Tony Santos

Acting

Tony Santos

Born — Died

1920-04-10 — 1988-02-07

Place of birth

Manila, Philippines

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Antonio P. Santos Sr. (April 10, 1920 — February 7, 1988), better known as Tony Santos, was a Filipino film and television actor and director. He is known for his work as lead actor in Anak Dalita (1956), Badjao (1957), and Biyaya ng Lupa (1959), as well as for roles he played in Sakada (1976), Sister Stella L. (1984), and Misteryo sa Tuwa (1984). He has also appeared on the long-running TV series Flordeluna. He has won best supporting actor awards from the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences, the Philippine Movie Press Club, and the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 16 titles

Huwag Mong Itanong Kung Bakit poster
NR

Aning is a maid in the Cuevas household. She is raped by an unknown assailant and comes home to the province pregnant. Her older sister Dinya serves the Cuevas household to search for the culprit. She catches the culprit but at the cost of her own vitrue.

Huwag Mong Itanong Kung Bakit

1988

Tagos ng Dugo poster
3.3

A young Pina was traumatized when her family was murdered while she had her first menstruation. She grows up into a serial killer transforming herself to different personalities as she seduced one man at a time grossly killing them while in the act of sexual pleasure.

Tagos ng Dugo

1987

Kung Ako'y Iiwan Mo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kung Ako'y Iiwan Mo

1980

Salome poster
10.0

The story starts as a seemingly simple crime of passion, Jimmy, the persistent suitor, is stabbed to death by Salome, the young and pretty wife of Kario, an ordinary farmer. But as the story unfolds, conflicting versions of the crime are given.

Salome

1981

Sampung Ahas ni Eva poster
4.3

On a remote island, a plane wreck leaves a woman alone with ten men who are willing to kill to fulfill their desires for her.

Sampung Ahas ni Eva

1984

Joyful Mystery poster
8.2

August 1950. 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.

Joyful Mystery

1984

Sister Stella L. poster
7.0

A nun who acts as a counselor in a home for unwed mother undergoes political awakening when her friend and namesake belonging to the same congregation as hers inspires her to get involved in the struggle for justice and freedom of striking workers in a cooking oil company.

Sister Stella L.

1984

Public Enemy No. 2: Maraming Number Two poster
10.0

A story about a man who has lots of different women and families.

Public Enemy No. 2: Maraming Number Two

1985

No artwork available
6.0

A woman forced to exotic modelling and dancing in order to survive for her family

Nude City

1986

Gabi Na, Kumander poster
7.0

Gabi Na Kumander is the story of two brothers with opposite beliefs who suddenly find themselves in a fight for what each one believes is right. Ramil Macan had been assigned to fight the rebels in Sto. Nio and he discovers that the rebel leader is no other than his younger brother, whom he had given up for dead years ago. Ronald Macan, former law student and activist, took to the hills with the imposition of martial law. He is known as Kumander Kobra. Ramil had been assigned to put a stop to his activities and in the name of the law to take him dead or alive.

Gabi Na, Kumander

1986

No artwork available
NR

This melodrama is a true-confession story of one of the country's top models and international-beauty-title holders, who struggles to rise above her deprived childhood and unfortunate relationships.

The Untold Story of Melanie Marquez

1987

Tatak Avellana poster
NR

The musings and works of artist Lamberto V. Avellana.

Tatak Avellana

1988

No artwork available
10.0

This official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1983 directed by Lino Brocka and starred Carmi Martin, Phillip Salvador, Dennis Roldan, Vic Diaz, and Tony Santos, Sr centers on the story of Gigi, a burlesque dancer who is the main attraction of show.

Hot Property

1983

Anak Badjao poster
NR

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1987 directed by Jose Antonio Alonzo and Jerry Tirazona and starred Anthony Alonzo, Charito Solis, Tony Santos Sr., Liza Lorena, Alicia Alonzo, Marithes Samson and Isadora.

Anak Badjao

1987

Annie Sabungera poster
7.0

This is a story of the adventures and misadventures of Annie Sabungera, a young lady who seems to have a never-ending supply of suitors and trouble.

Annie Sabungera

1982

No artwork available
10.0

Based on the true-to-life story of ex-PC Sgt. Alejandrino Baun, leader of the notorious Baun Gang.

Baun Gang

1985

1970s · 9 titles

Araw-Araw, Gabi-Gabi poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Araw-Araw, Gabi-Gabi

1975

Mga Uhaw na Bulaklak poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mga Uhaw na Bulaklak

1975

Uhaw na Bulaklak, Part 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Uhaw na Bulaklak, Part 2

1976

No artwork available
10.0

Jun, an art student, moves away from his family after a fight with his father about his college program. He meets Menchu in class and they fall in love, but Jun struggles to fully commit due to his past trauma. Singing becomes his solace and brings him closer to Menchu. However, a revelation after a family tragedy puts their relationship to the test.

