João Bénard da Costa

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

Biography

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Lisbon, Portugal

About

Acting, Male

Birthday

07 February 1935, 90 years old

Known For

To Each His Own Cinema

City of Pirates

Francisca

The Convent

No, or the Vain Glory of Command

Doomed Love

Porto of My Childhood

Fragile as the World

Love Torn in a Dream

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

The Life of Mirrors

2025

João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved

Self

2015

Sodankylä Forever

Self

2010

The Invisible Collection

Tavares, o Coleccionador

2009

To Each His Own Cinema

Pope Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique")

2007

The 15th Stone

Himself

2007

No Tempo do Cinema

Himself

2006

Magic Mirror

Bahia

2006

The Uncertainty Principle

Ferreira

2002

Porto of My Childhood

A Man

2001

Fragile as the World

Avô

2001

Love Torn in a Dream

Le représentant du gouvernement

2000

Word and Utopia

Pope Clemente X

2000

Cinemaamor

Doctor

2000

Vasco Santana: O Bom Português

Self

1998

Cinema Português? - Diálogos com João Bénard da Costa

Himself

1997

The Convent

Baltazar

1995

Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista

1994

Blind Man's Bluff

Blind Man

1994

Oliveira, l'architecte

1993

Aqui D'El Rei!

Medico (as Duarte de Almeida)

1992

No, or the Vain Glory of Command

Baron of Alvito

1990

Cinéma Portugais – Un Mode d'Emploi

1990

Tall Stories

truck driver

1988

The Mountains of the Moon

Salvador

1987

The Satin Slipper

Courtisan

1986

City of Pirates

The Father

1984

Francisca

Duarte de Almeida

1981

The Territory

Wanderer #2

1981

Oxalá

Artur (as João Pedro Bénard da Costa)

1981

Doomed Love

Comandante do Navio

1979

Past and Present

Honório

1972

Agustina Bessa-Luís: Nasci Adulta e Morrerei Criança

Himself

Unknown