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- Soledad Miranda was a Spanish actress who appeared in many films in the 1960s. Her remarkable beauty and her tragic untimely death make her story the stuff of legend. She was born on July 9, 1943 in Seville, Spain. She started her career when only eight years old as a flamenco dancer and singer. She made her film debut at age sixteen as a dancer. During the following years, the fragile beauty appeared in numerous comedies, dramas, B-movies, and horror films, mostly in Spain (over thirty films altogether from 1960 to 1970). Her biggest break came from legendary director Jess Franco, who cast Soledad in such cult classics as Count Dracula and Vampyros Lesbos. Soledad is generally regarded as Franco's greatest discovery. On August 18, 1970 Soledad was in a car accident on a highway in Portugal. She died hours later, survived by her husband (a former race-car driver) and young son. Shortly before this tragic accident, a German film producer had offered her a contract which would have made her a great star. Soledad was destined to become a legend. Not until the years after her death has she become a cult starlet with fans all over the world now discovering the beautiful, doomed actress.
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Born in Figueira da Foz, a cosmopolitan beach resort, moved to Lisbon at the age of 15. In 1963 studies cinema at London School of Technique and starts his first movie at 1965 only concluded five years later. "Silvestre" from Portuguese short stories was presented at Venice Film Festival, where he returns with "Souvenirs from the Yellow House - Recordações da Casa Amarela" and wins the Silver Lion. Again in Venice with "God's Comedy" and another prize (Il Gran Premio Speciale della Giuria da Mostra). Known as provocative, performs in all his film usually as the main character.- Stunts
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Carlos Lopez was born on 26 June 1989 in North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for John Wick (2014), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013). He died on 2 October 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Brian Hankins was born on 8 June 1931 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Lorna Doone (1963), The Scarlet and the Black (1965) and Escape (1957). He died on 12 June 1978 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Among the foremost technical innovators in his field, a charter member of the American Society of Cinematographers, English-born Charles Rosher had initially aimed for a diplomatic career. Fortunately, he chose a different career option and attended lessons in photography at the London Polytechnic in Regent Street. He must have been a keen student, for he found himself apprenticed to noted portrait photographers David Blount and Howard Farmer, soon afterward becoming assistant to Richard Neville Speaight (1875-1938), the official Royal photographer. Having learned the art of still photography, Rosher departed England for the United States sometime in late 1908, equipped with a Williamson camera.
In 1910, Rosher found his first job in the fledgling film industry through a connection forged with an English compatriot, the pioneer producer David Horsley: as principal cameraman for Horsley's East Coast-based Centaur Film Company (which made Rosher Hollywood's first ever full-time cinematographer). Centaur was renamed Nestor Studios upon its permanent relocation to California in 1911, setting up at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. Essentially all of Rosher's early work consisted of one and two reelers, invariably made for Nestor's chief director, Al Christie. Some were comedies, many were 'quota quickie' westerns, such as The Indian Raiders (1912), for which Nestor imported genuine Indians from New Mexico.
In 1913, Rosher accompanied directors Raoul Walsh and Christy Cabanne on his famous expedition to Mexico to shoot the feature film The Life of General Villa (1914). The rebel leader Pancho Villa had agreed to grant exclusive rights to filming of his battles against the Federales by the Mutual Film Corporation, in exchange for a fee of $25,000 and 20% of all revenues from the picture. There were a number of hazards experienced by Rosher during this adventure, including capture by enemy forces, and at times coercive interference from Villa, who fancied himself as a filmmaker.
Upon his return to the other side of the border, Rosher had a brief spell with Universal (which had absorbed Nestor), followed by two years with the Lasky Feature Play Company (which later became Paramount). He then worked at United Artists from 1919 to 1928, becoming the favourite cinematographer of the company's biggest asset, Mary Pickford, lighting her in such a way that her true age never interfered with the image of the ingénue she persisted in portraying on screen. During this period, Rosher also developed his own unique visual style, which married artistry with technical know-how. He was much acclaimed for the sharpness and clarity of his photography, for the effects he achieved by combining natural and artificial light, photographing people against reflecting surfaces (glass, water), double exposure effects, split screen techniques, and so on. Rosher also patented several inventions, including a system for developing black & white film, ABC Pyro (A=pyro,B=sulfite,C=carbonate).
