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Manoel de Oliveira was born in Porto, Portugal on December 11, 1908, to Francisco José de Oliveira and Cândida Ferreira Pinto. His family were wealthy industrialists. Oliveira attended school in Galicia, Spain and his goal as a teenager was to become an actor. He enrolled in Italian film-maker Rino Lupo's acting school at age 20, but later changed his mind when he saw Walther Ruttmann's documentary Berlin: Symphony of a City. This prompted him to direct his first film, also a documentary, titledDouro, Faina Fluvial (1931). He also acted in the second Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa...
Highest rated appearances
Visit, or Memories and Confessions
as Self

Manoel de Oliveira, O Caso Dele
as Himself

The 15th Stone
as Himself

Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
as Manuel Luciano (2007)

O Improvável Não é Impossível
as (voice)

No Tempo do Cinema
as Himself

Conversazione a Porto

A Talking Picture

Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought
as Self

Porto of My Childhood
as Himself / Narrator / The Thief

Inquietude
as Tango Dancer

Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
as Self

Voyage to the Beginning of the World
as Driver

A Friendly Handshake

Lisbon Story
as Himself

Oliveira, l'architecte

The Divine Comedy

No, or the Vain Glory of Command
as Narrator
Cinéma Portugais – Un Mode d'Emploi