death_date birth_date yearsactive article_title name occupation
2003 -lrb- age 75 -rrb- 1928 1950 -- 1998 amado cortez
 amado cortez actor
amado cortez

amado cortez -lrb- 1928 -- 2003 -rrb- was a filipino actor and diplomat .
his father was jose padilla sr , a governor in plaridel bulacan and maria clara ruiz .
his brother was jose padilla jr. , carlos padilla sr. , roy padilla and his sister was consuelo osorio , paz padilla , pilar padilla and cristina aragon who portrayed valentina in the very first darna movie in 1951 .
his first contract was under lvn pictures .
he made five movies with lvn , namely `` ang tapis mo inday '' with celia flor , `` anak ng pulubi '' and `` nasaan ka giliw '' both with tessie quintana , `` harana sa karagatan '' with mila del sol and `` tia loleng '' with armando goyena .
after two years of making movies with lvn studios , he signed another contract with the santiagos and became the mainstay movie player on that studio .
he then made several pictures with premiere production .
he married gloria sevilla , another premiere production siren .
cortez won a filipino academy of movie arts and sciences award for best supporting actor in 1970 .
his last film was `` campus scandal '' -lrb- 1998 -rrb- .
in 1998 , philippine president joseph estrada , a former actor and colleague of cortez , named cortez as general consul of the philippines in san francisco .
he retired in 2001 and died in 2003 .
cortez was awarded a posthumous lifetime achievement award in 2003 by the filipino academy of movie arts and sciences .
