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- Soledad Miranda was a Spanish actress who appeared in many films in the 1960s. Her remarkable beauty and her tragic untimely death make her story the stuff of legend. She was born on July 9, 1943 in Seville, Spain. She started her career when only eight years old as a flamenco dancer and singer. She made her film debut at age sixteen as a dancer. During the following years, the fragile beauty appeared in numerous comedies, dramas, B-movies, and horror films, mostly in Spain (over thirty films altogether from 1960 to 1970). Her biggest break came from legendary director Jess Franco, who cast Soledad in such cult classics as Count Dracula and Vampyros Lesbos. Soledad is generally regarded as Franco's greatest discovery. On August 18, 1970 Soledad was in a car accident on a highway in Portugal. She died hours later, survived by her husband (a former race-car driver) and young son. Shortly before this tragic accident, a German film producer had offered her a contract which would have made her a great star. Soledad was destined to become a legend. Not until the years after her death has she become a cult starlet with fans all over the world now discovering the beautiful, doomed actress.
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Carlos Lopez was born on 26 June 1989 in North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for John Wick (2014), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013). He died on 2 October 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Born in Figueira da Foz, a cosmopolitan beach resort, moved to Lisbon at the age of 15. In 1963 studies cinema at London School of Technique and starts his first movie at 1965 only concluded five years later. "Silvestre" from Portuguese short stories was presented at Venice Film Festival, where he returns with "Souvenirs from the Yellow House - Recordações da Casa Amarela" and wins the Silver Lion. Again in Venice with "God's Comedy" and another prize (Il Gran Premio Speciale della Giuria da Mostra). Known as provocative, performs in all his film usually as the main character.- Actress
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Amália Rodrigues was born in Lisbon, Portugal July 23rd, 1920 to a poor and numerous family. Since her childhood she showed a talent for singing although she debuted formally in 1939 at 19 years old, becoming a great popular success. During World War II she carried out long tours for Spain and Brazil and she obtained in 1945 her first great musical success with the song "Ai Mouraria". In 1947 she debuted as an actress in the Portuguese movie "Capas Negras" (with Alberto Ribeiro) and it became the best movie of the year in Portugal and Amália became a great international celebrity and the most admired and loved star of Portugal. During the 50 and 60's Amália become the maximum exponent of Portugal's popular music and so, their main ambassador for her very successful movies (including "Sangue Toureiro", by the way, the first Portuguese movie filmed in color) as well as for her LPs. Among her well-known songs are: "Lisboa Antiga", "Foi Deus", "Coimbra" (also known as "April in Portugal"), "Barco Negro", "Canção do Mar", "Nem as Paredes Confesso", "Lisboa, Não Sejas Francesa", "Arranjuez, mon amour" (French version of "Concierto de Aranjuez" of Joaquín Rodrigo), "Vou Dar de Beber à Dor" and "Com que Voz", among many others. She also sang poems turned music of several Portuguese poets and, in fact, Variety's magazine chose her in 1959 as one of the four best female singers in history. When the "Revolução Dos Cravos" ("Carnation's Revolution") happened on April 25th, 1974 which finished 48 years of Fascist government in Portugal, rumors arose that Amália collaborated with the deposed government. Her fame was seriously affected and she decided to retire from show business for not entering in polemic (although soon, after its death, it was discovered that she collaborated privately with the Communist Party of Portugal) but one year after, she acted in the Coliseu Theater of Lisbon where 5,000 people applauded her on foot, demonstrating with this that her public never released her. After that, Amália continued her career as if nothing happened and in 1980 she debuted as composer. In April 19th, 1985 Amália presented her show in the Coliseu dos Recreios of Lisbon, being her first solo concert in Portugal after 10 years and she obtained a record of attendance. In 1989, for her 50 years of artistic career, the President of Portugal Mário Soares honored her and the Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy received her in private audience. During her last years, Amália received countless tributes inside and outside of Portugal and suddenly died while she slept in her house of Lisbon on October 6th, 1999. She was buried in an impressive funeral ceremony with the massive attendance of her fans.- Director
