Oliveira Camilo dies at age 91 – RTP

It was 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 Correia, creating 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 Rose Festival in Montreux Golden, Switzerland.

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

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

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

its debut in the capital was in February 1951, the Lisbon Coliseum in 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, who married, Francisco Ribeiro (Riverside), Costinha, Beatriz Costa, Santana Vasco and Raul Solnado, among others.

“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)” Camille & amp; Daughters “(1996) and” 2008 – My Boy’s Girl “(2008) were some of your successes

Uma 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 act with Alina Vaz.

Oliveira Camilo formed, on its own initiative, several theater companies, directed magazines and staged several plays. According to that the actor himself referred, will have participated in 47 magazines, 24 comedies and several television programs, especially in RTP and SIC, as “Camilo in Trouble”, “Camilo, the Hang”, “Camilo shop”, “Camilo in Prison”, “the Camilo Adventures” and “Camilo & amp; Filho Lda. “, Which 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 “Camilo and son” series with Nuno Melo, “the Camilo 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.

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

 c / Lusa