Manny de leon biography

 

 

I have to admit, and quite sadly, that I was no fan of either television or film during my years as a child.

Back then I was raised mainly on the reading of paperback novels.

This goes without saying that I am more familiar, as a young teenager,with the plot twists found in Edgardo M. Reyes’ “Sa Kuko ng Liwanag” and Amado V.

Hernandez’ Luha ng Buwaya than any of the films, local or otherwise, shown during the late ‘70s till the late-‘80s.

I was somewhere in my mid-forties when I started watching and appreciating local films, mainly those belonging to the Filipino horror genre and historical drama like Baler, which starred Anne Curtis and Jerico Rosales.

Heneral Luna, too, and José Rizal played by Cesar Montano.

All I can recall of movie actress Nora Aunor (Nora Cabaltera Villamayor in real life) consisted of vague memories of her singing sixties hit songs together with actor and fellow singer Tirso