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• Was the protégé of famous Filipino director Lino Brocka; worked with him on 10 films in a row.
• His film Jaguar (1979) was the first Filipino movie ever to be nominated at the Cannes Film Festival.
• Won his first Best Actor award at FAMAS Awards for Bayan Ko: Kapit Sa Patalim (1984).
• Worked in several biopics, including Bobby Barbers: Parak (1997), for which he won another FAMAS Best Actor award.