Fernando Lopes,
GCIH (28 December 1935 – 2 May 2012) was a
Portuguese film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
.
He was a Film teacher at the Portuguese National Conservatory, nowadays the
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). He died, aged 76, in
Lisbon
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due to
throat cancer
Head and neck cancer is a general term encompassing multiple cancers that can develop in the head and neck region. These include cancers of the mouth, tongue, gums and lips ( oral cancer), voice box ( laryngeal), throat ( nasopharyngeal, orophar ...
.
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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