Ray Ventura

Ray Ventura

Born: January 3, 1944
Died: October 24, 2001
in Makati City, Phillipines
Ray Ventura was a stage, film and television actor and director who gained recognition from playing various supporting yet memorable roles. Born in Makati on Jan 3, 1944, Raven passed away on October 24, 2001 in his home in Makati City due to complications brought about by liver and bone cancer. He was married to Amelia Leaño, with whom he had three children, and six grandchildren.

Movies for Ray Ventura...

Evolution of a Filipino Family
Title: Evolution of a Filipino Family
Character: Ka Harim
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: Movie
An intimate epic made with uncompromising and austere seriousness that patiently and methodically observes the collapse and hopeful revival of a poor farming clan, meant to symbolize a nation’s history spanning 1971 to 1987.
bee
Syota ng Bayan
Title: Syota ng Bayan
Character: Tandang Ponso
Released: January 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Syota ng Bayan is Tanya Marquez, a bold star who quits showbiz and goes back to her hometown. Finding out that a cement factory is causing a lot of havoc in the environment and in the lives of her town mates, she challenges the incumbent of Mayor Golano to have it closed. When denied, Tanya rallies the people in protest but is silenced. The mayor's opponents prevail upon Tnays to run for mayor in the coming elections against Golano's son, Peter Lee. During the campaign period Tanya and Peter Lee meet and fall in love.
bee
Ping Lacson: Super Cop
Title: Ping Lacson: Super Cop
Character: Abadilla
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Based on the life story of director general Panfilo 'Ping' Lacson as the spotlight is put on the general as he handles controversial cases.
bee
Deathrow
Title: Deathrow
Character: Mio
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: Movie
A neglected and unloved orphan raised by poor relatives in the slums of Manila is wrongfully convicted of murder that resulted from a heist he was compelled to join. Unable to prove his innocence and his minor age, he is thrown into the cruel, perilous and horrifying world of death row where he is introduced to other inmates all awaiting their execution by lethal injection. One of them is a 70-year-old man who detests the jungle of jail and is feared by all the convicts. He would serve as the boy’s protector and savior and in the process touch and shape enormously the violated youth’s life in prison and beyond.
bee
Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw
Title: Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw
Character: Tatay
Released: October 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Francine Natra is a popular singer enjoying the peak of her career. But due to stardom and her hectic schedules she suffers from enjoying a simple life on her own. Meanwhile Guillermo "Gimo" Talumpati lives his ordinary life as an auto mechanic taking care of his family and specially Ging-Ging, her sister with down syndrome. Their fate crossed when a promo contest called "Date With A Star" makes Gimo the winner to take the popular Francine on a special date.
bee
Sutla
Title: Sutla
Released: September 27, 1999
Type: Movie
Sutla starring Priscilla Almeda
bee
Gimik: The Reunion
Title: Gimik: The Reunion
Character: Mr. Suntay
Released: April 28, 1999
Type: Movie
A year after college, seven friends Diane Villaruel, Ricky Salveron, Ese Aragon, Joey Fajardo, Gina de Leon, Garry Ballesteros, Melani Suntay, and Brian Lorenzo get together to take a memory down the lane and attempt to relive the past filled with challenges, victories and problems. Things are not anymore as they seemed to be as each of them treads on different path to self-discovery and accomplishment. Gina and Gary are preparing for their wedding when they learn about Gina’s troublesome reproductive system. On the other hand, just when Melanie finally gave her yes to Brian, the latter met an accident and fell in coma. Ese and Joey learned to be sweeter with each other until Joey got his dream car. And lastly, Ricky, who has been long waiting for his Diane lacked the enough courage to confess when Diane came in.
