Pelé, the Brazilian king of football, was also a movie star, TV actor and singer

In this file photo taken on August 05, 1987 Pelé poses in Paris with two extras while he performs for an advertising movie for French Loto company. Photo: AFP

Whether or not Pelé scored almost 1,300 goals in his professional soccer career, all of his biographers agree that the three-time World Cup champion wrote more than 100 songs and sold more than 100,000 copies of one of his albums.

He was also in the movies, notably in the World War II film Victory, and was one of the stars of a Brazilian comedy that brought more than 3.6 million people to the theatres in the South American nation.