Ribeirinho

Ribeirinho, stage name of Francisco Carlos Lopes Ribeiro (Lisbon, 21 September, 1911 — Lisbon, 7 February, 1984) was a Portuguese actor and director.

He started his career in theatre in 1929, and kept the connection all his life, both as an actor and as a manager. However, he is best known today for his comic roles in several films of the 1930s and 1940s, namely "O Pai Tirano" ("The Tyrant Father", 1941) and "O Pátio das Cantigas" ("Songs' Yard" or "Courtyard of Songs", 1942), which he also directed.

Son of Manuel Henrique Correia da Silva Ribeiro and wife Ester da Nazaré Lopes, he was the brother of António Lopes Ribeiro, one of the most famous directors of the Golden Age of Portuguese cinema, who directed him in several films.

He married actress Maria Adelaide da Silva Lalande, born in Castelo Branco, Salgueiro do Campo, on 7 November, 1913 and died in Lisbon on 21 March, 1968, and had an only daughter, Maria Manuel Lalande Lopes Ribeiro. The couple divorced and she married secondly as his first wife Clotário Luís Ribeiro Supico Pinto (1909-1986), son of Liberato Pinto.