Manuel Conde

Manuel Conde was born Manuel Pabustan Urbano in 1915 in Daet, in Camarines Norte, the youngest of five children of a father of Italian descent. Orphaned early, he joined the Manila studios in 1935, became a contract actor there and then a director, and in 1947 founded his own production company. There he adapted the long sung poems that Filipinos had handed down for a century and made a satirical series aimed at the political life of the country. He spoke Bicol, Cebuano, Ilonggo, Waray and Pampango, besides Spanish and English. He died in Manila in 1985, and was named National Artist in 2009.

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• CinemaGenghis KhanManuel Conde · 1950Cinema