appearing in dozens of telenovelas and miniseries.[
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Filmography
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1934 births
2015 deaths
Male actors from São Paulo
Brazilian male film actors
Brazilian male television actors
Brazilian male comedians
Brazilian people of Polish-Jewish descent
Jewish Brazilian male actors
20th-century Brazilian male actors
21st-century Brazilian male actors