Mary Walter

Mary Walter
Mary Walter
Born September 10, 1912(1912-09-10)
Bacon, Sorsogon
Died February 25, 1993(1993-02-25) (aged 80)
Metro Manila
Occupation Filipino actress
Years active 1927 - 1993
Awards FAMAS Lifetime Achievement Award
1980
Gawad Urian Lifetime Achievement Award
1992

Mary Walter (September 10, 1912[1] – February 25, 1993) was a Filipino actress whose 8 decade-long film acting career saw her transformation from a romantic lead in the silent film era into a wizened fixture in horror movies in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For her body of work accomplished in an especially long career, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from both the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences and the Gawad Urian.

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Biography

Walter was born to a German father in what is now Sorsogon City, Sorsogon. As a teen, Walter appeared on the Manila bodabil circuit as a chorus girl in the stage shows of Katy de la Cruz.[2] She began her film career as a bit player. Walter first came into fame in 1927, when she starred in Ang Lumang Simbahan, staged from the popular novel by Florentino Collantes.[3] Her leading man in that film was Gregorio Fernandez, with whom she would be romantically paired in a succession of silent films, constituting perhaps the first "love-team" in Filipino cinema.[4]

After appearing in many silent films, Walter easily made the transition when sound film emerged in the Philippines in the mid-1930s. She was among the stars who appeared in the 1942 LVN film Prinsipe Teñoso, the only film produced by a Filipino film studio during the Japanese Occupation.[5]

In 1939 she appeared in the movie "Mariposang Berde" with then up and coming actress Malou "Chumams" Nocedo.

In 1948, after a 21-year film career, Walter retired to her hometown in Sorsogon.[5] Ten years later, she was induced to act again, and she appeared in LVN's Kastilaloy. Now in her forties, she was cast as matrons or mothers. As she further aged, Walter became one of the most identifiable character actresses in Philippine cinema. Fair, petite and gaunt, she became inalienably identified in grandmother roles. A chain-smoker, her gravelly voice made her ideally cast in villainous roles, most prominently in the 1974 Lino Brocka film Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa. By the 1980s, she was a memorable presence in popular horror films such as Shake, Rattle and Roll (1984) and Tiyanak (1988).

In 1980, Walter received the FAMAS Lifetime Achievement Award.[1] A similar award, this time from the Gawad Urian, was given to Walter in 1992.

In 1985 she married 15 year old Eric Rafael in a simple wedding ceremony at Sampaguita Pictures garden in Quezon City.

Contrary to what is published in her IMDB biography, Walter was not the actress engaged in the first kissing scene in Philippine cinema (that distinction falls to Dimples Cooper).[6] Walter never retired again after returning to film in 1958. She died on February 25, 1993.

The Remaining members of her family live in batangas,Balete in the barangay of Palsara and Caloocan

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Nicanor Tiongson, ed (1994). "Philippine Film". CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. VIII (1st ed.). Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines. pp. 336–337. ISBN 971-8546-31-6. 
  2. ^ Ma. Lourdes Maniquis (1994). "Philippine Theater". In Nicanor Tiongson. CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. V (1st ed.). Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines. pp. 287. ISBN 971-8546-30-8. 
  3. ^ Garcia, Jessie B. (2004). A Movie Album Quizbook. Iloilo City, Philippines: Erehwon Books & Magazine. pp. 202. ISBN 971-93297-0-X. 
  4. ^ Garcia, p. 270
  5. ^ a b Garcia, p. 203
  6. ^ Garcia, p.127

References

  • Nicanor Tiongson, ed (1994). "Philippine Film". CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. VIII (1st ed.). Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines. pp. 336–337. ISBN 971-8546-31-6. 
  • Garcia, Jessie B. (2004). A Movie Album Quizbook. Iloilo City, Philippines: Erehwon Books & Magazine. pp. 202–203. ISBN 971-93297-0-X. 

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