Martín Garralaga

Martín Garralaga

Born: November 9, 1894
Died: June 12, 1981
in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
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Martín Garralaga (10 November 1894, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain – 12 June 1981 Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was a film and television actor who portrayed more than two hundred roles in film and television. The actor first came to the United States when he sailed from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to San Juan, Puerto Rico on the steamship Catherine in April 1924.

He is probably best known for his portrayal as "Pancho" in the early Cisco Kid films.

In 1958, Garralaga was cast as Ramirez in the episode "A Tree for Planting" of the CBS western television series, The Texan. Lurene Tuttle and Paul Fix were cast in the episode as Amy Bofert and Bert Gorman, respectively. In the story line, series character Bill Longley (Rory Calhoun) comes to the aid of a distressed Mexican farmer, Ramirez, whose peach orchards are being overrun by cattle ranchers.

Garralaga died 12 June 1981 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California aged 86.

Movies for Martín Garralaga...

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Title: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Character: Juan
Released: August 20, 1969
Type: Movie
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
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Title: The High Chaparral
Character: Francisco
Released: September 10, 1967
Type: TV
The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The series, made by Xanadu Productions in association with NBC Productions, was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network. The theme song was also written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose, who also scored the two-hour pilot.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Title: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Character: The Priest
Released: September 10, 1964
Type: Movie
Based on the beloved book by Scott O'Dell, this family movie tells the adventures of a young Native American girl. After her father is killed by a malevolent white trapper, Karana joins her community as they leave their island home in the Pacific to live on the mainland. Upon her departure, Karana realizes that her brother has been left behind. She immediately swims back to be with him and the two remain on the abandoned island. Though Karana is able to domesticate a wolf, her brother is not so fortunate with the animals and is killed by a pack of wild dogs. She is left to survive against the odds.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Gardener
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Title: The Fugitive
Character: Felipe
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Paco
Released: September 16, 1963
Type: TV
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
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Lonely Are the Brave
Title: Lonely Are the Brave
Character: Old Man
Released: May 24, 1962
Type: Movie
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
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Title: The Tall Man
Released: September 10, 1960
Type: TV
The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.
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Cry Tough
Title: Cry Tough
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
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Gunmen from Laredo
Title: Gunmen from Laredo
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Carlo Bandetti
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Title: One Step Beyond
Character: Morgue Attendant
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: TV
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Jose
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Pio Anselm
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: The Texan
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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A Town Has Turned to Dust
Title: A Town Has Turned to Dust
Character: The Priest
Released: June 19, 1958
Type: Movie
The weakling sheriff of a small southwestern town allows a Mexican teenager to be lynched by a local mob for a crime he may not have committed.
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The Left Handed Gun
Title: The Left Handed Gun
Character: Saval
Released: May 7, 1958
Type: Movie
When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
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Man in the Shadow
Title: Man in the Shadow
Character: Jesus Cisneros
Released: December 12, 1957
Type: Movie
In effect, modern cow town Spurline is run by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire Ranch. One night, two of Virgil's henchmen go a little too far and beat a "bracero" ranch hand to death. Faced with an obvious cover-up and opposition on every hand, sheriff Ben Sadler is goaded into investigating. His unlikely ally: Renchler's lovely, self-willed and overprotected daughter. Will Ben survive Renchler's wrath?
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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Pedro
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: TV
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
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Title: Have Gun, Will Travel
Character: Peon
Released: September 14, 1957
Type: TV
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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Gunsight Ridge
Title: Gunsight Ridge
Character: Ramon (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.
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The Unknown Terror
Title: The Unknown Terror
Character: Lead Villager
Released: August 12, 1957
Type: Movie
A woman leads an expedition into a remote jungle to find her long-lost brother, but instead finds a mad scientist who has created a fungus monster that feeds on the local inhabitants.
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Title: The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Released: September 7, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.
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Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
Title: Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
Character: Jaime Brigo
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A former gunslinger comes to the aid of ranchers battling a murderous land baron.
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Serenade
Title: Serenade
Character: Romero (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1956
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
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A Man Alone
Title: A Man Alone
Character: Ortega
Released: October 17, 1955
Type: Movie
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.
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Title: Cheyenne
Character: Mr. Delgado
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Older Padre
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Swega - Freedom Fighter
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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Green Fire
Title: Green Fire
Released: December 29, 1954
Type: Movie
In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.
