- Currently [as of August 2018] works in Malaysia as a bank manager
From my upcoming book on Bobby A. Suarez: Bobby
secured the services of Leody M. Diaz, prolific local director of
primarily Tagalog Ilang-Ilang productions, Tony Ferrer and Agent X-44
films as well as the criminally long-lost Batman Fights Dracula
(1967), to direct The Bionic Boy, commencing around October
1976. The lead role of Johnson "Sonny" Lee went to a junior
Singaporean blackbelter, only eight or nine years old at the time,
named Johnson Yap. “I was reading a magazine when I was in Hong
Kong,” remembered Bobby, “and I saw this young boy. So I call up
Sunny Lim and get him to call the boy because I would like to meet
him. Sunny Lim calls up the father of the boy, and we met. I asked
the boy, 'Do you want to be an actor?' He says, 'Yes, sir. When can I
start?' I said, 'Next week, instead of going to school.' So one week
I trained him, and the next week he’s making the movie.”
- MUCH more info to come!
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