Perry Lopez
32 movies · 30 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 22, 1929
- Died
- Feb 14, 2008 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Julio César Lopez · Перрі Лопес · Хулио Сесар Лопес
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Known for
Perry Lopez: movies and TV shows
Acting (62)
- 1994 Confessions of a Hitman
as Priest
- 1990 The Two Jakes
as Captain Lou Escobar
- 1989 Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
as Eddie Rios
- 1987 Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
as Ed Zacharias
- 1984
- 1979
- 1976
- 1974 Chinatown
as Lieutenant Lou Escobar
- 1973 Lady Ice
as Carlos
- 1972 The Century Turns
as Sgt. Juan Mendoza
- 1972
- 1971
- 1970 Kelly's Heroes
as Pvt. Petuko
- 1969 Che!
as Rolando
- 1968
- 1968 Bandolero!
as Frisco
- 1968 Daring Game
as Reuben
- 1968 Sol Madrid
as Hood #1
- 1967 The Mountains of the Moon
as Chigger
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966
- 1966
- 1966
- 1966
- 1966 The Rare Breed
as Juan
- 1965
- 1964
- 1963 McLintock!
as Davey Elk
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962 Taras Bulba
as Ostap Bulba
- 1962
- 1961 Man-Trap
as Puerco
- 1961
- 1960 Flaming Star
as Two Moons
- 1960
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 Cry Tough
as Toro
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 Violent Road
as Joe
- 1958 The Deep Six
as Al Mendoza
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 Omar Khayyam
as Prince Ahmud
- 1956 The Young Guns
as San Antone
- 1956
- 1956 The Steel Jungle
as Ed Novak
- 1956 The Lone Ranger
as Pete Ramirez
- 1955 Hell on Frisco Bay
as Mario Amato
- 1955 I Died a Thousand Times
as Louis Mendoza
- 1955
- 1955 The McConnell Story
as Red
- 1955 Mister Roberts
as Rodrigues
- 1955 Battle Cry
as Pvt Joe Gomez aka Spanish Joe
- 1954 Drum Beat
as Bogus Charlie
- 1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon
as Tomas (uncredited)
- 1952