Mark Gil succumbs to liver cancer

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Mark Gil succumbs to liver cancer

He was diagnosed with liver cancer two years ago, and by June he was told it was terminal. But Filipino actor Mark Gil had asked his family not to make this information public. His death on September 1 shocked fans and friends; he would have turned 53 on September 25. The family expressed his own wish that they be allowed to “grieve his passing in private.” Gil rose to fame in the movie Batch 81 directed by Mike de Leon, where he played a neophyte initiated in a fraternity. He was recently seen in the ABS-CBN drama “The Legal Wife” starring Angel Locsin.

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