Nicholas died Breyner, a pillar of the Portuguese television fiction – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

The actor Nicholas Breyner, one of the most expensive media of television and national cinema, died Monday at his home. I was 75 years old. Was filming now La impostora , the new telenovela TVI.

With a career spanning over five decades, Breyner Nicholas, who was born in Serpa, Alentejo, the June 30, 1940, made film, television and theater. Besides actor, he was producer, director and writer. He was co-author in 1982 of what was the first Portuguese soap opera, Vila Faia, which also starred.

Nicholas Breyner was also one of the most popular names of the television mood in Portugal. The tornadoes classic programs like Mr Happy and Mr Content , 1975, Herman José, succeeded more recently I Show Nico (1988) and Euronico (1990).

the director Joaquim Leitão, who directed him in Hell (1999), an action movie that takes place in contemporary Portugal and reflecting on the colonial war, says Publico that Nicholas Breyner was one of the actors’ naturally gifted “that has worked. Nicholas was Breyner Nunes, a former combatant, and here was one of its most important dramatic roles in Portuguese cinema. “What was remarkable in Nicholas is born to be an actor and this natural talent was an obvious thing when it is put before a camera. Was a person who did things with great ease and made him instinctively well. Then, as also had a lot of experience, it only made him even more effective. Anything you ask him he transferred immediately to your own body, your character idea. “Representing to Nicholas Breyner was not a painful thing,” was concentrated 30 seconds before the take and made him as well as others who are immersed in the character 24 hours a day. “

Leitão remembers him as “a person of great sympathy, adding that” although he had a great lord status, it was very easy to work with him “in the filming, was always” very well prepared “.

the Immortals (2003), Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos, the character Breyner returned to meet with the violence of the colonial war – “his” inspector Joaquim Malarranha is again a great performance in film and again Breyner joins naturally in a unique vocation of the actors who are called “comic” which episodically, but in a certain way, are full of drama and frustration (remember the purpose Raul Solnado Don Roberto in 1962, or the Ballad of Dog Beach, in 1982)

Surprised and “devastated” by the news of the death of Nicholas Breyner, a friend from his youth and times of the Conservatory, Lia Gama highlights that this is someone who “is part of the collective memory of Portugal and the Portuguese.” The actress, who he starred opposite several times from Sources (1983), the second Portuguese television series, adds Nicholas Breyner and ra “an extraordinary actor, a great director actors and a wonderful work companion. “

Lia Gama reveals that last week had participated with Nicholas Breyner a wardrobe test for the next film Sergio Trefaut, Wind Seara , whose shooting was scheduled to begin in April. “it’s a huge void that is,” says the actress.

of all the dimensions of Nicholas Breyner, the critic PUBLIC Augusto M. Seabra highlights the television mood: “I had a humorous production for television, such as comedy the Mirror of Acácios and the I Show Nico, which was very important and which showed great versatility. Interestingly, as film actor is much more dramatic and restrained. “it was” an important producer “of Portuguese telenovelas and launched” the first producer who devoted more specifically to the novels. ” As a director, “is just the continuation of its facet of handyman and was the realization of a dream, and I think it has no interest higher.”

In 2010, when he turned 70 years Breyner told Publico as he was not age . “These 50 years of my career made me reflect on the age and on aging. Of course we are different physically. Professionally I do not notice a difference, “he said. “There are times that things did not write humor and I now write. I am working on three or four things at once. I do it quietly, without slackening. Produce much, much better. I still go to the gym (always worked with very heavy weights and continue to do so). Then there are other things:. Already have to take medicines, which five years ago did not make sense “

The President recalled in Bethlehem” the great artist “who Nicholas was Breyner. “I was with him two days ago, it seemed to me health, was as always very happy. No one could have predicted,” said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, for whom the actor had “a great career and a culturally rich life, humanly rich.” “We were friends for decades, followed his life very closely,” he added further. “It’s a great distaste for being a great artist, a great heart.”

The Minister of Culture, João Soares, described Nicholas Breyner as “a great figure of our television.” Present in the studios of SIC Notícias, the minister recalled that Breyner “formed and influenced many young actors” national. “It was a very interesting man – to the end,” he said. “Besides being a committed citizen with the future of their country.”

Francisco Pinto Balsemão soon highlighted the following the role of Nicholas Breyner as a supporter of “SIC project” in the 1980s “was a great man, a great actor – film, theater and television, we must not forget – a producer, a creative “the founder of the Impresa group revealed to have been with Nicholas Breyner on Thursday, when he had found.” a little sad, a little lethargic. “

Benfica that Breyner was adept, also lamented the death of the actor,” a recognized and passionate Benfica. ” “Sport Lisboa e Benfica is associated with this moment of profound grief and addresses the deepest condolences to family and friends,” reads a statement from the club.

In 2009, Breyner was diagnosed with a prostate cancer. “What gave me the cancer was sure this was going to end sooner or later. It accelerated the feeling that life has a purpose. There is no longer the notion of immortality we have 30 to 40 years. The end is closer than it was ten years ago “, said in the same interview with Publico.

The new version of Forbidden Gardens and the series Facing the Inside Out have been his last work in television.