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Jubilee Trail
Title: Jubilee Trail
Character: Don Rafael Velasco
Released: May 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with child. She continues on hoping to find a man and a home.
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Border River
Title: Border River
Character: Guzman
Released: January 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?
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Captain Scarface
Title: Captain Scarface
Character: Manuel
Released: October 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To this end, they have kidnapped a nuclear scientist and are traveling by steamship to the coast of South America. Luckily for western civilization, the hard-nosed ship's captain, played by Barton MacLane, has other ideas.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Mexican Blacksmith (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
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The Hitch-Hiker
Title: The Hitch-Hiker
Character: Bartender
Released: March 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.
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Tropic Zone
Title: Tropic Zone
Character: Croupier (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1953
Type: Movie
A fugitive from the police helps a beautiful farmer run her struggling banana plantation.
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Woman in the Dark
Title: Woman in the Dark
Character: 'Papa' Morello
Released: November 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A pastry-shop girl (Penny Edwards) sees a priest's (Ross Elliott) and a lawyer's (Rick Vallin) brother take part in a jewel heist.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Character: Spanish Officer (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Tropical Heat Wave
Title: Tropical Heat Wave
Character: Ignacio Ortega
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Story of staid college professor gathering data for a thesis in criminal psychology who becomes the object of a night-club singers affections.
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The Ring
Title: The Ring
Character: Vidal Cantanios
Released: September 26, 1952
Type: Movie
A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Carlos
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Title: Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Character: Pepe Bordo / Waiter
Released: September 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The Singer Duke Mitchell meets Sammy Petrillo in this parody of Martin & Lewis. They arrive on a jungle island, where a mad scientist played by Bela Lugosi makes human experiments.
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Captain Pirate
Title: Captain Pirate
Character: Turk (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."
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The Fighter
Title: The Fighter
Character: Luis Rivera
Released: May 23, 1952
Type: Movie
A boxer, in Mexico, sets out to avenge the murder of his family by using the money from his winnings to purchase weapons.
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African Treasure
Title: African Treasure
Character: Pedro Sebastian
Released: May 6, 1952
Type: Movie
Against stock footage of lions, elephants and wildebeasts, Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.
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The Fabulous Senorita
Title: The Fabulous Senorita
Character: Police Captain Garcia
Released: March 31, 1952
Type: Movie
A Cuban businessman's daughter elopes with a professor instead of marrying a banker's son.
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5 Fingers
Title: 5 Fingers
Released: February 22, 1952
Type: Movie
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
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Title: Dangerous Assignment
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: TV
A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
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Bride of the Gorilla
Title: Bride of the Gorilla
Character: Native
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?
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Title: The Adventures of Kit Carson
Released: August 11, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
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The Bandit Queen
Title: The Bandit Queen
Character: Fr. Antonio
Released: December 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. Posing as Lola Belmont, an American visiting from Detroit, teams up with Joaquin Murietta, posing as Carlos Del Rio, to form a Robin-Hood type band that takes vengeance on the gang and restores stolen gold to its rightful owners, aided by militia leader Dan Hinsdale.
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Branded
Title: Branded
Character: Hernandez
Released: November 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
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A Lady Without Passport
Title: A Lady Without Passport
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
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Fortunes of Captain Blood
Title: Fortunes of Captain Blood
Character: Antonio Viamonte
Released: May 19, 1950
Type: Movie
When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.
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The Kid from Texas
Title: The Kid from Texas
Character: Morales
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge. New employer takes advantage of his naivety to kill rivals, lets the Kid take rap. Kid takes to the hills with friends until caught. Escapes hanging but remains in area to be near employer's young wife with whom he's infatuated
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The Outriders
Title: The Outriders
Character: Father Damasco
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....
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There's a Girl in My Heart
Title: There's a Girl in My Heart
Character: Luigi
Released: December 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
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Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Title: Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Character: Announcer
Released: August 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
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Susanna Pass
Title: Susanna Pass
Character: Carlos
Released: April 29, 1949
Type: Movie
The bad guys dynamite a fish hatchery. They're trying to put the hatchery out of business so they can get possession of oil underneath the lake. Roy is a game warden investigating the dynamiting.
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The Big Sombrero
Title: The Big Sombrero
Character: Felipe Gonzales
Released: April 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the business affairs of the owner, Estrellita Estrada, who is more interested in going to America than taking care of her Mexican holdings. Gene, discovering Garland's plan to run all the Mexican rancheros off the ranch, turns against his boss and shortly finds himself in the middle of cattle stampedes and an avalanche started by Garland's men.
