1991: the year when the greats of Philippine entertainment passed away
Kenneth Yerro Ilio
field of Philippine entertainment. This list may not be complete,
--- you can add to it if you know of someone not mentioned. The
bulk of this article came from Philippine News.:
April - Ramon Estella - director and one of the earliest Filipino
film maker; he was among the individuals who established Philippine
cinema; among his works was Huling Habilin wiht Rsa del Rosario
and Leopoldo Salcedo.
- Lamberto Avellana - national atist for theater and film; ]
Many of his works were not money makers but won prestigious awards
for LVN pictures. Among them was Anak Dalita voted Best Picture
in the Asian Film Festival (1956); Badjao - for which he won the
Best Director in the same festival in 1957. If you remember, Mig
Gomez described these two films in his post on Philippine cinema
a year ago - as classics
- Teroy de Guzman - comedian
- Billy Surot - pre-war comedian
May
- Lino Brocka - considered as one of the greatest directors
in Philippine movieland (if not the best)
- Jose Mari Velez - newscaster, voted as the Broadcaster of
the year by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas - posthumously
July
- Atang de la Rama, national artist, known for her kundimans
- Susana C. de Guzman - one of the first women directors -
directed Probinsiyana with Carmen Rosales
- Leroy Salvador - actor, director, producer - won the Best
Supporting Actor trophy in the 1959 Asian Film Festival in Manuel
Silos' - Biyaya ng Lupa -. Before he died, he managed to complete
the Cebuano film Matud Nila. There is supposed to be a resurgence
of Visayan films at present
December
- Carmen Rosales, actresss
- Carmencita Palma, actress
- Babette Villaruel - movie writer and comic
- Robert Talabis - character actor
- Adul de Leon - stage and film actress
- Orlando Nadres - stage and film actor, also screenplay writer
- Paola Luz - singer
- Joaquin Fajardo - quintessential movie goon
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Kenneth Yerro Ilio
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