Agildo Ribeiro

Agildo Ribeiro (24 April 1932 – 28 April 2018) was a Brazilian actor.

Agildo Ribeiro was born on 24 April 1932, in Rio de Janeiro. His father, Army officer Agildo Barata Ribeiro [pt], participated in the Tenentist movement and the Revolution of 1930. His great-uncle, Cândido Barata Ribeiro [pt], was the first mayor of the Federal District – at the time, the city of Rio de Janeiro.His mother, Maria Pascoal Cassapis, was the daughter of Apóstolo Pachoal Cassapis, a Greek, and Rosa da Conceição Couto, a Rio de Janeiro native of Portuguese descent. After the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932, his family went into exile in Portugal, where Agildo Ribeiro lived his early years.

He became notable as a comedian in the 1970s, both in Brazil and Portugal, co-starring in several comedy programs on Rede Globo alongside Jô Soares, Paulo Silvino, and Chacrinha. During that period, his most famous program was Planeta dos Homens.