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The Last Bandit
Title: The Last Bandit
Character: Patrick Moreno
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle.
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The Bribe
Title: The Bribe
Character: Pablo Gomez
Released: February 3, 1949
Type: Movie
United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket.
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Rogues' Regiment
Title: Rogues' Regiment
Character: Hazaret
Released: December 28, 1948
Type: Movie
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
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The Feathered Serpent
Title: The Feathered Serpent
Character: Pedro Francisco Lopez
Released: December 19, 1948
Type: Movie
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that is supposed to reveal the location of the treasure. Charlie Chan and his #1 and #2 sons journey to the jungles of Mexico to find the victim and bring the kidnapper and his gang to justice.
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Shep Comes Home
Title: Shep Comes Home
Character: Manuel Ortiz
Released: December 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.
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Four Faces West
Title: Four Faces West
Character: Florencio
Released: August 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
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Port Said
Title: Port Said
Character: Hotel Porter
Released: April 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Travel author Leslie Sears arrives in Cairo, Egypt, to meet with Greg Stewart, an old war buddy who is a theater booking agent in Port Said. Leslie telephones Greg and arranges a rendezvous, but shortly after the conversation ends, Greg is murdered.
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Madonna of the Desert
Title: Madonna of the Desert
Character: Papa Baravelli
Released: February 23, 1948
Type: Movie
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Title: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Character: Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
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Tycoon
Title: Tycoon
Character: Chavez
Released: December 27, 1947
Type: Movie
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's daughter
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Ride the Pink Horse
Title: Ride the Pink Horse
Character: Barkeeper
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
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Twilight on the Rio Grande
Title: Twilight on the Rio Grande
Character: Mucho the Woodchopper
Released: March 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.
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Apache Rose
Title: Apache Rose
Character: Cafe Host Who Arrives with Rosa (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are countered by gamblers from an off-shore gambling boat determined to control the land (and oil) themselves.
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Riding the California Trail
Title: Riding the California Trail
Character: Don José Ramirez
Released: January 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Chasing women and staying one step ahead of the law, the Cisco Kid meets Raquel and then Dolores. He sees that Raole is the boy friend of Raquel but engaged to Dolores. Learning that all her money will got to her uncle Don Jose when she marries Raole, Cisco suspects a plot and sets out to unravel it.
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Beauty and the Bandit
Title: Beauty and the Bandit
Character: Dr. Juan Valegra
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal. The stagecoach is ambushed by a band of men whose leader, a mysterious bandido known as Cisco (Gilbert Roland), claims the silver is money that was extorted over a period of years from the poor people of California. The bandits take the money and escape, but Cisco stays behind with the Frenchman -- who, it turns out, is actually a lovely mademoiselle, Jeanne DuBois (Ramsay Ames). She follows him to the bandit's lair, where Cisco tells her he intends to return the stolen money to the poor people. The two rivals are irresistibly drawn to each other, however, and as a token of love Cisco offers to return the money to Jeanne instead. Now she must decide whether to complete her business deal, or to comply with Cisco's wishes and redistribute the wealth.
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Don Ricardo Returns
Title: Don Ricardo Returns
Character: Miguel Porcarreno
Released: November 5, 1946
Type: Movie
After being shanghaied in a plot to have him declared dead and take over his ranchero and other properties, Don Ricardo, disguised as a peon, returns to Old California, and begins the fight to reclaim what is his.
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Strange Voyage
Title: Strange Voyage
Character: Manuel
Released: July 6, 1946
Type: Movie
A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather, rough seas and each other.
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South of Monterey
Title: South of Monterey
Character: Commandante Auturo
Released: June 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) hears of a land-swindling scheme devised by the police Commandante (Martin Garralaga) and the tax collector (Harry Woods) in a small western town. Cisco's efforts against the plot cause the thieves to fall out, and Cisco is able to return the land to the rightful owners.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Released: May 5, 1946
Type: Movie
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Mysterious Intruder
Title: Mysterious Intruder
Character: Detective (Uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
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The Gay Cavalier
Title: The Gay Cavalier
Character: Don Felipe Geralda
Released: March 30, 1946
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) sets out on a double mission of rescuing a girl from forsaking her true love by marrying a supposedly wealthy suitor to save the old family hacienda, and he is also after the outlaws that robbed a stage carrying gold for the Mission. His task is made easier once he learns that the "wealthy" suitor (Tristram Coffin) is also the man behind the gold robbers.
