10 Facts About Eddie Romero

Eddie Romero's father was Jose E Romero, the first Philippine Ambassador to the Court of St James's.

Eddie Romero's mother was Pilar Guzman Sinco, a schoolteacher and the sister of University of the Philippines President Vicente G Sinco who signed the United Nations Charter in 1945 on behalf of the Philippines.

Eddie Romero co-produced the 1959 horror film Terror Is a Man, which was directed by his friend and fellow director Gerardo de Leon, with whom he would later co-direct other films.

Eddie Romero directed some critically acclaimed war films in the early 1960s, such as Lost Battalion, The Raiders of Leyte Gulf and The Walls of Hell.

Eddie Romero was a great-granddaughter of Don Francisco Gonzalez y Reinado, owner of the legendary 39,000-hectare Hacienda Esperanza that included the municipalities of Santa Maria, Santo Tomas, Rosales and San Quintin, extending through the rest of Pangasinan and the provinces of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija.

Eddie Romero was the first cousin of Francis Gonzalez Moran, father of 1973 Miss Universe Margarita Moran-Floirendo.

Eddie Romero was, for a time, the partner of actress Mila del Sol.

Eddie Romero had three children-film director and board member of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board Jose "Joey" Gonzalez Romero IV, Ancel Edgar Romero, President of HumanGood Affordable Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area and Leo John Romero, a non-profit housing executive based in Sacramento, California.

Eddie Romero had been suffering from prostate cancer when he developed a blood clot in his brain.

In 2003, Eddie Romero was awarded the National Artist Award by the Philippine government for his contribution to Philippine cinema and broadcast arts.