Virgílio Castelo (Acting)

A Herança

It is possible to start over even after experiencing hell. An unexpected inheritance and a crime give an unjustly treated woman the opportunity to change her life.

Release Date:2025-01-27

Character:Raul Novais

Episode Count:2

Lady of the sea

On her birthday, Joana's joy turns to despair when her abusive husband discovers her pregnancy and attempts to harm her. Fleeing the city, she finds refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revered by the island's faithful.

Release Date:2024-02-05

Character:Adérito Ramalho

Episode Count:277

Vote Count:10

Homo Verum

In 1894, Gabriel, an ambitious medicine graduate, spends his summer learning from the renowned Doctor Fidalgo in his isolated Mansion. Upon developing a lustful admiration for Fidalgo's wife, the young doctor is forced to break his morals.

Release Date:2023-01-01

Character:Dr. Fidalgo

Abandonados

Based on real facts, recalls the alliance between Portuguese, Timorese and Australians against a common enemy that did not hesitate to commit the greatest atrocities against the local populations and against all those who opposed him.

Release Date:2022-12-21

Character:Canto de Resende

Episode Count:7

Egas’ Ego

Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country full of “narrow-minded” people, Egas Moniz faced everyone so as to impose his scientific ideas, for which he was awarded, at a quite advanced stage of his life, the much-desired Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949.

Release Date:2020-12-31

Character:Sobral Cid

Vote Count:1

Terra Nova

Release Date:2020-06-03

Character:Capitão Silva

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:5

Terra Nova

Inspired by Bernardo Santareno's “The Lugger” and “In the Seas of the End of the World”, this is the story of a captain of a codfish lugger, fishing in the banks of the Newfoundland who decide to risk sailing to Greenland in search of more fish. Along the way, he has to face storms, crew revolt and deal with the best and the worst of humanity when tested in extreme circumstances.

Release Date:2020-03-19

Character:Capitão Silva

Vote Count:6

Terra Brava

To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger brother. Diogo, a decorated military officer, finds out that Eduarda is responsible for the destruction of his family. He returns to his homeland to take revenge, but falls in love with her daughter, Beatriz, who is married to Tiago, his biological brother.

Release Date:2019-10-28

Character:Francisco Ferreira

Episode Count:361

Vote Count:1

St. Louis

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last hope of salvation for more than nine hundred German Jews who, desperate to escape the atrocious persecution to which they are subjected by the Nazi regime, intend to emigrate to Cuba.

Release Date:2019-10-21

Character:Dr. Josef Joseph

Vote Count:7

Nazaré

“Nazaré” is a contemporary love story in a reality that plagues the country every summer. It is a narrative about the struggle of those who are defeated by flames, rebirth and hope.

Release Date:2019-09-09

Character:António Blanco

Episode Count:211

Vote Count:2

Rapiscimi

Release Date:2018-03-13

Vote Count:2

O Fim da Inocência

Inês is a teenager from a wealthy family. However, after classes, he participates in risky sexual games, compulsively uses the internet and attends the nightlife of Lisbon, entering a spiral of total destruction.

Release Date:2017-11-30

Character:Fernando

Vote Count:26

País Irmão

Reality is much stranger than fiction. There is a scandal that could be revealed and the Portuguese Government is nervous. The Minister of Culture and her team have a crazy idea that, for that reason, can work: to produce, together with Brazil, the biggest and most spectacular telenovela of all time: "Corte Tropical".

Release Date:2017-09-11

Character:Tony Santa Clara

Episode Count:14

Vote Count:2

Cold Phosphorus

Release Date:2017-02-10

Character:Afonso Luís Campos

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.

Release Date:2016-06-02

Character:Macedo Soares

Vote Count:75

Terapia

The show follows Mário Magalhães, a psychotherapist, through his weekly meetings with his patients, including his appointment with his own therapist.

