Nicholas Breyner: Of the rare actors with such a valued authorial component, says the SPA – RTP

 “Few Portuguese actors had such a diverse and rich activity, but always valued by copyright component that not abdicated and was keen to consider essential in your life,” reads the statement from the SPA.
 

 “Also for this reason it was awarded the Medal of Honor of the cooperative, highlighting the diversity and quality of the works that, as an author, he left his on name,” adds the cooperative of authors, noting that on 16 October 2014, Nicholas Breyner participated in a tribute session Herman Jose, SPA, it was delivered to him the Medal of honor for 40-year career.
 

 The SPA highlights “its great artistic, cultural and human qualities” and ensure that “his name will always continue to be remembered and valued the cooperative of Portuguese authors.”
 

 The cooperative highlights “the fact that Nicholas Breyner have supported opposition activities to the dictatorship in the late sixties of the twentieth century.”
 

 Says the SPA that Nicholas Breyner had “over 450 participations in the cinema in films of filmmakers from several generations from Fernando Lopes Jorge Paixão da Costa, through Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos, Joaquim Leitão, Leonel Vieira, Mário Barroso and João Botelho among others. it was also the main actor in feature films that made “.
 

 For his services as a director and actor, Breyner received three globes of gold in 2003 and 2004.
 

 Its “extensive artistic biography included dozens of television shows, numerous plays and films that stand out in 2014, ‘Cats do not have vertigens` and` Facing the avesso`, and in 2012, directed and represented in the movie `The gelo` web.”
 

 “Seven rural sins” feature film of 2013, is third in the list of Portuguese films with the highest number of viewers, since it is made the processing of the ticket data (2004).
 

 With dramatic singer training – was tenor – Nicholas Breyner debuted as an actor in 1960 in the play “Leonor Telles,” Marcelino Mesquita, directed by Francisco Ribeiro, known as “Riverside” in the Theatre National Populaire company in Teatro da Trindade, Lisbon.
 

 The actor and director Nicholas Breyner, 75, died today at home in Lisbon, said the agency Lusa source of the actor’s advice.
 

 Born in Serpa, in Beja district, July 30, 1940, with a career of over 60 years, the actor left a mark on Portuguese television, especially through very popular soap operas like “Vila Faia” and “Ashes” among others.
 

 It also became known to the general public television programs as “I Nico Show” (1988) and “Nicholas in Wonderland”, 1975, which created the `sketch`” Mr. Merry and Mr. Contente “with Herman José – Nicholas Breyner was the Lord Contente.
 

 Nicholas Breyner was currently participating in recordings of telenovela TVI “La impostora”.