Wissenswertes

He appeared in four films directed by Glauber Rocha: Gott und der Teufel im Lande der Sonne (1964), Land in Trance (1967), Antonio das Mortes (1969) and Das Alter der Erde (1980).

On his final year of life he was suffering from diabetes, and three months prior to his death he had one of his legs amputated and he lost the other one a day before his passing.