Roberto Guilherme (born Edward Guilherme Nunes da Silva; 25 May 1938 – 10 November 2022) was a Brazilian actor and comedian.
Life and career
Born in
Corumbá
Corumbá is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, 425 km northwest of Campo Grande, the state's capital. It has a population of approximately 112,000 inhabitants, and its economy is based mainly on agriculture, animal ...
, Guilherme spent his childhood between
Natal
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Places
* Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, a city in Brazil
* Natal, South Africa (disambiguation), a region in South Africa
** Natalia Republic, a former country (1839–1843)
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and
Rio de Janeiro
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.
During his youth he played football with
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (; ; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope (1497–1499) was the first to link E ...
and, while in the army, with the Brazilian Military Soccer National Team.
Guilherme made his debut as an actor and a playwright with an amateur dramatics society in north Rio, where he was noted by a producer, who immediately put him under contract for his channel.
He later worked for
TV Excelsior
Rede Excelsior was a Brazilian television network founded by Mário Wallace Simonsen on July 9, 1960, in São Paulo, São Paulo. Its last broadcast happened on September 30, 1970, when the Brazilian military dictatorship put an abrupt end to ...
, where he met the comedian
Renato Aragão
Antônio Renato Aragão (born January 13, 1935), nicknamed Didi, is a Brazilian comedian actor, producer, filmmaker, TV presenter, singer and writer. He is best known as Didi, because of his leading role in the television series ''Os Trapalhões ...
, of whom he became the sidekick in a number of projects, notably playing Sargento Pincel in ''
Os Trapalhões
Os Trapalhões () was a Brazilian comedy group and a television series of the same name created by Wilton Franco. Its members were Dedé (Dedé Santana), Zacarias ( Zacarias Gonçalves), Mussum ( Carlinhos Mussum) and their leader Didi Mocó (Rena ...
''.
He later worked for
TV Record
RecordTV (), formerly known as Rede Record, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It is currently the second largest commercial TV station in Brazil, and the 28th largest in the 2012 world ranking. In 2010, it was elected by the adverti ...
and
Rede 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 ...
, where he met the comedian
José Santa Cruz, with whom he formed the duo Jojoca e Xexéu.
His last appearances were in 2018 in two
Multishow
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variety shows, ''Treme Treme'' and ''Dra. Darci''.
Guilherme died of cancer on 10 November 2022, at the age of 84.
References
External links
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1938 births
2022 deaths
People from Corumbá
Brazilian comedians
Brazilian television actors
Brazilian film actors
Brazilian stage actors
Brazilian male actors