José Leitão de Barros

José Leitão de Barros (22 October 1896 – 29 June 1967) was a Portuguese film director and playwright.

Career
Among his most famous films are Maria do Mar (1930), the second docufiction after  Moana (1926) by Robert Flaherty, the first Portuguese sound film, A Severa (1931), Ala-Arriba! (1945), and a biopic about Portugal's national poet, Camões (1946).

He was born and died in Lisbon.

Filmography

 * Mal de Espanha (1918)
 * O Homem dos Olhos Tortos (1918) (unfinished)
 * Malmequer (1918)
 * Sidónio Pais - Proclamação do Presidente da República (1918) (lost)
 * Nazaré, Praia de Pescadores (1929) (the second part is lost)
 * Festas da Curia (1927)
 * Lisboa, Crónica Anedótica (1930)
 * Maria do Mar (1930)
 * A Severa (1931)
 * As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1935)
 * Bocage (1936)
 * Las Tres Gracias (1936)
 * Maria Papoila (1937)
 * Legião Portuguesa (1937)
 * Mocidade Portuguesa (1937)
 * Varanda dos Rouxinóis (1939)
 * A Pesca do Atum (1939)
 * Ala-Arriba! (1942)
 * A Póvoa de Varzim (1942)
 * Inês de Castro (1944)
 * Camões (1946)
 * Vendaval Maravilhoso (1949)
 * Comemorações Henriquinas (1960)
 * A Ponte da Arrábida Sobre o Rio Douro (1961)
 * Escolas de Portugal (1962)
 * A Ponte Salazar Sobre o Rio Tejo (1966)