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Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born March 15, 1957) is a Portuguese actor. He began his acting during the 1980s, appearing on the 1982 action movie The Soldier. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1995 Tom Clancy's thriller Clear and Present Danger, drug kingpin Bucho in the 1995 action thriller film Desperado, Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24 and the corrupt businessman Hernan Reyes in 2011 street racing film Fast Five. His other well known films include The Honorary Consul (1983), Good Morning, Babylon (1987), Only You (1994), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007), Che: Part Two (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008). He has worked in Europe, Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Brazil in many film and stage productions, winning several international awards.
Joaquim de Almeida
The Portuguese captain
for The Portuguese captain in Robinson Crusoe
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Robinson Crusoe is an Englishman of York in 17th century. Encouraged by his father to study law, Crusoe expresses his wish to go to sea instead. Initially, Robinson is committed to obeying his father, but he eventually embarks on a ship bound for London with a friend. When a storm causes the near deaths of Crusoe and his friend, Crusoe still goes on to set himself up as merchant on a ship leaving London. This trip is financially successful, and Crusoe plans another, leaving his early profits in the care of a friendly widow. The ship is seized by Moorish pirates, and Crusoe is enslaved to a potentate in Sallee. While on a fishing expedition, he and a slave boy break free and sail down the African coast. A kindly Portuguese captain picks them up, buys the slave boy from Crusoe, and takes Crusoe to Brazil. In Brazil, Crusoe establishes himself as a plantation owner and soon becomes successful. Eager for slave labor and its economic advantages, he embarks on a slave-gathering expedition to West Africa but ends up shipwrecked off of the coast of Trinidad. Crusoe is onlyone survivor. Returns to the wreck for guns, powder, food, finds goats, build a shelter. 1660, he is ill, hallucinates that an angel visits, warning him to repent. Drinking tobacco-steeped rum, Crusoe realizes that God has delivered him from his earlier sins. He saved native and named him Friday. On December 19, 1686, Crusoe boards the ship to return to England. His widow friend has kept Crusoe’s money safe.
