John Regala
John Paul Guido Boucher Scherrer, better known by his screen name John Regala, is a Filipino actor, Christian minister and environmentalist. Regala is popularly known for portraying antagonist roles in Philippine movies and television series especially in the 1990s. He is sometimes unofficially tagged as a "Bad Boy" of Philippine action films along with fellow action stars like Robin Padilla and the late Ace Vergel with the two being more known for the said nickname. Career. Mainstream success and hiatus. Regala enters showbusiness and became a teen member of "That's Entertainment", a hit Philippine TV show in  the mid 80s. He became an action star in his first action movie "Boy Kristiano" (1989). Then he portrayed a villain role to Ronnie Ricketts in an action packed movie "Isa-Isahin ko Kayo" (1990). He has also collaborated with the upcoming action star Jeric Raval when he played the lead role as Marcial "Baby" Ama (Regala's late uncle) Rudy Fernandez portrays his former role as Baby Ama in his true to life action-drama movie of 1976, "Bitayin si Baby Ama". Raval played his role as Primitivo "Ebok" Ala in the true to life action-drama movie "Primitivo  Ebok Ala: Kalaban Mortal ni Baby Ama" (1992) and he played his role as Kris Aquino's rapist-killer in the true-to-life crime drama movie "The Vizconde Massacre: God Help Us" (1993). Return to acting. Regala returns to showbusiness. He has recently worked with Mart Escudero in the horror-comedy-thriller movie "Zombading: Patayin Sa Shokot Si Remington" (2011). One of his most notable and recent works is with his best friend Gov. ER Ejercito for the award-winning 2011 Metro Manila Film Festival Filipino action movie "" (2011) while Regala himself won the best supporting actor award. He  has also worked with JC de Vera and Oyo Sotto for the TV drama series "Valiente" of TV5 (2012). He was once again made famous on ABS-CBN when he worked with Kim Chiu and Maja Salvador in "Ina, Kapatid, Anak" (2013), and with Coco Martin in an action-fantasy drama TV series "Juan dela Cruz" (2013) and "FPJ's Ang Probinsyano" (2016). Personal life. Regala is the son of the late former character actor Mel Francisco and the late former actress Ruby Regala. His showbiz career stalled due to heavy drug abuse. Later, he went to drug rehabilitation center  and became a Born Again Christian and eventually became a christian minister. After some years of his life, he decided to become a member of the Iglesia ni Cristo. He later converted to Members Church of God International but went back to Iglesia ni Cristo in 2015. Regala is now an environmentalist and work as a President and CEO of Project Green Evolution, Inc., which produces the Water Bonsai Organic Root Grower. In August 2020, Regala was hospitalized for liver cirrhosis.