Vasco Santana
Date of birth: 1898-01-29
Place of birth: Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Vasco António Rodrigues Santana
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.
Movie Credits
O Comissário de Polícia
1953-01-21
A Song of Lisbon
1933-11-07
Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had a
The Courtyard of the Ballads
1942-01-23
A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes
O Costa d'África
1954-09-19
Costa is travelling from Africa to London, and wishes very much to his nephew Amadeu, and see by him
The Tyrannical Father
1941-09-19
While rehearsing the annual play, a clerk tries to regain the attention of his beloved, in a comedy
Fado, a Singer's Story
1947-11-28
Ana Maria loves a modest guitar player, Júlio; when she herself in a 'retiro' (typical fado tavern),
Ribatejo
1949-09-13
It is the story of two men in love with the same woman and fighting each other in and out of the are
O Dinheiro dos Pobres
1956-06-06
Manuel and Pedro have different approaches to love. Manuel suffers a disgust that makes him sullen,
Famalicão
1941-01-27
Short documentary about the town of Famalicão, in the North of Portugal.
O Zé Analfabeto e o Trânsito
1952-01-02
O Zé Analfabeto e o Trânsito
1952-01-02
O Zé Analfabeto Faz Exame
1952-01-05
O Zé já não é Analfabeto
1952-01-06
Confissões de um Analfabeto
1952-01-01
O Zé Analfabeto nos CTT
1952-01-04
O Zé Analfabeto na Vida Corrente
1952-01-03
Camões
1946-09-20
The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões.
Eram Duzentos Irmãos
1952-03-20
A man afflicted by an inferiority complex, is helped out by his comrades to pass the tests to enter
Lisbon
1956-08-17
For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one da
Lisbon, Anecdotal Chronicle
1930-04-01
Caleidoscope of documentary-like scenes and re-enacted episodes of a day in the life of a large port
A Via Áurea
1931-01-01
A silent, black and white, 1930s advertisement film for CUF fertilizers, starring the legendary Vasc