José Lewgoy was a Brazilian actor Veranópolis November 16 1920 Rio de Janeiro February 10 2003 Since 1940 he acted in more than one hundred films including Fitzcarraldo with German actor Klaus Kinski and studied at Yale University In 1973 he participated in the film by Colombian director Carlos Mayolo La mansión de Araucaíma in the role of Graciliano Don Graci The film is based on a story of the same name by writer Álvaro Mutis winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2001