Release Date:2016-01-04

Character:Mário Magalhães

Episode Count:45

Mulheres

The stories of seven women, whose destinies intersect. Seven Lisbon couples live different moments in their relationships. Everyone has problems to solve. The challenges that each couple face are different - some more serious, others more common and predictable... and some purely selfish.

Release Date:2014-06-01

Character:Hélder Peralta

Episode Count:146

Vote Count:5

Contactos 2.0

A man downloads a mobile app that gives terrible power over his contacts.

Release Date:2014-01-01

Character:Produtor

Bairro

Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates for drugs, money laundering, weapons, paintings, jewellery and tobacco.

Release Date:2013-06-26

Vote Count:5

Quarta Divisão

The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?

Release Date:2013-02-28

Character:Director Nacional PSP (voice)

Vote Count:6

Destinos Cruzados

Release Date:2013-01-27

Character:Jaime Veiga de Andrade

Episode Count:285

O Outro Lado da Mentira

Release Date:2012-07-13

A Família Mata

Release Date:2011-03-07

Character:Dário

Episode Count:80

Regresso a Sizalinda

Release Date:2010-07-17

Character:Vitalino

Episode Count:1

The Beauty and the Paparazzo

Telenovela star Mariana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown: shooting is not going smoothly, her popularity is waning, and she is forever being hounded by paparazzi. Frustrated, Mariana can't find out who is responsible for these invasions of her privacy. It is the feared 'Paparazzo' Gabriela Santos, who's real name is Juan. One day, Juan and Mariana meet by chance and fall in love. Now Juan must do everything he can to prevent Mariana from discovering his true identity.

Release Date:2010-01-28

Character:Gonçalo

Vote Count:21

Two Women

Joana, 40 years old medical phychiatric, is married to Paul, an executive of a large financial company. Paul hopes that Joana fulfils her role and follows his constant social influences demonstrations. But the marriage is profoundly altered when Mónica, a young model, enters Joana´s life. Irresistibly attracted, they involved romantically, in a world of liberating experiences and feelings. But this will be a short trip, since the revelation of this affair forces Paulo to take drastic measures... ~ FICA

Release Date:2009-11-09

Character:Paulo Amorim

Vote Count:11

A Esperança Está Onde Menos Se Espera

Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach in the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço must transfer to a public high school whose students are predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity. Hope is a strange place.

Release Date:2009-09-17

Character:Francisco Figueiredo

Vote Count:10

Alta Definição

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

Release Date:2009-09-12

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Star Crossed

Follows the fictional rivalry between two of Portugal's most prominent football teams - Invicta e Castelo and how their mutual disdain has spread further than the pitch.

Release Date:2009-06-04

Character:Pedro Escalus

Vote Count:4

Podia Acabar o Mundo

Release Date:2008-10-01

Character:Eduardo Morais

Episode Count:181

True and Tender is the North

Adaptation of a 1987 novel by Agustina Bessa Luis, a multi-generation exploration of a wealthy family with a mysterious past and a house on the island of Madeira.

Release Date:2008-09-30

Character:Almeida Garrett

Vote Count:8

Doomed Love

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with Teresa but does she exist or is she a mere figment, an image, a reflection? Teresa is an apparition. A pretext for an amoral violent uprising, for doomed love.

Release Date:2008-08-13

Character:João da Cruz

Vote Count:11

O Dia do Regicídio

Release Date:2008-02-02

Character:Afonso Costa

Episode Count:1

Call Girl

A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...

Release Date:2007-12-27

Character:Health Minister

Vote Count:22

Corruption

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

Release Date:2007-11-01

Character:the Vice-President

Vote Count:11

Fin de curso

There are two months to the end of High School Spanish classes in Lisbon and it's time to decide the destination for the end of year trip. That decision will cause a real "Civil War" between two irreconcilable groups: the "class nerd", who propose the typical cultural trip to Paris, and "freeloaders" who prefer to enjoy the week in Benidorm, the "New York's Costa Blanca ".

