Behn Cervantes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Behn Cervantes

Philippine actor

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1938

Place of Birth: Cabanatuan, Luzon, Philippines

Date of Death: 15-Aug-2013

Profession: actor, film director

Nationality: Philippines

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Benjamin Roberto “Behn” H.
Cervantes (August 25, 1938 – August 13, 2013) was a Filipino artist and activist.
He was highly regarded as a theater pioneer, teacher, and progressive thinker who was detained multiple times during martial law in the Philippines.He directed the film Sakada (1976), about the struggle of peasants at a sugarcane plantation.
Copies of the film were seized by the military under the Marcos dictatorship.
Musical scorer Lutgardo Labad described the film as "a major cinematic coup that unearthed the inhuman conditions of our people then." In 1981, the film won a Dekada Award for Best Film of the Decade.He founded the theater group UP Repertory Company in 1974 to "to combat the censorship that was in place during martial law." He was also founding member of the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) and the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Filipino.Cervantes’ name is on the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Wall of Remembrance, which recognizes heroes who fought against martial law in the Philippines under Ferdinand E.
Marcos.