Mário Viegas

António Mário Lopes Pereira Viegas (born in Santarém on 10 November 1948 – died in Lisbon on 1 April 1996) was a Portuguese actor, theatre director and reciter. He is considered one of the best actors of his generation and one of Portugal's greatest poetry reciters.

Career and personal life Born on 10 November 1948 and raised in a family from Santarém, which operated pharmacies and had a republican tradition, Mário Viegas became interested in theater while he was still studying history at the . Later, after a period living in Porto, he enrolled at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and made his professional debut at the Teatro Experimental de Cascais with Carlos Avilez.

At the same time, Mário Viegas also made himself known for his admirable way of saying poetry, recording an extensive discography in which he made known to the general public the work of some of the main Portuguese poets of the 20th century, such as António Gedeão, Fernando Pessoa, Guerra Junqueiro, Cesário Verde, Camilo Pessanha, Jorge de Sena, Ruy Belo or Eugénio de Andrade, but also Luís Vaz de Camões, Bertolt Brecht, Pablo Neruda, among others.

He was also a columnist for the Diário Económico, where he wrote about theater and humor. He published an autobiography entitled Auto-Photo Biography, in 1995.

Viegas died of AIDS on 1 April 1996, at the Santa Maria Hospital.

Works Audio recordings 1972 - Palavras Ditas, LP Orfeu 1975 - O Operário em Construção e 3 Poemas de Brecht, EP Orfeu 1974 - País de Abril, poems of Manuel Alegre, LP, Estúdios Polysom, Lisboa, Edição Orfeu 1976 – 3 Poemas de Amor, Ódio e Alguma Amargura, Edição Arnaldo Trindade Lda., Orfeu 1978 – Pretextos para Dizer…, LP Orfeu 1980 – Humores, 2 LP Orfeu STAT 100 1973 – O Guardador de Rebanhos, Alberto Caeiro – Fernando Pessoa, 2 Vinyl Sassetti 1990 - Poemas de Bibe: Grande Poesia Portuguesa Escolhida para os Mais Pequenos, with Manuela de Freitas, UPAV 1993 - No Centenário de Almada Negreiros: Manifesto Anti-Dantas, CD Orfeu

Filmography Some of his movies include: 1975, O Funeral do Patrão 1977, A Santa Aliança 1978, O Rei das Berlengas (D. Lucas Telmo de Midões) 1980, Kilas, o Mau da Fita (Rui Tadeu - pseudonym Kilas) 1980, A Culpa (Adriano) 1983, Sem Sombra de Pecado (Aspirante Henrique Sousa Andrade) 1985, A Boa Pessoa de Setzuan (Telefilme) 1986, 2002 Odisseia no Terreiro do Paço (Telefilme) 1986, Filmezinhos de Sam (Telefilme) 1986, Azul, Azul (Mário) 1987, Repórter X (Sete Línguas) 1987, Balada da Praia dos Cães (Voz do Capitão Dantas) 1988, A Mulher do Próximo (Henrique) 1990, Segno di Fuoco (usurário) 1991, O Suicidário (Telefilme) 1991, Os Cornos de Cronos (Professor Álvaro) 1991, A Divina Comédia (Filósofo) 1992, Rosa Negra (Barriga d'Água) 1994, Fado Lusitano (Narrador) 1995, Afirma Pereira (Editor) 1996, O Judeu (D. João VI) (Telefilme)

Television 1979, D. João VI (TV series) 1984, Palavras Ditas 1989, Um Filmezinho de Sam 1989, Rua Sésamo (TV series) 1991, Palavras Vivas 1991, Napoléon et l'Europe (TV series) 1992, Contradições (TV series)

Theatre 1973, Oh papá, pobre papá, a mamã pendurou-te no armário e eu estou tão triste, of Arthur Kopit, Casa da Comédia