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Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Nick
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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The Little Witch
Title: The Little Witch
Character: Waiter
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Olga San Juan is the singing and dancing star of a night club in a South America country,and is in love with Bob Graham, the orchestra leader and vocalist, whose wealthy parents are unaware of his club and musical activities. The parents, when told of the romance, think the girl is after the son's future inheritance. A Paramount "Musical Parade" short.
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Voice of the Whistler
Title: Voice of the Whistler
Character: Tony, Fruit Peddler (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
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South of the Rio Grande
Title: South of the Rio Grande
Character: Pancho
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
The Kid (Duncan Renaldo) masquerades as a government inspector in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, Cisco Kid series entry. Learning that his old friends have been killed and Manuel Gonzales (Tito Renaldo) wrongly accused of cattle rustling by corrupt district officer Miguel Sanchez (George J. Lewis), the Kid assumes the identity of the murdered government official.
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In Old New Mexico
Title: In Old New Mexico
Character: Pancho
Released: May 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic sheriff.
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The Cisco Kid Returns
Title: The Cisco Kid Returns
Character: Pancho Gonzales
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid Returns. Duncan Renaldo, actually Rumanian, starred as the Mexican "Robin Hood of the Old West", with Martin Garralaga as his corpulent sidekick Pancho. In the tradition of 20th Century-Fox's earlier "Cisco" efforts, our hero comes to the aid of an orphaned child, clears himself of a kidnapping charge, and proves that a "solid citizen" is in fact a criminal mastermind.
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Going My Way
Title: Going My Way
Character: Zuñiga (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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The Laramie Trail
Title: The Laramie Trail
Character: Don Louis Alarcon
Released: April 3, 1944
Type: Movie
A cowbody acquires a ranch whose previous owner is believed to be dead.
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Voice in the Wind
Title: Voice in the Wind
Character: Policeman
Released: March 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.
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The Purple Heart
Title: The Purple Heart
Released: February 25, 1944
Type: Movie
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
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Black Arrow
Title: Black Arrow
Character: Pancho
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941's "White Eagle", Columbia's 24th serial (following "The Desert Hawk-1944" and ahead of 1945's "Brenda Starr, Reporter"), "Black Arrow" finds carpet-baggers Jake Jackson and Buck Sherman arriving in Blue Mesa in search of gold.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Character: Captain Mora
Released: July 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
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The Outlaw
Title: The Outlaw
Character: Mike the Waiter (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.
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Casablanca
Title: Casablanca
Character: Headwaiter at Rick's (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
Title: Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
Character: Enemy Agent Y
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.
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Undercover Man
Title: Undercover Man
Character: Senor Cortez
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other. Hoppy has to settle matters.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Señor Alvarez
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Our Wife
Title: Our Wife
Character: Cuban Driver (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
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The Son of Davy Crockett
Title: The Son of Davy Crockett
Character: Mexican Leader
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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Doomed Caravan
Title: Doomed Caravan
Character: Padre
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.
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Meet the Wildcat
Title: Meet the Wildcat
Character: Policeman
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief known as "The Wildcat," Ann follows him into the street and accuses him of being the thief. Even though the police attest that Brod is a New York City police detective, Ann remains dubious.
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Wagon Train
Title: Wagon Train
Character: Buyer of Beans
Released: October 4, 1940
Type: Movie
In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master to switch sides. Zack also earns the enmity of Gardner's son Coe, who takes umbrage to the youngster's flirtation with pretty Helen Lee. It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos, a near-disaster that persuades the wagon master to switch sides once again. When the dust settles, Zack learns that old man Gardner is actually Carl Anderson, the man who murdered his father.
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Rangers of Fortune
Title: Rangers of Fortune
Character: Mexican Officer
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
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Stage to Chino
Title: Stage to Chino
Character: Pedro
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
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Rhythm of the Rio Grande
Title: Rhythm of the Rio Grande
Character: Pablo the Bandit
Released: March 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Tex and Shorty ride into Cinco Valley, a gold rich area terrorized by marauders ostensibly lead by one Pablo. Tex, however, recognizes Blackie, whose boss is Bannister, an American. Suspecting that Bannister and his henchmen are trying to drive the settlers off their potentially valuable land by posing as Mexican banditos, Tex convinces Pablo to help him set a trap for the marauders.