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António-Pedro Vasconcelos is a Portuguese professor, a chronicler, a television commentator with strong civic involvement. But António-Pedro Vasconcelos is, above all, one of the greatest filmmakers of Portugal, a founding figure of the new Portuguese cinema, he created characters, told stories, put everyday life in films, brought films closer to the Portuguese public. António directed some of the greatest Portuguese films of the last decades, such as Jaime (1999), Cats Don't Have Vertigo (2014), Amor Impossível (2015) and Parque Mayer (2018). Throughout his incomparable career he won 2 Cannes Film Festival Awards, in 7 nominations he ended up winning 2 Portuguese Golden Globes and won 3 Portuguese Academy Awards, including the Honorary Award.- Brian Hankins was born on 8 June 1931 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Lorna Doone (1963), The Scarlet and the Black (1965) and The Avengers (1961). He died on 12 June 1978 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Dora Komar was born on 18 April 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Immer nur Du (1941), Karneval der Liebe (1943) and Young Girls of Vienna (1949). She was married to Hans Somborn. She died on 21 November 2006 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Nicolau Breyner was born on 30 July 1940 in Serpa, Portugal. He was an actor and director, known for A Teia de Gelo (2012), Os Imortais (2003) and Meu Amor (2009). He was married to Mafalda Bessa, Sofia Sá da Bandeira, Mafalda Maria de Alpoim Vieira Barbosa and Cláudia Ramos. He died on 14 March 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Tony d'Algy was born in Angola, then a Portuguese colony, of a Spanish mother and Portuguese father. He played opposite Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire (1924) and A Sainted Devil (1924) in bit parts. Beginning in 1928, he worked in Spain (making such films as "La Mujer Soñada" and "Raza de Hidalgos"), France, and Belgium. In 1931, he hosted such visitors as Florencio Molina Campos (an Argentine cartoonist and painter), with Marcos Caplán (Argentine vaudeville producer), and Beatriz Costa (Portuguese actress and singer), among others, at Paramount Studios in Joinville, France (near Paris). D'Algy played the musical agent/lover of Amália Rodrigues in Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira (1947).- Cinematographer
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Among the foremost technical innovators in his field, a charter member of the American Society of Cinematographers, English-born Charles Rosher had initially aimed for a diplomatic career. Fortunately, he chose a different career option and attended lessons in photography at the London Polytechnic in Regent Street. He must have been a keen student, for he found himself apprenticed to noted portrait photographers David Blount and Howard Farmer, soon afterward becoming assistant to Richard Neville Speaight (1875-1938), the official Royal photographer. Having learned the art of still photography, Rosher departed England for the United States sometime in late 1908, equipped with a Williamson camera.
In 1910, Rosher found his first job in the fledgling film industry through a connection forged with an English compatriot, the pioneer producer David Horsley: as principal cameraman for Horsley's East Coast-based Centaur Film Company (which made Rosher Hollywood's first ever full-time cinematographer). Centaur was renamed Nestor Studios upon its permanent relocation to California in 1911, setting up at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. Essentially all of Rosher's early work consisted of one and two reelers, invariably made for Nestor's chief director, Al Christie. Some were comedies, many were 'quota quickie' westerns, such as The Indian Raiders (1912), for which Nestor imported genuine Indians from New Mexico.
In 1913, Rosher accompanied directors Raoul Walsh and Christy Cabanne on his famous expedition to Mexico to shoot the feature film The Life of General Villa (1914). The rebel leader Pancho Villa had agreed to grant exclusive rights to filming of his battles against the Federales by the Mutual Film Corporation, in exchange for a fee of $25,000 and 20% of all revenues from the picture. There were a number of hazards experienced by Rosher during this adventure, including capture by enemy forces, and at times coercive interference from Villa, who fancied himself as a filmmaker.
Upon his return to the other side of the border, Rosher had a brief spell with Universal (which had absorbed Nestor), followed by two years with the Lasky Feature Play Company (which later became Paramount). He then worked at United Artists from 1919 to 1928, becoming the favourite cinematographer of the company's biggest asset, Mary Pickford, lighting her in such a way that her true age never interfered with the image of the ingénue she persisted in portraying on screen. During this period, Rosher also developed his own unique visual style, which married artistry with technical know-how. He was much acclaimed for the sharpness and clarity of his photography, for the effects he achieved by combining natural and artificial light, photographing people against reflecting surfaces (glass, water), double exposure effects, split screen techniques, and so on. Rosher also patented several inventions, including a system for developing black & white film, ABC Pyro (A=pyro,B=sulfite,C=carbonate).
