Elias Gleizer

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

Born

Ilicz Glejzer

4 January 1934 (1934-01-04)

São Paulo, Brazil

Died16 May 2015(2015-05-16) (aged 81)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

OccupationActor

Yearsactive1959-2014

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

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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]