José Leitão de Barros

José Leitão de Barros

Leitão de Barros
Born October 22, 1896(1896-10-22)
Lisbon, Portugal
Died June 29, 1967(1967-06-29) (aged 70)
Lisbon, Portugal
Occupation Film director, playwright

José Leitão de Barros (22 October 1896 – 29 June 1967) was a Portuguese film director and playwright.

Among his most famous films are Maria do Mar (1930), the second docufiction after Moana (1926) by Robert Flaherty, the first Portuguese sound film, A Severa (1931), Ala-Arriba! (1945), and a biopic about Portugal's national poet, Camões (1946).

He was born, and died, in Lisbon.

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