Release Date:2005-07-15

Vote Count:5

Mistura Fina

Release Date:2004-11-29

Character:Justino Lampreia

Episode Count:110

Inspetor Max

"Inspector Max" is a Portuguese television series created by Virgílio Castelo e Produções Fictícias and broadcast on TVI. Its story is a dog called "Max", who is caught by Inspector Jorge Mendes' two sons (Fernando Luís). Jorge Mendes is a lonely man whose wife died when his children were still small. He works at the DIC of Setúbal, Department of Criminal Investigation, in the 1st season. The successful DIC team from Setúbal was invited to go to DECC (Special Department for Combating Crime) and started the 2nd season. His boss, Graça Madureira (Fátima Belo), after some cases resolved in the DECC, was invited to join Interpol. In the 2nd season, the place is occupied by actress Sílvia Rizzo. Max, Jorge and Sérgio, Jorge's best friend, constitute the victorious trio. A series based on mystery and case solving.

Release Date:2004-03-14

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:2

A Passagem da Noite

Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood.

Release Date:2003-03-14

Character:delegado do Ministério Público

Vote Count:4

Saber Amar

Release Date:2003-01-20

Character:António

Episode Count:247

Vote Count:1

O Olhar da Serpente

Release Date:2002-09-30

Character:Rui Albuquerque Botelho

Episode Count:150

Crónica Feminina

Sonia and Branca are two close friends at their thirties's sexual peak, on the verge of their cosmopolitan loneliness. Despite the long relationship that keeps them together, they are so distant, that it's as if they didn't really know each other. Cronica Feminina (Women's Tales) is a dramatic comedy that talks about women, but essentially approaches, from the point of view of its characters, the human need to communicate, seduce, fantasize, the need for love in the bottom of all things

Release Date:2002-03-28

Character:Vasco

Um Estranho em Casa

Release Date:2002-01-01

Character:Francisco da Cunha

Episode Count:60

Segredo de Justiça

Release Date:2001-09-14

Character:Eduardo

Episode Count:1

Filha do Mar

Release Date:2001-09-03

Character:Diogo

Episode Count:169

Vote Count:1

A Senhora das Águas

Release Date:2001-09-03

Character:João Manuel

Episode Count:150

Teorema de Pitágoras

João, a young man which uses to have much success with women but doesn't treat them as he should. They are like a toy to him, till the day he meets Ana. That girl will change his life and the way he sees the relationships between men and women, but not before a "little problem" called Sofia - a TV star in the movie - come into their relationship

Release Date:2001-05-27

Character:António

Camarate

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever.

Release Date:2001-04-30

Character:Diogo

Vote Count:8

Olhos de Água

Release Date:2001-02-20

Character:Padre Eduardo

Episode Count:207

Vote Count:2

Super Pai

Release Date:2000-12-25

Character:Alexandre

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Ajuste de Contas

Release Date:2000-11-13

Character:Inspector Soares

Episode Count:150

Todo o Tempo do Mundo

Release Date:1999-05-01

Character:Miguel Faria

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Diário de Maria

Release Date:1998-11-25

Character:Miguel Gaspar

Episode Count:1

Ballet Rose

When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.

