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Latinos in Hollywood
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- Raquel Torres (1908 - 1987), the Mexican-born film star
was the
third Latin to become a star in Hollywood in the 1920's. Her most
memorable
role was the lead in the White Shadows on the South Seas (1928).
- Dolores del Rio (1899 - 1983), was the first Mexican
film start to succeed in Hollywood in 1925. A great beauty, she becan a
second career in Mexican films in 1943.
- Ramon Novarro (1899 - 1968), made history be being
the first Mexican film superstar in Hollywood beginning in
1923. Versatile in comedy and drama, he was also a director, opera singer
and stage actor.
- Lupe Velez (1908 - 1944), the Mexican-born singer
and dancer became the second Mexican film star beginning in 1927.
She excelled in comedy.
- Gilbert Roland (1905 - 1994), he debuted in
Hollywood in 1927, played romantic leads in the twenties and
thirties, the Cisco Kid in the forties and a variety of roles
thereafter.
- Antonio Moreno (1997 - 1967), he
was the first Spanish-born film star in
Hollywood beginning in 1912. He played romantic
leads in the teens and twenties and
character roles thereafter.
- Rita Hayworth (1918 - 1987), alias
Margarita Cansino, born in Tijuana of Spanish parents,
she was a dancer and singer, before debuting
in films in 1935, and rose to become a
legendary sex symbol.
- Katy Jurado (Born in 1927), the
Mexican beauty became a star in Mexican
films before scoring in High Noon in 1951.
- Cesar Romero (1907 - 1994), of
Cuban parentage, he specialized in playing
suave romantic leads and villains. He was
the second actor to play the Cisco Kid.
- Anthony Quinn (Born 1915), the
durable Mexican-born actor was the first
Mexican to win an Academy Award (in
Viva Zapata in 1953 and Lust for Life in
1956).
- Duncan Renaldo (1904 - 1980), the Spanish-born
actor is best remembered as
the third film Cisco Kid, which he also played
on television in the 1950's.
- Maria Montez (1920 - 1951), the
Dominican-born beauty became famous
playing exotic leads in teh 1940's in a series
of lavished adventure films.
- Pedro Armendariz (1912 - 1963), the
virile Mexican-born actor became an
international film star in the later 1940's
after scoring in Mexican cinema.
- Lupita Tovar (Born in 1911), the
Mexican-born start worked in Hollywood
films in the twenties, thirties and forties.
- Miroslava (1926 - 1955),born in Czechoslovakia,
raised in Mexico, where she became an important star and
made two Hollywood films.
- Tito Guizar (born in 1908), the popular Mexican-born
singer starred in Hollywood films in the thirties and
forties and thereafter in Mexico.
- Jose Ferrer (1912 - 1992), the gifter Puerto Rican
actor and director of film, stage and television was the first
Latino to win an Academy Award (for Cyrano de Bergerac in 1950).
- Carmen Miranda (1909 - 1955), born in Portugal and
raised in Brazil, her vogue came in colorful Hollywood
musicals in the forties.
- Arturo de Cordova (1908 - 1973), a Mexican-born
romantic leading man was brought to Hollywood fo ten
films beginning in 1942.
- Cantinflas (1911 - 1993), the legendary Mexican
comedian starred in two Hollywood films, Around the
World in Eighty Days (1959) and Pepe (1960).
- Ricardo Montalban (Born in 1920), was already a
Mexican film star when he was brought to a romantic lead
in Hollywood films in 1947.
- Leo Carrillo (1880 - 1961), the Mexican-American
actor specialized in sidekick comic roles and cheerful villains.
- Jose Mojica (1896 - 1974), the Mexican-born tenor
starred in both Mexican and Hollywood films in the twenties
and thirties.
- Margo (1917 - 1985) the Mexican-born singer and
dancer broke into Hollywood films in 1934. She would
later become the cofounder of Plaza de la Raza.
- Danny De La Paz,Chicano actor of sstage, film and
television especially memorable in Boulevard Nights (1979).
- Cheech Marin (born in 1946), Chicano
comendian/actor/director, began as a stand up comedian with
Tommy Chong and later made a series of films.
- Barbara Carrera (born in 1945), the Nicaraguan
beauty began as a model and later branched out in films
and television.
- Sarita Montiel (born in 1928), the popular Spanish-
born singer and actress starred in four U.S. films, Vera Curz
(1954) among them.
- Mike Gomez, versatile Chicano actor of stage, film,
and television.
