Ruy de Carvalho
Birthday: Born in 1927-03-01 in Lisbon, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
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Clube Paraíso
Character: Alfaiate
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Parabéns
Character: Self
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Conta-me
Character: Convidado
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Joaquim Letria
Character: Minetti
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Alta Definição
Character: Self
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach....
Tempo de Viver
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Vila Faia
Character: Gonçalo Marques Vila
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O Sábio
Character: Tio Jacinto
A love as large as the world itself... Pedro has just returned to the city where he was born and spent most of his life, but mysteriously disappeared without a trace for 20 years. The reasons for his disappearance have always been cause for speculation, as he was something of a celebrity in the city. Despite always denying any direct responsibility, he was known for performing miracles on people's lives by having them look at themselves from a different perspective. In fact, Pedro has the gift...
Destinos Cruzados
Character: Inácio Candeias
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Filha do Mar
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Sedução
Character: Humberto Almeida
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Saber Amar
Character: Jorge Macedo Vaz
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Olhos de Água
Character: Joaquim
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Sentimentos
Character: Carlos Dias
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Bem-Vindos a Beirais
Character: Viriato
Diogo Almada is a successful account manager at a telecommunications company who is struggling with serious stress and anxiety issues due to the constant state of pressure he lives in. His situation becomes worse when he suffers a stroke which puts him in hospital. There, doctors tell him that if he doesn't slow down things could become much worse for him in the future. He also meets the owner of a vegetables and herbs greenery in Beirais, a small village in the midlands, who is looking to sell ...
Todo o Tempo do Mundo
Character: Leonardo Serra
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Louco Amor
Character: Óscar Ribeirinho
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Deixa-me Amar
Character: César Augusto
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Olhos nos Olhos
Character: Dionísio
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Polícias
Character: Joaquim
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Diário de Maria
Character: Alberto
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Major Alvega
Character: Avô
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Gente Feliz com Lágrimas
Character: Guerreiro
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As Lições do Tonecas
Character: Próprio
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Passerelle
Character: João
The soap opera tells the story of two families: Cardoso and Guimarães whose bosses are, one of them, bank manager and the other owner of a textile factory, linked to the world of fashion....
O Posto
Character: Comandante Pais da Cunha
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Ideias com História
Character: Salazar
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Os Homens da Segurança
Character: Careca
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Massa Fresca
Character: Avô Luciano
Maria Miguel, a young, optimistic 21-year-old girl that lost her mother to cancer three years ago and has never met her father, is forced to struggle daily to make a living in a local pizzeria in order to pay a debt. Her life changes dramatically when a wealthy family takes her to live into their house after a bike accident which saved the family's children....
Nazaré
Character: Floriano Marques
“Nazaré” is a contemporary love story in a reality that plagues the country every summer. It is a narrative about the struggle of those who are defeated by flames, rebirth and hope....
Inspetor Max
Character: Dr. João Ferreira
"Inspector Max" is a Portuguese television series created by Virgílio Castelo e Produções Fictícias and broadcast on TVI. Its story is a dog called "Max", who is caught by Inspector Jorge Mendes' two sons (Fernando Luís). Jorge Mendes is a lonely man whose wife died when his children were still small. He works at the DIC of Setúbal, Department of Criminal Investigation, in the 1st season. The successful DIC team from Setúbal was invited to go to DECC (Special Department for Combating Crime) and ...
Movie Credits
The Crime of Father Amaro
Character: Abbot Cortegaça
O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy....
Pau Preto
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Corruption
Character: the President Judge
A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world....
A Bicha de 7 Cabeças
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The Forest
Character: Comendador
Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman....
Eram Duzentos Irmãos
Character: António
A man afflicted by an inferiority complex, is helped out by his comrades to pass the tests to enter the navy. A girl accepts to show a fake love interest in him as part of the plan, and ends up really enamoured....
A Luz vem do Alto
Character: Voice of Father Manuel (voice) (uncredited)
The struggle between two friends: one, symbolizes the deepest incredulity about religion; the other, priest Manuel, endures insults with stoic resignation, but doesn't give up on installing words of faith in the hope of recovering his soul for God. In a pathetic atmosphere, in which everyone defends the primacy of their beliefs, they feel surrounded by a bundle of circumstances linked to a secret of love, with an unexpected and disconcerting outcome ......
