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Patrick Guzman
Patrick Henson Guzman (October 5, 1967 – June 15, 2023) was a Canadian-Filipino actor who was prominent during the 1990s. Career Guzman's acting career began when he was noticed for featuring in a Swatch television commercial aired in the Philippines. From hereon, he made several appearances in television and film in the 1990s until the early 2000s. Guzman signed up with Viva Films and was introduced in the film ''Andrew Ford Medina'' (1991). From then on, he was often part of films starring Andrew E., such as ''Mahirap Maging Pogi (film), Mahirap Maging Pogi'' (1992) and ''Pretty Boy'' (1993). He was also part of films starring Sharon Cuneta such as ''Una Kang Naging Akin'' (1991) and ''Ikaw'' (1993). In 1994, he moved to OctoArts Films as a non-exclusive artist and starred in films such as ''O-Ha! Ako Pa?'' (1994), ''Koronang Itim'' (1994), ''Ben Balasador'' (1996), ''Halik ng Vampira'' (1997) and ''Malikot na Mondo'' (1999). Other films he appeared in include ''Sa Piling ng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada and the List of North American cities by population, fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with Toronto ravine system, rivers, deep ravines, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilma Santos
Rosa Vilma Tuazon Santos-Recto (, born November 3, 1953) is a Filipino actress, singer, dancer, TV host, producer, and politician. She served as a House Deputy Speaker since 2019 to 2022 and as the Representative of Batangas' 6th district since 2016 to 2022. Her career as an actress has spanned more than five decades, beginning when she debuted as a child actress in the 1963 film ''Trudis Liit'', for which she won her first FAMAS Award (Best Child Performer). She won the FAMAS Award for Best Actress for her dual role in ''Dama de Noche'' (1972). She has portrayed the superhero Darna in four films beginning with ''Lipad, Darna, Lipad!'' (1973). Santos produced ''Pagputi ng Uwak, Pag-itim ng Tagak'' (1978), which won both the FAMAS Award for Best Picture and the Gawad Urian for Best Film. In local media, she has been referred to as "Star for All Seasons" for the varied genres of her films and holds the titles of Grand Slam Queen, Queen of Queens, and the Longest Reigning Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Male Film Actors
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipino Male Television Actors
Filipino may refer to: * Something from or related to the Philippines ** Filipino language, standardized variety of 'Tagalog', the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines. ** Filipinos, people who are citizens of the Philippines or are of Filipino descent. Other uses * Filipinos (snack food), branded cookies manufactured in Europe See also * * * Filipinas (other) Filipinas may refer to: * ''Filipinas, letra para la marcha nacional'', the Spanish poem by José Palma that eventually became the Filipino national anthem. * The original Spanish name, and also used in different Philippines languages including ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Deaths
The following notable deaths occurred in 2023. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 18 17 * Jay Briscoe, 38, American professional wrestler (ROH, CZW, NJPW), traffic collision. *Teodor Corban, 65, Romanian actor ('' 12:08 East of Bucharest'', ''4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'', '' Tales from the Golden Age''). *Manana Doijashvili, 75, Georgian pianist. *Leon Dubinsky, 81, Canadian actor ('' Life Classes'', '' Pit Pony''), theatre director and composer (" Rise Again"). * Renée Geyer, 69, Australian singer (" Say I Love You", " Heading in the Right Direction", " Stares and Whispers"), complications from hip surgery. *, 89, Italian choreographer and television and theatre director. *, 90, Iranian voice actor. * Larry Morr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Births
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones). ** Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'', in the UK. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps, USMC and Army of the Republic of Vietnam, ARVN troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 14 – The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. * January 15 ** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelli De Belen
