Talk:Weng Weng

Sourcing needed
Hopefully someone can provide more sourcing for some of this material. I can't even find confirmation that he is definitely deceased, the "mid 90s" reference is also given on some other web pages, but at least one of them cites this page as the reference for that. IMDB has him appearing in a movie in the Phillipines in 1997. Hopefully someone can provide a decent source for this. The sentence about balut eggs needs attribution as well, it seems somewhat out of place but given the relative dearth of information I guess it might as well stay in for now. Lb34 05:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Death of WengWeng
I added the info that he died in the mid-1990s. I am very sure of this because it was reported in Movie Magazine, a Philippine TV entertainment show hosted by Nap Gutierrez and Cristy Fermín that ran on Saturday afternoons at GMA 7 during the 1990s. They even aired close-up shots of his corpse as it lay in state, and the sight freaked me out then. I don't remember though the cause of death. At the time he died, WengWeng had more or less been out of the public eye for sometime, since around the end of the Marcos era.

I've been searching for additional reference materials on Wengweng, but that is very difficult to find. No books have been written about him, and his current fame I think rests more overseas than in the Philippines, where there is no strong nostalgia for his movies. Perhaps the best sources of info on him would be contemporary newspaper accounts or press publicity materials from the late 70s to early 80s, which can be accessed from sites as the U.P library. In the meantime, added citation tags as to his date of death. --Anyo Niminus 11:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

misplaced info
I removed some duplicate info that was in the wrong place anyway. We just heard about his big breakthrough, and then the story returns to his discovery?

This bit:

"He was discovered by Eddie Nicart in a circus . His first movie part is believed to be that of the baby Moses in the 1972 Filipino biblical epic "Go Tell It On The Mountain", which also starred future Philippine president Joseph Estrada as the adult Moses. Most of Weng Weng's early movie roles involved him either playing babies, children, small cuddly animals or strange alien beings in a number of low budget Filipino sci-fi features. In 1973 he appeared in filmmaker Pedro Manoy's super-low-budget science-fiction fantasy "MoonBoy From Another Planet" in which he played a lovable three foot alien who befriends a poor Filipino boy." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.167.54.37 (talk) 21:52, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Unverified information
Just a section to keep a record of what is currently unverified.

Weng Weng trained in many disciplines of martial arts including Jeet Kune Do under fellow Filipino Dan Inosanto and the hybrid martial style Ju Gran Chaud which he was taught by Ju Gran Chaud's founders Laurent Painchaud and Matthew "Granimal" Granahan who travelled through Southeast Asia and Compton preaching the discipline.Filmman3000 (talk) 04:57, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Weng Weng's first movie part is believed to be that of the baby Moses in the 1972 Filipino biblical epic Go Tell It On The Mountain, which also starred future Philippine president Joseph Estrada as the adult Moses. [citation needed] Another of his early roles was in the 1973 sci-fi film called Moon Boy from Another Planet. He played a small alien who accidentally crashed here on Earth eventually befriending a poor Filipino boy. This low budget film was shown almost a decade ahead of another alien-meets-boy story film, the Hollywood blockbuster movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Manoy later unsuccessfully attempted to sue Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg, claiming he had stolen the idea for E.T. from him.Filmman3000 (talk) 03:30, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

In so far seems false, but annotated rumor, detail of the rumor are not as detailed compared to what was here.

In 1990 he was awarded a special citation for services to the Filipino film industry by then-first lady Imelda Marcos and joined her at the presentation in a special karaoke "duet" version of My Way. An unauthorized recording of their performance was later released on bootleg cassette and sold 200,000 copies.

I have to double check on details.

He was named an honorary Philippine Secret Agent and presented a custom-made .25 caliber pistol by then Vice Chief of Staff General Fidel V. Ramos.Filmman3000 (talk) 22:11, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Some neighbors of dela Cruz believe there was a magical side and said dela Cruz was a healer and would visit him when sick or wounded and ask to him pray for their recovery.Filmman3000 (talk) 03:05, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

The Liliw Productions titles are still owned by producer Cora Caballes, and she claims they are on Betacam and stored somewhere in Manila. [citation needed]Filmman3000 (talk) 03:54, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Someone said that about The Quick Brown Fox (1980).

Released in 1980, this was Weng Weng’s first big-budget role and movie.Filmman3000 (talk) 04:19, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Dela Cruz's real voice as rarely been heard outside of Philippines, since the original dubs of his films have never been available outside of his home country.

Dela Cruz is the first Filipino actor to have a documentary and a book written about him published in western countries.Filmman3000 (talk) 18:39, 8 May 2020 (UTC)