Vasco Santana

Vasco Santana

Nacimiento : 1898-01-29, Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal

Muerte : 1958-06-13

Historia

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.

Perfil

Vasco Santana
Vasco Santana

Películas

Lisboa
Customer at Fado's House
Época de la Guerra Fría. Un capitán del ejército es contratado por una atractiva mujer para que localice a su marido, prisionero detrás del Telón de Acero. Sin embargo, todo resulta ser una trampa bien urdida con fines económicos.
O Dinheiro dos Pobres
Marcos
Manuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen, and enters the priesthood. Pedro keeps on in his carefree ways, and commits a robbery. Manuel knows the robber is Pedro, but he learned it in Catholic confession. To keep his vows as a priest, he is prepared to be arrested.
O Costa d'África
Dialogue
Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by himself how well he has been invested large sums of money he is been sending him. Amadeu 'borrows' for 24 hours a wife, a villa, a car, and a servant - for he has been lies to his uncle all the time. All goes well. But, Costa decides to prolong his stay for two weeks...
O Costa d'África
Screenplay
Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by himself how well he has been invested large sums of money he is been sending him. Amadeu 'borrows' for 24 hours a wife, a villa, a car, and a servant - for he has been lies to his uncle all the time. All goes well. But, Costa decides to prolong his stay for two weeks...
O Costa d'África
Costa, Amadeu's uncle
Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by himself how well he has been invested large sums of money he is been sending him. Amadeu 'borrows' for 24 hours a wife, a villa, a car, and a servant - for he has been lies to his uncle all the time. All goes well. But, Costa decides to prolong his stay for two weeks...
O Comissário de Polícia
Rolinho - deputy commissioner
O Zé Analfabeto na Vida Corrente
Zé Analfabeto
O Zé Analfabeto nos CTT
Zé Analfabeto
Confissões de um Analfabeto
Zé Analfabeto
O Zé já não é Analfabeto
Zé Analfabeto
O Zé Analfabeto Faz Exame
Zé Analfabeto
O Zé Analfabeto e o Trânsito
José Vasco (Speaker)
O Zé Analfabeto e o Trânsito
Zé Analfabeto
Sonhar é Fácil
Guimarães
Mr. Silva has a dream: to live in the countryside and become a farmer. And one day it happens. He inherits a farm from an old aunt. But not everything will be roses, as Mr. Silva soon finds out...
Ribatejo
Colorau
It is the story of two men in love with the same woman and fighting each other in and out of the arenas of bulls.
Fado, a Singer's Story
Joaquim Marujo
Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern), public and critics rend major applause. Fame brings about new friends, namely bohemian young who play and sing the fado with her, and not so young men but who rich and powerful enough to patronize her, promote her, and wish to become intimate with her. Júlio the guitarist feel betrayed, and he sets his mind to depart to the African colonies, to leave her forever. Knowing that he's going to embark, Ana Maria's heart between her first love, and the appeal of the rich and famous.
Camões
Mal-Cozinhado
The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
O Pátio das Cantigas
Dialogue
A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love.
O Pátio das Cantigas
Screenplay
A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love.
O Pátio das Cantigas
Narciso
A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love.
The Tyrannical Father
Dialogue
While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques.
The Tyrannical Father
Mestre José Santana
While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy of equivoques.
Famalicão
Narrator (voice)
Short documentary about the town of Famalicão, in the North of Portugal.
A Song of Lisbon
Vasco Leitão
Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano, who is familiar with Vasco's debts. After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.
Lisbon, Anecdotal Chronicle
Caleidoscope of documentary-like scenes and re-enacted episodes of a day in the life of a large port town - Lisbon, from the old district around Saint George's Castle down to the docks and the 'Sagres' on the Tagus river, to the new commercial districts.