---
name: "Ary Barroso"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ary-barroso"
fi1m_id: "ary-barroso"
imdb_id: "nm0057795"
tmdb_id: 1737913
wikidata_id: "Q717755"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "7 November 1903"
died: "9 February 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:39:33.871758+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ary Barroso

## Identity

Ary Barroso

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ary-barroso
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ary-barroso
- **IMDb ID:** nm0057795
- **TMDB ID:** 1737913
- **Wikidata ID:** Q717755
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ary_Barroso, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q717755, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057795/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1737913

Composer. Born 7 November 1903 in Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Died 9 February 1964.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 7 November 1903, Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- **Died:** 9 February 1964
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ary_Barroso, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q717755, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057795/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1737913

## Biography

Ary Barroso was a Brazilian composer, pianist, actor and radio presenter. He was born on 7 November 1903 in Ubá, Minas Gerais, and died on 9 February 1964 in Rio de Janeiro.

Barroso composed many popular sambas in the first half of the twentieth century, including "Aquarela do Brasil" (1939), which became widely known in English as "Brazil". His songs featured in films such as *Saludos Amigos* (1942) and were recorded by Carmen Miranda. He received an Academy Award nomination for the song "Rio de Janeiro" from the 1944 film *Brazil*.

He appeared as an actor in Brazilian films including *Alô, Alô, Brasil* (1935), *João Ninguém* (1936) and *Joujoux e Balangandãs* (1939). His compositions continued to be used in later films such as the 1985 *Brazil*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Brazil* (1985), Fi1m 83, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/brazil.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Gilberto Gil @ Philharmonie De Paris* (2025), Author, Compositor
- *Carandiru* (2003), as Compositor
- *Brazil* (1985), Music — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/brazil.md)
- *Três Colegas de Batina* (1961), Actor
- *Three Loves in Rio* (1959), Music
- *Adventure in Rio* (1953), Music
- *Fantasma por Acaso* (1946), Music
- *The Three Caballeros* (1944), as Songs
- *Brazil* (1944), Music
- *Saludos Amigos* (1942), Music
- *The King's Jester* (1937), Music
- *João Ninguém* (1936), Actor
- *Hello, Hello, Brazil!* (1935), as Themself

## Gallery

- ![O compositor brasileiro Ari Barroso com o produtor estadunidense Walt Disney e sua esposa, quando da visita deste ao Brasil para a criação da personagem "Zé Car (1942)](https://film.one/media/person/118319/gallery-2e47678d128f.jpg) O compositor brasileiro Ari Barroso com o produtor estadunidense Walt Disney e sua esposa, quando da visita deste ao Brasil para a criação da personagem "Zé Car (1942) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Ari_Barroso_with_Walt_Disney_and_wife_Rio_de_Janeiro_Brazil_1942.jpg/1280px-Ari_Barroso_with_Walt_Disney_and_wife_Rio_de_Janeiro_Brazil_1942.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Imagem do Fundo Correio da Manhã.](https://film.one/media/person/118319/gallery-0c114fdca453.jpg) Imagem do Fundo Correio da Manhã. — UnknownUnknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Ary_Barroso%2C_1963.jpg/1280px-Ary_Barroso%2C_1963.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ary Barroso](https://film.one/media/person/118319/gallery-d34e1bca7d86.jpg) Ary Barroso — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Ary_Barroso_1939.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Monumento na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/118319/gallery-47cd3b15f6a8.jpg) Monumento na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (2023) — Donatas Dabravolskas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ary_Barroso_I_-_Rio_de_Janeiro_-_20230912063212.jpg/1280px-Ary_Barroso_I_-_Rio_de_Janeiro_-_20230912063212.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Monumento na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/118319/gallery-0e7fcc2ac7ea.jpg) Monumento na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (2023) — Donatas Dabravolskas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Ary_Barroso_I_-_Rio_de_Janeiro_-_20230912063222.jpg/1280px-Ary_Barroso_I_-_Rio_de_Janeiro_-_20230912063222.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1945: Best Original Song (nominated), for *Rio de Janeiro*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) 2003: Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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