In 1929 Rosher became co-recipient (with Karl Struss) of the first-ever Oscar for cinematography bestowed by the Academy, for a film made at Fox: Sunrise (1927) - still regarded today as one of the finest examples of 1920's filmmaking. With its many scenes bathed in light or twilight, it has also been likened to a cinematic French impressionism. Rosher himself recalled this as one of the most difficult assignments of his career, particularly in terms of lighting such tricky scenes as the moonlit, fog-bound swamp, necessitating a very mobile camera. "Sunrise", inevitably, ended up winning the top award for 'unique and artistic production'. Two years later, after a falling out with Pickford during filming of Coquette (1929) , Rosher went his own way. He was never out of a job for long, working variously for RKO (1932-33), MGM (1930,1934) and Warner Brothers (1937-41).
Though he had made his reputation with black & white photography, Rosher easily adapted to the medium of colour. He enjoyed a major resurgence in the second half of his career, shooting some of the most sumptuous technicolor musicals (Ziegfeld Follies (1945), Show Boat (1951)) and dramas (The Yearling (1946),Scaramouche (1952)) during his tenure at MGM, which lasted from 1942 to 1954. He won his second Oscar for "Yearling" and became the only ever recipient of a fellowship by the Society of Motion Picture Engineers. Rosher retired in 1955, except for occasional lectures and guest appearances at film festivals. He settled down on a 1,600-acre plantation he had acquired at Port Antonio on Jamaica, formerly owned by Errol Flynn. He died in 1974 in Portugal, after a fall, at the respectable age of 88.- Actor
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Nicolau Breyner was born on 30 July 1940 in Serpa, Portugal. He was an actor and director, known for A Teia de Gelo (2012), Meu Amor (2009) and Os Imortais (2003). He was married to Mafalda Bessa, Sofia Sá da Bandeira, Mafalda Maria de Alpoim Vieira Barbosa and Cláudia Ramos. He died on 14 March 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Eusébio DA Silva Ferreira (January 1942 - 5 January 2014) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker. He is considered one of the greatest players of all time and S.L. Benfica's greatest ever player. During his professional career, he scored 733 goals in 745 matches. Nicknamed the Black Panther, the Black Pearl, or o Rei (the King), he was known for his speed, technique, athleticism and his ferocious right-footed shot, making him a prolific goalscorer.
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Curado Ribeiro was born on 25 May 1919 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for Desencontros (1995), O Leão da Estrela (1947) and História de Uma Mulher (1959). He died on 29 July 1995 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actress
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Amália Rodrigues was born in Lisbon, Portugal July 23rd, 1920 to a poor and numerous family. Since her childhood she showed a talent for singing although she debuted formally in 1939 at 19 years old, becoming a great popular success. During World War II she carried out long tours for Spain and Brazil and she obtained in 1945 her first great musical success with the song "Ai Mouraria". In 1947 she debuted as an actress in the Portuguese movie "Capas Negras" (with Alberto Ribeiro) and it became the best movie of the year in Portugal and Amália became a great international celebrity and the most admired and loved star of Portugal. During the 50 and 60's Amália become the maximum exponent of Portugal's popular music and so, their main ambassador for her very successful movies (including "Sangue Toureiro", by the way, the first Portuguese movie filmed in color) as well as for her LPs. Among her well-known songs are: "Lisboa Antiga", "Foi Deus", "Coimbra" (also known as "April in Portugal"), "Barco Negro", "Canção do Mar", "Nem as Paredes Confesso", "Lisboa, Não Sejas Francesa", "Arranjuez, mon amour" (French version of "Concierto de Aranjuez" of Joaquín Rodrigo), "Vou Dar de Beber à Dor" and "Com que Voz", among many others. She also sang poems turned music of several Portuguese poets and, in fact, Variety's magazine chose her in 1959 as one of the four best female singers in history. When the "Revolução Dos Cravos" ("Carnation's Revolution") happened on April 25th, 1974 which finished 48 years of Fascist government in Portugal, rumors arose that Amália collaborated with the deposed government. Her fame was seriously affected and she decided to retire from show business for not entering in polemic (although soon, after its death, it was discovered