Hispanic Cowboys in Hollywood I loved to watch the Hispanic actors who worked in Hollywood in the 1950’s. Who didn’t love to watch the Cisco Kid starring Duncan Renaldo and his faithful sidekick Poncho, starring Leo Carrillo? Another of my favorites was Pedro Armendáriz and his work in both “Three God Fathers” and in “Fort Apache” with John Wayne and Harry Carey Jr. Rodolfo Acosta is another Hispanic actor who contributed to American entertaiment on television on the highly rated western called “High Chaparral”. Chris-Pin Martin was born in Tucson, Arizona. He was a roly-poly comic character actor of Mexican heritage who spoke in broken English. Martin acted in over one hundred films between 1925 and 1953. His most remembered western film role was as a sidekick named Pancho in nine of the Cisco Kid films. Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez was an American character actor best known for his appearances in a number of John Wayne movies including Rio Bravo. He also made guest appearances in shows such as “Gunsmoke” and “Wanted: Dead or Alive”. Pascual Antonio Aguilar Barraza, most commonly known as Antonio Aguilar, was a Mexican singer, actor, producer, and writer. During his career made 167 movies and produced over 150 albums, which sold 25 million copies. Alfonso Bedoya found work mainly as a character actor in the US film industry in the 1930’s and in the Mexican film industry in the 1940’s. He is best remembered as Gold Hat, the bandit leader who declares he doesnt have to show any stinking badges. He played this part in John Huston’s 1948 adventure film “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”. This hispanic actor was very entertaining, but he also fell into the trap of being stero-typed-cast, which probably shortened his career as it did many other Hispanic actors.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:31:48 +0000
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