António Lopes Ribeiro

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-04-16 (87 years old)

Deathday

1995-04-14

Place of Birth

Lisbon, Portugal

António Lopes Ribeiro

Biography

Director, journalist, and producer, António Lopes Ribeiro (1908-1995) was a central name in the history of Portuguese cinema in the first half of the 20th century. Movie critic since the late 1920s, he supported the European cinematographic avant-gardes and the aesthetical and technical renewal of Portuguese cinema. He directed his first film, Bailando ao sol, in 1928 and took part in the shooting of J. Leitão de Barros film’s Nazaré, praia de pescadores (1929), Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica and Maria do Mar (1930). Shortly before that, he undertook a long journey to the great movie studios of Paris, Berlin and Moscow, where he became up to speed...

Acting

2010

Lusitanian Illusion

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1941

1941

1945

1950

Frei Luís de Sousa

as Screenplay

1950

1940

The Spell of the Empire

as Production Design

1934

Gado Bravo

as Director

1937

1946

Camões

as Writer

1943

Doomed Love

as Director

2022

The Tyrant Father

as Original Film Writer

1957

1929

Nazaré, Praia de Pescadores

as Assistant Director

1959

O Primo Basílio

as Director

1950

1950

Frei Luís de Sousa

as Production Design

1942

Aniki-Bóbó

as Dialogue

1942

Aniki-Bóbó

as Producer

1943

Doomed Love

as Production Design

1945

The Girl Next Door

as Screenplay

1941

The Tyrannical Father

as Production Design

1946

Camões

as Producer

1930

Lisbon, Anecdotal Chronicle

as Assistant Director

1959

O Primo Basílio

as Screenplay

1930

Maria of the Sea

as Assistant Director

1930

Maria of the Sea

as Screenplay

1951

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