that she collaborated privately with the Communist Party of Portugal) but one year after, she acted in the Coliseu Theater of Lisbon where 5,000 people applauded her on foot, demonstrating with this that her public never released her. After that, Amália continued her career as if nothing happened and in 1980 she debuted as composer. In April 19th, 1985 Amália presented her show in the Coliseu dos Recreios of Lisbon, being her first solo concert in Portugal after 10 years and she obtained a record of attendance. In 1989, for her 50 years of artistic career, the President of Portugal Mário Soares honored her and the Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy received her in private audience. During her last years, Amália received countless tributes inside and outside of Portugal and suddenly died while she slept in her house of Lisbon on October 6th, 1999. She was buried in an impressive funeral ceremony with the massive attendance of her fans.- Actor
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Tony d'Algy was born in Angola, then a Portuguese colony, of a Spanish mother and Portuguese father. He played opposite Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire (1924) and A Sainted Devil (1924) in bit parts. Beginning in 1928, he worked in Spain (making such films as "La Mujer Soñada" and "Raza de Hidalgos"), France, and Belgium. In 1931, he hosted such visitors as Florencio Molina Campos (an Argentine cartoonist and painter), with Marcos Caplán (Argentine vaudeville producer), and Beatriz Costa (Portuguese actress and singer), among others, at Paramount Studios in Joinville, France (near Paris). D'Algy played the musical agent/lover of Amália Rodrigues in Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira (1947).- Writer
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Henry Fielding was born April 22nd 1707, the son of Edmund Fielding, an impoverished nobleman who spent most of his time in and out of various debtor's prisons. After the death of their mother, Henry and his seven siblings were taken in by their maternal grandmother. He was a wild and willful young man, and after a brief stint abroad in a Dutch college, he moved to London and began writing plays. Though his works were very successful, Henry had inherited his father's inability to handle money, and he remained perpetually in debt. In 1734, after a four year courtship, he convinced a young lady named Charlotte Craddock to marry him. Henry was madly in love with Charlotte, and they enjoyed ten happy years of marriage before her death in 1744 of a fever. Henry mourned her deeply, and Sophia Western, the heroine of his novel "Tom Jones", was modeled on Charlotte. In 1747 he married his wife's former maid, Mary Daniel, who was six months pregnant with their child at the time. Known as a brawler, a drunkard, and a womanizer, Henry was nonetheless a prolific and energetic author.
When his health failed in 1754, he sailed to Lisbon, Portugal, hoping a warmer climate would improve his constitution. Instead, he contracted jaundice there and died two months after his arrival on October 8th 1754.- Clara Rocha was born on 9 May 1943 in Silves, Portugal. She was an actress, known for A Canção da Saudade (1964), Dom Roberto (1962) and O Crime de Aldeia Velha (1964). She died on 14 July 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Dorothy Thompson was one of the most famous journalists of the 1930s & '40s, winning the sobriquet the "First Lady of American Journalism." In 1939, Time Magazine recognized her as being on par with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in terms of her political clout.
Born on July 9, 1893 in Lancaster, New York, she graduated from Syracuse University in 1914, having studied economics and political science. She became committed to the cause of women's suffrage and after that was achieved with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, she went overseas as a journalist. She became a foreign correspondent for the "Philadelphia Public Ledger" newspaper and, in 1927, became the had of the Berlin bureau of the "New York Post", becoming the first woman to head a foreign news bureau for a major newspaper. She became the doyenne of female foreign journalists.
Her career flourished in the 1930s, when she became one of the few female radio commentators. She first interviewed Adolf Hitler in 1931, then wrote a book, "I Met Hitler" (1932) claiming he would never come to power (Hitler became German Chancellor in January 1933). In 1934, her articles heralding the dangers of the man she once dismissed caused her to become the first women journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany.
