The actor who was born in a theater – Observer

On the verge of making 92, he died the comic actor who was born in the dressing room of a theater and started to step on the stage with five. I was in a hospital, in palliative care to alleviate pain two cancers, prostate and another one in the intestines. His name was known to several generations, one that acarinhavam from the theater times, others who were conquered by their television programs.

It is impossible, when it comes to Camilo de Oliveira, television presence since foundation of RTP, does not remember the television framework of the program “Sabadabadu”, “the Augustinians,” written by Caesar Oliveira and Pereira Melo, played by himself and by Ivone Silva. Both alcoholic figures sang verses began to be repeated in the streets and Portuguese houses: “This country has lost acumen, to arm the fine / This country is a colossus, it’s thick, it’s thick”

<. p> your television role in finória nation intensified from the 90s – with series like Camilo & amp; Son Ltd (1995) and Camilo President (2009 and 2010), both of SIC. Tell yourself that the first successful audiences are no longer alive or Camilo or Nuno Melo, who was the second paper.

Die so another aftertaste comedy actor markedly Portuguese and popular, those who They marked the national mood long before the stand-up comedy and one-liners Twitter. A man who spoke to a people who liked the remembered forever as one of the outstanding figures of Portuguese comedy – alongside João Villaret, Antonio Silva and Vasco Santana. These were names that meant when I was summoned to talk about how wanted to be remembered after death. And others with whom opposite, as Raul Solnado, Riverside and Beatriz Costa.

The professional debut came at age 15 in the touring company of the family, Rentini Hall, but the popularity started after changing Buarcos (Figueira da Foz), to the capital and with the participation in 1951 in the journal “Lisbon is Good Thing”. Followed, as well as 24 comedies, 46 more magazines “with salt and pepper” (the title of one of them, 1962), cooked on the basis of all the characteristics of typical verbal gender knavery.

No missing, of course, the erotic allusions, one of the marks of a man known for his inordinate penchant for feminine gender images (not by chance, in 1973, he joined the cast of “Women’s Me”) and satires the ecclesiastical institution . (became famous his character father Pimentinha)

Camilo, father of two, had three marriages: with Italian actress Io Appolloni, who came to play opposite, with Maria Luisa Bettencourt and the actress Paula Marcelo. Man assumed passions, was the Sporting club who incidentally wrote a statement which regrets the death of personality and adept who was lion roar in 2008 and was part of the Centennial Commission.

At the time of death , friends and colleagues have remembered their ability to do with rigor and professionalism but also its occasional difficult shape, able to, in the words of Herman José, make “some pet enemies for the right reasons.”

Nuno Costa Santos, 41, is a writer and screenwriter. He wrote books like “Work and Passions of Fernando Assis Pacheco” and the novel “Cloudy with Good Open.” He is the author of, among other audiovisual works, “Ruy Belo, Once Upon a Time” and several plays.