- From Nick Nicholson's unpublished memoirs "Pinoywood Central Casting": Willie also used the name Morales and would tell people that he was Mexican. Here was a real character. A Korean War vet, and also a former POW. There were scars around Willies ankles from where he had been hung upside down by wire by the North Koreans. If you were able to get close to Willie he was a very interesting person and so damn funny. He would go around and tell people, “I lie so much I have to sleep standing up” or, “I would rather hear a young boy fart than a pretty girl sing”! A few years later he was murdered in Ermita by a drive by shooter who was never identified or apprehended. Some say it was the work of a politician who wanted to close down the red light district for his own personal gain. I might tend to agree with that theory.
I MET WILLY IN 1995 WHEN I WENT BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES IT WAS IN ERMITA WE TOOK A JEEPNEY TO JIM MOSS HOUSE I HAD DID ABOUT 30 MOVIES BUT THIS GUY WAS OLD SCHOOL ACTOR AND HE TOLD ME STORY ABOUT HOW HE USE TO PICK ON DAVID LIGHT SPECIAL WHEN THEY HAD TO DO SOME SCENE TOGETHER HE SOME FIGHT SCENE HE GOING TO PUCH DAVID THUR THE DOOR THIS GUY WAS HELL OF A GUY I NEVER GOT BUT MAN I PARTY FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS WITH HE WAS A LOT OF WHEN I CAME BACK IN 1998 JIM MOSS TOLD ME THAT HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE STREET WITH WILLY ROMERO WHO WAS FILIPINO ACTOR AND A CAR PULLED UP AND A GUN CAME OUT THE WINDOW AND SHOT ONE TIME SHOT HIM IN THE CHEST AND THE CAR JUST PULLED AWAY AND WILLY JUST LOOK AT HIM AND SAID HE DEAD AND A WALK AWAY LIKE NOTHING
ReplyDeletejim moss told me that he felt that a politician had hired gun men to do this because they wanted the night clubs shut down ermita sad he was good guy and down on his luck at that time broke no like so many actors when i came back and seen the hard times o told my self i would not be stuck like that its one thing to be broke in the usa but to be broke in the philippines scary deal god bless that guy rest in peace willy
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