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 Ga ...

, Gleizer was the son of two

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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

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. His first major work was ''Joseph of Egypt'', a 1964

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. In 1984 he started an intense collaboration with the

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, acting in ''Free to Fly'', and then appearing in dozens of telenovelas and miniseries.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gleizer, Elias 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