Vasco Santana

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-01-29 (60 years old)

Deathday

1958-06-13

Place of Birth

Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal

Vasco 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.

Acting

1953

O Comissário de Polícia

as Rolinho - deputy commissioner

1933

A Song of Lisbon

as Vasco Leitão

1954

O Costa d'África

as Costa, Amadeu's uncle

1941

The Tyrannical Father

as Mestre José Santana

1947

Fado, a Singer's Story

as Joaquim Marujo

1949

Ribatejo

as Colorau

1941

Famalicão

as Narrator (voice)

1952

1952

O Zé Analfabeto e o Trânsito

as José Vasco (Speaker)

1952

1952

1952

1952

O Zé Analfabeto nos CTT

as Zé Analfabeto

1946

Camões

as Mal-Cozinhado

1952

Eram Duzentos Irmãos

as Fernão Mentes Minto

1956

Lisbon

as Customer at Fado's House

Production

1954

O Costa d'África

as Screenplay

1954

1941

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