Tugak Autobiography

TUGAK (Guagua) Guagua-born Perfecto "Peck” Piñon was born at Guagua, Pampanga in 10 May 1917 used to be a painter of movie billboards, which led him to try showbiz, naming himself as “Abe Tugak” and performing in bod-a-bil. He found a team-mate in the person of another Kapampangan comedian Pugak— and so the bald tandem of Pugak and Tugak was born. They made the rounds of theater stages with their comic antics and even did novelty records. In1954, they were topbilled in the movie “Is My Guy” with kabalens , Eddie del Mar and Rosita Noble and “Pitong Pasiklab” (1962). They were well-known for their 60s spoof movies, “Pogi Dozen” (1967), “We Only Live Wa-Is”(1968) and “Crazy 8 at Walong Dyango” (1969). When movie offers came too few, Tugak fell back on his painting skills and became a successfull painter. He put up his own Peck Piñon Art Gallery that had branches in Ali Mall in Cubao, SM North Edsa and in Makati. He moved to the U.S. with his family where he continued painting until his death on January 7, 2006.