The great Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira has died, aged 106

Manoel de Oliveira, who made his first short film in 1931 and his most recent in 2014, has died at the age of 106.

Born in Porto, Portugal on 11 December 1908, he made a huge number of features, shorts and documentaries, including classics such as Aniki-Bóbó (1942), Doomed Love (1978), Francisca (1981), No, or the Vainglory of Command (1990) and Abraham Valley (1993).

He was considered to be the oldest active filmmaker in the world, with a number of his more recent films receiving distribution in the UK. These include Belle toujours (2006), his sequel to Luis Buñuel’s classic Belle de Jour (1967); Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (2009) and The Strange Case of Angelica (2010).

Oliveira was the last living filmmaker whose career began in the silent era.