1929-07-22 ( 95 years old ) in New York City, New York, USA
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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.
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Movies
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004-07-28
Confessions of a Hitman
1994-05-04
The Two Jakes
1990-08-10
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
1989-02-03
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
1987-06-11
Chinatown
1974-06-20
Lady Ice
1973-07-13
The Century Turns
1972-10-08
Kelly's Heroes
1970-06-22
Che!
1969-06-27
Bandolero!
1968-06-01
Daring Game
1968-03-19
Sol Madrid
1968-02-07
The Mountains of the Moon
1967-11-24
The Rare Breed
1966-02-02
McLintock!
1963-11-12
Taras Bulba
1962-11-21
Man-Trap
1961-09-20
Flaming Star
1960-12-20
Cry Tough
1959-08-01
Violent Road
1958-05-10
The Deep Six
1958-01-15
Omar Khayyam
1957-08-23
The Young Guns
1956-09-12
The Steel Jungle
1956-03-10
The Lone Ranger
1956-02-25
Hell on Frisco Bay
1955-12-31
I Died a Thousand Times
1955-11-09
The McConnell Story
1955-09-29
Mister Roberts
1955-07-10
Battle Cry
1955-02-02
Drum Beat
1954-11-10
Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954-03-05
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