
Birthday:
05-17-1929
Deathday:
01-26-2011 (81 years)
Birthplace:
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Biography
John Herbert Buckup (São Paulo, May 17, 1929 – São Paulo, January 26, 2011) was a Brazilian actor, director and producer. In some works, he was credited as Johnny Herbert.
He was married to the actress Eva Wilma, from 1955 to 1976, and both are parents to the actress, Vivian Buckup, born in 1956 and John Herbert Junior (Johnnie) born in 1958. With Eva Wilma, he had great success on Brazilian television in the 1950s and 60s, with the series Alô Doçura.
He was married to the actress Eva Wilma, from 1955 to 1976, and both are parents to the actress, Vivian Buckup, born in 1956 and John Herbert Junior (Johnnie) born in 1958. With Eva Wilma, he had great success on Brazilian television in the 1950s and 60s, with the series Alô Doçura.
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Candinho
Act like Quincas
event1954 star_border 6.9
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Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.
The Seven Vampires
Act like Rogério
event1986 star_border 5
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A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.
Love Slaves of the Amazons
Act like Hotel Clerk
event1957 star_border 4
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A party of explorers in the Amazon jungle are captured by a tribe of women, and learn that they are to be used as the tribe's "love slaves."
The Case of the Naves Brothers
Act like Dr. Alamy
event1967 star_border 7.8
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After their relative and associate runs way, the Naves brothers inform the police of the incident, who end up arresting them under the accusation of murdering the missing person. The brothers are tortured in order to confess a crime they did not commit while their wives are raped.
The Palace of Angels
Act like Carlos Eduardo
event1970 star_border 5.6
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Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", securing money and success, but some problems as well.
Forever
Act like Médico
event1991 star_border 3.8
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Marked by her father's strong presence, since he is a rich and powerful businessman, the beautiful Berenice investigates his love life, to feel closer to him. With her findings, their relationship becomes mixed with a strong sense of seduction.
O Gosto do Pecado
Act like Eneas
event1980 star_border 3
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After his wife leaves him, Júlio starts an affair with his secretary.
Matar ou Correr
Act like Bill
event1954 star_border 7.3
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"High Noon" spoof. Kid Bolha and Ciscocada, two clumsy swindlers, arrive at a violent Old West town called Citydown where, by mistake, one of them is appointed Sheriff. They're intent on facing the dreaded Jesse Gordon, a gunman who kills for pleasure.
Maria 38
event1959
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Maria is a young woman who becomes a well-known crook in the bohemian district of Lapa, in Rio de Janeiro. She earns her living with little scams and tricks. Nevertheless, she is good-hearted, and that's why her latest cheat doesn't work at all.
A Grande Vedete
Act like Paulo
event1958 star_border 5.7
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Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One day she meets young author Paulo and falls for him; but he is in love and engaged to ballerina Vilma, and misunderstandings abound.
Rio Fantasia
Act like Carlos
event1956 star_border 7
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Quartet from Northeast Brazil arrive in Rio de Janeiro, to try their luck in the big city.
Bebel, Garota Propaganda
Act like Marcos
event1967
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Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom.
Uma Pulga na Balança
Act like Alberto Motta Freixoso
event1953
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Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives.
Floradas na Serra
Act like Flávio Abreu
event1954 star_border 7.2
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Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão.
The Torturer
event1980 star_border 4.5
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Zionists hire a hitman to kill a Nazi war criminal exiled in a Latin American country, where he's being protected by the local dictator. Get ready for gunshots; sex scenes; strange form of tortures; a cocaine-addict priest who helps the dictatorship; contemptous remarks and behavior from the main "hero"; amusing sequences of Chuchu having fun with beautiful women pretending to be James Bond; and the wimp colonel who is in love with a male prostitute. It's all good and fun to watch but remember that this is a product of its era, so it's quite possible to see some objectionable things. But for the most part it's never crass or insanely offensive.
Retrato Falado de Uma Mulher Sem Pudor
Act like Johnny Gravatinha
event1982 star_border 4.2
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A model is found dead in the bathtub of her own mansion. A policeman tries to investigate, inquiring the rich and powerful men who knew her.
A Santa Donzela
event1978 star_border 4.3
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Jordão Magalhães, a young plastic artist from a small inland city, is hired to sculpt the statue of the local virgin patron. The model that inspires her is Verinha, with whom she maintains a loving relationship.
The Girl Next Door
event1987 star_border 5.1
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Middle-aged married journalist goes to the beach resort of Búzios, in Brazil, to write a book. Gradually, he falls in love with his neighbor's daughter, a beautiful teenager much younger than he, ignoring the social implications.
Ariella
Act like Diogo
event1980 star_border 5.1
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Ariella, a lonely young woman, feels like a stranger in her own house. Ariella is discovering her sexuality and her arrogant mother Helena, her father Rodrigo and her brothers Clécio and Alfonso do not give any love or affection to her. One day Ariella discovers the secret of her despair and plots to take her revenge.
A Super Fêmea
Act like Leão Maia
event1973 star_border 5.1
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Eva is a beautiful model who’s hired to star in a campaign to sell a marvelous new product: the male contraceptive pill. But it isn't easy to win the confidence of its target market, since they believe it causes impotence.
The Delights of Life
Act like Esteves
event1974 star_border 7.4
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Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role.
