Alberto Cavalcanti
Directing
February 6, 1897
Died August 23, 1982 (85 years old)
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
8
Acting Credits
60
Directed
Biography
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a prominent mathematician. He was a precociously intelligent child, and by the age of 15 was studying law at university. Following an argument with a professor he was expelled. His father sent him to Geneva, Switzerland on condition that he did not study law or politics. Cavalcanti chose to study architecture instead. At 18 he moved to Paris to work for an architect, later swi...
Known For
Filmography
Cavalcanti
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
9
Um Homem e o Cinema
1976
as Self
9
Grierson
1973
as Self
7.3
Lettres de Stalingrad
1972
as Astronomer
8
Alberto Cavalcanti
1970
as Self
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
1934
as J. Leviticus (uncredited)
5.8
Paris Cinéma
1929
as Self
9