José de Matos-Cruz is a licentiatein Law by the University of Coimbra, 1973. Since the sixties, he has written for various newspapers and magazines. He writes fiction and poetry books, some worth mentioning: Tempo Possível, in 1967, Cafre, 1970, Alma de Cadáver, 1985, A Erosão dos Lábios, 1992, Hexálogo, 2000, Os EntreTantos, 2003, and O Infante Portugal , 2007. He is the founder of several comics magazines and the coordinator of a comics section entitled Quadradinhos in the evening paperA Capital. In 2004, he started publishing a periodical webzine, Imaginário. He also writes books on cinema, such as monographs on Charles Chaplin, Manoel de Oliveira, António de Macedo, Artur Ramos, António Lopes Ribeiro and Francisco Ribeiro. His masterpieces include O Cais do Olhar, 1980–1999, which covers all 20th-century Portuguese long feature films; in 1989 a Prontuário do Cinema Português, a guide with detailed descriptions of Portuguese films produced from 1896 to 1989; O Cinema Português, a catalog of Portuguese films from 1986 to 1998 ; and in 2002, 30 Anos com o Cinema Português. Since 1986, he has reviewed films for the newspaper Diário de Notícias. In 1995, he was an adviser for the series, broadcast by the RTP, the Portuguese national TV station. He has also advised on dictionaries, encyclopaedias and several RTP programs and productions. From 2000 to 2010, he was a professor at the Escola Superior de Teatro e de Cinema. He created a film database called Cinema Português, published by the Instituto Camões, a department of the Portuguese Foreign Office. In 2003, he started teaching a film course at the Universidade Moderna, Lisbon. From 1980 to 2008, he organised Filmografia Portuguesa at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, the Portuguese National Film Archive. José de Matos-Cruz – Memórias Afectivas e Outras Histórias is a DVD film by Delfim Ramos, which portrays him as a living and creative testimony. In 2005, he published a monograph of the actor Joaquim de Almeida, which is expected to become in future a digital guide to Portuguese Theatre, the Anuário Teatral – Portugal – Século XIX,. In 2010, he became a member of the board of the Fundação D. Luís I, in the town of Cascais.
