page_title: Eddie Garcia
section_title: Later years
hierarchical_section_title: Eddie Garcia / Career / Later years
caption_attribution_description: English: Eddie Garcia On March 2013 as I Photographed Myself.
context_page_description: Eduardo Verchez Garcia, known colloquially as Manoy, was a Filipino actor, television personality, film director and producer. With almost 700 film and television roles and a career spanning seven decades, he is widely regarded as the "greatest Filipino actor of all time". He had the highest number of appearances in Philippine films, portraying a variety of roles which include gay, antihero, and villain roles.
  Garcia's best regarded works as an actor include Beast of the Yellow Night, The Woman Hunt, Deathrow, The Debut, Abakada... Ina, Bwakaw, and Rainbow's Sunset, which marked his last film appearance in his lifetime. Later in his career, he starred in television programs including Little Nanay and FPJ's Ang Probinsyano.
  Garcia received numerous awards throughout his career, garnering a total of 43 wins and 38 nominations from notable award-giving bodies. He is the only individual to be inducted in three categories in the FAMAS Hall of Fame: for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director. Garcia is the only Filipino to receive the Asian Film Award for Best Actor.
context_section_description: In 2010, Mark Hartley's documentary film Machete Maidens Unleashed! premiered. Garcia is interviewed in the documentary that explores exploitation films made in the Philippines in the 1970s and 1980s.
  Garcia did the independent venture titled Bwakaw in 2012, directed by Jun Robles Lana, a young Palanca award winner and director, gave Garcia the script, and was worried that a big star like him would decline the role as the crew feared they could not afford him. The director admitted his concern to Garcia, who already read the script. To the director’s surprise, Garcia nonchalantly asked, “So when do we start shooting?” Garcia earned his first international film award at the 55th Asia-Pacific Film Festival as the lead actor for the movie on December 15, 2012, garnering the Asian Film Award for Best Actor, the only Filipino so far to win the award.
  Early in 2013, Garcia was awarded the first Dolphy Lifetime Achievement Award – Ulirang Alagad ng Sining during the Entertainment Press Society’s Golden Screen TV Awards. Also that year the documentary film The Search for Weng Weng started its film festival run. In it Garcia was interviewed about the actor Weng Weng who was Philippines' first international star and a unique figure in cinema being a short person who performs death defying stunts.
  In August 2014, Garcia was included in two lists: Inside Showbiz magazine's list of five best of the living Filipino actors, and the Philippines' Yes! Magazine's list of 2014’s 100 Most Beautiful Stars.
  In 2015, he appeared in the television series program Little Nanay. He transferred to ABS-CBN and portrayed Don Emilio on the longest-running action television show in the history of Philippine television entitled FPJ's Ang Probinsyano with Coco Martin from 2016 until 2019. Garcia returned to GMA Network and did Rosang Agimat until the accident leading to his coma and eventual death occurred during the shooting of this show.
  Garcia continued to actively appear on films when he reached the age of 89 in 2018 and emphasized that "retirement was never in my vocabulary." Garcia's last notable works were ML, an entry of 14th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival which he portrayed as Colonel dela Cruz, a retired METROCOM colonel suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, leading him to believe that he is still living in the days of the Marcos dictatorship, with his performance on his movie won Gawad Urian's Best Actor in the following year during the time Garcia went comatose after his accident, and Hintayan ng Langit, an entry of 2018 QCinema International Film Festival starring opposite Gina Pareño, as Manolo who was reunited with his ex-girlfriend in Purgatory. The said movie was also available on Netflix in the following year during also the time Garcia went comatose after the accident. Garcia also portrayed on his last movie appearance during his lifetime, Rainbow's Sunset as Ramon, an entry  in the 2018 Metro Manila Film Festival directed by Joel Lamangan, as a gay senator who only came out when he reached elder age. Garcia was also nominated for as Best Actor but lost to Dennis Trillo. Garcia had a special participation role in the comedy film Sanggano, Sanggago’t Sanggwapo released on September 4, 2019, three months after his death. Garcia didn't get to finish shooting his required scenes in the movie due to the accident and it marked his last appearance in a movie.
caption: Garcia in 2013
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