Joy of Living
event1958 star_border 5.2
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The boss of Gilberto, an exemplary employee, wants to marry him with his daughter, Elisabeth. But her cousin, an unattractive girl, appears to meet him. Gilberto, who leads a hectic life, knows Betty, independent girl by whom one falls in love. In the end, she discovers that she is the boss's daughter.
O Petróleo é Nosso
event1954
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A lady, owner of a large area of land where it is believed there are several oil wells, is almost fooled by the president of a pseudo petroleum company into giving up her property for nothing, but is saved by his son's noble intervention.
Toda Donzela Tem Um Pai Que é Uma Fera
event1966 star_border 5
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General's daughter, who lives with her boyfriend without being married, gets in trouble when her conservative father decides to visit her. A friend decides to help them, but things only get worse.
Cada um Dá o Que Tem
Act like Otávio
event1975 star_border 4.5
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Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.
A Hora Mágica
Act like Jorge
event1998 star_border 5.3
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In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot.
Girl In Room 13
Act like Capitão Policial
event1960 star_border 5
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A letter summons American detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murderess Louise Dunning. Marshall contacts Louise and learns that she murdered her husband only in self-defense. In the meantime, Marshall is set up as a pawn in a counterfeiting ring (they were the ones who sent him the letter), and unwittingly helps the police capture the criminals. Louise decides to remain in Brazil.
Copacabana Palace
event1962 star_border 4.9
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For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are intertwined with petty tricks against the backdrop of the famous carnival festivities. Three (sympathetic) accomplices are beaten to a punch in the hotel vault; three charming stewardesses are looking for entertainment, but their three Carioca host, musicians Tom Jobim, Luiz Bonfá, and João Gilberto, are married; a man, separated from his wife, wants to catch her in the act of adultery.
Tödlicher Karneval
Act like Inspector Britto
event1963
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The shooting of a movie is to take place in Rio de Janeiro. The script states that an actor is to shoot himself. The director wants to demonstrate how he imagines this scene. When he takes the revolver and pulls the trigger, he actually falls to the ground. The crew is horrified when they realize that the ammunition was live and the director is lying dead on the floor. Inspector Moura is assigned to investigate the case. He suspects a jealous motive.
Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente
Act like Macedo
event1976 star_border 4.4
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Film in three segments. In the first, father is suspicious about his son's masculinity. The second one shows a Don Juan-like guy who, at church for his own wedding, cannot remember who the bride might be. In the third, a rich husband tries to find the tattooed man he saw escaping through his wife's bedroom window.
The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out
Act like Fernando
event1985 star_border 6.2
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Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.
The Love Bug
event1980 star_border 3.5
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According to an Amazonian indigenous legend, a certain insect, Anophelis sexualis, has aphrodisiac properties: one who is bitten by it will surely die if it does not have sex within two hours. Knowing this news, Hans Muller, a scientist, moves to the habitat of the insect and collects several specimens for research in his laboratory in the city of Ilha Bela, on the coast of São Paulo. There, besides the local administration and the population, there are several tourists. By an accident, the insects flee and attack the world.
O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Act like Sócio da firma
event1971
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Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.
O Cangaceiro Sanguinário
Act like Cisso
event1969 star_border 5
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After robbing and massacring a village, the head of a gang of bandits, Captain Jagunço, kidnaps Flô, Mayor Cisso's wife and tortures her.
Bacanal
event1980 star_border 5.7
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One car failure and a long bus ride to nowhere lead to a small Brazilian country town where two groups of guys and girls meet. This coincidences change the courses of their lives as they soon mingle and passion arises among them.
Cocky
event1978 star_border 5.3
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Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering the boy's hidden (and big) qualities...
Deu Veado na Cabeça
event1982 star_border 1.2
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As condition to inherit some assets, three women must turn three gay men into their lovers. Fighting for the money are also a charitable nun, a gay lawyer and a dissolute woman.
Made in Brazil
event1985 star_border 3.7
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Segment 1: "Impossible Weekend." Desperate to attract the attention of a sexy teacher, a young man steals an experimental aphrodisiac from the laboratory and mixes it into the teacher's lunch. The result exceeds all expectations. ******** Segment 2: "A Chained Hurricane." A humble clerk, tired of enduring the ridicule of colleagues and mistresses about his sexual failure, decides to end his life; just then, hidden reserves awaken in him. Segment 3: ******** "Brazilian Miracle." Scientists create a robot indistinguishable from a person in the image of a sexy girl. However, the program crashes and the robot leaves obedience and sets off on an independent journey.
O Caçador de Esmeraldas
Act like Armeiro
event1979 star_border 6
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The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".
Cabocla
Act like Vigário Gabriel (167 ep.)
event2004 star_border 8
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Brasil República, 1918. Luís Jerônimo is a rich young man. Womanizer, spends all night on the street drinking and having fun with prostitutes, the boy finds out that he has an injury to his right lung. Advised by Edmundo Esteves, his doctor, he decides to spend a season at a cousin's farm in the small town of Vila da Mata in Espírito Santo, in search of fresh air, to prevent the disease from developing into tuberculosis.
Young Hearts
Act like Nabucodonosor Pereira (Nabuco) (396 ep.)
event1995 star_border 6
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Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.
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