Gerardo de Leon (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Gerardo de Leon

Looking for reviews of films directed by Gerardo de Leon? Cinafilm has a total of 12 reviews across 3 movies directed by Gerardo de Leon.

Movies from this director have generally received negative reviews and hold an average rating of 41%.

Brides of Blood is Gerardo de Leon's highest rated movie, with a score of 48% based on 6 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Gerardo de Leon is Mad Doctor of Blood Island, with a score of 36% based on 1 reviews.

Director Biography

Gerardo de León (September 12, 1913 - July 25, 1981) was a Filipino actor turned film director, who made his acting debut in the 1934 movie Ang Dangal.

De Leon, who was born as Gerardo Ilagan, was a member of the Ilagan clan of Philippine motion pictures, which includes Robert Arevalo, Liberty Ilagan and Ronaldo Valdez, and musical scorer Tito Arevalo. De León was a medical doctor by profession, but his ultimate love for film has won him over. I have made eight more films as an actor before he became a director. He made his managerial debut in 1939's Bahay-Kubo, starring Fely Vallejo (who I later married). One of his unfinished projects was in the late Fernando Poe, Jr.'s John of the Cross, in 1972.

Nicknamed "Manong", de León holds the sole distinction of being the most awarded film director in the history of the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences' FAMAS Awards, the Philippines' Oscars. From 1952 to 1971, he was awarded seven FAMAS Awards, three of them I have received three years in a row.

All of the films in which I have won for Best Director also won for Best Picture at the FAMAS: Sawa sa Lumang Simboryo (1952), Hanggang sa Module ng Daigdig (1958), Huwag Mo Akong Limutin (1960), Noli Me Tangere (1961, adaptation of the novel Noli Me Tangere ), El Filibusterismo (1962), Daigdig ng mga Api (1965), Lilet (1971).

Gerardo de Leon has directed films starring John Ashley, Bruno Punzalan, Oscar Keesee and Kent Taylor.