Acrobat, comedian and dramatic actor, trapezist, musician and clown Buchinha. (toni de soirée). He is from the second generation of the Doffiny family and son of Armand Jean Joseph Doffiny and Marie Therèze Coubert Doffiny. He debuted at age eight in France. Three years laterr he came to Brazil with his parents who started performing bar acts in varietes theaters. Years later his father inaugurated Circo Belga and all the family worked together until 1940. He married his partner in comic acts, Lourdes.