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Legion of the Lawless
Title: Legion of the Lawless
Character: Blacksmith Manuel (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: Pedro (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Law of the Pampas
Title: Law of the Pampas
Character: Bolo-Carrier
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while.
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The Fighting Gringo
Title: The Fighting Gringo
Character: Pedro
Released: August 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder.
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Title: Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: Negroni
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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The Girl from Mexico
Title: The Girl from Mexico
Character: Carmelita's Relative
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
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Code of the Secret Service
Title: Code of the Secret Service
Character: Mexican Soldier Playing Strip Poker (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
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Panama Lady
Title: Panama Lady
Character: Panama Policeman (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
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Mis dos amores
Title: Mis dos amores
Character: Alfonso Hernández
Released: October 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Rita Santiago's father, Don Antonio, stubbornly refuses to give permission for her to marry Julio Bertolin, a struggling medical student, because he wants his daughter to marry a rich Brazilian. Because of this, Julio leaves medical school and determines to gain wealth and position for himself by becoming a singer.
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Starlight Over Texas
Title: Starlight Over Texas
Character: Captain Gomez
Released: September 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Marshal and assumed his identity. When Tex asks too many questons, he plans to get rid of him also.
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Outlaw Express
Title: Outlaw Express
Character: Don Ricardo Hernandez
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Bradley and sidekick Sharpe are sent west to investigate the murders of pony express riders who are being killed to prevent the Spanish Land Grant papers going to Washington for registration.
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Air Devils
Title: Air Devils
Character: Conspirator
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
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Four Men and a Prayer
Title: Four Men and a Prayer
Character: Native (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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Rose of the Rio Grande
Title: Rose of the Rio Grande
Character: Luis
Released: March 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence in Mexico by killing anyone who stands in their way.
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The Sheik Steps Out
Title: The Sheik Steps Out
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: September 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
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Boots of Destiny
Title: Boots of Destiny
Character: Jose Vasco
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Both Harmon and his men and a Mexican gang are after a treasure hidden on the Wilson ranch. Acey learns of their raid and goes to get Ken only to find him in jail for a murder he did not commit.
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Riders of the Rockies
Title: Riders of the Rockies
Character: Rurale Captain Mendoza
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Tex and his pals join the Rangers to fight rustlers along the border. When Doc and Pee Wee get framed for rustling and then jailed, Tex deserts the Rangers, crosses the border, and joins up with the outlaw gang hoping somehow to clear his pals.
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Song of the Gringo
Title: Song of the Gringo
Character: Don Esteban Valle
Released: November 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang, he is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.
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A Message to Garcia
Title: A Message to Garcia
Character: Rodríguez
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
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The Law of 45's
Title: The Law of 45's
Character: Joe Sanchez
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Lawyer Rontel has made Geologist Sheffield his prisoner and by power of attorney is using his money to buy the ranches of those driven off by his hired men. But when he goes after Hayden, Tucson and Stoney arrive and things begin to change.
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Piernas de Seda
Title: Piernas de Seda
Character: Evans
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Piernas de Seda is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Boland. It stars Rosita Moreno, Raul Roulien, and Enrique de Rosas. Rita Hayworth had a small uncredited role as a dancer.
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Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier
Title: Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier
Character: Pedro (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Madrid, Spain, 1880. Angelina, daughter of the pompous Brigadier Marcial, is tempted by the womanizer Germán, who asks her to run away together, just after her boyfriend, Rodolfo, asks her to do exactly the same thing with him.
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The Gay Caballero
Title: The Gay Caballero
Character: Manuel
Released: February 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is really Don Bob) who now has a partner in Ted. Unfortunately Ted is also falling love with Don Paco's daughter Adela.
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There Were Thirteen
Title: There Were Thirteen
Character: John Ross
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.
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Forward, March!
Title: Forward, March!
Released: December 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Spanish-language version of Doughboys.
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Those who dance
Title: Those who dance
Character: Pat Hogan
Released: December 5, 1930
Type: Movie
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The Last of the Vargas
Title: The Last of the Vargas
Released: October 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A cowboy avenges his father's murder, but must flee the law as a result. He attempts the rescue of a young woman from an outlaw, but becomes entangled with the outlaw's wife.
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Charros, gauchos y manolas
Title: Charros, gauchos y manolas
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.