bee
Yesterday Children
Title: Yesterday Children
Character: Encio
Released: March 3, 1999
Type: Movie
It is the time of El Niño, a season ruled by superstition and fear. The rain is long in coming, the ground has cracked up dry. The ricestalks are thin and sickly. Villagers go hungry. And a boy dies from a snakebite. The adults splinter. Some pray. Others join a cult to appease earth spirits and wait for the ada, the ricefield spirit goddess of bountiful harvest who dances naked on moonlit nights and signals the need for a virgin’s sacrifice. There are fence sitters, equally pro-church and pro-cult. A landlord’s steward enforces his master’s usury on hapless farmers. A self-righteous priest says rain must first be deserved. Two young women fight for the right to do with their bodies as they please. A bastard boy and a blind girl come of age. Yesterday, they were children.
bee
Still Lives
Title: Still Lives
Character: Salvador
Released: January 12, 1999
Type: Movie
An intriguing look into a world of drugs and crime, dynamically moves through the lives of the different characters – the drug lord Enteng, his minions, the police, and customers.
bee
Kiss the Sky
Title: Kiss the Sky
Character: Mateo Brother #1
Released: October 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Two professionals, Jeff and Marty, take a business trip to the Philippines. Their deep dissatisfaction with their lives leads them to forsake their friends and families for a return to the alcohol and drug-induced wanderings of their youth.
bee
Birador
Title: Birador
Character: Ben
Released: June 3, 1998
Type: Movie
Mike Santana, a police officer, ruthlessly kills individuals and mistreats his wife, Gina. While attempting to expose and eliminate the actual perpetrators, he faces the imminent danger of losing his own life.
bee
Miguel/Michelle
Title: Miguel/Michelle
Released: May 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Young Miguel leaves the Philippines for the U.S, where he hopes to marry a nice girl. The person who returns home a few years later, however, is Michelle -- the former Miguel altered by surgery and cosmetics. Her/his father is stunned by this development, and other hostile reactions erupt.
bee
Anting-anting
Title: Anting-anting
Released: January 14, 1998
Type: Movie
a film by Ipe Pelino.
bee
Ipaglaban Mo: The Movie II
Title: Ipaglaban Mo: The Movie II
Character: Prosecutor (episode 1)
Released: November 5, 1997
Type: Movie
This second feature film based on the popular television series features two true legal cases. The first is of a nanny accused of kidnapping the child in her care, and the second is about how a rich family tries to cover up the murder of a poor man.
bee
Flames: The Movie
Title: Flames: The Movie
Character: Tito Rodel (segment "Tameme")
Released: July 9, 1997
Type: Movie
FLAMES is former TV a teen-oriented drama series and becomes a movie that is divided into two separate episodes. Episode 1: Tameme Leslie is a rich highschool student, who longs for her absentee parents. She has a cynical perception of love thus when she learns of her classmate Butch’s feelings for her, she takes it negatively. Butch on the other hand, is a poor boy who is too nervous to handle his feelings for Leslie believing he does not have any chance of making her like him. Episode 2: Pangako Karina is a young breadwinner who raised her family when her mother Dona Amparo stopped taking care of them at the death of her husband. Joel is a young delivery boy who falls in love with Karina’s meekness. As their love blooms Karina’s responsibility as a sister and daughter will stand in their way.
bee
Calvento Files: The Movie
Title: Calvento Files: The Movie
Character: Joaquin (segment "Balintuwad")
Released: May 14, 1997
Type: Movie
This movie has two episodes depicted from investigative crime show. Each episode speaks of grotesque deaths, betrayal, and the family members of the victims’ pursuit for justice. Episode 1 : Balintuwad It is the story of an epileptic fifteen-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted and later on drowned to death by a group of unknown men. As the rape-slay case comes to close, investigation reveals that the suspects are schoolteachers, who are expected to enhance a good future for children. Episode 2: Inay, May Momo, A young mother and her daughter’s nightmare begin when the husband is man-slaughtered by the mother’s other lover. The widowed wife files criminal case to imprison to killer however instead of surrendering the murderer chases down the mother and her distraught daughter to make them drop the charges against him.
