Career
He made his first movie for Sampaguita Pictures in 1947, Maria Kapra, which starred Ángel Esmeralda. De Villa is married to Sampaguita"s character actor and contravida (villain) of the 1960s, Tita de Villa. He made two movies under Licensed Vocational Nursing Pictures in 1949, a biopic of starring Jose Padilla Junior, and Capas, starring Leopoldo Salcedo.
After these two movies, he returned to his original studio, Sampaguita Pictures, where he acted, played character roles, and directed films.
