Camilo de Oliveira, the comedy decades of Father Menace – RTP

 Were nearly 70 years in the theaters of Lisbon and tour the country, especially dedicated to laughter, often in partnership with actors like Beatriz Costa and Ivone Silva, Nuno Melo and Antonio Ugly or Maria Emilia Correa, to create characters like Augustine or Father Pimentinha.
 

 Ivone Silva, incidentally, played a couple of the most successful television, “The Augustins”, the program “Sabadabadú”, authored by Cesar Oliveira and Melo Pereira in 1981, internationally awarded an honorable mention at the Golden Rose Festival Montreux, Switzerland.
 

 Oliveira Camilo was born July 23, 1924, in Buarcos, near Figueira da Foz, in Beira Litoral, curiously in a box during a company tour Theatre Rentini where his parents worked.
 

 At five years he made what he called a “tip”, a play, and debuted professionally at 15.
 

 Oliveira Camilo was part of several companies and served in several stages, particularly in theaters ABC and Variety, the Mayer Park, in Lisbon, extinct Monumental, also in the capital, Sá da Bandeira, Porto, among others.
 

 His debut in the capital was in February 1951, the Lisbon Coliseum, in the magazine “Lisbon is a good thing,” in which cast, among others, pontificated Berta Cardoso.
 

 Throughout a career of about 70 years, opposite the most distinguished actors, including Io Appoloni, whom he married, Francisco Ribeiro (Riverside), Costinha, Beatriz Costa, Vasco Santana and Raul Solnado, among others.
 

 Among its successes, the actor emphasized the comedy in two acts “A colonel,” Jean-Jacques Bricaire and Maurice Lasaygues, brought to life in the theater Varieties in Lisbon, in which opposite Alina Vaz, Francico Nicholson, Anthony Ugly and Paula Marcelo, who also came to marry.
 

 “Under the skirts” (1958), “O Man, not Fiques Calado” (1963), “High There With Them” (1970), “The Things A Father Makes” (1976), “Village of dirty linen” ( 1978), “There But are Green” (1983), “This is going To A Crisis” (1992), “Camilo & amp; Daughters” (1996) and “2008 – My Boy’s Girl” (2008) were some of the their successes.
 

 One of the figures who created and made popular was “Pimentinha Father,” which debuted in “Sabadabadú,” and in 2003 starred in the comedy “The Camilo priest,” Louis Tegedor and Joseph Lafayate, which returned to play opposite with Alina Vaz.
 

 Oliveira Camilo formed, on its own initiative, several theater companies, magazines directed and staged several plays. According to data that the actor himself referred, will have participated in 47 magazines, 24 comedies and several television programs, particularly in RTP and SIC, as “Camilo in Trouble”, “Camilo, the Hang”, “The Shop Camilo “” Camilo in Prison, “” the Adventures Camilo “and” Camilo & amp;. Son Lda “, where he was Camilho` Chumbinho`.
 

 regular figure since the first television broadcasts in Portugal, in the late 1950s, and “Sabadabadu” held by Nuno Teixeira and later by Luis Andrade, Camilo starred, among others, the series “Camilo and son” Nuno Melo, “Camilo’s adventures”, “Camilo shop” with Rui Sá, “Camilo in prison”, “Camilo, the hanging”, “Camilo in trouble” in which opposite Maria Emilia Correia, and “Camilo the president.”
 

 The actor is author of “The rules of my life”, published by the Sphere Books.
 

 Away from television screens since 2011, he decided to leave the stage after 90 years. In 1964, Oliveira Camilo received the Award Press for Best Actor of the Year.