Francis Nicholson he wrote “Vila Faia”, the first Portuguese television series, formed “Laughter and rhythm,” comedy pioneer program on television, bet on revues renewal, with Adoque company, interpreted, directed actors and staged.
added up over 50 years of career, taking always in public interviews and statements, their contrarian side, but sometimes noble origin, the paternal side, which bound him the Earl of Farrobo and Quintela Baron
I would like to quote the Spanish poet Antonio Machado. – “the path is made walking.” -, as evidenced by several interviews
He began to theater at 14, the old Liceu Camões, under the direction of director and poet António Manuel Couto Viana, the invitation which came to belong to the Portuguese Youth Group.
the family run counter to the route, at least until of age, which led to the Merchant Marine – a period of three years, publicly reminded several times -. and actor training at the National Conservatory in Lisbon for a short time, and in Paris
in the French capital, he attended the Academy Charles Dullin, the National Théâtre Populaire, depriving with big names like Jean Vilar, Georges Wilson, Gérard Philipe.
on his return to Lisbon, would again Couto Viana to score his professional debut with the Children’s Theatre Company the Gerifalto, which took part also young players like Rui Mendes Morais and Castro, Catarina Avelar, Irene Cruz and Mario Pereira, among others.
according to the theater database of the Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon, was also Couto Viana Francis Nicholson went to the National Theatre Company, which made “the Homburg Prince” by Heinrich von Kleist, following -if the work in companies of Vasco Morgado and Raul Solnado.
worked well in theaters ABC, Monumental, Villaret, Variety, particularly in comedy and in the magazine, as an actor and director.
He founded the Adoque – Cooperative Theatre Workers, with actors like Jose Viana, Dora Leal, Henrique Viana, Antonio Montez, the designer Mario Alberto, company “left” as opposed to the “conservative” way of Mayer which marked the beginning of their careers names like Helena Isabel, Virgílio Castelo and Maria Vieira.
“new people in bikini” in 1963 marked his debut as magazine author, with Cesar de Oliveira and Rogério Bracinha, followed by shows like “it’s the end of macacada”, “P’rò boy and girl P’ra” or “Everything naked” / “Everything naked with new fig leaf”, which, in Parque Mayer, accompanied the turn to democracy, with the April 25, 1974.
in 1964, created the program “Laughter and rhythm” for television, with Armando Cortes, constituting a pioneering partnership in television comedy, a succession of ‘sketches’, interspersed with musical numbers. The success led them to a special program Year’s Eve, which made famous the ‘leaves’:. “! It is an hour What a feast”
Later follow-up would, among other “jolly corner” and “the fair”, who starred with his wife, actress, dancer and choreographer Magda Cardoso.
Francis Nicholson added close to 50 shows, of his own, often staged and directed by itself, going to plays for children, such as “The fearless knight” and “Boingue-boingue”, the magazine “pides the grid” and “The CIA of the cardinals,” which led to the scene in Adóque.
it originated in revues, the “Prayer” song, which won the RTP festival in 1964. the gender occupy it would throughout his career, with shows in which he participated, as “Piratada the Portuguese!” “Grab that is honest!” or “Listening to the bore!”, brought to the scene in the last ten years.
Nicholson, however, was well aware of the emerging dramaturgy. In Theatre Studio Lisbon, independent company run by Luzia Maria Martins, played Fernando Portuguese Soares, and British John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, the so-called “young angry men”, challenging censorship.
He was the author of “Vila Faia”, spring Portuguese soap opera, which was followed soap operas and series like “Origins,” “Ashes,” “the Wolves”, “Account Setting”, “Greed,” “the Look of the Serpent”, among many other
in cinema, signed the screenplays for the films “Operation Dynamite” and “Bonanza & amp; C.ª”.., Peter Martins
He wrote to the supplement “the Fly” Diary of Lisbon, where he crossed Stau-Monteiro, and the Ball, People’s Daily, the Capital, Journal News, North Sports.
He is the author of the novel “the dead do not give autographs” which has a journalist as the main character.
He received the “cultural merit gold medal” of the Lisbon Town Hall, it was awarded by the municipality of Oeiras and received the award Beatriz Costa Magazine theater.
“I go to bed thinking that I lived another day. I have women who like to me, a house that I like, a family that I like, I have cats and dogs more than I do not like, but Magda like … I have hundreds of books I bought and I will never read . It is so, “he said in an interview with Taboo magazine, the Sol weekly newspaper in 2010.
Born in Lisbon on June 26, 1938, died today at age 77, in hospital Curry Cabral.
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