Cast & creator
João Bénard da Costa
Best known for To Each His Own Cinema, História do Cinema Português, Doomed Love
Also known as: Duarte de Almeida
40
film credits
2
television credits
38
1972–2025 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (42)
Showing 42 of 42 credits
To Each His Own Cinema
Pope Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique")
2007
História do Cinema Português
2001
Doomed Love
Capitão do Barco
1978
The Uncertainty Principle
Ferreira
2002
Hovering Over the Water
Production Assistant
1986
Fragile as the World
Avô
2001
No, or the Vain Glory of Command
Baron of Alvito
1990
Aqui D'El Rei!
Medico (as Duarte de Almeida)
1992
Island of Loves
Production Assistant
1982
Magic Mirror
Bahia
2006Magic Mirror
2006
The Satin Slipper
Courtisan
1986
City of Pirates
The Father
1984
Tall Stories
truck driver
1988
Love Torn in a Dream
Le représentant du gouvernement
2000
The Life of Mirrors
2025
Porto of My Childhood
A Man
2001
The Sound of the Shaking Earth
Professor
1990
Francisca
Duarte de Almeida
1981
Agustina Bessa-Luís: Nasci Adulta e Morrerei Criança
Himself
2005
Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss
Production Director
1988
Past and Present
Honório
1972
Word and Utopia
Pope Clemente X
2000
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
1994
João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
Self
2015
The Convent
Baltazar
1995
The Invisible Collection
Tavares, o Coleccionador
2009Cinéma Portugais – Un Mode d'Emploi
1990
No Tempo do Cinema
Himself
2006
Cinema Português? - Diálogos com João Bénard da Costa
Himself
1997
Vasco Santana: O Bom Português
Self
1998
Doomed Love
Comandante do Navio
1979
Rencontre Unique
Le Pape Jean XXIII
2007
Blind Man's Bluff
Blind Man
1994
Oxalá
Artur (as João Pedro Bénard da Costa)
1981
The Territory
Wanderer #2
1981
The 15th Stone
Himself
2007
The Mountains of the Moon
Salvador
1987
O Escritor Prodigioso
Self
2005
Oliveira, l'architecte
1993
Cinemaamor
Doctor
2000
The Swimming Pool
Producer
2004