Manuel Guimarães

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Directing

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Male

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Manuel Guimarães

Biography

Manuel Guimarães (1915–1975) was a Portuguese filmmaker. In 1931, Guimarães studied painting in the School of Fine Arts in Oporto. He started to work in 1936 as a theater scenographer, illustrator and cartoonist, as well as a film poster designer. He became interested in cinematic art, and started out as assistant of directors as Manoel de Oliveira, António Lopes Ribeiro, Jorge Brum do Canto, Arthur Duarte and Armando de Miranda. In 1949, he directed the short documentary O Desterrado, a film about the life and craft of the Portuguese sculptor Soares dos Reis. Saltimbancos as his first feature-film, which is an adaptation of the novel Circo...

Production

1959

1959

My Little Seamstress

as Production Design

1969

1968

1975

Cântico Final

as Producer

1975

1975

Cântico Final

as Screenplay

1951

The Circus

as Producer

1956

Vidas sem Rumo

as Director

1956

Vidas sem Rumo

as Screenplay

1959

1951

The Circus

as Director

1952

Nazaré

as Director

1952

Nazaré

as Screenplay

1951

The Circus

as Production Design

1951

The Circus

as Screenplay

1969

1959

O Primo Basílio

as Assistant Director

1968

O Ritmo na Vida

as Director

1967

Artes Gráficas

as Director

1973

1970

Resende

as Director

1967

1969

António Duarte

as Director

1968

1947

The Lion from Estrela

as Assistant Director

1950

Frei Luís de Sousa

as Assistant Director

1942

Aniki-Bóbó

as Assistant Director

1975

Cântico Final

as Director

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