In 1929 Rosher became co-recipient (with Karl Struss) of the first-ever Oscar for cinematography bestowed by the Academy, for a film made at Fox: Sunrise (1927) - still regarded today as one of the finest examples of 1920's filmmaking. With its many scenes bathed in light or twilight, it has also been likened to a cinematic French impressionism. Rosher himself recalled this as one of the most difficult assignments of his career, particularly in terms of lighting such tricky scenes as the moonlit, fog-bound swamp, necessitating a very mobile camera. "Sunrise", inevitably, ended up winning the top award for 'unique and artistic production'. Two years later, after a falling out with Pickford during filming of Coquette (1929) , Rosher went his own way. He was never out of a job for long, working variously for RKO (1932-33), MGM (1930,1934) and Warner Brothers (1937-41).
Though he had made his reputation with black & white photography, Rosher easily adapted to the medium of colour. He enjoyed a major resurgence in the second half of his career, shooting some of the most sumptuous technicolor musicals (Ziegfeld Follies (1945), Show Boat (1951)) and dramas (The Yearling (1946),Scaramouche (1952)) during his tenure at MGM, which lasted from 1942 to 1954. He won his second Oscar for "Yearling" and became the only ever recipient of a fellowship by the Society of Motion Picture Engineers. Rosher retired in 1955, except for occasional lectures and guest appearances at film festivals. He settled down on a 1,600-acre plantation he had acquired at Port Antonio on Jamaica, formerly owned by Errol Flynn. He died in 1974 in Portugal, after a fall, at the respectable age of 88.- António Évora was born on 24 May 1941 in Atouguia da Baleia, Peniche, Portugal. He was an actor, known for Jornalistas (1999), Roseira Brava (1996) and A Caçada do Malhadeiro (1969). He died on 21 March 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Philippe Sr. was born in Toulon, France just about the time his father Jacques Cousteau was inventing the Aqualung (or scuba tank as it is more commonly known) that would allow human kind to explore the oceans freely for the first time. At the age of four years wearing a miniature aqualung he had entered the sea behind his father, following the bubbles to the bottom of rocky shallows, an experience that changed his life forever. The lessons Philippe learned at sea enriched those he learned at school spending each vacation aboard his father's famous ship, Calypso.
As a teenager Philippe dreamed of flying airplanes, pursuing new horizons in the sky as he had in the sea. At 16 he received his glider pilots license and then earned his pilot and commercial license.
At the age of 25 Philippe joined Jacques Cousteau" Precontinent III" where he and five "Aquanauts" lived in a specially designed house 330 feet below the surface of the sea. This was the first time any humans had attempted such a feat.
Philippe recorded the experience in writing as well as on film contributing to a National Geographic Television special that won such widespread acclaim that the public was soon clamoring for a series of films from the Cousteau's.
One year later, father and son were ready to meet the public's demand and delivered a series that changed the world. At 26 years old Philippe set off with his father on Calypso." All departures are exciting, Philippe commented, "but this one was more magnificent than any. A kind of miracle was about to happen. We would be reporting to millions of people, our goal was to serve as eyes for those who could not travel."
In the years to follow Philippe would join his father in making more than thirty films, taking his camera and with it, his viewers all over the world: from the Indian Ocean, to Truk Island in the Pacific, from the Yucatan Peninsula south to Patagonia, Argentina the Antarctic, on to Africa and north to the Arctic and more. Philippe was overall director of the television series, which won an astounding 10 Emmy Awards. The films were graced not just by Philippe's camerawork and editing but also by his aeronautical contributions: he operated the Calypso hang glider, a Raven S55A hot air balloon; a Hughes 300 C helicopter and the PBY Seaplane he proudly called his "Flying Calypso"
On June 28th 1979 however, tragedy struck, and Philippe was killed in an airplane accident in Portugal. He left behind his wife Jan Cousteau and 3 yr. old daughter Alexandra. His son Philippe Jr was born 6 months later.
