Narding Anzures Cause Of Death: What happened to Narding Anzures?

Bernardo “Narding” Anzures was a Filipino film actor and convicted murderer.

The son of actors Miguel Anzures and Rosa Aguirre, Bernardo Anzures starred in pre–World War II films as a child actor under Sampaguita Pictures & LVN Pictures.

After the war, Bernardo Anzures was paired with Lilian Velez in three films produced by Filippine Films & Philippine Pictures Inc., such as Binibiro Lamang Kita, Ang Estudyante, and Sa Kabukiran which was directed by Velez’s husband, Jose Climaco.

However, in 1948, LVN Pictures decided to cast Jaime de la Rosa as Lilian Velez’s leading man in her next picture.

After a dispute regarding a decision, at past midnight at about 1:00 am of the following day of June 27, 1948, Bernardo Anzures barged into the home of Lilian Velez and stabbed her and a housemaid to death.

On June 29, 1948, Bernardo Anzures was promptly arrested and on July 19, 1949, he pleaded guilty to two counts of murder.

Bernardo Anzures was sentenced to two sentences of life imprisonment but died in prison in 1949 from tuberculosis.