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Conrado Conde

Conrado Conde

Conrado Conde (born 1911) was a Filipino film director and an actor who made his first acting appearance as an extra in Parlatone Hispano-Filipino Carmelita a Roy de Silva movie and in the 1941 musical Panambitan.

His last film from LVN Pictures is Prinsipe Teñoso ("Prince Tenoso", 1942), a swashbuckling movie with Leopoldo Salcedo where he directed his debut.

After outbreak of World War II, he returned to LVN to direct the movie Dalawang Daigdig (Two Worlds).

His first appearance in Premiere Production was Ang Hiwaga ng Tulay na Bato (The Mystery of the Stoned-Bridge).

In 1953, he signed a contract to Sampaguita Pictures and spent his career for almost 3 decades.

He is one of the director (the other were Jose De Villa and Mar S. Torres) for a propaganda film commissioned by then-Senate President Ferdinand Marcos, depicting his life and intended to support his upcoming electoral campaign against the incumbent President Diosdado Macapagal. The film was produced by Sampaguita Pictures and was scheduled for release a few weeks before the elections.