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Ama Namin
''Ama Namin'' is a 1998 Philippine action drama film directed by Ben Yalung. The film stars Christopher de Leon and Sunshine Cruz. Cast * Christopher de Leon as Fr. Rico / Ka Marco * Sunshine Cruz as Ka Celia / Ka Lilia * Chin Chin Gutierrez as Ka Riza * Mat Ranillo III as Capt. Victor Santos * Tonton Gutierrez as Lt. Garcia * Rez Cortez as Capt. Garcia * Daniel Fernando as Ka Benjie * Patrick dela Rosa as Ka Romy * Pocholo Montes as Ka Elmer * Maritess Samson as Ka Miguel * Ray Ventura as Msgr. Reyes * Robert Ortega as Ka Luis * Suzette Ranillo as Kadyo's wife * Edgar Mande as Kadyo * Diego Castro as Basil * Tom Olivar as Provincial Commander * Robert Rivera as Kapitan Celso * Troy Martino as Sarhento * Amado Cortez as Don Jose de Dios * Marita Zobel Mary Ann Respall Blanch-Roxas, better known by her screen name Marita Zobel (born June 18, 1941), is a Filipina actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher De Leon
Christopher Strauss de León (born October 31, 1956) is a Philippine film actor and politician. He is recognized as the “''King of Philippine Drama''” has appeared in over 120 films since the early 1970s. Regarded as an "acting genius" and one of the pillars of the industry, De Leon is a recipient of the prestigious “Ulirang Artista Lifetime Achievement Award” at the 27th PMPC Star Awards. He has won 7 FAMAS Awards including five "Best Actor" wins and a Hall of Fame trophy. He has also won 2 Gawad Urian Awards, 4 FAP Awards and an MMFF Hall of Fame plaque. On June 30, 2010, he was sworn into office as the board member of the 2nd district of Batangas. Early life and education De Leon is the son of Gil de León and Lilia Dizon. He is of German Jewish descent from his maternal grandfather. On May 11, 1999, he was given a US Certificate of Citizenship. The U.S. Certificate of Citizenship says that the holder was a U.S. Citizen at birth. His citizenship was passed throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Ventura
Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris, France – 29 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel. Career Ventura was born to a Jewish family. In 1925 he was the pianist for the Collegiate Five, which recorded as the Collegians for Columbia beginning in 1928 and for Decca in the 1930s. A year later he led the band, and it became a dance orchestra resembling a big band. His sidemen included Alix Combelle, Philippe Brun, and Guy Paquinet. In the early 1940s he led a big band in South America and in France during the rest of the decade. One of his band's popular songs from 1936 was "Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise" in which the Marquise is told by her servants that everything is fine at home except for a series of escalating calamities. It was seen as a metaphor for France's obliviousness to the approaching war. Filmography * ''American Love'' (1931) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Action Films
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republika sang Filipinas * ibg, Republika nat Filipinas * ilo, Republika ti Filipinas * ivv, Republika nu Filipinas * pam, Republika ning Filipinas * krj, Republika kang Pilipinas * mdh, Republika nu Pilipinas * mrw, Republika a Pilipinas * pag, Republika na Filipinas * xsb, Republika nin Pilipinas * sgd, Republika nan Pilipinas * tgl, Republika ng Pilipinas * tsg, Republika sin Pilipinas * war, Republika han Pilipinas * yka, Republika si Pilipinas In the recognized optional languages of the Philippines: * es, República de las Filipinas * ar, جمهورية الفلبين, Jumhūriyyat al-Filibbīn is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of around 7,641 islands t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipino-language Films
Filipino (; , ) is an Austronesian language. It is the national language ( / ) of the Philippines, and one of the two official languages of the country, with English. It is a standardized variety of Tagalog based on the native dialect, spoken and written, in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region, and in other urban centers of the archipelago. The 1987 Constitution mandates that Filipino be further enriched and developed by the other languages of the Philippines. Filipino is only used as a tertiary language in the Philippine public sphere. Filipino, like other Austronesian languages, commonly uses verb-subject-object order, but can also use subject-verb-object order as well. Filipino follows the trigger system of morphosyntactic alignment that is also common among Austronesian languages. It has head-initial directionality. It is an agglutinative language but can also display inflection. It is not a tonal language and can be considered a pitch-accent language and a syl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Action Films
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up to 4, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Films
The year 1998 in film involved many significant films, including '' Shakespeare in Love'' (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), '' Saving Private Ryan'','' Armageddon'' (which was the top grossing film of the year in the United States), '' American History X'', '' The Truman Show'', ''Primary Colors'', '' ''Rushmore'''', ''Rush Hour'', '' There's Something About Mary'', '' The Big Lebowski'', and Terrence Malick's directorial return in '' The Thin Red Line''. DreamWorks SKG released its first two animated films: '' Antz'' and ''The Prince of Egypt''. The ''Pokémon'' theatrical film series started with '' Pokémon: The First Movie''. Warner Bros. Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary. The year saw two dueling science-fiction disaster films about asteroids, '' Armageddon'' and ''Deep Impact'', becoming box office success, with ''Armageddon'' becoming the more popular of the two. It was also the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide. Highest-grossing films The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FAMAS Award
The Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards (also known as the FAMAS Awards) are the annual honors given by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS), an organization composed of award-winning writers and movie columnists, for achievements in Philippine cinema for a calendar year. Members of the academy including avid movie viewers, fans or enthusiasts cast their votes on who should win the statuettes in the different categories they were nominated. Established in 1952, it is the oldest existing film industry award-giving body in the Philippines (as of 2013) and one of the oldest in Asia. The FAMAS Award, from 1952 to 1982, was the highest Filipino film award a filmmaker or artisan could receive in the local movie industry. In 1982, after the inception of the Film Academy of the Philippines (Luna) Awards, the Philippine equivalent of the Oscars (where academy members are film professionals who nominate and choose awardees of the year) was mandated by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marita Zobel
Mary Ann Respall Blanch-Roxas, better known by her screen name Marita Zobel (born June 18, 1941), is a Filipina actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek .... She was an LVN Pictures contract star. Filmography Film Television References External links * 1941 births Living people ABS-CBN personalities Actresses from Iloilo Filipino child actresses Filipino film actresses Filipino people of Spanish descent Filipino television actresses People from Iloilo City San Beda University alumni Visayan people {{Philippines-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Olivar
Ricardo Aranda Cellona, known by his stage name Tom Olivar (born April 26, 1963), is a film and television actor in the Philippines. Career He is one of the active character actors in Philippine films and TV series since the 1980s. He appeared in the classic film ''Bulaklak Sa City Jail'' (1984) with a star-studded cast: Nora Aunor, Gina Alajar, Celia Rodriguez, Perla Bautista, Gloria Romero, and Ricky Davao, among others. He garnered a Best Supporting Actor award from the 1984 Metro Manila Film Festival for this movie. He was cast in several ABS-CBN and GMA-7 teleseryes and melodrama episodes. One of his memorable appearances was in ABS-CBN's Maalaala Mo Kaya episode ''Hair Clip'', which was aired on March 2, 2013, starring Maricar Reyes, Belle Mariano and Elizabeth Oropesa. He appeared in more than 70 movies and television shows. Olivar was a Villain Roles in Action Films Liked Gawa na Ang Bala ay Papatay Sa'yo in (1988), Markang Bungo "The Bobby Ortega Story" (1991), Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Mande
Edgar Mande (born May 15, 1960) is a retired Filipino actor. Career Edgar Mande's acting career was managed by Alfie Lorenzo. In 2018, more than a decade after his retirement from the film industry, Mande agreed to star in Ronnie Ricketts Ronald Naldo Ricketts, popularly known as Ronnie Ricketts, is a Filipino actor, scriptwriter, film director, line producer, and martial artist who is the former President of the Philippine Film Actors Guild, and former Chairman of Optical Medi ...' action film '' Exit Point'', which was released the next year. Personal life Edgar Mande married Michelle, a woman from Angeles, Pampanga, in December 1988. Mande later married a fourth time to Ramona Fabie in 2021. Mande previously lived in Makati, Metro Manila, and is now currently residing in Los Angeles, California. Filmography References 1960 births Living people 20th-century Filipino male actors 21st-century Filipino male actors Filipino expatriates in the United States P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Fernando
Daniel Ramirez Fernando (born Cesar Fernando Ramirez; May 12, 1962) is a Filipino actor and politician who is the 34th and incumbent Governor of Bulacan. Fernando formerly worked as an actor in film and television. Fernando is critically acclaimed for his performance in the 1985 controversial erotic thriller film ''Scorpio Nights'', directed by Peque Gallaga and produced by Lily Monteverde of Regal Films. Political career 2019 gubernatorial bid Fernando announced he would run for governor under NUP, following after Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado, the incumbent governor, who is term-limited and became his running mate. On May 13, 2019, Fernando was elected governor, defeating the Malolos mayor Christian "Agila" Natividad and former councilor Teddy "Aguila" Natividad. 2022 gubernatorial re-election Fernando successfully ran for re-election to a second term under National Unity Party (NUP) in 2022, including his running mate for vice governor is provincial board Alex Castro. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunshine Cruz
Sunshine Cruz (born July 18, 1977) is a Filipino actress and singer. She is the part of the Cruz family of actors. Personal life Cruz was married to actor/director Cesar Montano in September 2000. They have three daughters Angelina Isabele, Samantha Angelene and Angel Franchesca. The couple is now separated. Her current partner is Ismael Macky Mathay IV, half-brother of Filipina actress Ara Mina. Filmography Television Movies * ''First Time... Like a Virgin!'' (1992) * ''Guwapings: The First Adventure'' (1992) Dolores * ''Shake Rattle & Roll IV'' (1992) Gretch (segment "Ang Guro") * ''Humanda ka Mayor!: Bahala na ang Diyos'' (1993) * ''Dino... Abangan Ang Susunod Na...'' (1993) * ''Ano Ba 'Yan 2'' (1993) Carolina * ''Aguinaldo'' (1993) * ''Galvez: Hanggang sa Dulo ng Mundo Hahanapin Kita'' (1993) * ''Pandoy: Alalay ng Panday'' (1993) Vibora * ''Teenage Mama'' (1993) * ''Junior Police'' (1994) * ''Baby Paterno: Dugong Pulis'' (1994) * ''The Marita Gonzaga Rape-Slay: In God We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
