Vasco Santana (full name: ''Vasco António Rodrigues Santana''; 28 January 1898 in
Lisbon
Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...
– 13 June 1958) was a
Portuguese
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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
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