Bawal na Pag-Ibig

1977

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

The Legend of Julian Makabayan poster
7.0

Celso Ad. Castillo's film about villagers retelling the story of their hero and the revolt he waged in the countryside.

The Legend of Julian Makabayan

1979

No artwork available
7.0

The movie is about a former fashion model who turns to professional photography. She is wooed by twins who eventually become her lovers, though she believes that she is only dating one man. Upon discovering that her lover is actually two different men, she develops emotional and psychological problems.

Babalik Ka Rin

1973

Aliw-iw poster
NR

The story of an indigenous Igorot woman who traverses the complex path of life to the playful line of destiny.

Aliw-iw

1979

Kampanerang Kuba poster
7.0

Vilma Santos is Andang, a kind, honest, and devout hunchback who lives in the church's bell tower.

Kampanerang Kuba

1974

1950s · 22 titles

Philippine Navy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Philippine Navy

1953

Child of Sorrow poster
5.9

A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.

Child of Sorrow

1956

Badjao poster
7.2

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.

Badjao

1957

Haring Solomon at Reyna Sheba poster
10.0

Lamberto Avellana's adaptation of the Solomon and Sheba mythos.

Haring Solomon at Reyna Sheba

1952

₱10,000 Pag-ibig poster
9.0

Claudo thought that money was everything until Loida taught him that love is not on a cash and carry basis.

₱10,000 Pag-ibig

1957

Korea poster
9.0

Korea is a 1952 Philippine war film about the Korean War directed by Lamberto V. Avellana. Produced by LVN Pictures, the film is considered to be lost. Benigno Aquino Jr. wrote the script who based it on his experiences in the war as a correspondent.

Korea

1952

Hantik poster
9.0

A story about a farmer who had his parents killed and also abused by the Japanese occupation forces escapes joins the guerrilla and became a leader of a group.

Hantik

1950

In Despair poster
NR

A story about Manuel a sickly musician who meets Shelly a beautiful store manager.

In Despair

1950

Luha at Musika poster
NR

A man would receive an inheritance from his uncle but under one condition to stay away from music.

Luha at Musika

1953

Singsing na Tanso poster
NR

A fantasy story about a man who acquires a copper ring that grants three wishes.

Singsing na Tanso

1954

Kontrabando poster
7.0

Lieutenant Diego, a government intelligence officer, a G-2, becomes a double agent to gain entry into the sinister world of the smugglers of firearms, jewelry, and opium.

Kontrabando

1950

Prinsipe Teñoso poster
5.0

Prince Teñoso who is exiled by his father, the king after freeing the pitiful giant from jail. In gratitude, the giant gives Teñoso a magic handkerchief that can tame animals and can give him his wishes. As a beggar, Teñoso is despised by the princes, the king's soon-to-be sons-in-law, but eventually is recognized as the hero responsible for curing the king's illness, and winning the king's battles against the moors.

Prinsipe Teñoso

1954

Tatlong Labuyo poster
NR

Tatlong labuyo: Directed by Richard Abelardo. With Delia Razon, Mario Montenegro, Tony Santos, Alfonso Carvajal.

Tatlong Labuyo

1953

Blessings of the Land poster
7.5

Maria and Jose, a young married couple begin life together in an orchard in the countryside. It isn't long until they have four children: Miguel, Arturo, Angelita, and Lito. The eldest, Miguel, is a deaf-mute. Life is good for the family and the children grow up and bring joy to the community. But trouble enters their lives when Jose makes an enemy of Bruno, a widower, much feared in the village.

Blessings of the Land

1959

Cry Freedom poster
9.0

A man and a woman fight for the freedom of their country Marking with his gun Yay with her typewriter. Thrown together by a cause greater than either of them they share the suffering of the flesh and the spirit among the country's guerrilla fighters. They emerge, out of the crucible of war, heroes-and lovers.

Cry Freedom

1959

Squatters poster
7.0

A story about a grandfather who is a landowner and a granddaughter who's an aspiring writer who pretends to be squatters to know why the people are disgruntled with them.

Squatters

1953

Doctor X poster
NR

Madman or Scientist? See this amazing comedy-mystery teeming with giant animals, and tiny human beings. A thousand and one thrills and laughs.

Doctor X

1950

1-2-3 poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

1-2-3

1955

Silver Candlestick poster
NR

RUGGED in action, RAW in romance.

Silver Candlestick

1954

Dagohoy poster
NR

Dedicated to the valiant Boholano hero Francisco Dagohoy, this film shows the real causes that impelled the Dagohoy Uprising.

Dagohoy

1953

Abarinding poster
NR

A story about Abarinding the daughter of a man who received a briefcase full of money from a thief.

Abarinding

1954

Saykopatik poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saykopatik

1952

1940s · 6 titles

Behind the camera