While the entire world was stunned by his untimely departure the legacy Philippe left for his family - and his audience -is more than his films, books, ideas and discoveries...his legacy lives on as an inspiration to always seek a vision of a better world.- Actor
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Francisco Ribeiro was born on 21 September 1911 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942), Aqui Há Fantasmas (1964) and The Tyrant Father (1941). He was married to Maria Lalande and Lurdes Lima. He died on 7 February 1984 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Belarmino Fragoso was born on 15 July 1931 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor, known for As Ilhas Encantadas (1965), Zé Gato (1979) and Belarmino (1964). He died on 19 April 1982 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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António Feio was born on 6 December 1954 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique [now Maputo]. He was an actor and writer, known for Arte (1999), Os Bonecos da Bola (1993) and Verão Quente (1993). He was married to Lurdes Feio. He died on 29 July 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Writer
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Henry Fielding was born April 22nd 1707, the son of Edmund Fielding, an impoverished nobleman who spent most of his time in and out of various debtor's prisons. After the death of their mother, Henry and his seven siblings were taken in by their maternal grandmother. He was a wild and willful young man, and after a brief stint abroad in a Dutch college, he moved to London and began writing plays. Though his works were very successful, Henry had inherited his father's inability to handle money, and he remained perpetually in debt. In 1734, after a four year courtship, he convinced a young lady named Charlotte Craddock to marry him. Henry was madly in love with Charlotte, and they enjoyed ten happy years of marriage before her death in 1744 of a fever. Henry mourned her deeply, and Sophia Western, the heroine of his novel "Tom Jones", was modeled on Charlotte. In 1747 he married his wife's former maid, Mary Daniel, who was six months pregnant with their child at the time. Known as a brawler, a drunkard, and a womanizer, Henry was nonetheless a prolific and energetic author.
When his health failed in 1754, he sailed to Lisbon, Portugal, hoping a warmer climate would improve his constitution. Instead, he contracted jaundice there and died two months after his arrival on October 8th 1754.- Actress
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Eunice Muñoz was born on 30 July 1928 in Amareleja, Portugal. She was an actress and writer, known for Olga Drummond (2019), Mar de Paixão (2010) and Destinos Cruzados (2013). She was married to Antonio Barahona da Fonseca, Ernesto Borges and Rui Ângelo de Oliveira do Couto. She died on 15 April 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Estrela Novais was born on 13 March 1953 in Porto, Portugal. She was an actress, known for Filumena Marturano (1994), Um Chapéu de Palha de Itália (1989) and Deixa Que Te Leve (2009). She was married to Carlos Lacerda. She died on 8 March 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Ana Hatherly was born in 1929 in Porto, Portugal. She was a writer, known for Vibrant Hands (2019), Ana Hatherly: A Mão Inteligente (2002) and Com Todas as Letras (1974). She died on 15 August 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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António de Macedo was born on 5 July 1931 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for A Promessa (1973), The Emissaries of Khalom (1988) and The Magic Springs of Gerenia (1983). He died on 5 October 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actress
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Ivone Silva was born on 24 April 1935 in Paio Mendes, Ferreira do Zêzere, Portugal. She was an actress, known for O Destino Marca a Hora (1970), Estrada da Vida (1968) and A Maluquinha de Arroios (1970). She was married to Henrique Viana. She died on 20 November 1987 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actress
Laura Soveral was born on 23 March 1933 in Benguela, Angola, Portugal [now Angola]. She was an actress, known for Tabu (2012), Angústia para o Jantar (1975) and Portugal S.A. (2004). She was married to Edmundo Gastão da Costa Ribeiro da Silva and José Maria de Barros Alves Caetano. She died on 12 July 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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José Fonseca e Costa was born on 27 June 1933 in Caala, Angola. He was an actor and director, known for A Mulher do Próximo (1988), Sem Sombra de Pecado (1983) and Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites (1996). He died on 1 November 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Production Manager
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Amílcar Lyra was born on 11 February 1944 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a production manager and assistant director, known for The Emissaries of Khalom (1988), Adeus Princesa (1992) and Fado Corrido (1964). He died on 30 December 1995 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Vasco Santana was born on 28 January 1898 in Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942), The Tyrant Father (1941) and A Canção de Lisboa (1933). He was married to Arminda Martins and Mirita Casimiro. He died on 13 June 1958 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Writer
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Luís Filipe Costa was born on 18 March 1936 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a writer and director, known for Só Acontece aos Outros (1985), Terra Instável (1991) and Uma Cidade Como a Nossa (1981). He was married to Isabel Medina and Tani Belo. He died on 21 July 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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António Silva was born on 15 August 1886 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor and director, known for O Costa do Castelo (1943), O Leão da Estrela (1947) and A Canção de Lisboa (1933). He was married to Josefina Silva. He died on 3 March 1971 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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António Montez was born on 25 May 1941 in Cartaxo, Portugal. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Animal (2005), Vila Faia (1982) and Olhos nos Olhos (2008). He was married to Ermelinda Duarte. He died on 22 December 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Son of Laurindo Dionísio and Maria Assunção Martins Viana. His parents separated when he was 3, and his sister 2. His father settled in Angola; his mother worked as a dressmaker in Lisbon, raising the family with financial help from his grandmother. He studied at Machado de Castro Industrial School.
