Vic Silayan
Acting
Biography
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Born: December 31, 1928
Place of Birth: Nueva Ecija, Philippines
Known For
A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
Lamberto Avellana’s English-language film based on Nick Joaquin’s play about a painter, a painting, two sisters, and a crook.
Kisapmata
A young woman gets married but her authoritarian father refuses to let her out of his sight.
Lilet
An unstable young woman finally blows the cover of her repressive family's dark secrets when her memories where unlocked with the help of an ardent suitor.
Star?
The story of Tony (Rudy Fernandez) is not only a reminder to actors or actresses, but to everyone. It teaches a lesson about humility and the so-called "debt of gratitude." It features the lives of some actors such as Vicky Villareal (Lorna Tolentino) and Vina Amor (Celia Rodriguez). Their lives roll around the wheel of fame, especially that of Tony's.
Of the Flesh
When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, betrayal, guilt and redemption.
Badjao
Hassan, the son of a tribe chief of the Badjaos, a pagan, sea-dwelling Filipino tribe, meets and falls for Bala Amai, the niece of the chief of the Tausugs, an Islamic, land-dwelling tribe. Although the Hassan is willing to give up his lifestyle for Bala Amai and vice versa, the Tausugs plot to break up the union of the happy couple.
Huk in a New Life
Carding, the anti-Japanese guerrilla turned Huk rebel when his family's land is taken over by the greedy landlord while Maxie, the communist recruiter who assures Carding that only a communist can be a true Filipino; however it was Jesus, Carding's brother-in-law who shoots Carding in the arm foiling his attempt to escape the military.
The Longest Hundred Miles
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.
Dugo at Pag-ibig Sa Kapirasong Lupa
The greatest, longest, most expensive film produced in the film history of the Philippines. Five segments with an all-star cast, directed by five directors with a running time of 3 hours and 20 minutes.
No Man Is an Island
The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
Filmography
as Colonel Barro
as Don Lorico Villena
as Himself
as Abe Ventura
as Victor
as Gusting
as Don Mateo
as Tatang / Sgt. Diosdado Carandang
as Domingo de Jesus
as The Judge
as Dr. Dan
as Raoul Amante
as Alfonso Suarez
as Fukoshima
as Chief Insp. Cruz
as Vicente Zarcan (segment 4)
as Dr. Dangal
as Dr. Tezon
as Calderon
as Anton
as Japanese General (uncredited)
as Narrator
as Saitou
as Captain Mori
as Major Hondo
as Lundagin Mo Baby
as Melanio
as Jikiri
as Father Fidel
as Totoy
as Vic Silayan
as Capt. Mendoza