Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1908)

Manoel de Oliveira

Portuguese film director, screenwriter and racing driver (1908–2015)

Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I. In 1931, he completed his first film Douro, Faina Fluvial, a…