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Veteran character actor 'Bangky' dies

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<div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2428380650523585&amp;set=a.153676334660706&amp;type=3&amp;theater" data-width="auto"> </div><p>MANILA -- Veteran character actor Nonong &quot;Bangky&quot; de Andres passed away on Tuesday in Plaridel, Quezon. He was 71.</p><p>The sad news was confirmed to ABS-CBN News by de Andres&#x27; nephew Paolo Capino.</p><p>Capino said that his uncle died at the house of his friend Mayor Bernard Tumagay.</p><p>Jose Clemente de Andres in real life, the veteran actor suffered emphysema and other illnesses before he died.</p><p>De Andres was popularly known as “Bangkay” in horror and comedy movies and “Bangky” in ABS-CBN&#x27;s 2014 hit series &quot;Forevermore,&quot; which starred Liza Soberano and Enrique Gil.</p><p>He got his screen name &quot;Bangkay&quot; for portraying &quot;dead&quot; persons in several movies.</p><div><br/> </div>

<p>Veteran character actor Nonong "Bangky" de Andres passed away on Tuesday in Plaridel, Quezon. He was 71.</p>

Veteran character actor Nonong "Bangky" de Andres passed away on Tuesday in Plaridel, Quezon. He was 71.