Dias Gomes
Playwright, TV Program Creator
1922 – 1999
Who was Dias Gomes?
Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes was a Brazilian playwright.
He was born on October 19, 1922 in Salvador, Bahia and died in a car accident in São Paulo, in 1999. He started writing plays at age 15 and later wrote soap operas. He wrote the first ever colored soap opera in Brazilian television, and the one with the highest rates of all times. He was also a writer of numerous Brazilian TV shows, miniseries, and a few movies.Keeper of Promises was the first ever Brazilian movie to be nominated for an Oscar, and the only South American to ever win the Golden Palm in Cannes. In 1950 he married Brazilian telenovelist Janete Clair and in their 33 years of marriage they had three children. She died in 1983 and six years later he remarried, with Bernadeth Lyzio. With her he had two daughters, Mayra Dias Gomes, a writer, and Luana Dias Gomes, a student of Economics at Stanford University.
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- Born
- Oct 19, 1922
Salvador - Also known as
- Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes
- Alfredo Dias Gomes
- Stela Calderon
- Parents
- Spouses
- Bernadeth Lyzio
(1989/10/19 - 1999/05/18) - Janete Clair
(1950/03/13 - 1983/11/16)
- Bernadeth Lyzio
- Children
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Profession
- Died
- May 18, 1999
São Paulo
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on July 23, 2013
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