Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1929-07-22
Day of Death
2008-02-14
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Perry Lopez
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (33)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
Confessions of a Hitman
1994
The Two Jakes
1990
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
1989
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
1987
Chinatown
1974
Lady Ice
1973
The Century Turns
1972
Kelly's Heroes
1970
Che!
1969
Bandolero!
1968
Daring Game
1968
Sol Madrid
1968
The Mountains of the Moon
1967
