Alfredo de Freitas Dias Gomes (ˈdʒiɐʒ ˈɡõmiʃ) was an important Brazilian playwright.

He was born on October 19, 1922 in Salvador, Bahia

Salvador, Bahia

Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first...

 and died in a car accident in São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, 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

Keeper of Promises

O Pagador de Promessas is a 1962 Brazilian drama film directed by Anselmo Duarte.Duarte, who was also one of the film's producers, adapted the screenplay himself from the famous stage play written by Dias Gomes. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Brazilian...

 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

Cannes

Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....

. In 1950 he married Brazilian telenovelist Janete Clair

Janete Clair

Janete Clair was a Brazilian television, radio play, and novel writer born in Conquista, Minas Gerais, Brazil. TV series in Brazil continued to be based on her work fifteen years after her 1983 death from cancer in Rio de Janeiro. She was the wife of writer Alfredo Dias Gomes.-External links:...

 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

Mayra Dias Gomes

Mayra Dias Gomes is a Brazilian author, journalist, columnist and media personality. She is the oldest daughter of Academy-Award nominated Brazilian playwright Dias Gomes and actress Bernadeth Lyzio.- Biography :...

, a writer, and Luana Dias Gomes, an actress and a student of Economics at Stanford University.

Main Works

• Keeper of Promises
  Keeper of Promises
  O Pagador de Promessas is a 1962 Brazilian drama film directed by Anselmo Duarte.Duarte, who was also one of the film's producers, adapted the screenplay himself from the famous stage play written by Dias Gomes. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Brazilian...
  
  
• A Revolução dos Beatos
• O Santo Inquérito
• O Bem Amado
• O Rei de Ramos
• Roque Santeiro
• A Ponte dos Suspiros
• Verão Vermelho
• Assim na Terra como no Céu
• Bandeira 2
• O Espigão
• Saramandaia
• Sinal de Alerta
• Expresso Brasil
• Mandala
• Araponga
• As Noivas de Copacabana
• Irmãos Coragem
• Decadência
• Fim do Mundo
• Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos

External links

• IMDB