Leo Carrillo Overview:

Character actor, Leo Carrillo, was born on Aug 6, 1881 in Los Angeles, CA. Carrillo died at the age of 80 on Sep 10, 1961 in Santa Monica, CA .

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Plumpish, mustachioed Leo Carrillo was a former vaudeville comedian of Spanish American background who gradually became a familiar face in Hollywood films playing fractured-English character roles. He was a more benevolent version of Akim Tamiroff, and like Tamiroff, he could also give strong performances in minor leading assignments. Latterly, he played Pancho in The Cisco Kid film and television series.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the categories of Television and Motion Pictures.

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Mickey 'The Greek' Mikapopoulis: If der's one-a ting I got-ta, it's bremms.


Mike Rossini: Yer cook is in the jug - J-A-I-L - jug!


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Distant relative of the Actor Ronald E. Giles, whose Grandfather on his Mother's side (Guillermo Blaise Arguello), was a first Cousin of Carrillo's.

For all the stereotypical Latinos he portrayed on screen, Leo Carrillo was actually an intelligent, literate man, the scion of an old, respected Los Angeles family who could trace his heritage back to the conquistadores.

Interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, California.

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