Perry Lopez
Acting • Born 1929-07-22 – Died 2008-02-14
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Perry Lopez (July 22, 1929 - February 14, 2008) was an American film and television actor. His acting career lasted over 40 years before his death in 2008. Lopez was born in New York City. Lopez began his acting career on in theater, based in New York. He was signed to a contract at Warner Bros. Studios in 1955. Lopez appeared in a number of B-movies and Westerns early on in his career, including the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Young Guns and The Lone Ranger. Lopez was, perhaps, best known as Lieutenant Lou Escobar in the 1974 film Chinatown, which he starred in opposite Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. He reprised the role sixteen years later (with Escobar promoted to Captain) in The Two Jakes in 1990. Among his many television appearances, one of his more well-known roles is that of Esteban Rodriguez in the classic Star Trek episode "Shore Leave". Lopez also appeared in an episode of Bonanza, as the cold-blooded outlaw Duke Miller, who kills a man over being first in line to get a haircut. He was Joaquín Castañeda, a mestizo that fought to free his people, on El Zorro, starring Guy Williams. Lopez also appeared in episode 14, "Night Of The Long Knives" originally airing December 16, 1966 of The Time Tunnel television series, in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea -episode "Savage Jungle" and played Pvt. Petuko in Kelly's Heroes (1970). Lopez died of lung cancer in at The Rehabilitation Centre of Beverly Hills in Beverly Hills, California at age 78. He was survived by several nieces and nephews. Description above from the Wikipedia article licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
63 credits
Chinatown
Movie • 1974
Lieutenant Lou Escobar
Kelly's Heroes
Movie • 1970
Pvt. Petuko
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Movie • 1987
Ed Zacharias
I Died a Thousand Times
Movie • 1955
Louis Mendoza
Taras Bulba
Movie • 1962
Ostap Bulba
McLintock!
Movie • 1963
Davey Elk
Cry Tough
Movie • 1959
Toro
Mister Roberts
Movie • 1955
Rodrigues
The Rare Breed
Movie • 1966
Juan
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Movie • 2004
Escobar in Chinatown (archive footage)
Battle Cry
Movie • 1955
Pvt Joe Gomez aka Spanish Joe
Hell on Frisco Bay
Movie • 1955
Mario Amato
Man-Trap
Movie • 1961
Puerco
The Steel Jungle
Movie • 1956
Ed Novak
The Mountains of the Moon
Movie • 1967
Chigger
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Movie • 1989
Eddie Rios
The Lone Ranger
Movie • 1956
Pete Ramirez
Violent Road
Movie • 1958
Joe
The Young Guns
Movie • 1956
San Antone
The McConnell Story
Movie • 1955
Red
Sol Madrid
Movie • 1968
Hood #1
The Century Turns
Movie • 1972
Sgt. Juan Mendoza
Daring Game
Movie • 1968
Reuben
Omar Khayyam
Movie • 1957
Prince Ahmud
The Two Jakes
Movie • 1990
Captain Lou Escobar
Flaming Star
Movie • 1960
Two Moons
Bandolero!
Movie • 1968
Frisco
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Movie • 1954
Tomas (uncredited)
Confessions of a Hitman
Movie • 1994
Priest
Drum Beat
Movie • 1954
Bogus Charlie
Che!
Movie • 1969
Rolando
Lady Ice
Movie • 1973
Carlos
The Deep Six
Movie • 1958
Al Mendoza
The Time Tunnel
TV • 1966
Dr. Charles Whitebird
Star Trek
TV • 1966
Lt. Esteban Rodriguez
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Nico Berengeri
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Candido Gomez
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Juanito
Airwolf
TV • 1984
Garcia
Naked City
TV • 1958
Howard Running Bear
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Ruiz
Mannix
TV • 1967
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Priest
Zorro
TV • 1957
Hec Ramsey
TV • 1972
Sgt. Juan Mendoza
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Julio
Redigo
TV • 1963
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Sanchez Dominguez
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
Tarzan
TV • 1966
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
Hondo
TV • 1967
The Rebel
TV • 1959
Iron Hand
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Riverboat
TV • 1959
James Evans
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Pete Salavedo
Johnny Midnight
TV • 1960
Monty Nash
TV • 1971
Carlos Ramirez
The Time Tunnel
TV • 1966
Maj. Kabir
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Carlos Abaca