Ilicz Glejzer (4 January 1934 – 16 May 2015), better known as Elias Gleizer, was a Brazilian comedian and actor.

Born in São Paulo, Gleizer was the son of two Polish Jewish immigrants, a shoemaker and a housewife.

[1][2] He began his artistic career at age 12, playing the violin in a youth orchestra.

[1] In 1956 he won the award for best actor in an amateur festival, and in 1959 he made his television debut on TV Tupi.

[1] In 1984 he started an intense collaboration with the Rede Globo, acting in Free to Fly, and then appearing in dozens of telenovelas and miniseries.