Carlos Rivas

Carlos Rivas

Born: February 16, 1925
Died: June 16, 2003
in El Paso, Texas, USA
Carlos Rivas (born Oscar Weber) was an American actor, best remembered as Lun Tha in The King and I (1956), Dirty Bob in True Grit (1969), and Hernandez in Topaz (1969). Carlos Rivas was discovered in a bar in Mexico. He began his career in Mexican and Argentinian westerns, though his Argentinian films were actually filmed in Mexico.

His American debut was in The King and I (1956) opposite Rita Moreno. After this career highlight, he was quickly reduced to supporting roles. That same year of 1956 he appeared as Johnny Bravo in the TV western Cheyenne in the episode titled "Johnny Bravo." Rivas had co-starring roles in two science fiction films, The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956) and The Black Scorpion (1957). Rivas played Chingachgook in The Deerslayer (1957) with Lex Barker, Forrest Tucker, and Rita Moreno.

In 1970, Rivas joined Ricardo Montalban, Henry Darrow, and other Latino actors in co-founding the Nosotros ("We") Foundation, a Los Angeles based organization devoted to improving the way Hispanics are depicted in entertainment and advocating for Latinos in the movie and television industry.

Movies for Carlos Rivas...

Gas Food Lodging
Title: Gas Food Lodging
Character: Padre
Released: July 10, 1992
Type: Movie
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
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Gypsy
Title: Gypsy
Character: Marcos
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
An ex-soldier saves wild horses from being slaughtered and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
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Discriminación Maldita
Title: Discriminación Maldita
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Young Rebels
Title: Young Rebels
Character: Mr. Vincenzo
Released: October 31, 1989
Type: Movie
From Amir Shervan, the director of SAMURAI COP, comes another great 90's action classic. One man (Johnny Greene) teams up with another (Tadashi Yamashita) to take down the cartel run and its evil leader (Robert Z'Dar).
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Title: The A-Team
Character: Police Officer
Released: January 23, 1983
Type: TV
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."
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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Title: Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Character: Kulkan
Released: June 1, 1975
Type: Movie
In the Fabulous Thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of Doc's father disappearing in the wilds of South America. The maniacal Captain Seas tries to thwart them at every turn as they travel to the country of Hidalgo to investigate Doc's father's death and uncover a vast horde of Incan gold.
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The Gatling Gun
Title: The Gatling Gun
Character: Two-Knife
Released: May 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns.
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The Phantom Gunslinger
Title: The Phantom Gunslinger
Character: Sam
Released: April 30, 1970
Type: Movie
The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a gang of bandits, including Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, and some others. The sheriff leaves town, but not before naming Bill as his successor. Bill, unfortunately, doesn't carry or even know how to use a gun, and the outlaws take over Tucca Flats. But with the help of some Indians, a suit of armor, and springs on his shoes, Bill manages to run the gang out of town.
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Topaz
Title: Topaz
Character: Hernández
Released: December 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
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The Undefeated
Title: The Undefeated
Character: Diaz
Released: October 4, 1969
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
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Hang Your Hat on the Wind
Title: Hang Your Hat on the Wind
Character: Tall Bandit
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A handsome thoroughbred yearling accidentally escapes from a cross-country van in the desert, and is found and loved by a young Mexican boy. He hides the horse from searchers, but eventually mends his ways and tries to return the animal. However, two hoodlums steal the horse. The boy leads a sheriff to the rescue, and receives an apt reward.
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True Grit
Title: True Grit
Character: "Dirty Bob"
Released: June 11, 1969
Type: Movie
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
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The Chinese Room
Title: The Chinese Room
Character: Nicolás Vidal
Released: August 29, 1968
Type: Movie
An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.
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They Saved Hitler's Brain
Title: They Saved Hitler's Brain
Character: Camino Padua / Teo Padua
Released: August 18, 1968
Type: Movie
At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of Mandoras, in order to revive the Third Reich at a later date. By the 1960s, the time has come, so a top scientist is kidnapped in order to help keep Hitler alive. This film is a re-edit of The Madmen of Mandoras released in theaters in 1963.
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Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Title: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Character: Romulo
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
