Raul Solnado

Acting

Raul Solnado

Born 1929-10-19 · Lisbon, Portugal

Raul Augusto de Almeida Solnado (19 October 1929, Lisbon - 8 August 2009) was a popular Portuguese actor and comedian. He was born in Lisbon's Madragoa neighborhood, and first appeared on stage there. In his long career, he developed many comic pieces that have become classics. His humour was, at the time (especially considering Portugal was still under the dictatorial Salazar regime), both unexpected and fresh. It included a lot of nonsense, and stories making fun of daily life. He often played an ingenuous poor man, whose life was neither good or bad. Solnado hosted Portugal's first talk show, in 1969, alongside Carlos Cruz and Fialho Gouveia. The show, called Zip Zip is still considered a landmark in the history of Portuguese television. He died on 8 August 2009 of heart disease.

Acting credits

Aventuras d'um Detetive Português poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aventuras d'um Detetive Português

1975

Sangue Toureiro poster
6.5

Eduardo, the son of the wealthy farmer Jerónimo de Vinhais, falls in love and departs for Lisbon with the fado singer Maria da Graça, after studying abroad, and refusing his father "too" to be a taurenic knight.

Sangue Toureiro

1958

Call Girl poster
5.8

A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...

Call Girl

2007

Perdeu-se um Marido poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Perdeu-se um Marido

1957

O Noivo das Caldas poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Noivo das Caldas

1956

Ballad of Dog Beach poster
6.4

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Ballad of Dog Beach

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ar, Água e Luz

1956

The Jester poster
6.8

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.

The Jester

1987

The Jester poster
6.8

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.

The Jester

1987

Aqui D'El Rei! poster
6.6

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.

Aqui D'El Rei!

1992

O Tarzan do 5º Esquerdo poster
7.3

Luisa and Manuel begin the existence of married, having only their dream and hope. He judges himself a Tarzan in the jungle of life, able to face all the threats, next to his companion.

O Tarzan do 5º Esquerdo

1958

Martes y trece poster
5.6

Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as all sorts of problems pave their way.

Martes y trece

1962

No artwork available
NR

A biographical documentary, which shows Raul Solnado in the first person, with testimonies from Artur Ramos, Maria do Céu Guerra, Leonor Xavier, among others.

Raul Solnado - O Estado da Graça

Requiem poster
7.8

In Lisbon, French author Paul meets various people from his past who uncover forgotten memories.

Requiem

1998

O Milionário poster
8.5

A sentimental comedy about... toothpicks. The hero manufactures and exchanges toothpicks for countless goods because he ignores the value of money. "The Millionaire" is his nickname. He runs around the city, happy, meeting friends: Carlitos, the newsboy, and Celeste, the lemon seller. His innocent life contrasts with the city, full of traps and dangers.

O Milionário

1962

América poster
6.4

In a Portuguese village by the sea, a family sees their house become a transit point to innumerous migrants due to a passport forgery business created by its patriarch, Vítor, and his Spanish ex-wife Fernanda. His Russian wife Liza and his son Mauro—who stops talking—see the newcomers alter the dynamics, relationships and aspirations of the house's residents.

América

2011

Facas e Anjos poster
5.5

In 1983, little João Amaral Severo asks his father to go to the circus. His father, and army captain who had been recently widowed, refuses to take him under the pretext that the circus would draw his attention away from his studies. Ten years later João is a student in the Military College, and is tired of the harsh discipline imposed by his father and decides to join a travelling circus that stops in his hometown, Alcochete. From then on João, alone and free to live his life the way he wants, finds a world of magic, the love of Dolores (a young trapeze artist) and the family he never really had. Until a twist of fate turns João into a father...

Facas e Anjos

2000

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Na Minha Aldeia, Cerveja a Copo

1969

Duke poster
6.0

Duke is the name of a journalist who investigates the famous Ballet Rose case. During the investigation, he stumbles upon a mysterious murder.

Duke

1988

A Garça e a Serpente poster
10.0

Melancholic and atheist bank clerk Manuel is stuck in a love triangle with two women, the fiery art model Albertina and the quiet and religious Ana Maria. After spending several years working in Africa, Manuel returns to Portugal only to find both women already married, and his life marred by problems.

A Garça e a Serpente

1952

Dom Roberto poster
6.8

João Barbela is poor man who lives out of charity - what coins the people of Lisbon's popular districts give him as 'pay' for his puppeteering work. For the kids, he is like a king, Dom Roberto = puppet). When he meets Maria, an equally poor girl, he fancies to change her life, and get her a house, maybe marrying, and being happy together.Life does not exactly have a happy ending, like he managed with his puppets 5-minute plays...

Dom Roberto

1962

Há Petróleo no Beato poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Há Petróleo no Beato

1986

No artwork available
NR

A Documentary about Raul Solnado's work and life.

O Meu Raul

2011

Façam o Favor de Ser Felizes poster
NR

Documentary about Raul Solnado's Life.

Façam o Favor de Ser Felizes

2009