Fernando Lopes,
GCIH (28 December 1935 – 2 May 2012) was a
Portuguese 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, pr ...
.
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. Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits w ...
due to
throat cancer.
Filmography
*''Pedras e o Tempo, As'' (1961)
*''Voo da Amizade, O'' (1962)
*''Palavras e os Fios, As'' (1962)
*''Rota do Progresso'' (1964)
*''
Belarmino'' (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)
References
External links
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1935 births
2012 deaths
Portuguese film directors
Deaths from esophageal cancer
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