The Circle
Character: Dr. Alves, the boss
A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon she encounters financial difficulties and finds herself involved with shady characters, a situation that leads to a mysterious murder. The net closes around her....
Blind Man's Bluff
Character: Taverner
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day....
Inês de Portugal
Character: D. Afonso IV
The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political intrigue and in the name of the kingdom's interests. Pedro, cruelly hurt, pursues the single-minded purpose of avenging his lost love. He captures and kills the executioners, and compels the nobility to acknowledge Ines as his lawful wife and Queen of Portugal....
O Marceneiro
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O Misterioso Caso de Lázaro Lafourcade
Character: Lázaro Lafourcade
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The Fifth Empire
Character: Conselheiro
Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's Fifth Empire....
O Antiquário
Character: Narrator
Vicente was a mean old man, short of words. In his collection, he lacked the pyx of mercy he so admired....
The Jew
Character: Padre Pantoja
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat....
A Song of Lisbon
Character: Professor de Anatomia
How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up girls but he has just failed his final exam! And in that same day, he receives an email from the two aunts announcing their visit to Lisbon! Will he be able to make them believe he is such a good student as they think?...
Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor
Character: Sr. Anísio
A love story between a failed musician and a girl in a dinosaur costume....
Abraham's Valley
Character: Paulino Cardeano
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's friend, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover....
Sunday Afternoon
Character: Jorge
Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a Medical Doctor, researcher on blood diseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill young woman....
April Captains
Character: Spínola
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it....
Day of Despair
Character: (voice)
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco....
The King's Trial
Character: Doctor Martim dos Reis
At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in possession of the throne and was an insane imbecile. His wife, daughter of the Duke of Nemours and cousin of Louis XIV, dared hatch a plot to oust her husband from the throne. The king's stupidity justified the queen's bravado. Despite being master of unusual strength and having slept with his wife for a long time, she accused him of being impotent. Marie Franç...
Second Life
Character: Guido
Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if he had made a different choice, ten years ago. We then follow two stories: on one hand the police, trying to solve the mystery of Nicholas' death and on the other, Nicholas himself, living a different life. A second life....
Birds with Clipped Wings
Character: Francisco
After a fatal crash involving her brother, Elsa tries to escape her corrupt & prejudiced background, making Francisco (the victim’s dad) – a wealthy family’s driver – resign himself with the unavoidable so as not to compromise his employer’s son, thus trying to gain something from the tragedy....
Olga Drummond
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A homage to all Portuguese actors. The news that Olga Drummond, the greatest Portuguese actress of all-time, is arriving to a nursing home for performers provokes agitation between residents and workers....
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Character: Preacher at Funeral / Suicidal Warrior
Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt during 1973....
Cântico Final
Character: Mário Gonçalves
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Race
Character: Dr. Manuel Bernardes
The vicissitudes of a bourgeois family and the conflicts emerged between brothers - Dr. Manuel Bernardo, wise and weighted, and Zecas, libertine and Capricious - who ignore his kinship. Two girls mark the sentimental vector: one defends the danger that threatens the threat, the other does not know how to react and is the victim of her ingenuity, a dream of restless youth ......
O Regresso
Character: Castro
"O Regresso" is a documentary featuring renowned Portuguese actor Ruy de Carvalho as he returns to Macau after a 10-year absence. Directed to mark the 10th anniversary of his visit, the film captures Ruy de Carvalho revisiting key locations across the city, reflecting on the cultural and social transformations that Macau underwent in the lead-up to its handover from Portuguese to Chinese administration in 1999. Blending personal memories with the evolving landscape, the documentary offers a nost...
In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
Character: Self
He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Macedo?...
Laurinha
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"Laurinha," the documentary, brings back from oblivion and silence the great Laura Alves, one of the best Portuguese actresses of all time. In this documentary, we get to know a woman with boundless energy and unafraid to speak her mind. We discover her life, the people she shared moments with, her family, and her loves. We also explore what motivated her immense dedication to her work and confront her tragic, premature end, marked by illness and loneliness....
The Remnants of You
Character: Mauro
Sara leaves New York, where she’s preparing for her first jazz concert, to return to her hometown in Huesca, Spain, after her father’s sudden death. Inheriting a farm and a flock of ecological sheep with her sister Elena, she struggles with grief and guilt. She immerses herself in farming, yet, despite her efforts, she feels lost in a life she didn’t choose. Will she stay to preserve her father’s legacy, or find the courage to follow her own path?...