Acting

Lilia Dizon

Born 1927-11-25

Claire Dizon Strauss (November 25, 1927 – June 15, 2020), known professionally as Lilia Dizon, was a Filipino actress whose career spanned three decades. She began her career as an actress in mid-1940s and became one of the leading actresses of the 1950s. She was awarded Best Actress at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival for her role in Kandelerong Pilak (1954). She married LVN Pictures actor Gil de León, with whom she had three children who would also become actors as well: Pinky de León, Christopher de León and Melissa de León. With her second husband, Antonio V. Abad, she had two daughters: Toni Abad and Cori Abad. She retired from show business in the 1980s.

Acting credits

A man in 50's Philippine society.

Tininti del Baryo

1950

A doctor finds love in a remote resort when he was asked by a friend to be his best man at the wedding. Ric and Gloria met accidentally while fishing at the foot of the mountain. They soon fall in love.

Sa Paanan ng Bundok

1953

7.0

While working in a shipyard in Jolo, Felipe is coerced by two henchmen of a deposed monarch, Haring Kobra, to accept a twofold mission - to impersonate him and kill the present usurper to the throne, his cousin, Rahmed and thus stop the forthcoming marriage of Rahmed and the lovely Amahda.

Haring Kobra

1951

7.5

A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely man with leprosy and a mentally distressed homeless woman.

Weighed But Found Wanting

1974

A retelling of the famous episode from Ferdowsi's Persian epic Shahnameh, pertaining to the event where the great warrior Rustum had his fateful encounter with Sohrab.

Sohrab at Rustum

1950

Filipino horror anthology from 1960.

Katotohanan o guniguni?

1960

No synopsis available yet.

Bakya mo Neneng

1947

Unraveling the fantastical orgins of lizards, bats, monkeys, and water lilies.

Mga Alamat Ng Sandaigdig

1960

ENTHRALLING, BEWITCHING, AMAZING. The strange story of a beauty in soc-like balloon which flies, rolls, climbs.

Tucydides

1954

8.0

A man was stood up at the altar, he then vows hatred towards the opposite sex. He and his bachelor friends venture out to an island to live a life free of females one day a new "man" appears wanting to join the group.

Kaaway Ng Babae

1948

7.0

A story about two childhood friends Mario and Ricardo who are both war heroes, one day a corrupt attorney who desires power uses their good-hearted nature to test their friendship to get rid of each other.

Baril sa Baril

1961

No synopsis available yet.

Mga Daing sa Libingan

1961

Twelve adventurers set out to seek the holy grail.

12 Pares

1954

Three uplifting stories of faith, compassion and courage provide the framework for this inspirational film. First, Jocelyn, a victim of the mudslides in Leyte, finds strength in the face of tragedy; next, a family's adoption of a neglected young boy brings healing; and in the final chapter, widower Rudy Abad decides to build a village in the Philippines in memory of his wife, who died in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Paraiso: Three Stories of Hope

2007

10.0

The story follows an aspiring Negros Occidental mayoral candidate who was tortured and killed during election season in 1951.

The Moises Padilla Story

1961

No artwork available

The documentary serves as a tribute to National Artist for Cinema Gerardo de Leon in celebration of his Centennial Year. “Salamat sa Alaala.” is inspired by the music composed by the late film director when he was a teenager playing background music for silent movies in Manila theatres. The video opens up with a capsulated history of the birth of the Filipino movies followed by a series of shots of veteran actresses, the academe and the young generation of filmmakers affirming his unique qualities as a world-class film figure. Then we unravel his private life as a family man. The documentary is one way of thanking him for his lasting legacy in the art form he left behind.

Salamat sa Alaala

2015

5.2

In a remote fishing village, a wealthy landowner calls on the Snake Devil to protect his priceless family treasures, but this isn't enough to stop the bandit Sanda Wong from attempting the raid when he learns about the treasure.