Perry Lopez
Acting
Born 1929-07-22
Died 2008-02-14
New York City, New York, USA
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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.
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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Filmography
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Acting
49 credits
Star Trek
Bonanza
The Rifleman
Mission: Impossible
Charlie's Angels
The Virginian
Airwolf
Naked City
The F.B.I.
The Time Tunnel
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Rebel
Chinatown
Riverboat
Cain's Hundred
Kelly's Heroes
Cavalcade of America
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Bandolero!
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
McLintock!
Monty Nash
The Two Jakes
Hec Ramsey
The Lone Ranger
The Rare Breed
Flaming Star
Mister Roberts
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Battle Cry
Drum Beat
Taras Bulba
Che!
The Deep Six
Sol Madrid
I Died a Thousand Times
Omar Khayyam
Hell on Frisco Bay
The McConnell Story
Lady Ice
Cry Tough
Daring Game
The Mountains of the Moon
Violent Road
The Steel Jungle
The Century Turns
Man-Trap
Other credits
11 credits
Mannix
Have Gun, Will Travel
Hart to Hart
Zorro
Tarzan
The Mod Squad
Judd, for the Defense
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Hondo
Redigo
Johnny Midnight
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