1947 - O malandro e a granfina
1948 - O cavalo 13
1948 - P'ra lá de boa
1948 - Fogo na canjica
1949 - Inocência
1951 - Anjo do lodo
1951 - Aguenta firme, Isidoro
1951 - Tocaia
1951 - Meu dia chegará
1952 - O rei do samba
1954 -
1955 - Trabalhou bem, Genival (15 March 1955)
1955 - O primo do cangaceiro (28 August 1955)
1956 - Genival é de morte (15 April 1956)
1956 - Depois eu conto
1957 - Treze cadeiras -
1957 - Tem boi na linha -
1957 - Rico ri à toa - Zé
1957 - O negócio foi assim
1957 - Maluco por mulher
1957 - Garotas e samba -
1958 - O batedor de carteiras - Mão Leve
1958 - O camelô da rua larga - Vicente
1958 - Na corda bamba - Zé
1959 - Mulheres à vista - João Flores
1959 - O espirito de porco - Isidoro
1959 - Aguenta o rojão - Mané Fogueteiro
1959 - Massagista de madame - Polidoro
1960 - Entrei de gaiato - Januário Jaboatão
1960 - Marido de mulher boa - Anacleto, casado com Arminda (Renata Fronzi)
1961 - Viuvo alegre
1961 - Os 3 cangaceiros (cameo)
1961 - Bom mesmo é carnaval
1961 - Mulheres, cheguei!
15 March 1955 - in Ronaldo Lupo production 'Trabalhou bem... Genival!' Zé Trindade still plays a supporting role...
21st March 1956 - Still trying to cash in on 'O cangaceiro's box-office success, Mario Brasini's 'O primo do cangaceiro' sends it up in a most hilarious way. This is actually São Paulo release-date for it was premiere in Rio de Janeiro on 28 August 1955.
19 April 1956 - Zé Trindade kept on working as a supporting act for actor-producer Ronaldo Lupo. Zé would shoot to the top in early 1958...
3rd March 1957 - Carlos Manga's 'Garotas e samba' features Renata Fronzi and Zé Trindade that would be together again in 1960's 'Marido de mulher boa'.
18 August 1957 - Francisco Eichorn's 'Treze cadeiras' (13 chairs) stars Oscarito but Zé Trindade and Renata Fronzi have good parts in it.
21st August 1957 - Even though 'Tem boi na linha' (There's a cow on the line) was a Ronaldo Lupo's movie Zé Trindade is actually the 'main event'.
16 January 1958 - Aloisio T. de Carvalho's 'O batedor de carteiras' (The pickpocket).
13 October 1958 - Maria Vidal gets top billing but 'O camelô da Rua Larga' is surely a Zé Trindade movie... Nancy Wanderley is always a highlight and Zezé Macedo is indispensable as a prim-and-proper old lady... Maysa sings 'Ouça' (Listen), her greatest hit ever; Nelson Gonçalves sings 'Escultura' (Sculpture), one of his most impressive hits: show-girl Eloina and breathtaking Julie Joy complete the female entertainers.
23rd November 1958 - Eurides Ramos' 'Na corda bamba' joins a circus clown, Arrelia and a urban comedian Zé Trindade; comedian Ema D'Avila add a few gags; her brother comedian Walter D'Avila does a musical number; Elizeth Cardoso & Monsueto Menezes do one of the most elaborate musical numbers ever shot by Brazilians.
23rd November 1958 - Watson Macedo's 'Aguenta o rojão' is Zé Trindade's 4th movie for 1958. That proves he was the most popular Brazilian comedian for the year.
4 February 1959 - The years starts all fine with Zé Trindade in J.B.Tanko's 'Mulheres à vista', a box-office phenomenon in Rio.
21st April 1959 - Zé Trindade is paired with Renata Fronzi for the 1st time in 'O espirito de porco'.
13 September 1959 - Watson Macedo's 'Aguenta o rojão' with Annabella, Reginaldo Farias, Aracy Rosas, Aurelio Teixeira, Zilka Salaberry and Zé Bacurah.
12 November 1959 - Fouth Zé Trindade movie for 1959: Victor Lima's 'Massagista de madame' with Renata Fronzi, Nancy Wanderley, Costinha, Aida Campos, Iris Bruzzi,
7 February 1960 - J.B.Tanko's 'Entrei de gaiato' premieres in Rio de Janeiro to be released in Sao Paulo 2 weeks later.
21 February 1960 - 'Entrei de gaiato' paired two of the most popular comedians in the country: Zé Trindade who receives top-billing and Dercy Gonçalves who could draw big crowds to the movies and to the theatres where she kept a string of popular plays going on through the years.
This is the movie in which Moacyr Franco sings 'Me dá um dinheiro aí' that turned out to be the last Carnaval hit ever. Up until 1960, major recording acts recorded especially for the Carnaval period. Some of those recordings would eventually hit Number One in the charts... but gradually through the 1950s these hits were becoming fewer & fewer until 'Me dá um dinheiro aí' went to the top of the pops in early 1960. That was the last Carnaval hit to get to that position.
5 February 1961 - it is weird to think 'O viúvo alegre' would turn out to be Zé Trindade's last featured film. Actually, 1961 was arguably Brazilian musical-comedy's last year of production. The reasons for its sudden demise are many, like the rising popularity of television among the population... but I would bet on the political scene which was not conducive to anything good. President Janio Quadros renounces his mandate after 8 months in office in August 1961. The military reactionary try to stop Vice-President João Goulart to become the lawful President of the Nation. Then, out of the blue, Brazil becomes a Parliamentary nation... Not even a musical-comedy could tell Brazil's real history... tragi-comedy doesn't come close.
8 December 1961 - Zé Trindade's (probably) last flick: 'Mulheres, cheguei!'
Zé Trindade's real name was Milton da Silva Bittencourt. He borrowed his alias from a character - actually a colonel - in a poem written by Olegário Mariano called 'Quermesse'.
'O Cruzeiro' article: 'Humorismo de radio' 1st September 1956.
Zé Trindade's real name was Milton da Silva Bittencourt. He borrowed his alias from a character - actually a colonel - in a poem written by Olegário Mariano called 'Quermesse'.
