The Bamboo Gods Project: Eddie Domer

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Hanapin Si Leo Baron (1965)

Image courtesy of Simon Santos' Video 48 blog

1965 – Hanapin Si Leo Baron/“Find Leo Baron” (People’s Pictures) LAGALAG #7

[Release date 30th November 1965]

Director/Producer Cirio H. Santiago Story/Screenplay Teodorico C. Santos Music Tito Arevalo Layout Artist Eddie Domer

Cast Eddie Fernandez (Lagalag), Gina Alonzo (Laura), Nancy Roman, Ruben Rustia, Mona del Cielo, Marco Antonio, Alex Froilan, Stella Suarez (Teresa), Jose Garcia, Mary Walter, Renato Robles, Tommy Romulo, Fred Param, Martin Molina, Antonio Moreno, Johnny Long, Ruben de Jesus, Cesar Leyson, Sancho Tesalona, Benny Pestaro, SOS Daredevils

SPY/ACTION

NOTES: The seventh in a series of Filipino spy thrillers initiated by director Cirio H. Santiago, starring Eddie Fernandez as Agent Lagalag, and Gina Alonzo as Laura, his Girl Friday. The entire series is currently believed to be lost.

7 Mukha Ni Dr Ivan (1965)

All images courtesy of Simon Santos' Video 48 blog

1965 – 7 Mukha Ni Dr Ivan/“Seven Faces Of Dr Ivan” (Cirio Santiago Film Organization/People’s Pictures) LAGALAG #6

[Release date 12th August 1965]

Director/Producer Cirio H. Santiago Story/Screenplay Teodorico C. Santos Music Tito Arevalo Layout Artist Eddie Domer

Cast Eddie Fernandez (Lagalag), Gina Alonzo (Laura), Eva Montes, Nancy Roman (Tanya), Ramon D’Salva (Dr Ivan), Carol Varga, Marco Antonio, Eva Darren, Ruben Rustia (DND Secretary), Jose Garcia (Dr Kosloff), Tommy Romulo, Ely Ramos Jr, Carpi Asturias, Renato Morado, Sammy Sarmiento, Cesar Leyson, SOS Daredevils, Patria Plata, Abelardo Cruz

SPY/ACTION

NOTES: The sixth in a series of Filipino spy thrillers initiated by director Cirio H. Santiago, starring Eddie Fernandez as Agent Lagalag, and Gina Alonzo as Laura, his Girl Friday. The entire series is currently believed to be lost.

Hongkong 999 (1965)

All images courtesy of Simon Santos' Video 48 blog

1965 – Hongkong 999 (People’s Pictures [some sources list Cirio Santiago Film Organization as production company]) LAGALAG #5

[Release date 24th May 1965; filmed in Hong Kong]

Director/Screenplay Teodorico C. Santos Story Cirio H. Santiago Music Tito Arevalo Layout Artist Eddie Domer

Cast Eddie Fernandez (Lagalag), Gina Alonzo (Laura), Juliet Pardo, Celia Rodriguez, Oscar Keesee, Ruben Rustia, Patria Plata, Ely Ramos Jr, Tommy Romulo, Sammy Sarmiento, Fred Memije, Cesar Leyson, Renato Morado, Marco Antonio, Mel Francisco, Carol Varga

SPY/ACTION

NOTES: The fifth in a series of Filipino spy thrillers initiated by director Cirio H. Santiago, starring Eddie Fernandez as Agent Lagalag, and Gina Alonzo as Laura, his Girl Friday. The entire series is currently believed to be lost.

Kaaway Bilang Uno (1965)

Image courtesy of Simon Santos' Video 48 blog

1965 – Kaaway Bilang Uno/“Enemy Number One” (Cirio Santiago Film Organization) LAGALAG #4

[Release date 1st March 1965]

Director/Producer Cirio H. Santiago Screenplay Teodorico C. Santos [as T.C. Santos], Ruben Rustia, Manuel Songco Based on the DZRH Radio serial Music Tito Arevalo Layout Artist Eddie Domer

Cast Eddie Fernandez (Lagalag), Paquito Diaz, Gina Alonzo (Laura), Carol Varga, Ruben Rustia, Nello Nayo, Sammy Sarmiento, Tommy Romulo, Fred Param, Fred Memije, Cesar Leyson

ACTION/SPY

NOTES: The fourth in a series of Filipino spy thrillers initiated by director Cirio H. Santiago, starring Eddie Fernandez as Agent Lagalag, and Gina Alonzo as Laura, his Girl Friday. The entire series is currently believed to be lost.

Scorpio (1964)

All images courtesy of Simon Santos' Video 48 blog

1964 – Scorpio (People’s Pictures) LAGALAG #3

[Release date 25th November 1964]

Director Cirio H. Santiago Story Manuel Songco based on his DZRH Radio serial Screenplay Teodorico C. Santos [as T.C. Santos] Music Tito Arevalo Layout Artist Eddie Domer

Cast Eddie Fernandez (Lagalag), Gina Alonzo (Laura), Nancy Roman, Ruben Rustia, Ramon D’Salva, Jose Garcia, Ruben de Jesus, Tommy Romulo

SPY/ACTION

NOTES: The third in a series of Filipino spy thrillers initiated by director Cirio H. Santiago, starring Eddie Fernandez as Agent Lagalag, and Gina Alonzo as Laura, his Girl Friday. The entire series is currently believed to be lost.

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Eddie Domer

EDDIE DOMER: THE FACE OF FILIPINO FILM POSTERS by Andrew Leavold

Born Eduardo Domer (b. 14th April 1931, d. 13th June 2006) in Kalibo, Aklan, Eddie was to become one of the Philippines’ most talented and distinctive – not to mention prolific – film advertising artists.

He moved to Manila in his early twenties, where he served an apprenticeship to advertising agency J.T. Juco’s resident artists. There he learned illustration and poster artwork (always instantly recognizably Eddie’s, with his looped-Ds signature), hand-lettering film credits, and the noble art of hand-painting huge billboards outside cinemas and along roadsides.

In the mid-Sixties he left Juco to start his own business, and soon his regular clients included Cirio H. Santiago and his family’s Premiere Studios, Dolphy’s RVQ Productions, Bobby A. Suarez’s BAS Films, as well as many other independent producers during the hey-day of Filipino filmmaking from the Sixties to mid-Eighties.

As Eddie’s hand-painted advertising gave way to cheaper photo-based posters, Eddie would still receive commissions from Dolphy, who evidently preferred Eddie’s caricatures, and Bobby A. Suarez, who was still asking Eddie for artwork for his planned productions right up until Eddie passed away in 2006.

I’m forever indebted to Eddie’s family for the information and the above images, and in particular his grandson Josef Domer. I hope the following gallery of Eddie’s work – most of the images courtesy of Simon Santos and his incredible Video 48 blog - does his memory justice.