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The Tyrant Father
O Pai Tirano (lit. ''The Tyrant Father'') is a 1941 Portuguese film comedy directed by António Lopes Ribeiro, starring Vasco Santana, Ribeirinho (Francisco Ribeiro), Leonor Maia, Teresa Gomes and Laura Alves. It is one of the best-known comedies of its genre, the '' comédia à portuguesa'' of the Golden Age of Portuguese cinema, still popular eight decades after its release. ''O Pai Tirano'' was the first film produced and directed by António Lopes Ribeiro António Filipe Lopes Ribeiro (16 April 1908 in Lisbon – 1995) was a Portuguese film director. Son of Manuel Henrique Correia da Silva Ribeiro and wife Ester da Nazaré Lopes, he was the older brother of actor An actor (masculine/gende .... Plot Francisco Mega (Ribeirinho), a clerk at the then leading department stores of Lisbon, "Grandes Armazéns do Grandella", is in love with ''Tatão'' (Leonor Maia), who works in front at "Perfumaria da Moda". Tatão, however, is a cinephile who largely ignores him, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
António Lopes Ribeiro
António Filipe Lopes Ribeiro (16 April 1908 in Lisbon – 1995) was a Portuguese film director. Son of Manuel Henrique Correia da Silva Ribeiro and wife Ester da Nazaré Lopes, he was the older brother of actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ... Ribeirinho. Filmography *''Dia de Portugal na Expo'70'' (1970) *''Portugal de Luto na Morte de Salazar'' (1970) *''Portugal na Expo'70'' (1970) *''Casa Bancária Pinto de Magalhães'' (1963) *''Instituto de Oncologia'' (1963) *''I Salão de Antiguidades, O'' (1963) *''Artes ao Serviço da Nação, As'' (1962) *''Arte Sacra'' (1960) *''Indústrias Regionais'' (1960) *''Monumentos de Belém, Os'' (1960) *''Mosteiros Portugueses'' (1960) *''Primo Basílio, O'' (1959) *''Comemorações Nacionais'' (1958) *''Portugal na Exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vasco Santana
Vasco Santana (full name: ''Vasco António Rodrigues Santana''; 28 January 1898 in Lisbon – 13 June 1958) was a Portuguese actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema. He already had a long career in theatre when he played the main character in the first Portuguese sound film, ''A Canção de Lisboa ''A Canção de Lisboa'' (lit. ''The Song of Lisbon'') is a 1933 Portuguese Musical film, musical comedy film, directed by José Cottinelli Telmo, and starring Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva (actor), António Silva, Alfredo Silva, A ...'', in 1933. He starred in about one dozen films. Portuguese male film actors Male actors from Lisbon 1898 births 1958 deaths {{Portugal-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ribeirinho
Ribeirinho, stage name of Francisco Carlos Lopes Ribeiro (Lisbon, 21 September 1911 – Lisbon, 7 February 1984) was a Portuguese actor and director. He started his career in theatre in 1929, and kept the connection all his life, both as an actor and as a manager. However, he is best known today for his comic roles in several films of the 1930s and 1940s, namely '' O Pai Tirano'' (''The Tyrant Father'', 1941) and '' O Pátio das Cantigas'' (''Songs' Yard'' or ''Courtyard of Songs'', 1942), which he also directed. Son of Manuel Henrique Correia da Silva Ribeiro and wife Ester da Nazaré Lopes, he was the younger brother of António Lopes Ribeiro, one of the most famous directors of the Golden Age of Portuguese cinema, who directed him in several films. He married actress Maria Adelaide da Silva Lalande ( Castelo Branco, Salgueiro do Campo, 7 November 1913 - Lisbon, 21 March 1968), daughter of José Inocêncio Lalande (born Castelo Branco, Salgueiro do Campo) and Virgí ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Leonor Maia
Leonor Maia, pseudonym of Maria da Conceição de Vasconcelos (8 December 1926 – 3 April 2010)Biography of Leonor Maia was a Portuguese film active in the 1940s, best remembered for her role in '' The Tyrant Father''. She retired from film in 1953. She was born in Lourenço Marques, now known as Maputo
Maputo () is the Capital city, capital and ...
