AWARDS AND HONORS
- 1962 FAMAS Best Actor for Markang Rehas
- 1964 FAMAS Best Actor for Geron Busabos
- 1965 FAMAS Best Actor for Ang Batang Quiapo
- 1966 FAMAS Best Actor for Ito ang Pilipino
- 1969 FAMAS Best Actor for Patria Adorada
- 1971 Outstanding Mayor and foremost Nationalist by the Inter-Provincial Information Service
- 1972 One of the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) in Public Administration by the Philippine Jaycees
- 1981 FAMAS Best Actor for Kumander Alibasbas
- 1981 FAMAS Hall of Fame
- 2007 Most Outstanding Citizen of San Juan