João D'Ávila
Birthday: Born in 1934-07-25 in Lisbon, Portugal
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Aquela Cativa que me tem Cativo
Character: António Pinto
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Conde de Abranhos
Character: Zagalo
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O Processo dos Távoras
Character: Sebastião José de Carvalho
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Polícias
Character: Tio de Rita
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Major Alvega
Character: Conde Vlad
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Esquadra de Polícia
Character: Merlim
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A Banqueira do Povo
Character: Ricardo Gonçalves
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Ideias com História
Character: Cândido de Oliveira
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João Semana
Character: Senhor Reitor
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Movie Credits
Portugal S.A.
Character: Castro
The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company....
Fátima
Character: Arcebispo de Lisboa
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal....
President's Target
Character: Surgeon
The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers....
Maria's Hours
Character: Dr. Firmino
Maria, a blind girl apparently raped by her stepfather, is held in an isolated and dilapidated hospice, desperately awaiting a miracle by Our Lady of Fátima. Turned over by Angela, her aunt, into the care of Dr. Firmino, an imposing doctor, she will suffer moments of despair, grace, and fear, among beliefs, phantoms, and revelations....
Crime em Nova Iorque
Character:
On January 8, 2011, journalist and social columnist Carlos Castro, 65, was found dead in a hotel room in New York City (USA). The killer, Renato Seabra, was a young model who had a love affair with him, admittedly in exchange for favors. In December 2012, after confessing to the crime, Renato Seabra was sentenced to between 25 years in jail and life in prison. Using this case as a starting point, director Rui Filipe Torres builds a story about obsession and power between António and Rodrigo....
1st Time 16mm
Character: Himself
Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid....
The Immortals
Character: Padre
Every year, four ex-soldiers who call themselves "Os Imortais" ("The Immortals"), get together with four women to celebrate their war deeds and remember the old days, back in the war. On the summer of 1985, tired of their monotonous lives, they decide to rob a bank. Joaquim Malarranha, a chief inspector from the local police force who is about to retire, crosses their path and chooses to spend his last days of duty trying to solve the robbery. But as he carries on with his investigation, he disc...
O Princípio da Sabedoria
Character: Bouddhist Monk
In the gardens of a large village house belonging to a reclusive architect, a hand is found. In a sign placed at the gates of the property, the architect annouces he will return it to whoever proves to be the owner....
Operation Autumn
Character: Emílio Guerreiro
A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965....
Nights
Character: Cliente Homem
The pain, the weakness, the silence, the despair. These are some of the feelings faced by a couple lost in drugs. Nights can be seen as the story of people who made mistakes in life, but who still continue to seek happiness. It is about the despair of hopeless lives. The characters are, from the beginning, thrown into an empty and sterile world of indifference. In this true no-man's-land, João and Teresa are confronted with their precarious existence. They are broken pillars of a love that has b...
Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
Character: Hipólito, Victorina's father
Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant....
Kiss and Cry
Character: Deschamps
Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon....
One Foot in the Algarve
Character: Mortuary Assistant
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him....
Fado, Major and Minor
Character: Doctor
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?...
The Last Nazi Hunter 2
Character:
After a hard life of chasing nazis, Jacob Cohn is on his death bed. Recently, he found that one of the most bloodiest nazis, who almost killed him in a concentration camp, is hiding in Portugal. Friederich Haas was known also as the Dachau Dentist for pulling the teeth of the prisoners mouth, one by one, just for fun. Without alternatives, being to weak to go after him, Jacob sends his pacifist and shy grandson, Jean Luc to finish his last mission. Jean Luc has to go to Portugal and bring Friede...
Fuga
Character: Father
Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what his fate may be, Pedro runs, looking for a place to hide....
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
Character: Dom Bernard
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir....
Lourdes
Character:
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-...
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Character: Le moine
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street perform...
Cold Land
Character: Ti Inácio
In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal....
Fatima
Character:
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle.....
Off Season
Character: Customer
The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site’s empty halls and ballrooms....
Behind Doors
Character:
In the small town of Reguengo Grande, Portugal lives Bênção, known as the living saint. People come from all over the world to be emotionally touched by this saint. The only problem is that Bênção isn't sure if all this power people believe in, is real anymore and starts questioning everything....