In Central America, a little native boy, Ramel, is abducted by Vinaro, a madman who believes the child to be the sole link to a lost Aztec city of gold. Vinaro uses one of his diabolical explosive mechanisms to eliminate police and army officials; and the legendary Tarzan is flown in to help locate the jungle city, rescue the boy, and bring Vinaro to justice.
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Title: The Addams Family
Character: Señor Cardona
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: TV
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
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Los viciosos
Title: Los viciosos
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: Movie
"The Vicious Ones" - The police investigates a drug trafficking network. Other social issues are discloses. A rare film including the famous Coccinelle.
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The Madmen of Mandoras
Title: The Madmen of Mandoras
Character: Camino Padua / Teo Padua
Released: November 13, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine. The Nazis plan to release a deadly gas destroying all life on the planet. To ensure their success they kidnap Professor Coleman the only man on the planet with the antidote to the poison gas.
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La máscara roja
Title: La máscara roja
Released: May 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into action-hero mode to correct them.
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Pepe
Title: Pepe
Character: Carlos
Released: December 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
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The Dalton That Got Away
Title: The Dalton That Got Away
Character: Grey Wolf
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of one of the notorious members of the infamous Dalton Brothers outlaw gang.
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¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Title: ¡Yo sabia demasiado!
Character: Ricardo
Released: October 27, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Unforgiven
Title: The Unforgiven
Character: Lost Bird
Released: April 6, 1960
Type: Movie
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Character: Carlitos
Released: November 12, 1959
Type: Movie
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
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Sonatas
Title: Sonatas
Character: Juan Guzmán
Released: October 12, 1959
Type: Movie
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
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Machete
Title: Machete
Character: Carlos
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
This 1959 film-noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as flirtatious Jean, who marries an older man, plantation owner Don Luis, for financial security and finds herself falling for his virile foster son, Carlos. Fearing that Jean will inherit Luis's money, his greedy cousin, Miguel, poisons the bridegroom against his new wife, informing him about her passion for another.
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Where Are Our Children Going?
Title: Where Are Our Children Going?
Released: June 26, 1958
Type: Movie
One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they think about marriage! Mom and Pop have their own #firstworldproblems.
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Panama Sal
Title: Panama Sal
Character: Manuel Ortego
Released: October 18, 1957
Type: Movie
The story finds Sal Regan singing and dancing for her supper in a low-class Panamanian dive. Wealthy Dennis P. Dennis takes a liking to Sal, and decides to do the "My Fair Lady" bit. He takes the girl back to the States, where, after teaching her the social graces, he makes her famous as a high-toned supper club songstress. Along the way, Dennis falls in love with Sal, much to the dismay of his wealthy pals, who try to break up the romance.
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The Black Scorpion
Title: The Black Scorpion
Character: Artur Ramos
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Alfredo Gomez
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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The Deerslayer
Title: The Deerslayer
Character: Chingachgook
Released: September 10, 1957
Type: Movie
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
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The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Title: The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Character: Felipe Sanchez
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
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The King and I
Title: The King and I
Character: Lun Tha
Released: June 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
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De carne somos
Title: De carne somos
Character: Mario Vidal
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
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La vida tiene tres días
Title: La vida tiene tres días
Character: José
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
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Love in Four Parts
Title: Love in Four Parts
Character: Antonio del Río
Released: August 19, 1955
Type: Movie
Anthology film, four episodes.
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Gray neighborhood
Title: Gray neighborhood
Character: Federico
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: Movie
The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.
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Los secretos del buzón
Title: Los secretos del buzón
Released: August 22, 1948
Type: Movie
The theft of a village mailbox wreaks havoc on the relationships and secrets of its neighbors.