Elias Gleizer
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Elias Gleizer in 2006.
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| Born | Ilicz Glejzer 4 January 1934 São Paulo, Brazil |
| Died | 16 May 2015 (aged 81) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1959-2013 |
Ilicz Glejzer (4 January 1934 – 16 May 2015), better known as Elias Gleizer, was a Brazilian actor.
Born in São Paulo, Gleizer was the son of two Polish Jewish immigrants, a shoemaker and a housewife.[1][2] He began his artistic career at age 12, playing the violin in a youth orchestra.[1] In 1956 he won the award for best actor in an amateur festival, and in 1959 he made his television debut on TV Tupi.[1][2] His first major work was Joseph of Egypt, a 1964 telenovela.[1] In 1984 he started an intense collaboration with the Rede Globo, acting in Free to Fly, and then appearing in dozens of telenovelas and miniseries.[1][2]
Selected filmography
- O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima (1980)
- Pedra sobre Pedra (1992)
- Sonho Meu (1994)
- Terra Nostra (1999)
- Uga-Uga (2000)
- India – A Love Story (2009)
- Flor do Caribe ( 2013)
