Leonardo Villar

Acting

Leonardo Villar

Born 1923-07-25 Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil 21 films

Leonardo Villar (born as Leonardo Motta in Piracicaba, São Paulo, on July 25, 1923 - São Paulo, July 3, 2020) was a Brazilian actor. He became internationally known for his performance as Zé do Burro in Anselmo Duarte's O Pagador de Promessas, the only Brazilian film so far awarded with a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He started his career at the theater, but later also started acting in film and television. Villar debuted at the theater on the …

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Filmography

21 films
The Ballroom poster

An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce a…

The Ballroom

★ 6.0 2007

Brave New Land poster

Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies…

Brave New Land

★ 5.6 2000

Friendly Fire poster

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the mil…

Friendly Fire

★ 5.8 1998

H.O. poster

Homero Olmos, a famous television publicist known as "H.O." or "The Voice of Experience," is drivin…

H.O.

★ 0.0 1967