Filipino director (1954–2024)
Danny Ledesma Mandia (August 23, 1954 – October 16, 2024) was a Filipino dubbing television and film director and voice actor. He is known for being the dubbing director of various television series, mostly anime.
Early life.
Danny Mandia was born on August 23, 1954 in Boac, Marinduque.
Career.
Mandia is known as the "Father of modern Filipino Dubbing" within the Philippine entertainment industry. He had a background in theatre. 
He started getting involved in dubbing in 1991 after a friend from the theater industry asked him to do translation works for "Ultraman" and "Magma Man". He would become a supervisor before transitioning to being a director.
He did directorial work for the Tagalog language dub of various media, including live-action, anime, and Western animation.
In 1992, Mandia became ABS-CBN's in-house dubbing director-translator for its main network and later the anime-dedicated network Hero. He also translated theme songs into Tagalog. He also voiced Smee in the Tagalog dub of "".
Along with voice artist and his former dubber Pocholo De Leon Gonzales aka The VoiceMaster, Mandia established the Philippine Center for Voice Acting or the VoiceWorx Workshop in 2005. They also founded the Certified Voice Artist Program (CVAP).
Mandia became active once again during the COVID-19 pandemic era when he did dubbing directorial work for films under CreatiVoices Productions.
Personal life and death.
Mandia was married to Bea de la Paz. They had two children. Aside from theater and directing, Mandia was educated in agriculture and economics; as well as an educator who taught in De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, Miriam College, and Trinity College.
Mandia died at the Manila Doctors Hospital on October 16, 2024, at the age of 70.
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