| Full Name Taufic Jacob Spouse Flora Geny (m. 1950–1991) Role Television actor | Name Dionisio Azevedo Years active 1949–1992 | |
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| Born April 4, 1922 (1922-04-04) Conceicao da Aparecida, Brazil Occupation Director, actor, writer Died December 11, 1994, Conceicao da Aparecida, Minas Gerais, Brazil Children Dionisio Jacob, Noel Marcos Jacob Movies The Given Word, Cidade Ameacada, Kuarup, The First Mass Similar People Flora Geny, Anselmo Duarte, Lima Barreto, Ruy Guerra, Roberto Farias | ||
Dionísio Azevedo, stage name of Taufic Jacob (April 4, 1922 – December 11, 1994), was a Brazilian television, theatre, and film actor, director, and writer. He started his career as an actor in Rádio Record in 1942. He moved to television, where he was a pioneer, creating TV de Vanguarda, a television theater popular in the 1950s. He directed several telenovelas, including Os Humildes, which is considered the first to address Brazilian themes, and Ambição, the first diary telenovela of the country. In cinema he acted in about 40 films. In 1989, he won the Gramado Film Festival Jury Award for his role on the film A Marvada Carne.
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