Anselmo Duarte

Anselmo Duarte Bento (April 21, 1920 – November 7, 2009) was a Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director. Initially known as a leading man in popular musical comedies (known in Brazil as "chanchadas"), he debuted as filmmaker in 1957's "Absolutamente Certo", in which he also stars. His next film, "O Pagador de Promessas" (1962), adapted from a stage play by Dias Gomes, won the Golden Palm at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. It is, to date, the only Brazilian feature film to be so distinguished and the first Cannes' Southern Hemisphere Golden Palm for best feature film. Duarte was awarded with the Order of The Cultural Merit, Brazil's highest cultural civilian honor, and with the Order of Ipiranga, which is the state of São Paulo's highest civilian honor. He was also awarded with titles of merit citizenship by numerous Brazilian municipalities including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salto, his birthplace. In 2009, the municipality of Salto inaugurated a multimillion-dollar cultural and educational center named "Centro Cultural e Educacional Anselmo Duarte", housing a 500 audience amphitheater for film and theatrical events. The center also displays for public view the original "Golden Palm" awarded to Duarte at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. n 2008, at 88, Duarte founded a cultural organization (Instituto Anselmo Duarte) dedicated to restoring selected Brazilian films and creating special, free of charge, educational projects aimed at young filmmakers to improve their technical filmmaking skills. After his death, his son, Ricardo Duarte, 69, became the institute's president. Upon being diagnosed by suffering Alzheimer's dementia in 2002, Duarte spent his last 7 years of life under the care of his son, Ricardo, and his grandchild, Daphne, a preeminent Brazilian artist. Anselmo had 4 children. Reaching stage 6 on his Alzheimer illness condition, a bladder cancer was detected which led to a severe blood hemorrhage, precipitating a heart stroke. Although both the bladder cancer and heart conditions had been successfully treated, a sudden massive hemorrhagic brain stroke left the legendary Brazilian actor and filmmaker in a coma for 6 days, which led to his passing on November 7, 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anselmo Duarte, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Salto, São Paulo, Brazil, 1920-04-21

Died: 2009-11-07

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Querida Suzana		0
2	1949	Carnaval no Fogo	Ricardo	0
3	1949	O Caçula do Barulho		0
4	1949	Terra Violenta	Dr. Carlos	0
5	1949	Pinguinho de Gente		0
6	1950	Aviso aos Navegantes	Alberto	65
7	1950	Don't Tell Me Goodbye		0
8	1950	The Shadow of Another		0
9	1951	Maior Que o Ódio		0
10	1952	Tico-Tico no Fubá	Zequinha de Abreu	80
11	1952	Appassionata	Pedro	0
12	1952	Veneno	Hugo	0
13	1953	The Landowner's Daughter	Rodolfo Fontes	50
14	1955	Carioca Symphony	Ricardo	0
15	1955	Carnival on Mars		0
16	1955	O Diamante		10
17	1956	Depois Eu Conto	Zé da Bomba	0
18	1957	Scarlet Macaw	Tenente Luís	0
19	1957	Absolutely Right	Zé do Lino	55
20	1958	O Cantor e o Milionário	Tito Livio	0
21	1960	Un rayo de luz	Pablo	56
22	1961	As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor	Daniel das Dornas	50
23	1967	Case of the Naves Brothers	Lieutenant	78
24	1967	A Espiã que Entrou em Fria		0
25	1968	Juventude e Ternura	Estênio	0
26	1968	A Madona de Cedro	Adriano Mourão	60
27	1971	Brazil in Cannes		0
28	1972	Independência ou Morte	Gonçalves Ledo	67
29	1974	O Marginal	Lemos	50
30	1974	Noiva da Noite - O Desejo de 7 Homens		0
31	1975	Assim Era a Atlântida		75
32	1976	Paranóia		0
33	1976	Já Não Se Faz Amor Como Antigamente	Atílio	44
34	1976	Ninguém Segura Essas Mulheres		0
35	1977	A Casa das Tentações		0
36	1979	Embalos Alucinantes: A Troca de Casais	Felipe	35
37	1981	Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema		50
38	1984	Tensão no Rio	Presidente da Valdivía	0
39	1986	Estou com AIDS		60
40	1986	Brasa Adormecida		50
41	1997	Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional	Self	0
42	2006	Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds	Self	70
43	2008	The Man Who Bottled Clouds	Self	0
44	2011	O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois	Self	0
45	2011	I, I, I José Lewgoy	Self	70
46	2017	Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century	Self	0
47	2024	Golpe de Vista	(archive footage)	70

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