From the age of 13, his drawings were published in "O Senhor Doutor", "Pim Pam Pum" (children's supplements in both leading national dailies "O Século" and "Diário de Notícias") and the only weekly paper for children at that time, "O Papagaio". He was then offered an apprenticeship as a photo-offset printer at Casa Bertrand e Irmãos, a bookshop and printing house. Before finishing the mandatory one-year training, his draughtsman skills were so well developed that he was paid a proper salary, and was offered extra drawing jobs for press advertising.
From the window of his bedroom in a working class district, he witnessed brutal knife-attacks by members of Legião Portuguesa (a Nazi-like pro-government organization) on leftist demonstrators, and started reading the clandestine communist newspaper "Avante!" in secret. His uncle, José Viana, a viola player, and Tavares Belo, then a young musician and composer, were lodgers at his grandmother's pension; they encouraged his love of music, and he began playing the viola himself. His talent was such that he was able to compose by ear, and had some success (with a friend) in one of many nightclub bands "Os Loucos do Ritmo". Later he joined various amateur bands as a singer, including the Orquestra Ibérica, with whom he toured Lisbon night-clubs. Even though he was paid much more for a one-night cabaret stint than in one month as a printer, he always considered his day job his real work. Constantly aware of social and political problems, he expressed his awareness in humorous drawings and dark, neo-realistic paintings.
In 1947, he was one of many neo-realists present at the II General Exhibit of Plastic Arts, promoted by MUD (Democratic Unitarian Movement) at the prestigious Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, when the secret police raided the gallery, confiscating his and seventeen other works. His first composition, an oil painting, was bought later by the Callouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and now has a place in its contemporaneous art collection.
He was a publicist for Sonoro Films, a production and distribution company in Lisbon, and became head of Gong, and two other advertising agencies, while still creating artwork for the humorous newspaper, "Os Ridículos". After World War II, he became a scenic artist for a number of review companies, and also played small parts in amateur dramatic groups under his real name, Viana Dionísio; António Pedro and Jacinto Ramos were two of the prestigious actors with whom he worked.
In 1947, he becomes a professional actor, having studied at the Lisbon Conservatorium, but after his first acting work (at Labiche's Parapluie d'Italie), the critics were so harsh that he changed his artistic name to José Viana, the name of his uncle. In December 1951, he replaced Estevão Amarante who died in the middle of a successful company tour, and later joined several theatrical companies with which he toured Brazil {where he married vaudeville actress Juju Batista} and Portugal African colonies, later settling in Angola, where he also worked as an artist, exhibiting work in Luanda, Lobito and Benguela.
In 1957, he returned to Portugal to work in television, where he gained success as an artist in the program "Riscos e Gatafunhos" by creating instant charcoal sketches. In addition, the national television broadcasting company RTP often called on him to recreate some of his best stage characters. In the program "TV Clube", he sang "Fado de uma nota só" (a parody on the Brazilean "Samba de uma nota só", in which he says goodbye to his last, small banknote), as a homeless character in "Vagabundo de Lisboa" and as a popular ferryboat-sailor in "Zé Cacilheiro". In the program "Melodias de Sempre", he played mostly humorous characters, such as a simpleton soldier in "Fado do 31"; a romantic hard-working mountain farmer in "Romance na Serra" (an operetta); a traditional catholic in "Senhora de Matosinhos"; and a railway-station guard in "Quem tem boca vai a Roma". His many talents included writing for the theatre (1959, "Mulheres à Vista") and stage directing (1963, "Elas São o Espectáculo"). In the latter production he met, and later married Dora Leal, then a young starlet. From then until the democratic revolution of 1974, he worked actively in the theatre, mainly concentrating on tongue-in-cheek political jokes and vaudeville sketches, all the time scrutinized by the official censor. After 1974, with other politically aware comedians, he wrote and acted in a number of comedies and vaudeville shows but as the political struggle became more acute in Portugal, it became harder to please the public with the same jokes, and by 1987 he had returned to painting.
