Arthur Duarte

Arthur de Jesus Pinto Duarte Pacheco ( born October 17, 1895 in Lisbon; † August 22, 1982 ) was a Portuguese actor and film director.

Life and career

He began as a stage actor in 1918 in the Companhia Rosas & Brazão. 1921 began his film career with a role in A Morgadinha Vale Flor de Ernesto de Albuquerque. This was followed in 1922 roles in O Primo Basílio (German: "Cousin Basilio " ) by George Pallu, As Pupilas do Senhor reitor ( " The pupils of the Lord Rector " ) by Maurice Mariaud, and Sereia de Pedra ( " The Stone Virgin " ) by Roger Lion.

In 1923 he played in Lions ' Os olhos da Alma ( "The eyes of the soul" ) with. The film premiered in 1924 premiere in Paris, where Duarte already had lived since 1923. There he worked as a film buyer for the Portuguese film company Castello - Lopes and as an agent for the Lisbon Casino Maxim's.

In 1927 he went to Germany and signed as an actor in the UFA. He played there with in about 50 films, mostly in supporting roles such as asphalt (1929 ) on the side of Gustav Frohlich, Hans Albers, Paul Hörbiger. It could be used as a production assistant in time but also first technical knowledge.

In 1933 Arthur Duarte returned to Portugal. In Gado Bravo ( "Wild cattle" ) by Max Nosseck 1934 he was assistant director. With Nosseck he had played in Miss Lausbub by Erich Schoenfelder together in 1930.

In 1936, he was assistant director at Bocage, the film by Leitão de Barros about the poet Bocage. The next year he was production manager at CHIANCA de Garcia A Rosa do Adro, and in 1938 he made the first film on its own, Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca ( a remake of the international success of the Invicta film of 1920).

After a stay in the USA, he worked again in other films such as A porch dos Rouxinóis ( " The Nightingale balcony " ) by Leitão de Barros, João Jorge Brum do Canto Ratao, and Feitiço do Império ( "The Magic of the Empire " ) by António Lopes Ribeiro.

In 1941, he took a role in O Pai Tirano ( " The tyrannical father " ) of Lopes Ribeiro order in which Ala Arriba ( Coppa Mussolini the Venice Film Festival in 1942 ) to his manager a year later.

In 1943 he shot his first comedy, the film to today's popular Costa do Castelo. A Menina da Rádio followed ( " The girl from the radio ", 1944), O Leão da Estrela ( " The Lion of the Estrela district ", 1947), O Grande Elias ( " Elias The Great ", 1950). He turned 1943-1960 twelve films, of which 5 are in Portuguese-Spanish co-productions (including 1946 É Perigoso Debruçar - se, " Do not lean out ").

The late 1950s, the time of the popular entertainment films in Portugal came to an end, and with it the success of director Arthur Duarte. He went from 1960 to 1965 in Brazil, where he produced only two films. His most recent film, the Portuguese -Spanish- Brazilian co-production Encontro com a morte ( " A Meeting with Death" ) in 1965, was banned in Portugal by the censors of the Estado Novo.

In the German -Swiss production A beetle goes full throttle had Arthur Duarte 1972, for an appearance as an actor, and in 1973 again in the Brazilian film O Rapto no Ascensor ( "The Abduction in the elevator " ), by Stefan welfare. In terms of theater, he played again in O Ovo ( " The Egg", 1973 Lisbon theater Villaret ).

Only after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and the end of the dictatorship in Portugal, he turned with Recompensa 1979 his latest film, sponsored by the Portuguese Film Institute (now ICA), and by the critics ignored. Previously, he still turned with Raul Solnado Aventuras de um Detention scopes Português ( "Adventures of a Portuguese detective ", 1975), from a screenplay by Ruy Guerra, among others

He died in 1982 in Lisbon.

Criticism

Its strengths were the craft and his feel for the wide taste, made ​​clear in his great popular successes. Despite his international experience and his lifelong cinematic activities he learned of the criticism is no comparable recognition, either as an actor or as a director. For Cinema Novo he had no respect. So he has immortalized himself primarily through his today in Portugal very popular comedies of the 40s.

Filmography

Director

Actor

Literature documents

• Jorge Leitão Ramos: Diccionario do cinema português 1962-1988. Editorial Caminho, Lisboa, 1989, ISBN 972-21-0446-2, pp. 130 ff