Ray Ventura
Acting
Biography
Ray Ventura was a stage, film and television actor and director who gained recognition from playing various supporting yet memorable roles. Born in Makati on Jan 3, 1944, Raven passed away on October 24, 2001 in his home in Makati City due to complications brought about by liver and bone cancer. He was married to Amelia Leaño, with whom he had three children, and six grandchildren.
Born: January 3, 1944
Place of Birth: Makati City, Phillipines
Known For
Kahapon, May Dalawang Bata
It is the time of El Niño, a season ruled by superstition and fear. The rain is long in coming, the ground has cracked up dry. The ricestalks are thin and sickly. Villagers go hungry. And a boy dies from a snakebite. The adults splinter. Some pray. Others join a cult to appease earth spirits and wait for the ada, the ricefield spirit goddess of bountiful harvest who dances naked on moonlit nights and signals the need for a virgin’s sacrifice. There are fence sitters, equally pro-church and pro-cult. A landlord’s steward enforces his master’s usury on hapless farmers. A self-righteous priest says rain must first be deserved. Two young women fight for the right to do with their bodies as they please. A bastard boy and a blind girl come of age. Yesterday, they were children.
Hinugot sa Langit
A woman is thinking of abortion, against her firm faith and family's wants.
When Will You Be Mine
Mariel, the illegitimate daughter of Shirley, has been the center of contention since her birth when Shirley's husband Ben sells Mariel to child trafficker Adul. Because of an immigration impediment, Adul consigns Mariel to the care of her cousin Jaime and nursemaid Dolor, the midwife at Mariel's birth. However, Jaime's wife, Laila, doesn't want to keep the baby because the sight of an infant reminds her of her stillborn child, and Dolor's boyfriend, Ramir, is jealous of the love and attention Dolor gives the baby. When Laila has accepted Mariel, Adul returns to claim her adopted now-grown daughter, but Dolor inadvertently learns of Adul's wicked plan to sell Mariel for a large amount.
Broken Marriage
Trapped in a world of hectic schedules, pressure, and little time for each other, married couple Ellen and Rene decide to have a temporary separation.
Joyful Mystery
The fortunes of three impoverished friends and their families abruptly change after an airplane crashes in a nearby mountain. They rush to the crash site along with all the villagers, not to help the victims but to plunder their valuables. A dead American passenger carried a large amount of money in his briefcase which Mesiong, Ponsoy, and Jamin find and avariciously keep for themselves. But the town mayor gets greedy and with his hirelings abducts the three to divest them of their booty.
Miracle
When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.
Evolution of a Filipino Family
Spanning 1971 to 1987, in rural areas under the brutal Marcos regime, a poor farming family struggle to overcome challenges brought on by corruption and greed for power.
Moral
The episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual and professional desires and how best to attain them.
Deathrow
A neglected and unloved orphan raised by poor relatives in the slums of Manila is wrongfully convicted of murder that resulted from a heist he was compelled to join. Unable to prove his innocence and his minor age, he is thrown into the cruel, perilous and horrifying world of death row where he is introduced to other inmates all awaiting their execution by lethal injection. One of them is a 70-year-old man who detests the jungle of jail and is feared by all the convicts. He would serve as the boy’s protector and savior and in the process touch and shape enormously the violated youth’s life in prison and beyond.
Eskapo
Set during the terrifying reign of Filipino despot, Marcos, two upper caste but very different strangers team up to try and survive the physical and mental torture they undergo after they are suddenly jailed. Geny is the conservative businessman while Serge is more sensitive and outgoing. Both of the young men's parents give all of their money, but the government refuses to free them. Even a mutual hunger strike fails to move their jailers. In desperation, Geny and Serge begin plotting their escape.
Filmography
as Ka Harim
as Tandang Ponso
as Mio
as Abadilla
as Tatay
as Mr. Suntay
as Encio
as Badong
as Salvador
as Mateo Brother #1
as Ben
as Prosecutor (episode 1)
as Tito Rodel (segment "Tameme")
as Joaquin (segment "Balintuwad")
as Col. Madrigal
as Tata Indo
as Turing
as NBI Chief
as The General
as Gregorio
as Gen. Cornelio Felizardo
as Father Zamora
as Sakristan Mayor
as Maeng
as Adul's lawyer
as Ricardo Tuazon
as Manong Kidlat
as Gen. 'Eddie' Ramos
as David
as Chua Tek (San Mateo)
as Santos
as Bino
as Taxi Driver
as Museum guard