John Herbert
Also Known As: Johnny Herbert
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Birthday: May 17, 1929
Deathday: January 26, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Dioguinho
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1957-09-25
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Candinho
Overview: Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1954-03-25
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E o Espetáculo Continua
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-10-26
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The Seven Vampires
Overview: A clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious, vampiresque deaths happening at a nightclub show.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-09-09
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Love Slaves of the Amazons
Overview: 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."
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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The Case of the Naves Brothers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-05-30
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Transplante de Mãe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Palace of Angels
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-05-25
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Forever
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-08-16
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O Gosto do Pecado
Overview: After his wife leaves him, Júlio starts an affair with his secretary.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-08-22
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Matar ou Correr
Overview: "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.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1954-02-12
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A Grande Vedete
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1958-04-25
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Maria 38
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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Rio Fantasia
Overview: Quartet from Northeast Brazil arrive in Rio de Janeiro, to try their luck in the big city.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Bebel, Garota Propaganda
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1967-11-17
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Uma Pulga na Balança
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1953-04-15
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Floradas na Serra
Overview: Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1954-10-06
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The Torturer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-05-19
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Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
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Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-09-29
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Retrato Falado de Uma Mulher Sem Pudor
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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A Santa Donzela
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Girl Next Door
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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As Cariocas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-10-24
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Ariella
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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A Super Fêmea
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-11-05
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Joy of Living
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Delights of Life
Overview: Young writer sells a soap-opera script to a TV network and manages to place his girlfriend in an important role.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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O Petróleo é Nosso
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1954-07-26
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Toda Donzela Tem Um Pai Que é Uma Fera
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1966-05-24
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Assim Era a Atlântida
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-08-27
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Cada um Dá o Que Tem
Overview: Comedy anthology in three segments, each one involving beautiful and uninhibited women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-06-23
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Cleo e Daniel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-05-26
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Assassinato em Copacabana
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-05-26
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A Hora Mágica
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-07-03
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Girl In Room 13
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Der Satan mit den roten Haaren
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-09-11
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Copacabana Palace
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Comedy Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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Tödlicher Karneval
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-07
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O Sexo Mora ao Lado
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-12-20
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Meus Homens, Meus Amores
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-12-11
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The Good Times Are Here: Let It All Hang Out
Overview: Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-04-29
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The Love Bug
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-01-29
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You Can't Take Anything from This World
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Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-06-04
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Jeitosa, Um Assunto Muito Particular
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-17
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O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil
Overview: Successful manager is haunted by a sinister character who enters his dreams, Dr. Moura Brasil.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1971-06-07
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Gimba, Presidente dos Valentes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-06-22
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O Cangaceiro Sanguinário
Overview: After robbing and massacring a village, the head of a gang of bandits, Captain Jagunço, kidnaps Flô, Mayor Cisso's wife and tortures her.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1969-04-10
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Bacanal
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-12-17
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Cocky
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-09-11
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Deu Veado na Cabeça
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Made in Brazil
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-03-09
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A Outra Face do Homem
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1954-12-15
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Em Cada Coração um Punhal
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-03-12
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Helga und die Männer - Die sexuelle Revolution
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-04-24
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Amor de Perversão
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-06-15
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Por Um Fio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Adventures of Mario Fofoca
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-03-10
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O Caçador de Esmeraldas
Overview: The life of Fernão Dias, a 17th century Brazilian frontiersman known as "the Emerald Hunter".
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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