Perry Lopez

Known for ActingBorn 1929-07-22Died 2008-02-14New 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Star Trek

Chinatown

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Airwolf

Judd, for the Defense

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Time Tunnel

Mission: Impossible

Kelly's Heroes

Zorro

Hec Ramsey

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Young Guns

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

The Rifleman

Hart to Hart

Mister Roberts

Johnny Midnight

Sol Madrid

Hondo

Tarzan

Charlie's Angels

Mannix

Creature from the Black Lagoon

The McConnell Story

Confessions of a Hitman

Bandolero!

McLintock!

Daring Game

The Virginian

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Flaming Star

Riverboat

Redigo

Violent Road

Taras Bulba

The Two Jakes

The Rare Breed

The Lone Ranger

I Died a Thousand Times

The Mod Squad

Cry Tough

Drum Beat

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Man-Trap

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Omar Khayyam

Battle Cry