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Ruy Guerra

Ruy Guerra

Birthday: 1931-08-22 | Place of Birth: Maputo, Moçambique

Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira (born August 22, 1931) is a Portuguese-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor. Guerra was born a Portuguese citizen in Lourenço Marques (today Maputo) in Mozambique, when it was still Portuguese colony. Guerra studied at IDHEC film school in Paris from 1952. In 1958 he started his career as an assistant director in several French films. Later on he immigrated to Brazil, where he directed his first feature film, Os Cafajestes (1962).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2017
2016
Gabo & Cinema

as    Self

2016
Cinema Novo

as    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2015
About Cinema

as    Self

2015
Chico: Brazilian Artist

as    Self

2014
Blue Blood

as    Mumbebo

2006
The House of Sand

as    Vasco de Sá

1997
Dib

as    Self

1977
Aguirre, the Wrath of God

as    Don Pedro de Ursúa

1957
S.O.S. Noronha

as    Miguel