Eduardo Luis Santos Correia Guedes (21 April 1941 – 29 August 2000)[1][2] was a Portuguese film-maker involved with the independent British film collective Cinema Action.
Guedes was born in Lisbon, the son of a judge, and initially studied chemical engineering at the University of Lisbon, but after refusing to take part in the Portuguese colonial wars, he left in 1961 to study film-making at the London International Film School.
In 1981, Guedes shot and edited a documentary, So That You Can Live, which opened Channel 4's independent film slot.
[1] Cinema Action's first feature, Rocinante (1986) starred John Hurt and Ian Dury, was written and directed by Eduardo and his wife Ann Guedes, and produced by Gustav Lamche.
[1] While fighting the cancer that would eventually cause his death, Guedes made two more features in Portugal: Pax (1994), starring Amanda Plummer and Isabel Ruth, and Knives And Angels (2000).