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Rio de Janeiro, Aug 11 (EFE) .- The actor and director Paulo José, one of the icons of Brazilian cinema and television, died this Wednesday at the age of 84, a victim of pneumonia, the Globo group reported, with the one who worked for decades.
Paulo José, diagnosed in 1993 with Parkinson’s disease, died in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, where he had been admitted for 20 days due to pneumonia.
With more than 50 years of career, the actor was one of the benchmarks of the performing arts in the country with memorable works in film, theater and television, where he played characters recorded in the memory of Brazilians still today in a multitude of soap operas.
He was also the director and scriptwriter of various artistic works.
Born in Lavras do Sul, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (south), he began his prolific career in amateur theater, in the city of Porto Alegre, and moved to Sao Paulo in the 1960s.
In those years he began his career in the cinema in the classic “O padre ea moça”, by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade.
From then on, he acted in other important titles of the time framed in the “Cinema Novo” stream, such as “Macunaíma”, also De Andrade; or “Todos as mulheres do mundo”, by Domingos Oliveira, the latter considered one of the hundred best Brazilian films of all time.
In 1969 he began to work with the Globo group, with which he would sign an alliance that lasted until the early years of the 21st century and that would lead him to participate in more than 20 novels and miniseries of what is the most important communication group in the country. .
One of his last successes in the cinema was “O palhaço” (2011), by Selton Mello. In his last television appearance, he played ‘grandfather Benjamin’ in the novel “Em Família” (2014), which, as in real life, also suffered from Parkinson’s disease.
Paulo José leaves behind three daughters, the actresses Ana Kutner, Bel Kutner and Clara Kutnet, the result of his marriage to the actress Dina Sfat; and a son, the also actor Paulo Henrique Caruso, born from his relationship with Beth Caruso. EFE
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