Fernando Poe 

(born Allan Fernando Poe y Reyes; November 27, 1916 – October 23, 1951), also
known as Fernando Poe Sr., was a Filipino actor during the early cinema era in the Philippines. He
was of Spanish descent.
Poe was the father of Fernando Poe Jr., who later became a prominent actor and icon. Prior to his
son's rise to fame, Poe had been known simply as Fernando Poe. Since then, he had been named
Fernando Poe Sr. to distinguish him from his son.[1][2][3] He directed the first Darna film in 1951 before
he died in the same year. As a leading man, he was often cast opposite Mona Lisa.
Poe was born in San Carlos City, Pangasinan, and later had six children by his second wife,
Elizabeth "Bessie" Gatbonton Kelley of Pampanga: Elizabeth, Ronald Allan, Fernando II (Andy),
Genevieve (Jenny), Fredrick (Freddieboy), and Evangeline. Poe and Kelly were married in 1940
after their first two children were born. Actor Conrad Poe, meanwhile, was his illegitimate son by
actress Patricia Mijares.
The original spelling of his surname was Pou (Catalan: ['pɔw]) via his father, playwright Lorenzo Pou,
a Catalan immigrant from Majorca in the Balearic Islands. Pou established a mining business in the
Philippines and married a Pangasinense woman named Marta Reyes.
Poe graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of the
Philippines in 1935 and the degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine from the Philippine Dental College
in 1942.
Poe died in 1951 while working on a film, after he had permitted a rabid puppy to lick his wound.[4]