Vasco Santana
Vasco António Rodrigues Santana (born January 28, 1898 in Lisbon , † June 13, 1958 ) was a Portuguese actor .
Career
Born in the Lisbon district of Benfica , he took an early interest in theater. After a first appearance in a small play at the Teatro Avenida in 1917, he received other roles and he broke off his architecture and art studies. After a number of engagements, u. a. at the Teatro São Luiz and on acting tours in Brazil, he played in the 1933 comedy film A Canção de Lisboa . It was the first film in exclusively Portuguese production and was a box office hit. The film started a wave of comedies from the 1930s to 1950s that are still popular today, in which Santana entertained a wide audience with sparkling humor with fellow actors such as Beatriz Costa , Ribeirinho and especially António Silva . They all came from the revue theater , and so Santana was also trained in singing, improvising, and providing good-humored entertainment with precise acting. Films like O Pai Tirano (“The tyrannical father”, director: António Lopes Ribeiro ), O Pátio das Cantigas (“Backyard of Songs”, 1942, director: Ribeirinho) or Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira (“Fado, Story of a Singer ”, 1947, with Amália Rodrigues , director: Perdigão Queiroga ) still popular today. In an effort to join the newly created UN , the Salazar regime launched a campaign in 1952 to reduce the country's high illiteracy rate . For this, Vasco Santana was hired as an actor for the character of Zé Analfabeto (Eng. About Sepp Illiterate ), who advertised in 6 short films by the director Carlos Marques for the nationwide campaign for adult education.
The Portuguese cinema was located since the early 50s in progressive decline, and Santana could now offer less and less so successful film roles as before. He continued to play in the theater until he died in his hometown in 1958.
reception
Santana's portrayal of good-natured, cheerful and comical characters was one of the constants of the successful Portuguese comedies and tragic comedies of the 1930s to 1950s. With distance to the authoritarian Estado Novo regime or with artistic claims beyond the entertainment of the audience, he has not become known. But the portrayal of popular characters made him, thanks to successful puns and convincing acting performances, the most famous and most popular Portuguese actor to this day, together with Antonio Silva. His particular popularity grew out of the amiable, folk, and laughing at himself person whom the public saw in him. Some of his film quotes entered common parlance in Portugal, for example in O Pátio da Cantigas his conversation as a drunk with a street lamp at night and his provocative puns with his hostile father-in-law, played by António Silva. Then as now it was used as a popular advertising medium and repeatedly honored with plays dedicated to it or television reviews. Portuguese streets and theaters were also named after him.
Filmography
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script
- 1937: Maria Papoila
- 1941: O Pai Tirano
- 1942: O Pátio das Cantigas
- 1954: O Costa d'Africa
literature
- A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of Portuguese cinema Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3706905909 .
- Joaquim Vieira, Luís Trindade: Fotobiografias do Século XX - Vasco Santana Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2009, ISBN 978-9896440497 .
- Luciano Reis: Vasco Santana - Um Caso Raro de Popularidade Sete Caminhos, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 978-9896020583 .
- Various Vasco Santana - O Bem-Amado Dom Quixote, Alfragide 1999, ISBN 978-9722016735 .
Web links
- Vasco Santana in the Internet Movie Database (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese Cinema Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 44.
- ↑ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese Cinema Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 79.
- ↑ Cover and bonus material of the DVD O Pário das Cantigas , ZON / Lusomundo, RTP Videos 2005.
- ↑ http://www.netsaber.com.br/biografias/ver_biografia_c_994.html
- ↑ http://cinema.sapo.pt/pessoa/vasco-santana/biografia ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763351/bio
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Santana, Vasco |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Santana, Vasco António Rodrigues (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1958 |
| Place of death | Lisbon |