Leopoldo Ganal Salcedo Sr. (March 12, 1912 – June 11, 1998)[1] was a Filipino film actor dubbed as "The Great Profile" who specialized in portraying dramatic heroes.

[3] Films such as Bisig ng Manggagawa (1951) and Batong Buhay (Sa Central Luzon) (1950) dealt with labor and agrarian strife.

[3] Years later, when he was cited by the Gawad Urian for its lifetime achievement award, his film career were characterized in this manner: [M]ore than just good looks, he was also radical with his characterizations, preferring to portray the politicized and the social outcast, the underdog and enraged sheep while his meztizo confreres chose the dusted tuxedos and the rank perfumes of the music halls.

From the very start, his approach to acting has always been to emphasize “being”, to be honest to oneself, to pour one’s heart and soul into the role and to eschew the artificial as this could be magnified several times on the big screen.

[3] Salcedo's most famous role came in 1961, when he starred as the titular character in Gerry de Leon's The Moises Padilla Story, a film biography of a Negros Occidental mayoral candidate who in 1951, was tortured and murdered by the private army of the provincial governor after he had refused to withdraw his candidacy.