Acting
Oct 30, 1912
Lisbon, Portugal
António Vilar
Acting
Biography
António Vilar Justiniano dos Santos worked as an actor mainly in Portugal, where he was born, but also in Spain, where he took residence until he died. He also did some acting in France, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. Before becoming an actor, he worked as a make-up artist and as a decorator.
Feature Films (44)
A member of the jet-set dies in Lisbon, of drug overdose. A journalist tries to pass through disinformation nets to get to the traffick ring leader who is acting with such impunity. He is up to a surprise, when all evidence points him towards a lady of immaculate repute...
Disco rojo
A portrait of the relations between neighbours in a Lisbon courtyard. A story made of small episodes of humour, friendship, rivalry, love.
The Courtyard of the Ballads
Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.
A Woman Like Satan
Dr. Claude Moulin leaves his wife and child for a younger woman but the child needs attention and the wife falls very ill.
Beautiful Love
A child suffering from leukemia craves getting on a plane, so at a U.S. base located in Zaragoza will make the kid a favor and grant his wish.
Alerta en el cielo
A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces him is Antonio, a local fisherman. The latter does the job so well that he is chosen as a stunts man for the whole film. This does not please Lola,his fiancée; all the more as Antonio has fallen in love with Martine, the female star.
Love and Desire
A guy with bad feelings and worst methods, willing to do anything to satisfy his greed and vanity, is unhappy with the role of Judas in the Passion a play that is traditionally represented in his town because he prefers the role of Jesus.
Judas
Four Spanish Blue Division soldiers captured after the German invasion of Soviet territory face a choice in forced labor camps: renounce their Spanish nationality for better conditions. While two accept, Captain Adrados leads a group resisting, labeling those who comply as traitors, showcasing a struggle for loyalty to Franco's values.
Embajadores en el infierno
The story of how the conflicting relationship of Eduardo and vaudeville actress Isabel is affected by the passion he feels for their neighbor, Mariana, a young overprotected, and the unexpected visit of his uncle Plácido, a moral teacher.
The Girl Next Door
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.
Scheherazade
Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cross the Atlantic and reach the shores of America (1492), thus beginning a new era in the history of mankind.
