Antonio Vilar
António Vilar (actually António Vilar Justiniano dos Santos Júnior ; born October 31, 1912 in Lisbon , † August 16, 1995 in Madrid ) was a Portuguese actor .
Life
Vilar played amateur theater and had radio experience when he was cast by Leitão de Barros in the first Portuguese sound film, A Severa , in 1930 .
In the 1940s, after his breakthrough as guitarist Carlos Bonito in O Pátio das Cantigas (1942, D: Ribeirinho ), he became one of the most important heartbreakers of the cinema screens in his home country .
Four years later he moved to Spain, where the film industry promised greater success, and with numerous roles for European, especially Iberian, genre cinema, he became a sought-after actor of elegant men and successful, if sometimes dodgy, businessmen.
After his last film in 1978, Estimado Señor Juez , he turned to his dream project. As both Portugal and Spain failed to provide financial support, a planned film about Ferdinand Magellan remained unrealized.
In 2004 a street in a new building district in the Lisbon municipality of Ameixoeira was named after António Vilar.
Filmography (selection)
- 1930: A Severa
- 1942: O Pátio das Cantigas
- 1946: Luiz Vaz de Camões
- 1950: Don Juan
- 1959: A woman like Satan (La femme et le pantin)
- 1963: Sheherazade - The golden lion of Baghdad
- 1966: Six pistols chase Professor Z (Comando de asesinos)
- 1970: Sartana - still warm and already sand on it (Buon funerale amigos… paga Sartana)
- 1981: Panic in the casino (Asalto al casino)
Web links
- António Vilar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ other sources give October 13th
- ^ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português. 1895-1961. Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 2012. ISBN 978-972-21-2602-1 , pp. 443ff
- ↑ O galã António Vilar no bairro dos actores since Ameixoeira - "The film hero António Vilar in actor's area of Ameixoeira" (Portuguese), entry accessed on a site to the street name of Lisbon, on January 16, 2018
- ^ Entry of Rua António Vilar in the Portuguese business and street directory www.portugalio.com, accessed on January 16, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vilar, Antonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vilar Justinanodos dos Santos Júnior, António |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1995 |
| Place of death | Madrid |