Francisco Cuoco, an actor

1960s heart throb Francisco Cuoco. 

'Intervalo' n.80, 19 July 1964.

Francisco Cuoco was born on 29 November 1933, in São Paulo. In 1954, when he was 21, tired of burning the midnight oil trying to make sense of Latin, Cuoco up and left the pre-university-admission course he had been taking to enter Law School and set his sights on entering the School of Dramatic Arts and become an actor instead.

In 1957, when he was 25, after 4 years of hard work, Francisco graduated from Dramatic School and entered the working force at Teatro Brasileiro de Comédia, playing roles in Arthur Miller's 'A view from the bridge' (O panorama visto da ponte) and Peter Ustinov's 'Romanoff and Juliet'. 

Cuoco moved to Rio and was often featured at tele-plays on 'Teatro dos 7'.

A recent shot of the house Francisco Cuoco grew up on Rua Major Marcelino, in Brás. According to someone at Facebook who lived near by, on Tuesday mornings Cuoco would help his father who worked at a street-market (feira) on Rua Firmino Pinto.

At rua Major Marcelino in 1957. Rua Bresser runs in the background.

Aldo de Mayo & Francisco Cuoco at Grande Teatro Tupi in Patrick Hamilton's 'O senhor acredita na lua?' 

20 October 1958 - The earliest entry of Francisco Cuoco's name at Grande Teatro Tupi TV drama in Clement Dave's 'Divorcio' adapted by Flávio Rangel with Leonardo Vilar, Carminha Brandão et.

13 April 1959 - Cuoco again at Grande Teatro Tupi, under the direction of Sergio Viotti in Jean Anouilh's 'Eurydice' with Rubens de Falco, Dina Lisboa.

5 October 1959 - Grande Teatro Tupi presents Alfred de Musset's 'Duas vidas' with Berta Zemmel, and Fábio Cardoso.

'Intervalo' n.90, 27 September 1964, with Francisco Cuoco on the cover.

11 February 1963 - Morvan Lebesque's 'Descoberta do novo mundo' directed by Sergio Brito for 'Teatro dos Sete' on TV Rio, channel 13.

18 February 1963 - Eugène Labiche's 1875 play, 'Les trente millions de gladiator' (30 milhões de gladiadores) at TV Rio, channel 13.

4 March 1963 - Grande Teatro Murray presents 'Três histórias estranhas' done by Teatro dos Sete for TV Rio, channel 13.

11 March 1963 - Monday- 'Grande Teatro Murray' with Teatro dos Sete at TV Rio, channel 13.

15 April 1963 - Teatro dos Sete presents Vera Caspary's 'Laura', an adaptation of Moisés Weltman.

20 April 1963 - TV Tupi's Teatro de Comédia presents 'Zazá', directed by Ilza Silveira.

27 April 1963 - TV Tupi's Teatro de Comédia brings 'Zazá' back a week later.

13 May 1963 - Francisco Cuoco is back at TV Rio and 'Grande Teatro Murray' with Mihura's 'Carlota' with Fernanda Montenegro.

18 May 1963 and 25 May 1963 - TV Tupi's Teatro de Comédia presents Glauce Rocha in 'A ladra' (The thief).

3rd June 1963 - Teatro dos Sete presents 'O armário', a 3-story adaptation of Marcelo Ramos Mota.

29 February 1964 - Playwright Nelson Rodrigues writes 'A morta sem espelho', a mini-novela for TV Rio: Fernanda Montenegro plays the 'Dead one' plus Zilca SAllaberry, Carminha Brandão, Italo Rossi, Francisco Cuoco, Aldo de Mayo, Fernando Tôrres.

Sérgio Brito, Fernanda Montenegro, Carminha Brandão & Francisco Cuoco in Stafford Dickens' 'Esta noite é nossa'. 

2nd March 1964 -  at TV Rio, Teatro dos Sete presents Domingos de Oliveira's 'Psicologia dos algemados' with Glauce Rocha, Napoleão Monis Freire and Francisco Cuoco.

20 July 1964 - Oduvaldo Vianna's 'Renúncia' starts at TV Rio with Francisco Cuoco and Irina Grecco. This is his first major work on TV.