She began writing her "On the Record" column for the "New York Tribune", the paper-of-record for America's Eastern WASP Establishment, in 1936. The thrice-weekly column was syndicated by the Tribune and, by June 1939, was carried by 196 newspapers, giving Thompson a readership of 7,555,000 readers. That same year, the National Broadcasting Co. hired Thompson her as a news commentator. In the years she was with NBC, her radio broadcasts were extremely popular. Appearing weekly on Monday at 9PM, she had 5.5 million listeners as of June 1939.
In 1937, she began a monthly column for the "Ladies' Home Journal" on women's interest tropics such as child-raising and gardening. She kept writing the column up until her death 24 years later.
Thompson made the cover of Time Magazine on June 12, 1939. Two and a half months later, she covered the Nazi invasion of Poland. Her journalism career continued until her death, though her influence waned after World War II.
She was married three times. In 1928, she married the writer Sinclair Lewis, who two years later became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. They divorced in 1942.
Dorothy Thompson died on January 30, 1961 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was 66 years old. - Director
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Eduardo Guedes was born on 21 April 1941 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a director and editor, known for Pax (1994), Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale (1989) and Rocinante (1986). He was married to Ann Guedes. He died on 29 August 2000 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Camilo de Oliveira was born on 11 August 1924 in Figueira da Foz, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for Camilo - O Presidente (2009), Camilo, o Pendura (2002) and O Ladrão de Quem se Fala (1969). He was married to Paula Marcelo, Io Appolloni and Maria Luísa Bettencourt. He died on 2 July 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Nuno Melo was born on 8 February 1960 in Castelo Branco, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for O Barão (2011), Branco (2013) and Vingança (2007). He was married to Isabel Nogueira. He died on 9 June 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Writer
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António-Pedro Vasconcelos is a Portuguese professor, a chronicler, a television commentator with strong civic involvement. But António-Pedro Vasconcelos is, above all, one of the greatest filmmakers of Portugal, a founding figure of the new Portuguese cinema, he created characters, told stories, put everyday life in films, brought films closer to the Portuguese public. António directed some of the greatest Portuguese films of the last decades, such as Jaime (1999), Cats Don't Have Vertigo (2014), Amor Impossível (2015) and Parque Mayer (2018). Throughout his incomparable career he won 2 Cannes Film Festival Awards, in 7 nominations he ended up winning 2 Portuguese Golden Globes and won 3 Portuguese Academy Awards, including the Honorary Award.- Actress
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Maria José was born on 12 September 1927 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was an actress, known for Vidas de Sal (1996), Meu Amor (2009) and Roseira Brava (1996). She was married to Artur Semedo and Curado Ribeiro. She died on 10 June 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Vasco Santana was born on 28 January 1898 in Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942), The Tyrant Father (1941) and A Canção de Lisboa (1933). He was married to Arminda Martins and Mirita Casimiro. He died on 13 June 1958 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Director
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Américo Leite Rosa was a director and set decorator, known for Passagem de Nível (1965), Amendoeiras Floridas em Riba-Coa (1963) and The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942). He died on 28 November 1998 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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António Silva was born on 15 August 1886 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor and director, known for O Costa do Castelo (1943), O Leão da Estrela (1947) and A Canção de Lisboa (1933). He was married to Josefina Silva. He died on 3 March 1971 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Actor
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Francisco Ribeiro was born on 21 September 1911 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor and writer, known for The Courtyard of the Ballads (1942), Aqui Há Fantasmas (1964) and The Tyrant Father (1941). He was married to Maria Lalande and Lurdes Lima. He died on 7 February 1984 in Lisbon, Portugal.- João Villaret was born on 10 May 1913 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was an actor, known for Camões (1946), Inês de Castro (1944) and The Tyrant Father (1941). He died on 21 January 1961 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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António Feio was born on 6 December 1954 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique [now Maputo]. He was an actor and writer, known for Arte (1999), Os Bonecos da Bola (1993) and Verão Quente (1993). He was married to Lurdes Feio. He died on 29 July 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal.- Neuza was born on 6 December 1979 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was an actress, known for Anjo Selvagem (2001), Blood of My Blood (2011) and Ganância (2001). She died on 24 January 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal.