Birthday: 1898-01-29
Place of Birth: Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal
Biography: Vasco António Rodrigues Santana 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, in 1933. He starred in about one dozen films.
Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had a...
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A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes...
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Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by him...
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While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy ...
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Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern),...
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It is the story of two men in love with the same woman and fighting each other in and out of the are...
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Manuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen, ...
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A man afflicted by an inferiority complex, is helped out by his comrades to pass the tests to enter ...
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For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one da...
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Caleidoscope of documentary-like scenes and re-enacted episodes of a day in the life of a large port...
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A silent, black and white, 1930s advertisement film for CUF fertilizers, starring the legendary Vasc...
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