Pancho Magalona

Acting

Pancho Magalona

Born 1922-01-22 · Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines

Enrique Gayoso Magalona Jr., professionally known as Pancho Magalona, was a Filipino actor from the 1940s to the 1970s. He achieved success as a romantic lead with frequent on-screen partner and wife Tita Duran. In 1959, Magalona won the FAMAS Award for Best Actor for his performance as a bandit in the 1958 film Hanggang sa Dulo ng Daigdig. One of his best remembered roles is portraying the character of Simoun / Crisostomo Ibarra in the 1962 film adaptation of José Rizal's novel El Filibusterismo.

Acting credits

Merrill's Marauders poster
6.2

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.

Merrill's Marauders

1962

Waldas poster
7.0

Centering on a hedonistic woman’s escapades throughout the urban landscape of Manila.

Waldas

1955

The Hook poster
6.2

Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.

The Hook

1963

Sinong Kapiling? Sinong Kasiping? poster
NR

IF YOU SUSPECT YOUR SPOUSE OF BEING UNFAITHFUL A STORY AS NEW AS TODAY AND AS OLD AS TRUTH--YET NEVER TOLD BEFORE.

Sinong Kapiling? Sinong Kasiping?

1977

El Filibusterismo poster
8.5

A vindictive Crisostomo Ibarra returns, and this time, disguised as a jeweler named Simoun, where he decides to solve the country's issues through violence.

El Filibusterismo

1962

Moro Witch Doctor poster
6.5

The murders of two American plantation owners leads an Interpol agent into a battle with Filipino drug smugglers and violent religious fanatics.

Moro Witch Doctor

1964

Kasintahan Sa Pangarap poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kasintahan Sa Pangarap

1951

Happy Days Are Here Again poster
10.0

A compilation of film clips featuring dance and song performances culled from various films of the so-called big three - Sampaguita, LVN, Premiere.

Happy Days Are Here Again

1974

Ang Ating Pag-ibig poster
9.0

After studying medicine in the US, twin doctors Eddie and Mario Gomez return home as they are both commissioned by a hospital in the Philippines. The two have different personalities, with Eddie being a carefree playboy while Mario is reserved, his face being scarred after he figured in an accident. Mario makes a courtesy call to their benefactor Doña Dolores Villarama, only to discover she has passed on, leaving her blind granddaughter behind.

Ang Ating Pag-ibig

1953

Bitayin si....Baby Ama! poster
7.8

A story depicting the life of executed murderer and gang leader, Marciál "Baby" Ama. Ama, who became a gang leader with his prison mob while serving a sentence for lesser charges, was executed for murder at the age of 16 via electric chair on 4 October 1961.

Bitayin si....Baby Ama!

1976

A Yank in Viet-Nam poster
8.0

A U.S. Marine Corps pilot is shot down over the Vietnamese jungle. In his endeavor to get to safety, he meets a female guerrilla fighter and a nationalist named Hong.

A Yank in Viet-Nam

1964

Stoney poster
3.5

Two rival gun-runners are at odds when one of them secretly discovers that the other's female companion has plans to recover a $40 million treasure stash, hidden away in Surabaya by her late husband.

Stoney

1969

Texas, Ang Manok na Nagsasalita poster
9.0

Basiong spends all of his time in the cockpit. His family is neglected and his child Mario dies. St. Peter and his rooster decide to intervene.

Texas, Ang Manok na Nagsasalita

1952

Bicol Express poster
NR

An omnibus seven-part movie.

Bicol Express

1957

Cavalry Command poster
5.4

An American cavalry brigade is sent to occupy a small Filipino village in 1902 and quell guerilla resistance in the surrounding jungle. Working with the people to build roads, schools, and bridges, they prove that the most important thing an army can have is "good will and integrity."

Cavalry Command

1958

Hanggang sa Dulo ng Daigdig poster
10.0

A farmer's son seeks revenge for the killing of his father.

Hanggang sa Dulo ng Daigdig

1958

The Tenants poster
3.0

A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field. The film proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill, then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the hacienda's guards.

The Tenants

1976

Sa Isang Sulyap Mo, Tita poster
7.0

One of Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran's most beloved films.

Sa Isang Sulyap Mo, Tita

1953

Huling Patak Ng Dugo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Huling Patak Ng Dugo

1950

Menor de Edad poster
8.0

A flirty girl falls in love with a guys working at a 50s diner.

Menor de Edad

1954

Emily poster
10.0

A story about a young woman who was adopted by a woman who held a secret grudge against her family.

Emily

1960

Basahang Ginto poster
8.0

One man dared turn this crude, uneducated, ill-clad gutter-born woman into high society's most beautiful, exciting, tempting creature.

Basahang Ginto

1952

Buhay Pilipino poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Buhay Pilipino

1952

A Time for Dying poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Time for Dying

1970