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Teresa Gomes
Teresa Gomes de Almeida (Lisbon, 26 November 1883 - Lisbon, 13 November 1962) was a Portuguese actress. Biography Teresa Gomes was born in Lisbon, at number 60 Rua de Santo António à Estrela, parish of Santa Isabel, on 26 November 1883, the natural daughter of Barber widower Ludgero Veríssimo Gomes (born in Lisbon, in the parish of Santos-o-Velho) and Teresa Melanda (born in Alhadas, in the municipality of Figueira da Foz). At the age of 23, on 26 August 1907, she married the merchant António Sampaio Martins, a native of the parish of São Bartolomeu in Coimbra, in the oratory of the Cadeia da Relação in Porto, where her fiancé was imprisoned for unknown reasons. She later separated from António Sampaio Martins. Her vocation for the theatre was awakened when she was 26, on a voyage aboard a packet boat from Brazil during which she came into contact with the theatre company of Afonso Taveira and her future husband, the actor Álvaro de Almeida, with whom sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Laura Alves
Laura Alves (8 September 1921 – 7 May 1986) was a Portuguese actress on stage, film and radio. Early life Laura Alves Magno was born in Lisbon, Portugal on 8 September 1921, the daughter of Mariana Alves and Celestino Magno. She attended the Machado de Castro School (now the site of Lisbon’s Hotel and Tourism School) and the National Conservatory School of Lisbon ''()''. She first performed live at the age of five in a play by a recreational group of which her father was a member. At six she performed with the Lisbon Amateur Dramatics Group (''Grupo Dramático Lisbonense'') and continued to perform at her school. Her professional debut came in 1935, 20 days before her fourteenth birthday, when she played opposite the well-known Portuguese actor Alves da Cunha in “The two girls of Paris” (''As duas garotas de Paris'') at Lisbon’s ''Teatro Politeama''. She then spent two seasons at the D. Maria II National Theatre in Lisbon. From the time she was 14, her father, a shoemake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arthur Duarte
Arthur Duarte (1895–1982) was a Portuguese actor, screenwriter, production designer and film director. Originally beginning his career in cinema as an actor, he played several small roles in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria. He made his feature film debut with the 1938 adaptation of Júlio Dinis's novel, Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca. However, his most significant achievements came in the comedy genre, with notable works such as O Leão da Estrela and O Costa do Castelo. He was married to actress Teresa Casal, who participated in several of his films. Their marriage ended in separation during the mid-1950s. Beyond feature films, his body of work also included short films, documentaries, and advertising productions. Selected filmography * ''Carmen'' (1926) * '' The Republic of Flappers'' (1928) * '' Because I Love You'' (1928) * '' Ludwig II, King of Bavaria'' (1929) * '' Column X'' (1929) * '' Rustle of Spring'' (1929) * ''Women on the Edge'' (1929) * '' Love in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares Portugal-Spain border, the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the Macaronesia, Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, which are the two Autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous regions of Portugal. Lisbon is the Capital city, capital and List of largest cities in Portugal, largest city, followed by Porto, which is the only other Metropolitan areas in Portugal, metropolitan area. The western Iberian Peninsula has been continuously inhabited since Prehistoric Iberia, prehistoric times, with the earliest signs of Human settlement, settlement dating to 5500 BC. Celts, Celtic and List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Comédia à Portuguesa
''Comédia à portuguesa'' (; Portuguese Comedy) is a term conventionally used to refer to the genre of popular Portuguese film comedies made in the 1930s and 1940s. The light-hearted comedies are predominantly set in petit-bourgeois milieus in traditional Lisbon neighbourhoods and are often accompanied by musical performances, mainly light music, fados or folk songs. The popular revue (''teatro de revista''), the national equivalent of the North American vaudeville or the British music hall, had a marked influence over the ''comédia à portuguesa'', including the talents of the actors, writers, and musicians. '' The Song of Lisbon'' ("''A Canção de Lisboa''", 1933), the first sound feature film fully produced in Portugal, is considered to be the first style-defining ''comédia à portuguesa''. This and a number of subsequent films are still popular in Portugal today, and the term ''comédia à portuguesa'' has become an enduring common term for the successful classic comedies of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Barro Lopes
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Graça Maria
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1940s Portuguese-language Films
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar became a Roman Consul. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 days. * First year of the ''Xingping'' era during the Han Dynasty in Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