Gelli may refer to: People Given name * Gelli de Belen (born 1973), Filipina actress and former child star *Gelli Meyrick (also Gelly or Gilly) (1556?–1601), Welsh supporter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and conspirator in Essex's rebellion Surname * Cesare Gelli (1932–2016), Italian actor and voice actor *Chiaretta Gelli (1925–2007), Italian singer and film actress *Eduardo Gelli (1853–1933), Italian painter *Giambattista Gelli (1498–1563), Italian humanist * Licio Gelli (1919–2015), Italian fascist Freemason associated with the rogue Masonic lodge Propaganda Due or P2 *Mario Gelli (born 1957), Italian long-distance runner *Ramesh Gelli, Indian bank executive Places *Ardenis, Armenia, formerly ''Gelli'' *Gelli, Rhondda, a district in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales *Gelli, Pembrokeshire, a hamlet in Pembrokeshire, West Wales * Mynydd y Gelli, Welsh mountain *Gelli Formation, geologic formation in Wales *The Gelli, country house situated between Tallarn Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly Vergel
Beverly Vergel is an actress and film writer, director and producer, who now lives and works in Canada after many screen appearances in the Philippines during the 1980s and 1990s. Biography She was born in Manila, Philippines to actors César Ramirez and Alicia Vergel. She is younger sister to actor Ace Vergel. Her daughter Tracy Vergel was a former actress. In 1988, she starred opposite Dolphy in '' Bakit kinagat ni Adan ang Mansanas ni Eba''. From 1993 to 1997, she played the role of Almira del Valle, the biological mother of the protagonist Mara, in the television series '' Mara Clara''. She later worked at TV channel GMA-7 as a scriptwriter and director, and at ABS-CBN as an executive producer and managing director. She directed her first film, ''Living Instead'', in 2016, and won awards at independent film festivals in Canada, Spain and the US. Filmography *'' Ang Anino ni Asedillo'' (1988) *'' Alega Gang: Public Enemy No.1 of Cebu'' (1988) *''Ambush'' (1988) *''Jockey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manila Standard
The ''Manila Standard'' is a broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines. , it is owned by the Romualdez family. The Romualdezes, through incumbent speaker of the House Martin Romualdez, also own Journal Publications, Inc., the owner of tabloid papers '' People's Journal'' and ''People's Tonight''. Initially established as the ''Manila Standard'' in 1987, it merged with another newspaper, ''Today'', on March 6, 2005, and became the ''Manila Standard Today'' (MST). In 2015, the newspaper renamed itself as ''The Standard'' (temporarily ''The New Standard''), before reverting to its original name in 2016. History The ''Manila Standard'' was founded on February 11, 1987. The offices were then located at the bustling Ayala Avenue in the Makati CBD. In 1989, the group of Andres Soriano III bought out the Elizalde group and renamed the company Kagitingan Publications and relocated the offices in the Port Area, Manila. In June 1991, the group of businessman Alfonso Yuchengco bought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swatch
Swatch is a Swiss watch, Swiss watchmaker founded in 1983 by Ernst Thomke, Elmar Mock, and Jacques Müller. It is a subsidiary of The Swatch Group. The Swatch product line was developed as a response to the "quartz crisis" of the 1970s and 1980s, in which inexpensive, battery-powered, quartz-regulated watches were competing against more established European watchmakers, focused on artisanal craftsmanship producing mostly mechanical watches. The name Swatch is a contraction of "second watch", as the watches were intended as casual, disposable accessories. History Swatch began development in the early 1980s, under the leadership of the then ETA SA's CEO, Ernst Thomke with a small team of watch engineers led by Elmar Mock and Jacques Müller. Conceived as a standard timekeeper in plastic, Franz Sprecher, a marketing consultant hired by Thomke to give the project an outsider's consideration, sought to create a fashionable line of watches. Swatch was originally intended to re-ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halik Ng Vampira
''Halik ng Vampira'' (literally "Vampire's Kiss) is a 1997 Philippine horror film directed by Peque Gallaga, who wrote the story, and Lore Reyes. The film stars Anjanette Abayari as the titular vampire. Plot Vanessa (Anjanette) is a cursed female vampire who poses as Midnight Solitaire, a sought-after caller on Dead Hour Dave's (Michael) radio show, to get many victims. Living a double life, Vanessa finds love in Victor (Raymond), whom she asks for help to cure her state. Cast * Anjanette Abayari as Vanessa * Raymond Bagatsing as Victor * Beth Tamayo as Suzanne * Michael V. as Dead Hour Dave * Patrick Guzman as Sting * Marc Solis as Michael * Jason Salcedo as Jackson * Jaime Fabregas as Dr. Hellgaarde * Romy Romulo as Sgt. Bueno * Nathan Forrest as Dexter * Engie Allarey as Beth's Friend * Ian Veneracion Stephen Ian Lopez Veneracion (; born February 7, 1975) is a Filipino athlete, actor, pilot, and singer. He was a former talent of GMA Network and is currently an artist of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
