José Mayer

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.671

Gender

Male

Birthday

03-Oct-1949

Age

(77 years old)

Place of Birth

Jaguaraçu, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Also Known As
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José Mayer

Biography

José Mayer Drumond Araujo (Jaguaraçu, October 3, 1949) is a Brazilian actor. He began his career in 1963 in theater and in 1975 in cinema in Enigma para Demônios and A Mulher do Desejo. On television, his debut occurred two years later on the children's program Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. However, his first recognition was in 1984 in the miniseries Bandidos da Falange, in which he played Jorge Fernando, a role that earned him the APCA Award for Best Male Revelation.


Credits

Chuvas e Trovoadas Chuvas e Trovoadas (1994) Character: Navigator
Four girls are educated during the "Belle Époque" period in Belém, Brazil.
Acorda, Raimundo... Acorda! Acorda, Raimundo... Acorda! (1990) Character: Vizinho
Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife Marta is the family breadwinner. Things escalate in the relationship when the man starts to feel undervalued by his wife.
Idolatrada Idolatrada (1983) Character: N/A
Luís celebrates his golden wedding anniversary with his wife Alice. After the party, when the couple recalls some of the moments they built, he reveals a secret: he had a great passion in the past.
Mil e Uma Mil e Uma (1996) Character: N/A
Alice faces a lot of trouble to make a film about artist Marcel Duchamp. She randomly chooses musician Antônio for the main part, and ends up having an affair with him.
Bandidos da Falange Bandidos da Falange (1983) Character: N/A
When the criminal Paulo Alberto is executed in the Baixada Fluminense, his lover Marluce keeps an old clock he stole in his last heist with a treasure hidden in its interior. The dirty detective Tito Lívio tries to retrieve the object and the honest Gilberto protects Marluce. Meanwhile, an innocent and simple man, Valdir, is wrongly accused of a heist and sent to prison. Together with Paulo Alberto's cousin, Jorge Fernando, who had had contact with a political prisoner, they found the criminal organization "Falange Vermelha", using the principles of union, confidence and brotherhood.
Esta Não é a Sua Vida Esta Não é a Sua Vida (1991) Character: Narrador
Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.
JK – O Menino que Sonhou um País JK – O Menino que Sonhou um País (2002) Character: Narrator
Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in August 1976.
Nosso Amigo Radamés Gnattali Nosso Amigo Radamés Gnattali (1991) Character: Narrator
Creative documentary on multi-faceted Brazilian musician Radames Gnattali
Encantados Encantados (2017) Character: Angelino
The real-life story of Zeneida, a girl who moves to a farm with her mother and finds herself having an unusual connection with a forest spirit.
Nunca Fomos Tão Felizes Nunca Fomos Tão Felizes (1984) Character: Policial
During the military dictatorship, a political militant takes his son out of the boarding school, and puts him temporarily in a friend's luxury and empty apartment in Copacabana beach. The son knows very little about his father, and the latter cannot really explain his activities to his son, fearing for his security. So the young man stands alone in the huge apartment, waiting for the infrequent meetings with his father, without really knowing what's going on.
Perfume de Gardênia Perfume de Gardênia (1992) Character: Daniel
Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. For more than a decade, Daniel nurtures a feeling of revenge for his ex-wife, which gains strength when their now adult son finds his mother in full professional decay.
Divã Divã (2009) Character: Gustavo
In Rio de Janeiro, the forty and something years old Mercedes (Lília Cabral) goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life since she was a girl and lost her mother. Along the three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces from her husband Gustavo (José Mayer) and has love affairs with the younger Theo (Reynaldo Gianecchini)
Enigma para Demônios Enigma para Demônios (1975) Character: Luiz
A rich heiress arrives in Belo Horizonte from Buenos Aires to receive her fortune. After visiting her late mother's grave and picking up a rose there, she begins to receive constant phone calls from an unknown caller demanding the flower back.
Capitalismo Selvagem Capitalismo Selvagem (1994) Character: Hugo Victor Assis/ Ubiratã
Elisa is a journalist who becomes romantically involved with Hugo, a director of the company Jota Mineração, when she receives an order to write a story about the company. However, the relationship between the two begins to destabilize when the company that Hugo runs begins to extract gold from indigenous lands.
A Fera na Selva A Fera na Selva (2017) Character: Narrador
A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James.
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Presença de Anita - O Filme Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Presença de Anita - O Filme (2015) Character: Nando
Adapted from the series aired in 2001. Looking for inspiration during the holidays, Nando sees Anita as the ideal character for his novel. She lives in a townhouse where a passionate crime happened in the past. Intense, Anita seduces Nando and awakens to
Bufo & Spallanzani Bufo & Spallanzani (2001) Character: Ivan Canabrava / Gustavo Flávio
Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: O Pagador de Promessas - O Filme Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: O Pagador de Promessas - O Filme (2015) Character: Zé do Burro
Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from death. The payment is to carry a heavy cross from the interior of Bahia to a church in Salvador. When you reach the steps of the church, with injured shoulders, you have to deal with the incomprehension of a conservative priest.
A Dama do Cine Shanghai A Dama do Cine Shanghai (1987) Character: Bolívar
After meeting a beguiling woman in a movie theater, a realtor becomes embroiled in a mysterious plot involving murder, double identities and movies.
A Mulher do Desejo A Mulher do Desejo (1975) Character: Marcelo / Osman
A rich and lonely old man leaves his old mansion in Ouro Preto to his nephew, who moves into it with his wife. But soon enough the house begins to acquire a will of its own, while the man’s personality undergoes a radical transformation, assimilating the habits of the dead uncle.
Yndio do Brasil Yndio do Brasil (1995) Character: Narrator
Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how the film industry has seen and heard Brazilian indigenous peoples since they were filmed in 1912 for the first time: idealised and prejudiced, religious and militaristic, cruel and magic.



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