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Filmmaker · Portugal

Cottinelli Telmo

Died in 1948

José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo was born in Lisbon on 13 November 1897, the son of a tenor and a pianist. An architect trained at the Beaux-Arts in Lisbon, he worked for the railways, designed the Portuguese pavilion at the Seville Exposition in 1929 and was chief architect of the Exhibition of the Portuguese World in 1940, where he designed with Leopoldo de Almeida the Monument to the Discoveries. An author of comic strips, he edited the newspaper ABC-zinho. He made only one film and died at Cascais on 18 September 1948, aged fifty, in a fishing accident.

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