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Filmmaker · Philippines

Manuel Silos

Died in 1988

Manuel Silos was born on 1 January 1906 in Manila. He began in the silent era, filming with his brothers, and was also a performer in bodabil, Philippine vaudeville, under a stage name. Moving to sound films, he worked for Sampaguita and then for LVN, the largest studio in the country, where he made rural comedies and provincial melodramas. In 1979 he received the honorary award of Philippine film critics and, in 1985, that of the film academy. He died on 31 March 1988.

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