Director

Jean Garrett

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Directed movies: 15Directed series: 0All crew credits: 21

TMDB ID: 1496673

IMDb ID: nm0308059

Known for: Directing

Born: April 16, 1947

Died: April 22, 1996

Age: 49

Place of birth: Açores, Portugal

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: Yes

Career span: 1967 - 1986

Years active: 20

Average TMDB rating: 6.17

Wikidata: Q5837972

Also known as

Jean Garret • J.A. Nunes • José Antônio Nunes Gomes e Silva

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Director (14)Assistant Director (1)Writer (4)Executive Producer (1)Producer (1)

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Biography

José Antônio Gomes Nunes e Silva (1947–1996), better known as Jean Garrett, was a Portuguese-Brazilian actor, producer, screenwriter, filmmaker, and occasional actor. A native from the archipelago of Açores, Portugal, he moved to Brazil to become one of the most well-known directors of the São Paulo exploitation production pole known as Boca do Lixo. Garrett is celebrated for his highly formalist directorial style, ability of mixing erotic appeal with bold themes, and successful approach to various genres. With a career that spanned for 20 years, with over 18 features, Garrett directed noir-esque police stories, thrillers, horror and disaster pictures. By the mid-to-late 1980s, when the Boca do Lixo started almost exclusively to produce explicit pornographic films, Garrett finished his filmmaking career after directing a series of explicit features under the screen credit of J.A. Nunes, a pseudonym that evoked his actual birth name. He died from a heart attack in 1996 – 10 years after his retirement from filmmaking.

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