Lolita Rodriguez
Acting
Biography
Born Dolores Marquez Clark, the versatile actress better known as Lolita Rodriguez is considered one of the greatest actors in Philippine Cinema.
Born: January 29, 1935
Place of Birth: Urdaneta City, Pangasinan
Known For
Kilabot Sa Makiling
A 1959 Filipino action drama starring Mario Montenegro and Lolita Rodriguez.
Stardoom
A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins.
Weighed But Found Wanting
A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely leper and a mentally unstable homeless woman.
Three, Two, One
"Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa" is a compilation of three intimate stories directed by Filipino cinema legend Lino Brocka. The films show the perseverance of hope despite a sense of despair. Featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catholic.
Ina, Kapatid, Anak
After 20 years, Pura returns to her ancestral home to meet her father. However, this soon reignites a bitter rivalry between her and Emilia, her half-sister, that impacts the entire household.
Binibining Kalog
A funny movie about a tomboyish girl and the pursuit of her crush.
Dipped in Gold
Lino Brocka's adaptation of Mars Ravelo's "komiks" melodrama about a successful businessman who is terrified of being exposed as a homosexual.
Paradise Inn
Paradise Inn is more than a watering hole, a gambling den cum-brothel frequented by the menfolk. It is a notorious landmark. Ester Paraiso, a retired prostitute, runs the place with help from her own daughter, Daria, whom she is preparing for the job, and from influential politicos. Her daughter, however, decides to run away but is later spurned by her suitor and his offer of a respectable life. Even the timely arrival of a two-beat magician, Rey, who hastily proposes marriage, fails to prevent the escalating tension as the mother-daughter conflict takes its worst turn culminating in the characters' fiery destruction.
Jack and Jill
Siblings Benita and Gorio play twisted roles: she drives a jeepney, he does all the household chores; she gets into brawls with men, he prefers to be called "Glory." All these they do in support of their father, Mang Ambo, a driver for the rich and reckless Gardo, son of the elite Don Quinito and Doña Teresita. When Mang Ambo's health fails him, he introduces Benita to the family, disguised as a boy named Itoy. Gorio, on the other hand, runs away to look for a job and ends up being taken in and mistaken for an actual girl by Doña Teresita as her own "daughter." Living in totally new circumstances and with each bearing the secret of the other, how long can they keep up playing their game?
Diegong Tabak
A 1962 Filipino action drama starring Vic Vargas and Lolita Rodriguez.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Ester
as Renata Lacuesta
as Pura Villasenor de los Santos
as Rosenda
as Herself
as Kuala
as Toyang
as Emma
as Octavia
as Second Story
as Laura
as Sofia
as Lilian
as Caridad
as Lolita
as Eloisa
as Jock