Milton Gonçalves obit

Milton Gonçalves dies at the age of 88 as a result of a stroke.

 

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Actor Milton Gonçalves died at age 88 at home, in Rio de Janeiro, this Monday (30) as a result of the consequences of a stroke (Cerebral Vascular Accident) suffered in 2020. The artist has accumulated more than 40 works on television throughout his career. Milton’s last role was in the series “Daughters of Eve” (2021). In February, complications from the same disease took the life of Arnaldo Jabor.

Milton arrived at Globo in 1965, the year the channel was inaugurated, with four productions, including “Rua da Matriz” and “A Moreninha”. A decade later he gave life to Father Honório in “Roque Santeiro”, a version that was never aired, being banned by the censors. The artist also worked in cinema and theater.

Milton Gonçalves was born on December 9, 1933 in Monte Santo de Minas and was also a producer, voice actor, director and singer. In 2006, he was nominated for an International Emmy by Pai José of the remake of “Sinhá Moça”, a role he had already played in 1986 in the first version of the telenovela.

He was a Brazilian actor and television director, who was one of the most famous black actors in Brazil, having collaborated twice with acclaimed director Héctor Babenco. One notable role with Babenco was that alongside William Hurt and Raul Julia as a police chief in Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Gonçalves began his career in São Paulo, in an amateur group. As he moved to a professional group, he met Augusto Boal, who was looking for an actor to play an old black man. Joining Boal's Teatro de Arena, Milton Gonçalves found an open environment for political, philosophical, and artistic discussion, where he was not discriminated against on the baseless basis of his race.

Gonçalves wrote four plays, one of which was staged by the Teatro Experimental do Negro and directed by Dalmo Ferreira. He said of this engagement "There I learnt everything I know about Theater. It was fundamental for my comprehension of the world."

A Black Movement activist, Milton Gonçalves tried a political career, in the 1990s, as a candidate to Rio de Janeiro state governorship.

Father of actor Maurício Gonçalves, he was married to Oda Gonçalves from 1966 until her death in 2013.

Selected filmography

 

    2012 - Lado a Lado

    2011 - The Silver Cliff

    2011 - Zorra Total

    2011 - Fina Estampa

    2011 - Assalto ao Banco Central

    2011 - Insensato Coração

    2009 - Força-Tarefa

    2008 - A Favorita

    2006 - Cobras & Lagartos

    2005 - América

    2003 - Carandiru

    2002 - Esperança

    1999 - Orfeu

    1997 - Four Days in September

    1997 - Por Amor

    1996 - O Rei do Gado

    1995 - Irmãos Coragem

    1992 - Kickboxer 3

    1989 - Wild Orchid

    1988 - Moon over Parador

    1987 - Subway to the Stars

    1986 - Sinhá Moça

    1985 - Kiss of the Spider Woman

    1984 - Quilombo

    1977 - Lucio Flavio

    1976 - Carioca tigre

    1973 - O Bem-Amado

    1972 - Vila Sésamo

    1968 - O Bravo Guerreiro

    1960 - Cidade Ameaçada