bee
Lahar: Paraisong Abo
Title: Lahar: Paraisong Abo
Released: March 12, 1997
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano dormant for more than 400 years, the residents of the whole town of San Simon in Pampanga was engulfed by dust and thick mudflow called lahar. The whole surviving residents of the devastated community are relocated to transitional evacuation center, a tent city, where different and unique personalities meet: Sheila, a migrant worker from Germany who is struggling to keep her family intact at all costs; Sonia who is looking for her missing husband while pretending as a handicapped so she can beg on the streets; Ditas, who returns in Pampanga after getting pregnant in Manila; and Elena, a mother who lost her whole family in the eruption, yet she keeps a positive outlook in life that as long as she remembers her relatives no amount of tragedy could keep her from reminiscing of their once peaceful lives.
bee
NBI: The Mariano Mison Story
Title: NBI: The Mariano Mison Story
Released: February 26, 1997
Type: Movie
A Filipino police story about Mariano Mison one the head of bureau who investigated the Vizconde massacre.
bee
Desire
Title: Desire
Released: January 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Three women who come from different backgrounds work hard to earn a living in Manila, but realize that they are victims of sexual exploitations. A television producer is forced to have sex with her boss in exchange for an opportunity to produce a new programme. That almost costs her marriage. A temporary teacher and her colleagues are sent by their principal to give a dance performance at a ministry officer's birthday party. They are gang-raped or almost gang-raped by the officer and his guests. A bus ticket seller accidentally kills one of the men who tries to gang-rape her, but all the bus passengers who witness the scene refuse to go to court to help her defending the charge of murder. Although the three women do not know each other, they end up taking the same bus leaving Manila and heading to the rural area.
bee
Mumbaki
Title: Mumbaki
Character: Apong Ginoldang
Released: August 14, 1996
Type: Movie
Joseph is a young doctor who returned to his hometown in the Mountain Province to bury his father, an Ifugao chieftain, who was killed during a tribal dispute. While there, he discovers his rich heritage and acquires pride in his being an Ifugao. Though the lure of a career in America remains strong, he is unable to resist the urge to help his village, which has resisted modern medicine and is now in the midst of a pneumonia epidemic and a civil war.
bee
Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa
Title: Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa
Character: Tata Indo
Released: January 18, 1996
Type: Movie
A strange but beautiful young woman washed ashore on an island becomes the desire of all men. Her presence causes jealousy, intrigue, and a series of deaths in the town.
bee
Leon Cordero
Title: Leon Cordero
Character: Turing
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
bee
Dahas
Title: Dahas
Character: NBI Chief
Released: December 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Luisa is raped by an unknown assailant a few nights before she is wed to Jake. When Jake discovers Luisa's prenuptial chastity is in question on their first night, violent events unfold. Poor Luisa is a battered victim and reacts chillingly. Tit for tat. Fire against fire. Dreams become nightmares, love turns to rage.
bee
Escape
Title: Escape
Character: The General
Released: January 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Set during the terrifying reign of Filipino despot, Marcos, two upper caste but very different strangers team up to try and survive the physical and mental torture they undergo after they are suddenly jailed. Geny is the conservative businessman while Serge is more sensitive and outgoing. Both of the young men's parents give all of their money, but the government refuses to free them. Even a mutual hunger strike fails to move their jailers. In desperation, Geny and Serge begin plotting their escape.
bee
Nena
Title: Nena
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Ike Jarlego Jr. and writer Lualhati Bautista's noir about a nightclub waitress raped while in prison.
bee
Midnight Dancers
Title: Midnight Dancers
Character: Gregorio
Released: September 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Brothers Joel, Dennis and Sonny work together as dancers at a low-rent gay bar in downtown Manila, in the Philippines. Despite his mother's pleas, Sonny decides to quit college to work full-time at the bar, while Dennis has moved beyond dancing into prostitution at the urging of the manipulative club manager. Joel, the eldest, tries to balance his secret gay life with his socially respectable role as a husband and father.
bee
Sakay
Title: Sakay
Character: Gen. Cornelio Felizardo
Released: December 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Sakay is a 1993 Filipino historical drama film directed by Raymond Red. The film stars Julio Diaz, Tetchie Agbayani, and Leopoldo Salcedo. The film covers the life of Filipino patriot and hero Macario Sakay, who was declared an outlaw and a criminal for continuing hostilities against the United States after the "official" end of the Philippine Insurrection.
bee
Dino... Abangan ang Susunod na...
