Lalo Ríos
Lalo Ríos | |
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| Born | February 7, 1927 |
| Died | March 7, 1973 (aged 46) |
| Occupation | Actor |
Lalo Ríos (7 February 1927 – 7 March 1973) was a Mexican-born American actor best known for his lead role in The Ring (1952) as Tommy.[1]
Biography
[edit]Lalo Ríos was born on February 7, 1927, in San Miguelito, Sonora, Mexico. At the age of 9 he moved to East Los Angeles, California, with his family. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School.[2][3]
During Ríos' work as a carpenter[4] he got his first acting role with the Paramount film The Lawless (1950). The film cast Ríos as a young Mexican who faces a racist lynch mob in a small North California town. Since his start, his career spanned nearly twenty years. In 1952, Ríos was then cast in his most well-known role as "Tommy", in The Ring (1952), in which he played the lead actor and protagonist. Ríos was also known for certain relevance in films such as Big Leaguer (1953), and Touch of Evil (1958). He eventually ended his career in film in 1962, with Lonely Are the Brave.
After ending his career in film, Ríos began to focus solely on television. This was a format with which he was familiar, due to his initial inclusion in Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse in 1958. His casting with the series was short lived, appearing in only two episodes, but assisted him in creating a platform to sell his craft. After 1966, he participated in multiple television series, such as Laredo (1966) and Marcus Welby, M.D. (1968). Marcus Welby was the last series in which he participated, before he left American television.
Ríos died in Los Angeles on March 7, 1973.
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | The Lawless | Paul Rodriguez | |
| Bandit Queen | Juan, a vigilant | Uncredited | |
| 1951 | The Law and the Lady | Panchito | Uncredited |
| 1952 | Untamed Frontier | Pepe | Uncredited |
| One Minute to Zero | Pvt. Chico Mendoza | Uncredited | |
| The Ring | Tomas 'Tommy' Cantanios / Tommy Kansas | ||
| 1953 | City Beneath the Sea | Calypso | |
| Big Leaguer | Chuy Aguilar | ||
| 1954 | Prisoner of War | Sachez Rivero | Uncredited |
| 1958 | Touch of Evil | Risto | |
| 1960 | The Magnificent Seven | Calvera henchman | Uncredited |
| 1961 | Gold of the Seven Saints | Mexican Robber | Uncredited |
| 1962 | Lonely Are the Brave | Prisoner | |
| 1968 | Blue | Mexican bandit | Uncredited |
| Villa Rides | Mexican Soldier | Uncredited |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Martinez | My Father, the Fool |
| 1959 | Wagon Train | Juan | The Stagecoach Story · The Sister Rita Story |
| 1960 | Overland Trail | Telegrapher | Mission into Mexico |
| 1960 | Tate | The Shepherd | Tigrero |
| 1961 | The Untouchables | Tony Diaz | The Big Train, Part 1 · The Big Train, Part 2 |
| 1961 | Assignment: Underwater | Roberto | The Key |
| 1961 | Gunsmoke | Little Fox | Long Hours, Short Pay |
| 1961 | The Case of the Dangerous Robin | Doll of Death | |
| 1966 | Laredo | Pepe | The Calico Kid |
| 1967 | The High Chaparral | First Bandit | The Terrorist |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Sanchez | Neither Punch nor Judy |
References
[edit]- ^ William Anthony Nericcio. Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America, 2007. "But "Mike" is not done; Heston as Vargas grabs Risto, played with surly acerbic detachment by the late Lalo Ríos (b. 1927, Sonora, Mexico; d. 1973, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.), and demands to know where Susy (drugged and kidnapped by the ..."
- ^ Frank Javier Garcia Berumen. Brown Celluloid: Latino/A Film Icons and Images in the Hollywood. Volume 1, 2003. Page 355.
- ^ Clara Rodriguez. Heroes, Lovers and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood, 2008. Page 142: "Ricardo Montalbán, Anthony Quinn, Rafael Campos (born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City), and Lalo Rios (born in Mexico and raised in East Los Angeles) all took roles in a number of films that focused on life in the barrio and the place of Latinos in American society."
- ^ "The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California · Page 4". Newspapers.com. 30 March 1950. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
External links
[edit]| International | |
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| National | |
- 1927 births
- 1973 deaths
- American male actors of Mexican descent
- Male actors from Sonora
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- 20th-century American male actors
- Male actors from Los Angeles County, California
- Mexican emigrants to the United States
- People from East Los Angeles, California
- Deaths from liver disease