- Raquel Welch (born in 1940), alias Raquel Tejada,
born of Bolivian parents. Typcast in the sixties as a sex
symbol, she branced out as a series actress in films and Broadway.
- Rosaura Revueltas (1919 - 1997), an established
Mexican film star before playing the lead in the classic
Salt of the Earth (1954).
- Jerry G. Velasco, Chicano film agend and leader in
Nosotros, an organization dedicated to improving the
images and opportunities of Latinos in the media.
- Isela Vega, she was typecast as a sex symbol in
Mexican films in the sixties and seventies, later starred in
four U.S. films.
- Desi Arnaz (1917 - 1986), Cuban born musician and
later actor in the 1940's. Best remembered for I Love Lucy, opposite
Lucille Ball.
- Rita Moreno (born in 1931), versatile Puerto Rican
actress, winner of an Oscar for West Side Story (1960), an Emmy and
a Tony.
- Hector Elizondo, versatile Puerto Rican actor of film,
stage and television.
- Robert Beltran, Chicano leading man of film, stage
and television.
- Lynda Carter (born in 1952), born of a Mexican mother
and an Anglo father, best remembered for television's Wonder Woman.
- Elpidia Carrillo (born in 1961), Mexican-born
actress, star of the Border (1982) and Mi Familia (1966).
- Ruben Blades (born in 1948), Panamanian-born salsa
musician and actor, in films since 1985.
- Martin Sheen (born in 1940), alias Ramon Estevez,
born of Spanish parents, has done extensive film, television
and theatre.
- Rene Enriquez (1933 - 1990), Nicaraguan-born actor,
best remembered as L Ray Calletano in Television's Hill Street Blues.
- Paul Rodriguez (born in 1955), the Mexican-born
comedian has a growing list of film and television credits.
- Elizabeth Peña (born in 1961), of Cuban ancestry,
she has been active in theatre, film and television.
- Esai Moralez (born in 1963), of Cuban parentage, he
has been in films since 1982, more recently in Mi Familia.
- Lou Diamond Phillips, an actor of Filipino, Cherokee
and Hispanic decent, best remembered for La Bamba (1987).
- Rosana de Soto, Chicana leading lady of film, theatre
and television.
- Emilio Estevez (born in 1962), son of Martin Sheen and
brother of Charlie Sheen, of Spanish Parentage. He is an
actor, director and writer.
- Pepe Serna, versatile Chicano actor of comedy and
drama on television, film and theatre.
- David Villalpando, Mexican-born actor of theatre and
film still remembered for El Norte.
- Arturo Xuncax,, Mexican-born Mayan actor of film
and television, best remembered for El Norte.
- Raul Julia (1940 - 1994),gifted Puerto Rican actor of
film, theatre and television. Best remembered for Kiss of
the Spiderwoman (1985).
- Jimmy Smits (born in 1955), leading man of Puerto
Rican ancestry, prominent in film, theatre and television's NYPD Blue.
- Constance Marlo, rising Chicana actress of film,
television and stage.
- Elpidia Carrillo,( See Number 39).
- Lupe Ontiveros,versatile Chicana actress in both
comedy and drama.
- Enrique Castillo, talented Chicano Actor of theatre,
television and film.
- Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Mexican-born veteran actor
of telenovelas, theatre and film.
- Jenny Gago (born 1951), Peruvian-born flim start of
telenovelas and film.
- Sonia Braga (born in 1951), Brazilian-born film star
of telenovelas and film.
- Maria Conchita Alonso (Born in 1957), Cuban-born
actress of television, film and Broadway.
- Andy Garcia (born in 1956), Cuban-born leading man
of theatre, film and television. More recently a director.
- Salma Hayek, Mexican-born leading lady of Mexican
film and telenovelas and more recently Hollywood films.
- Antonio Banderas, Spanish-born leading man of
Spanish and Hollywood films.
- Jennifer Lopez, Puerto Rican leading lady of film and
television, best known for the film Selena.
- Edward James Olmos (born in 1947), Chicano leading
man of theatre, television and film, more recently a director.
- Pina Pellicer (1935 - 1964),gifted Mexican-born
actress, star of the Mexican film classic Macarlo (1961) and One-Eyed
Jacks (1961).
- Charlie Sheen (born in 1965), Carlos Estevez and son
of Martin Sheen, popular leading man of film and television.
- Lorenzo Lamas (born in 1958), son of Argentinean
heart throb Fernando Lamas and Arlene Dahl, popular leading man
of television and film.
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