Curiosidades

In 1944 he played the leading male role in O Chicote do Zorro (1944), which featured the first female incarnation of the masked avenger. Thirteen years later he was cast in the defining version Zorro (1957) as Zorro/Diego's father, Don Alejandro de la Vega.

Although he appeared in hundreds of films over his long career, he is best remembered as Guy Williams' stately father in the Walt Disney Zorro (1957) series.

Dashing, black-haired Mexican-born actor who had the attractiveness of a Rudolph Valentino or a Ramon Novarro, but remained in the minor ranks throughout his career, primarily in westerns and action pictures.

In the very first Lone Ranger TV episodes (1949), he played Collins, the double-crossing scout who leads John Reid and The Texas Rangers into ambush.

Appeared with two superhero actors. He appeared in an episode of Superman with George Reeves and in the Batman movie with Adam West.

He was cremated at Neptune Society in San Diego, California. His ashes were returned to his family.