His appearances in movies are notable, ranging from roles in O Recado (1972), A Fuga (1978), A Ilha (1990), to short dramatic works such as_Relojoeiro, O (1998) (TV)_. He had one daughter, Maria Viana, who became a blues singer, with his first wife, and with his second wife he had two daughters, Raquel Maria, and Madalena Leal, both now involved in the theatre.
José Viana was awarded the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique (the highest national honour) for Cultural Merit, by the President of the Republic for his 50 year long career in the arts on June 10 1997. (José Viana, 50 anos de carreira, 1998)- Actor
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Mário Viegas was born on 10 November 1948 in Santarem, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for O Rei das Berlengas (1978), Palavras Ditas (1984) and Quilas, the Bad of the Picture (1980). He died on 1 April 1996 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Director
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Augusto Fraga was born on 18 September 1920 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for Viela, Rua Sem Sol (1947), A Voz do Sangue (1966) and O Passarinho da Ribeira (1960). He was married to Carmen Mendes. He died on 6 January 2000 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Henrique Viana was born on 29 June 1936 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for Amor de Perdição: Memórias de uma Família (1978), Olá Pai (2003) and O Herói e o Soldado (1961). He was married to Graça Braz and Ivone Silva. He died on 4 July 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Filipe Ferrer was born on 25 August 1936 in Faro, Portugal. He was an actor and director, known for Revenge of the Musketeers (1994), Mensagem (1988) and 1867 (1990). He died on 26 June 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Adelaide João was born on 27 July 1921 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was an actress, known for O Luto de Electra (1992), Anjo Selvagem (2001) and Um Lugar Para Viver (2009). She died on 3 February 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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António Cordeiro was born on 18 May 1959 in Pias Serpa, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for Conexão (2009), O Processo dos Távoras (2001) and Expatriate. He died on 30 January 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Writer
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Francisco Nicholson was born on 26 June 1938 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a writer and actor, known for Vila Faia (2008), Fascínios (2007) and Riso e Ritmo (1964). He was married to Colette Lilianne Dubois and Magda Cardoso. He died on 11 April 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Director
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José Leitão de Barros was born on 22 October 1896 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for Ala-Arriba! (1942), Camões (1946) and Lisboa (1930). He was married to Helena Roque Gameiro. He died on 29 June 1967 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Carlos Daniel was born on 11 May 1952. He was an actor, known for The Emissaries of Khalom (1988), La tómbola de la muerte (1990) and Muertes violentas (1990). He died on 9 April 1996 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Camilo de Oliveira was born on 11 August 1924 in Figueira da Foz, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for Camilo - O Presidente (2009), Camilo, o Pendura (2002) and O Ladrão de Quem se Fala (1969). He was married to Paula Marcelo, Io Appolloni and Maria Luísa Bettencourt. He died on 2 July 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Dorothy Thompson was one of the most famous journalists of the 1930s & '40s, winning the sobriquet the "First Lady of American Journalism." In 1939, Time Magazine recognized her as being on par with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in terms of her political clout.
Born on July 9, 1893 in Lancaster, New York, she graduated from Syracuse University in 1914, having studied economics and political science. She became committed to the cause of women's suffrage and after that was achieved with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, she went overseas as a journalist. She became a foreign correspondent for the "Philadelphia Public Ledger" newspaper and, in 1927, became the had of the Berlin bureau of the "New York Post", becoming the first woman to head a foreign news bureau for a major newspaper. She became the doyenne of female foreign journalists.
Her career flourished in the 1930s, when she became one of the few female radio commentators. She first interviewed Adolf Hitler in 1931, then wrote a book, "I Met Hitler" (1932) claiming he would never come to power (Hitler became German Chancellor in January 1933). In 1934, her articles heralding the dangers of the man she once dismissed caused her to become the first women journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany.
She began writing her "On the Record" column for the "New York Tribune", the paper-of-record for America's Eastern WASP Establishment, in 1936. The thrice-weekly column was syndicated by the Tribune and, by June 1939, was carried by 196 newspapers, giving Thompson a readership of 7,555,000 readers. That same year, the National Broadcasting Co. hired Thompson her as a news commentator. In the years she was with NBC, her radio broadcasts were extremely popular. Appearing weekly on Monday at 9PM, she had 5.5 million listeners as of June 1939.
