Roberto Guilherme (born Edward Guilherme Nunes da Silva; 25 May 1938 – 10 November 2022) was a Brazilian actor and comedian.

Life and career

Born in

Corumbá Corumbá () is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, 425 km northwest of Campo Grande, the state's capital. It has a population of approximately 112,000 inhabitants, and its economy is based mainly on agriculture, ani ...

, Guilherme spent his childhood between

Natal NATAL or Natal may refer to: Places * Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, a city in Brazil * Natal, South Africa (disambiguation), a region in South Africa ** Natalia Republic, a former country (1839–1843) ** Colony of Natal, a former British colony ( ...

and

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ...

. During his youth he played football with

Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama ( , ; – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India, first European to reach India by sea. Da Gama's first voyage (1497–1499) was the first to link ...

and, while in the army, with the Brazilian Military Soccer National Team. Guilherme made his debut as an actor and a playwright with an amateur dramatics society in north Rio, where he was noted by a

TV Rio TV Rio was a Brazilian television station based in the city of Rio de Janeiro, capital of the state of the same name. It operated on VHF channel 13 and was founded by businessman João Batista do Amaral, its owner between 1955 and 1972. It was par ...

producer, who immediately put him under contract for his channel. He later worked for

TV Excelsior TV Excelsior was a Brazilian television network founded by Mário Wallace Simonsen on July 9, 1960, in São Paulo, São Paulo. Its last broadcast happened on September 30, 1970, when the Brazilian military dictatorship put an abrupt end to i ...

, where he met the comedian

Renato Aragão Antônio Renato Aragão (born January 13, 1935), nicknamed Didi, is a Brazilian comedian actor, producer, filmmaker, TV presenter, singer, writer and lawyer. He is best known as Didi, because of his leading role in the television series ''Os Tra ...

, of whom he became the sidekick in a number of projects, notably playing Sargento Pincel in ''

Os Trapalhões Os Trapalhões () was a Brazilian comedy group and a television series of the same name created by Wilton Franco. Its members Dedé Santana, Zacarias, Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó (Renato Aragão). The name ''Os Trapalhões'' (which can ...

''. He later worked for

TV Record Record (stylized in uppercase; ), formerly known as Rede Record and RecordTV, is a Brazilian free-to-air Television broadcasting, television network. It is currently the second largest commercial TV station in Brazil, and the 28th largest in t ...

and

Rede Tupi Rede Tupi (; in English, Tupi Network) was a Brazilian commercial terrestrial television network. Its flagship station, located in the city of São Paulo, was the first TV station to operate in the country, being inaugurated on 18 September 1 ...

, where he met the comedian José Santa Cruz, with whom he formed the duo Jojoca e Xexéu. His last appearances were in 2018 in two

Multishow Multishow is an entertainment channel owned by Canais Globo, Grupo Globo's cable and satellite television channel operator. It was launched in 1991, as one of the company's first four channels (with Telecine, Top Sport – now SporTV – and GNT ...

variety shows, ''Treme Treme'' and ''Dra. Darci''. Guilherme died of cancer on 10 November 2022, at the age of 84.

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