Elias Gleizer

Ilicz Glejzer (4 January 1934 – 16 May 2015), better known as Elias Gleizer, was a Brazilian comedian and actor.

Elias Gleizer
Elias Gleizer in 2006.
Born	Ilicz Glejzer 4 January 1934 (1934-01-04) São Paulo, Brazil
Died	16 May 2015 (2015-05-17) (aged 81) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1959-2014

Born in São Paulo, Gleizer was the son of two Polish Jewish immigrants, a shoemaker and a housewife.^[1][2] He began his artistic career at age 12, playing the violin in a youth orchestra.^[1] In 1956 he won the award for best actor in an amateur festival, and in 1959 he made his television debut on TV Tupi.^[1][2] His first major work was Joseph of Egypt, a 1964 telenovela.^[1] In 1984 he started an intense collaboration with the Rede Globo, acting in Free to Fly, and then appearing in dozens of telenovelas and miniseries.^[1][2]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965	Quatro Brasileiros em Paris	Policial
1971	Diabólicos Herdeiros
1980	O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima	Padre Rosendo	TV series
1988	Fera Radical	Donato Orsini
1989	Tieta	Jairo
1992	Pedra sobre Pedra		TV series
1992-1993	Despedida de Solteiro	Vitório	203 episodes
1993-1994	Sonho Meu	Zé
1999	Terra Nostra	Padre Olavo	TV series
2000	Uga-Uga	Ceguinho	TV series
2003	Sítio do Picapau Amarelo	Berloque	TV series
2004	Didi Quer Ser Criança	Seu Tião
2006-2007	Pé na Jaca	Giácomo	159 episodes
2009	Divã	Agenor
2009	Caminho das Índias	Cadore	95 episodes
2010-2011	Passione	Diógenes Santarém	68 episodes
2013	Flor do Caribe	Manolo Gutierrez	TV series
2014	Boogie Oogie	Padre Claudius	TV series, (final appearance)