Zózimo Bulbul

A Brazilian filmmaker, actor, producer and screenwriter, Jorge da Silva, better known by his stage name Zózimo Bulbul, is regarded as a household name of black Brazilian cinema. He was also the founder of Rio de Janeiro's Black Cinema Center ("Centro Afro Carioca de Cinema"). As an actor, he worked in over 30 features, and was directed by filmmakers such as Glauber Rocha (in "Terra em Transe"), Carlos Diegues ("Quilombo") and Antunes Filho ("Compasso de Espera"), becoming the first black man to play a main character in a Brazilian TV soap opera, in 1969's "Vidas em Conflito". His debut as a filmmaker was 1974's black and white short "Alma no Olho". With his work focusing in raising awareness to Brazilian black culture, Bulbul remained an active filmmaker until his death in 2013. His most well known film, as a director, is 1988's "Abolição", a lengthy documentary that gives critical thoughts on Brazil's 1888's ending of slavery and in what changed for the country's Black people over the course of a century.

Known For: Acting

Born: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1937-09-21

Died: 2013-01-24

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Five Times Favela	(segment "Pedreira de São Diego")	78
2	1963	Ganga Zumba		62
3	1965	Grande Sertão		60
4	1967	O Engano	Amante	0
5	1967	Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo	Self	75
6	1967	Queima de Arquivo		0
7	1967	El Justicero		54
8	1967	Entranced Earth	Repórter	73
9	1967	The Girl from Ipanema	Jovem na Praia	62
10	1967	Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring		66
11	1968	The Naked Man	Homem da mudança	62
12	1968	True Brazil		0
13	1969	Our Lady of Compassion	Jesus	62
14	1969	Garden of War		71
15	1970	A Guerra dos Pelados	Vitorino	50
16	1970	República da Traição		50
17	1970	The Godless Bandit	Ariranha	0
18	1970	The Palace of Angels	Embaixador	56
19	1972	The Suns of Easter Island	Helvio	62
20	1973	Compasso de Espera	Jorge de Oliveira	83
21	1973	Soul in the Eye		92
22	1973	Hung Up		0
23	1974	Artesanato do Samba	Narrador	0
24	1974	Sagarana: O Duelo	Demônio	55
25	1974	Brutos Inocentes	João Capataz	0
26	1975	Pureza Proibida	Chico	0
27	1975	Ana, a Libertina		0
28	1978	Black Goddess		0
29	1979	Parceiros da Aventura	Motorista da greve	0
30	1980	Giselle	Jorge	43
31	1982	The Girl and the Rapist	Pedro	60
32	1984	Quilombo	Stone Man	69
33	1987	Memória Viva		0
34	1988	O Olho amarelo do tigre		0
35	1988	Natal da Portela		72
36	2002	Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino	Self	0
37	2002	The Forest	Procópio	58
38	2003	Oswaldo Cruz, o Médico do Brasil		0
39	2004	Veja & Ouça - Maria Baderna no Brasil		0
40	2004	O homem que sabia javanês	Africano	0
41	2005	República Tiradentes	Self / Interviewer	0
42	2005	Samba no Trem	Self / Interviewer	0
43	2005	Daughters of the Wind	Marquinhos	60
44	2006	Referências	Self	0
45	2006	In Evil Hour	Carmichael	50
46	2010	5x Favela, Now by Ourselves		52
47	2011	Abdias Nascimento		0
48	2012	Renascimento Africano	Self	0
49	2012	Paper and Sea	João Cândido	75
50	2017	Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento	Himself	72

Zózimo Bulbul

Film

Television