Domingos de Oliveira

Domingos Jose Soares de Oliveira (September 28, 1936 — March 23, 2019) was a Brazilian actor, playwright, stage director, TV host, poet, and filmmaker. After getting the bachelor''s degree in Engineering, he got involved in amateur theatre and soon started to get involved with the film, specially with the Brazilian New Wave (Cinema novo (New Cinema) movement. He served as assistant director to Joaquim Pedro de Andrade in the short films "percy bysshe shelley, the Poet of the Castle" and "hide the Cat", and debuted as a film director with 1966's "Every woman in the World". After that, de Oliveira wrote over 20 stage plays, directed 18 films, and hosted 3 TV shows, all in which he constantly worked with his partner, Priscilla Rozenbaum. For his plays, and occasionally, self-starred the very-low-budget films often deal with themes of love and sex in a humorous and intelligent key, and he became known as the "Brazilian Woody Allen. During his early years Oliveira struggled with Parkinson's Disease, but kept working until his passing in March, 2019 at the latest.