Laerte Morrone

Laerte Morrone São Paulo, 16 july 1934 — São Paulo, 5 april 2005)

He was the son of the sculptor Luís Morrone and as a pianist, in his younger years he began in the amateur theater. There he tried subsequently to enter the School of Dramatic Art, without success.

After four years working in Europe in the seventies, he returned to Brazil where he began a succesfull career in theater and afterwards on television. He was also the first interpreter of the personage Garibaldo in the Brazilian version of Vila Sésamo which ran from 1972 until 1975 on TV Globo.

Morrone passed away in the Hospital São Paulo, victim of pulmonary complications in consequence of a surgery of gall bladder. It was buried in the Cemetery of the Araçá.