Fernando Lopes, GCIH (28 December 1935 – 2 May 2012) was a

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. He was a Film teacher at the Portuguese National Conservatory, nowadays the

Lisbon Theatre and Film School The Lisbon Theatre and Film School (''Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema'') of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon inherited the function of the National Conservatoire, founded by Almeida Garrett, in 1836, and of teaching Film, introduced in the ...

(Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). He died, aged 76, in

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

due to

throat cancer Head and neck cancer develops from tissues in the lip and oral cavity (mouth), larynx (throat), salivary glands, nose, sinuses or the skin of the face. The most common types of head and neck cancers occur in the lip, mouth, and larynx. Symptoms ...

Filmography

*''Pedras e o Tempo, As'' (1961) *''Voo da Amizade, O'' (1962) *''Palavras e os Fios, As'' (1962) *''Rota do Progresso'' (1964) *''

Belarmino ''Belarmino'' is a 1964 Portuguese docufiction. It charts the life and times of ex-boxer Belarmino Fragoso. It is one of the first films of the Portuguese Cinema Novo, itself part of a wave of New Cinemas sweeping the world in the 1960s, and a ...

'' (1964) *''Se Deus Quiser'' (1966) *''Cruzeiro do Sul'' (1966) *''Hoje à Estreia'' (1967) *''Tejo na Rota do Progresso'' (1967) *''Vermelho, Amarelo e Verde'' (1969) *''Nacionalidade: Português'' (1972) *''A Aventura Calculada'' (1972) *''Era Uma Vez... Amanhã'' (1972) *''Uma Abelha na Chuva'' (1972) *''Encoberto, O'' (1975) *''Cantigamente'' (1 episode, 1976) *''Nós por cá Todos Bem'' (1978) *''Lisboa'' (1979) (TV) *''Crónica dos Bons Malandros'' (1984) *''Matar Saudades'' (1988) *''Fio do Horizonte, O'' (1993) *''Gérard, Fotógrafo'' (1998) (TV) *''Cinema'' (2001) *''Delfim, O'' (2002) aka ''Dauphin, Le'' (France) *''Lá Fora'' (2004) *''98 Octanas'' (2006)

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* 1935 births 2012 deaths Portuguese film directors Deaths from esophageal cancer {{Portugal-film-director-stub