Personal Info
Birth date
1944-01-03 (81 Years)
Day of death
2001-10-24
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Makati City, Phillipines
Also known as
Raven
Ray Ventura
Biography
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.
Filmography
Noli Me Tangere
NYR
Overview:
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.A Dangerous Life
NYR
Overview:
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.Evolution of a Filipino Family
7.6
Overview:
Depicting the struggles of Filipinos in rural areas under the brutal Marcos regime, a family of poor farmers tries to overcome the challenges brought on by corruption and greed for power.Miracle
8
Overview:
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.Calvento Files: The Movie
NYR
Overview:
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.Moral
8.1
Overview:
The episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual and professional desires and how best to attain them.Gimik: The Reunion
7
Overview:
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.Flames: The Movie
NYR
Overview:
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.We Will Go to Deauville
5.7
Overview:
Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.Midnight Dancers
5.4
Overview:
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.Deathrow
8
Overview:
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.Darna
NYR
Overview:
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.Syota ng Bayan
4
Overview:
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.Sakay
NYR
Overview:
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.Ipaglaban Mo: The Movie II
NYR
Overview:
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.Escape
6
Overview:
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.Kiss the Sky
5.6
Overview:
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.Lahar: Paraisong Abo
NYR
Overview:
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.Birador
4.7
Overview:
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.Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa
2
Overview:
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.Isang Araw Walang Diyos
5.5
Overview:
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.Why Paris?
NYR
Overview:
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.NBI: The Mariano Mison Story
6
Overview:
A Filipino police story about Mariano Mison one the head of bureau who investigated the Vizconde massacre.Joyful Mystery
7.7
Overview:
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.Virgin Forest
5.667
Overview:
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.Live by the Fist
5.3
Overview:
A man is unjustly convicted of a brutal crime. In prison he must fight for survival, justice and freedom.Mumbaki
6
Overview:
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.Dirty Affair
6
Overview:
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.Acting
2004Evolution of a Filipino Family as Ka Harim
2001Syota ng Bayan as Tandang Ponso
2000Deathrow as Mio
2000Ping Lacson: Super Cop as Abadilla
2000Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw as Tatay
1999Sutla as Unknown
1999Gimik: The Reunion as Mr. Suntay
1999Kahapon, May Dalawang Bata as Encio
1999Still Lives as Salvador
1998Kiss the Sky as Mateo Brother #1
1998Birador as Ben
1998Miguel/Michelle as Unknown
1998Anting-anting as Unknown
1997Ipaglaban Mo: The Movie II as Prosecutor (episode 1)
1997Flames: The Movie as Tito Rodel (segment "Tameme")
1997Calvento Files: The Movie as Joaquin (segment "Balintuwad")
1997Lahar: Paraisong Abo as Unknown
1997NBI: The Mariano Mison Story as Unknown
1997Bayad Puri as Unknown
1996Mumbaki as Apong Ginoldang
1996Ang Pinakamagandang Hayop sa Balat ng Lupa as Tata Indo
1996Leon Cordero as Turing
1995Dahas as NBI Chief
1995Escape as The General
1995Nena as Unknown
1994Midnight Dancers as Gregorio
1993Sakay as Gen. Cornelio Felizardo
1993Dino... Abangan ang Susunod na... as Unknown
1993Live by the Fist as Father Zamora
1993Noli Me Tangere (13 Episodes) as Sakristan Mayor
1993Sana'y Ikaw na Nga as Maeng
1992Apoy sa Puso as Unknown
1992Sana Kahit Minsan as Unknown
1992Stella Magtanggol as Unknown
1992Yakapin Mo Akong Muli as Unknown
1991Darna as Unknown
1991Mga Batang City Jail as Unknown
1991Bago Matapos ang Lahat as Unknown
1990Beautiful Girl as Unknown
1990Beautiful Girl as Unknown
1990Dirty Affair as Ricardo Tuazon
1989Isang Araw Walang Diyos as Manong Kidlat
1988A Dangerous Life (3 Episodes) as Gen. 'Eddie' Ramos
1985Hinugot sa Langit as David
1985Virgin Forest as Chua Tek (San Mateo)
1984Joyful Mystery as Santos
1983Broken Marriage as Unknown
1982Moral as Taxi Driver
1982Miracle as Bino
1964Why Paris? as Museum guard
Production
1962We Will Go to Deauville ... Producer