Release Date:1998-09-21

Character:Polícia Álvaro

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Riscos

Release Date:1997-10-04

Character:Edmundo

Episode Count:70

Vote Count:1

A Grande Aposta

Release Date:1997-09-09

Character:Francisco Ramos

Episode Count:150

Filhos do Vento

Release Date:1997-04-06

Character:Jorge Abrantes

Episode Count:150

Polícias

Release Date:1996-10-03

Character:Norberto

Episode Count:2

Vidas de Sal

Release Date:1996-09-30

Character:João Fragoso

Episode Count:150

Roseira Brava

Release Date:1996-01-08

Character:Manolo

Episode Count:150

A Mulher do Sr. Ministro

Release Date:1994-12-06

Character:Pedro Caldeirada

Episode Count:1

Ideias com História

Release Date:1993-10-01

Character:Zé do Telhado

Episode Count:1

Sozinhos em Casa

Release Date:1993-09-15

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Character:Professor Castelo

Episode Count:1

Procura-se

Release Date:1993-07-03

Character:Jorge Tavares Ribeiro

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Parabéns

Release Date:1992-09-19

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Marina, Marina

Release Date:1992-09-18

Episode Count:1

O Mandarim

Release Date:1991-11-09

Character:Diabo

Episode Count:1

Joaquim Letria

Release Date:1990-10-24

Character:Theo Van Gogh

Episode Count:1

Pau Preto

Release Date:1989-01-01

Passerelle

The soap opera tells the story of two families: Cardoso and Guimarães whose bosses are, one of them, bank manager and the other owner of a textile factory, linked to the world of fashion.

Release Date:1988-10-04

Character:António Gonzaga

Episode Count:120

Humor de Perdição

"Humor de Perdição" was a humorous television program, broadcast by RTP in 1987

Release Date:1988-04-03

Character:Porfírio

Episode Count:12

Meia Noite

Release Date:1988-01-01

The Jester

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.

Release Date:1987-10-31

Character:Soldier

Vote Count:9

Já Está

Release Date:1987-04-25

Character:Dramatização

Episode Count:1

A Girl in Summer

It is the end of summer and Isabel is a relationship with Diogo. She don't quite know what she wants from her life going forward as her father gets sick.

Release Date:1986-12-11

Character:João

Vote Count:4

Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe

Once inseparable, Charles the artist and Daniel the schemer reunite after 15 years of separation and confess their mutual misfortune. Determined to start over, the two friends and Sylvie, a friend of Charles, take on the movie business. But they come up against the well-established laws of the business and create havoc wherever they go. But their optimism will save them.

Release Date:1986-08-06

Vote Count:1

Passagem ou a Meio Caminho

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to strict isolation. With students of unidentified present time (1968? 1970?), the themes developed, in Büchner, are triggered by the publication of "The Messenger of Hesse", a pamphlet addressed to the peasants, urging them to revolt. Their misunderstanding, as well as the repression of the young revolutionaries, leads Büchner to a particularly skeptical and painful attitude...

Release Date:1986-02-25

Saudades Para Dona Genciana

Dona Elvira promises to get a job from José through the typical Portuguese wedge. In parallel, they are bizarre aspects and eccentric figures of the city life, including the tragedy of the actress Maria Alves.

Release Date:1986-01-31

Character:Augusto Gomes

The Satin Slipper

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.

Release Date:1986-01-08

Character:Officer

Vote Count:8

Lives

Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks.

Release Date:1984-10-11

Character:Dynamiter in Prison

Chronicle of Good Hoodlums

This exaggerated mockery of crime cinema tells the story of a gang lead by "Renato, o pacíficio" (Renato, the peaceful) and their attempt to steal precious jewels from the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The weapon of choice? Bees!

Release Date:1984-03-14

Character:Carlos

Vote Count:5

Os Abismos da Meia-Noite

Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town. During her investigations she meets a history teacher - Ricardo - who knew the librarian and is interested in local legends. Irene happens to hear about a very old medieval castle which, according to legend, has a secret entrance that opens mysteriously on Christmas night as the clock strikes twelve.

Release Date:1984-01-27

Character:Doctor

Vote Count:1

Ritual dos Pequenos Vampiros

The movie centers around the rape ritual of a minor by four young men, with the intention of freeing one of them of his past relationship with the girl.

Release Date:1984-01-01

Vila Faia

Release Date:1982-05-10

Character:Pedro Castella

Episode Count:100

A Vida É Bela?!

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy into a republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.

Release Date:1982-02-19

Character:Teodoro Galã

Vote Count:6

The Donkey-Eared Prince

In the time of King Leonardo, a war and the plague that accompanied it depopulated Traslândia. Ignoring these tragic events, Queen Isménia, Princess Camila and lady-in-waiting Narcisa, coming from a distant kingdom, arrive in Traslândia, when the war approaches the end.

Release Date:1980-08-29

Character:General / Médico Galezus