In 1937, she began a monthly column for the "Ladies' Home Journal" on women's interest tropics such as child-raising and gardening. She kept writing the column up until her death 24 years later.
Thompson made the cover of Time Magazine on June 12, 1939. Two and a half months later, she covered the Nazi invasion of Poland. Her journalism career continued until her death, though her influence waned after World War II.
She was married three times. In 1928, she married the writer Sinclair Lewis, who two years later became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. They divorced in 1942.
Dorothy Thompson died on January 30, 1961 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was 66 years old. - Actor
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Armando Cortez was born on 23 January 1928 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for Riso e Ritmo (1964), Operação Dinamite (1967) and O Doente Imaginário (1958). He was married to Manuela Maria and Fernanda Borsatti. He died on 11 April 2002 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Eusébio DA Silva Ferreira (January 1942 - 5 January 2014) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker. He is considered one of the greatest players of all time and S.L. Benfica's greatest ever player. During his professional career, he scored 733 goals in 745 matches. Nicknamed the Black Panther, the Black Pearl, or o Rei (the King), he was known for his speed, technique, athleticism and his ferocious right-footed shot, making him a prolific goalscorer.
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Fernando Lopes was born on 28 December 1935 in Macas de D. Maria, Alvaiazere, Portugal. He was a director and editor, known for O Fio do Horizonte (1993), 98 Octanas (2006) and O Delfim (2002). He died on 2 May 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Conchita Cintrón was born in 1922 from a Puerto Rican father of Spanish ascent and a North American mother of Irish ascent. They soon moved to Lima, Perú. Little Conchita preferred to play with cardboard horses than with dolls. When she took the Communion and got a real one as present, she was the happiest of kids. She attended Ruy da Cámara's riding and bullfighting school, where she became rejoneadora (mounted bullfighter) and toreadora as well. Being a woman bullfighter was a sensation, and she became very popular. She was not the only one at the time. The Palmeño sisters, Juanita Cruz and Maria Cobian were other examples. Conchita and the last two made the documentary Mujeres que torean (1940).
She participated in many riding contests, but that was not to be her destiny. Aged seventeen she took her art to Mexico, later toured the neighboring countries. In 1943 she made her only picture, Marvels of the Bull Ring (1943). She traveled to Portugal as well, and in 1945 to Spain, where she continued to achieve great success at one of the most representative events, the Feria de Sevilla, and would tour many other rings afterwards. She had her photograph taken with the famous toreros of the time like Antono Bienvenida and Manolete. Yet, in Portugal she was banned for a while, and in Franco's old-fashioned Spain she was not permitted to kill the bull, considered a men's prerogative, except for charity corridas, which she did. But her art prevailed and her fame continued to grow.
In 1950 she retired, and one year later she married Francisco de Castelo Branco, nephew of her mentor. They would establish near Lisboa and had six children. In 1991 she introduced in Nimes another women bullfighter, Marie Sara. She would write a book on her bullfight career, with a prologue by Orson Welles. She died in 2009 at 86 years of age. She is considered one of the best woman matadoras. - Bruno Simões was born on 17 September 1971 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor, known for Noiva Precisa-se (2012), Assalto ao Santa Maria (2010) and Podia Acabar o Mundo (2008). He died on 12 October 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Jacinto Ramos was born on 3 October 1917 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor and director, known for Nocturno (1962), Um Pedido de Casamento (1957) and Ladrão, Precisa-se!... (1946). He died on 4 November 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Editor
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Paulo Rebelo was born on 2 June 1969. He was an editor and writer, known for Efeitos Secundários (2011), O Fantasma (2000) and Two Drifters (2005). He died on 5 September 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Edayr Badaró was born on 23 April 1933 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was an actor and writer, known for Meus Amores no Rio (1959), Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002) and Colégio de Brotos (1955). He died on 1 November 2008 in Lisbon, Portugal.- José Boavida was born on 23 August 1964 in Castelo Branco, Portugal. He was an actor, known for Maré Alta (2004), A Hora da Liberdade (1999) and El Contrato (2009). He died on 26 January 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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António da Cunha Telles was born on 26 February 1935 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. He was a producer and director, known for Terra Estrangeira (1995), Kiss Me (2004) and Pandora (1995). He was married to Renée Gagnon. He died on 23 November 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.