[2] Being still a minor, even though he had learned some secrets of the clown business from his father, Costinha had to give up his artistic vocation and find a job.

This conviviality alongside urban and often marginal Rio de Janeiro people of the 1940s would be very important in the characters later portrayed by the comedian.

Costinha participated in several advertisements, including those of the Lottery of the State of Rio de Janeiro (where he came to be directed by Cacá Diegues from the Cinema Novo).

In the first volume of O Peru da Festa, Costinha seemed to be naked, with a table covering his private parts and a roasted turkey being served over it.

With the arrival of more ambitious and supposedly intellectual cinematic movements of Glauber Rocha and its pairs, the space of comedians originating from the chanchada went to the television.

[2] On 4 September 1995, Costinha was admitted to the Pan-Americano Hospital, in Rio de Janeiro, with shortness of breath, and died on the 15th of the same month at 72 years of age of pulmonary emphysema.