A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Carregosa, Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal
Born:
November 16, 1891
Died:
September 27, 1975
Abel Pêra (Carregosa, Oliveira de Azeméis, 16 November 1891 – Rio de Janeiro, 27 September 1975) was a Portuguese actor based in Brazil. Brother of Manuel Pêra and uncle of actress Marília Pêra, Abel Pêra entered the world of theater in his late teens as a carpenter, among his works are A Pensão da Dona Estela and Feitiço, by Oduvaldo Vianna. Uncle and godfather of actress Marília Pêra, Abel, even after becoming an actor, continued making wooden objects. Friend Chico Anysio once received a golf club he had made from Abel. On television, he participated in the soap opera Fogo Sobre Terra in 1974. Abel Pêra's last work was the film O Casamento, released in 1975.
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At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.