Vasco Santana

Birthday: January 29th, 1898 Date of Death: June 13th, 1958 Place of Birth: Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal

Vasco António Rodrigues Santana was a Portuguese actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema.

He already had a long career in theatre when he played the main character in the first Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa, in 1933. He starred in about one dozen films.