Maggie Calloway

Magdalena Calloway (1910 – 30 April 2000), known professionally as Maggie Calloway, was a Filipina-born actress of the silent film/early sound films eras in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

She was one of fourteen children of John W. Calloway, an African-American former soldier in the United States Army, and his Filipina wife Mamerta de la Rosa. A vaudeville performer, she starred in silent films in the Philippines and made her screen debut in Jose Nepomuceno's film as a sampaguita vendor in the 1928 silent film Sampaguita. In 1932, she made two films, a silent film, Pugad ng Pag-ibig (Nest of Love) and the horror film, Ulong Inasnan (Salted-Head). As well as appearing in vaudeville in Manila, Calloway also performed in Penang, Malaysia, Singapore and Shanghai, with her husband’s band.

Filmography 1928 – Sampaguita 1932 – Pugad ng Pag-ibig 1932 - Ulong Inasnan