Title: Dino... Abangan ang Susunod na...
Released: July 29, 1993
Type: Movie
A Filipino comedy movie starring Anjo Yllana in the title role.
bee
Title: Noli Me Tangere
Character: Sakristan Mayor
Released: July 6, 1993
Type: TV
Eddie Romero's miniseries adaptation of the novel from Filipino writer and activist Jose Rizal, published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines in 1887. Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") explores perceived inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late nineteenth century.
bee
Apoy sa Puso
Title: Apoy sa Puso
Released: October 14, 1992
Type: Movie
A story of love, passion and infidelity.
bee
Sana Kahit Minsan
Title: Sana Kahit Minsan
Released: June 24, 1992
Type: Movie
bee
Stella Magtanggol
Title: Stella Magtanggol
Released: June 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Femme fatale causing death to anyone she ever crossed paths with.
bee
Yakapin Mo Akong Muli
Title: Yakapin Mo Akong Muli
Released: March 11, 1992
Type: Movie
A 1992 Filipino drama starring Snooky Serna and Albert Martinez.
bee
Darna
Title: Darna
Released: December 25, 1991
Type: Movie
A girl is granted a magical stone by an angel to become the superheroine Darna to combat evil and would later battle Valentina, her future nemesis.
bee
Bago Matapos ang Lahat
Title: Bago Matapos ang Lahat
Released: February 14, 1991
Type: Movie
A big screen adaptation of a story serialized in Superstar Komiks
bee
Beautiful Girl
Title: Beautiful Girl
Released: June 28, 1990
Type: Movie
Inspired by Jose Mari Chan's hit song
bee
Dirty Affair
Title: Dirty Affair
Character: Ricardo Tuazon
Released: May 17, 1990
Type: Movie
A teenage boy befriends a starlet who is having an affair with an ambitious mayor. As the elections are coming up, the mayor's wife wants him to get rid of his mistress. The starlet agrees to stop the affair on condition that the mayor help release her boyfriend from jail. The mayor does so, but wants the former jail-bird to kill his political rival.
bee
Isang Araw Walang Diyos
Title: Isang Araw Walang Diyos
Character: Manong Kidlat
Released: August 31, 1989
Type: Movie
A cult called Wakwak headed by Papa Mundo is ready to kill and be killed to fight for their beliefs. It is a religious battle for their leader, clad in priest's robes, who they believe has supernatural powers to extinguish life out of anyone. Outnumbered, Lt. Cary Altamonte's group fights for the safety of the civilians. The situation unfolds in a battle of faith.
bee
Title: A Dangerous Life
Character: Gen. 'Eddie' Ramos
Released: November 27, 1988
Type: TV
The final years of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos' rule, from the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. in 1983 to the People Power EDSA Revolution in 1986 that ousted Marcos. The film focuses on American TV journalist (Gary Busey), who finds himself in the middle of key events that lead to the downfall of the Marcos regime.
bee
Hinugot sa Langit
Title: Hinugot sa Langit
Character: David
Released: June 6, 1985
Type: Movie
A woman is thinking of abortion, against her firm faith and family's wants.
bee
Virgin Forest
Title: Virgin Forest
Character: Chua Tek (San Mateo)
Released: January 22, 1985
Type: Movie
A story set in the Philippine Republic in the 1900s where a lass, a Spanish mestizo, and a fisherman are caught up by Macabebe soldiers who are trying to capture Emilio Aguinaldo.
bee
Joyful Mystery
Title: Joyful Mystery
Character: Santos
Released: December 25, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
bee
Broken Marriage
Title: Broken Marriage
Released: September 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Trapped in a world of hectic schedules, pressure, and little time for each other, married couple Ellen and Rene decide to have a temporary separation.
bee
Himala
Title: Himala
Character: Bino
Released: December 25, 1982
Type: Movie
When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.
bee
Why Paris?
Title: Why Paris?
Released: June 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at the Academy and found a studio in Montmartre.