Ricardo Brillantes (born 1916) is a Filipino prewar actor and also film director and a prominent writer for Bulaklak and Liwayway magazines, who made his first movie under Liwayway Pictures in 1938's Spanish Civil War movie of Mutya ng Katipunan aka Muse of Katipunan.

Brillantes made his first film directorial under Filipinas Pictures in 1950's Batong Buhay and in 1951 under Leopoldo Salcedo Production of Bisig ng Manggagawa.

He stopped making movies in the early 1950s and has never done any film or directorial job. He joined politics in 1951 and was elected number one counselor for Caloocan, town of Rizal (now a city) where a street was named after him to this date. He died at an early age of 45 in November 1961.

Filmography

• 1938 -Mutya ng Katipunan [Liwayway]
• 1939 -Tawag ng Bayan [Liwayway/Manansala]
• 1940 -Lakambini [Cervantina Filipina Corp.]
• 1947 -Bisig ng Batas [McLaurin Bros.]
• 1947 -Hanggang Langit [Kayumanggi]
• 1947 -Maria Kapra [Sampaguita]
• 1947 -Tayug (Ang Bayang Api) [Pedro Vera]
• 1948 -Batang Lansangan [Milagrosa]
• 1948 -Labi ng Bataan [Premiere]
• 1950 -Sundalong Talahib [Filipinas]
• 1950 -Batong Buhay [Filipinas] (dir)
• 1951 -Bisig ng Manggagawa [LS] (dir)

External links

• Ricardo Brillantes at the Internet Movie Database

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