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Perry Lopez

Perry Lopez

Actor · 1929 – 2008 · New York City, New York, USA

​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.

Series24

  • TV8.0

    Star Trek

    1966 · 1.6K votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Rifleman

    1958 · 54 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.6

    Mission: Impossible

    1966 · 320 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV7.6

    Airwolf

    1984 · 497 votes

  • TV6.7

    Charlie's Angels

    1976 · 241 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV5.7

    Naked City

    1958 · 13 votes

  • TV6.9

    Hart to Hart

    1979 · 133 votes

  • TV7.7

    Judd, for the Defense

    1967 · 3 votes

  • TV7.6

    Zorro

    1957 · 212 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    1964 · 75 votes

  • TV6.5

    Kraft Suspense Theatre

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV5.1

    The Rebel

    1959 · 11 votes

  • TV5.3
  • TV6.1

    The Mod Squad

    1968 · 27 votes

  • TV5.2

    Cain's Hundred

    1961 · 4 votes

  • TV7.7

    The Time Tunnel

    1966 · 200 votes

  • TV6.9

    Tarzan

    1966 · 24 votes

  • TV6.5

    Riverboat

    1959 · 6 votes

Movies23

  • Movie7.9

    Chinatown

    1974 · 4.4K votes

  • Movie7.4

    Kelly's Heroes

    1970 · 856 votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie5.7
  • Movie6.6

    McLintock!

    1963 · 265 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Two Jakes

    1990 · 288 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Bandolero!

    1968 · 135 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Mister Roberts

    1955 · 185 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Rare Breed

    1966 · 82 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Hell on Frisco Bay

    1955 · 19 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Flaming Star

    1960 · 101 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Lone Ranger

    1956 · 26 votes

  • Movie6.2

    I Died a Thousand Times

    1955 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Taras Bulba

    1962 · 84 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Battle Cry

    1955 · 27 votes

  • Movie5.5
  • Movie4.8

    Che!

    1969 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Sol Madrid

    1968 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Lady Ice

    1973 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Drum Beat

    1954 · 35 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Daring Game

    1968 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie5.8

    Omar Khayyam

    1957 · 8 votes