Manoel de oliveira biography for kids

Issue 88

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– Manoel de Oliveira, on the occasion of his 103^rd birthday, as quoted in Goncalves

By the time of his death on April 2, 2015 at the remarkable age of 106, the Portuguese director Manoel dem Oliveira was the oldest living filmskapare still actively working within the industry, and also the filmskapare with the longest career in the cinema, having directed films since 1927, beginning with a tantalizing project on the First World War that was never completed. If you consider that 1927 planerat arbete Oliveira’s baptism in the cinema, then he had been a director for 88 years, longer than most of us manage simply to stay alive.

As critic Ali Jaafar noted in Deadline,

The latter half of his long, and critically acclaimed, career would see him earn a dozen career achievement prizes fro

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Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel de Oliveira at the Cinematheque Francaise on 3 July 2008 at age 99
Birth:	11 December 1908 Porto, Kingdom of Portugal
Death:	2 April 2015 Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Age:	106 years, 112 days
Country:	POR
Centenarian

Manoel de Oliveira GCSE GCIH (11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese centenarian, film director, and screenwriter. He also was one of oldest known living men in Portugal at the time of his death.

Biography[]

Oliveira was born in Porto, Portugal on 11 December 1908. His parents were Francisco Jose de Oliveira and Candida Ferreira Pinto. His family were wealthy industrialists and agricultural landowners. His father owned a dry-goods factory, produced the first electric light bulbs in Portugal and built an electric energy plant before he died in 1932. Oliveira was educated at the Colégio Universal in Porto before attending a Jesuit boarding school in Galicia, Spain. As a teenager h

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Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel de Oliveira in July 2008.
Born	Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (1908-12-11)December 11, 1908 Porto, Portugal
Died	April 2, 2015(2015-04-02) (aged 106) Porto, Portugal
Occupation(s)	Director, screenwriter
Years active	1927–2014
Spouse	Maria Carvalhais ​ ​ (m. 1940⁠–⁠2015)​
Children	4

Manoel Cândido Pinto de OliveiraGCSE, GCIH (Portuguese: [mɐnuˈɛɫ doliˈvɐjɾɐ]; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguesedirector and screenwriter. At the age of 106, he is thought to be the second oldest movie director, just behind George Abbott at 107.

Manoel de Oliveira was born in Cedofeita, Porto and was raised as a Roman Catholic. He began making movies in 1927.

Oliveira married Maria Carvalhais on 4 December 1940. They have four children together that were all born in the 1940s.^[1] When he was younge