12 Facts About Vic Vargas

Jose Maria Marfori Asuncion, better known by his stage name Vic Vargas, was a Filipino film actor and judoka.

When he was 17, Vargas won three championships for judo in the Philippines.

Vic Vargas finished architecture at the University of Santo Tomas and then afterwards, became a physical education instructor teaching martial arts at the University of the East.

Vic Vargas starred in numerous films from early 1960s up to 2002.

Vic Vargas won again as Best Actor the next year on the same festival for the film Nueva Vizcaya.

Vic Vargas appeared in the sitcom television show of ABS-CBN, Home Along Da Riles.

Vic Vargas was known for being one of the first actors who entered the Charismatic movement in the Philippines.

Vic Vargas became an environmentalist after becoming a member of the environmental group Bantay-Dagat in Palawan.

Vic Vargas was married to Rosanna Zamora and they have a child named Basilio Anton Asuncion.

Vic Vargas died at the age of 64 on July 19,2003,15 days after he suffered from a stroke and fell into coma.

Vic Vargas was rushed to the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Pasay after having a typhoid fever in Subic that caused his stroke when he returned to Manila.

Vic Vargas was cremated and buried at Sacred Heart Church in Makati where his parents' body lie.