7-474: Os Trapalhões ( Portuguese pronunciation: [us tɾapaˈʎõjs] ) was a Brazilian comedy group and a television series of the same name created by Wilton Franco. Its members Dedé Santana , Zacarias , Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó ( Renato Aragão ). The name Os Trapalhões (which can be translated as The Bumbling Ones or The Clumsy Ones ) is derived from the Portuguese verb atrapalhar , which means
14-546: A teacher in the TV series Escolinha do Barulho (Portuguese for Noisy little School , aired by Rede Record ), in the late 1990s. He returned to TV, along with his brother, in 2005, in the TV series Dedé e o Comando Maluco (Portuguese for Dedé and the Mad Commando , aired by SBT ), in association with manager Beto Carrero . After Carrero's death, in 2008, Dedé returned to Rede Globo and again joined his old friend Renato Aragão in
21-509: The 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. His brother Dino Santana acted in Trapalhões's movies and series as a supporting actor. After Zacarias and Mussum deaths (respectively in 1990 and 1994), the famous group came to an end. Dedé then had little participations on television, like in the Chico Anysio 's Escolinha do Professor Raimundo (Portuguese for Teacher Raimundo's Little School ) and acted was
28-424: The 1980s and 1990s by "Bloch Editores" and Editora Abril respectively, usually in digest size . Ded%C3%A9 Santana Manfried Sant'Anna ( Niterói , April 29, 1936), known artistically as Dedé Santana ( Portuguese pronunciation: [deˈdɛ sɐ̃ˈtɐ̃nɐ] ), is a Brazilian comedian, best known for his role in the television series Os Trapalhões , where he was one of the four protagonists. Dedé
35-541: The four protagonists. The sketches would sometimes feature only one of them (mostly Didi), two, three or all four of them. In those, they would often try to outsmart each other or a common foe, by making pranks or working together to achieve a common goal. Some of these sketches also parodied comics ' superheroes, such as Superman (mostly played by Didi because of his leader role), Batman (played mostly by Dedé), Spider-Man , Hulk , He-Man , The Phantom , etc. A comic book series based on Trapalhões were published in during
42-625: The opposite of helping , to do something the wrong way or to Those that confuse . The name is translated "Tramps" in English DVD subtitles. It originally aired on Rede Tupi from 1974 to 1977 and the show later moved to Rede Globo and remained there from 1977 to 1995. On March 18, 1990, Zacarias died due to respiratory failure, but the group and the series didn't come to an end until July 29, 1994, when Mussum died due to an unsuccessful heart transplant . The series consisted of several different sketches featuring comic adventures and situations of
49-465: Was raised among circus performers in a Roma family. He and his brother Dino Santana (deceased in 2010) acted in television as a comedic couple named Maloca e Bonitão in 1965. Later, Dedé joined the comedian Renato Aragão and created another comedian duo that later with the addition of Mussum and Zacarias , would become the famous Brazilian quartet Os Trapalhões , which with its TV series (aired by Rede Globo ) and movies, gained national fame in
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