Leo Carrillo
Leopoldo Antonio "Leo" Carrillo ( born August 6, 1881 in Los Angeles, California, † September 10, 1961 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American film and theater actor.
Life
Family
Leo Carrillo was a member of one of the most prominent California families of his time; his pedigree dates back to José Raimundo Carrillo, one of the first settlers in San Diego in 1769. Leo Carrillo's great-grandfather was Carlos Antonio Carrillo, who served as governor of California from 1837 to 1838. José Antonio Carrillo, Carrillo's great uncle was 1826-1834 Mayor of Los Angeles.
Leo Carrillo himself was born as the son of Juan José Carrillo and his first wife Francisca Roland. 1881 the family moved to Santa Monica, where Carrillo's father was elected from 1890 to 1897 the First Mayor of the city. After the early death of his mother in 1897, his father married again. Carrillo grew up in a large family. In addition to the ten children from the first marriage of his father Juan Carillo got seven more children with his second wife Eva Van Vusker Carrillo. Carrillo is also a cousin of actor William Gaxton.
Career
Carrillo began as a young adult first as a cartoonist at the San Francisco Examiner to work, and moved in 1915 to New York City. Here he received in March his first engagement on Broadway, and was so in Fads and Fancies by Glen MacDonough on stage. Over the next 12 years, until 1927 eight other productions should follow, such as The Padre by Stanley Logan in 1927.
Are any other actor at the same time as a film and theater actor in the spotlight, so ended Carrillo 1927 first his career in the theater and now only focused on a career in film and television. In the ten minute short film At the Ball Game Carrillo made his debut in June 1927. Although Carrillo stood before the camera in over 90 films, was his real breakthrough occurred in 1948 when the first time the character of Pancho Villa in Western Cisco admits to embodied. After five more films in 1950 produced a television series from the fabric of The Cisco Kid, which was produced until 1956, and 156 episodes included. Two years later, in 1958, Carrillo ended his career as an actor.
Political Activities
Carrillo was also politically active life time. He served for 18 years in the California Beach and Parks commission, and recorded as responsible for the opening up of some of today California-based national parks, including Hearst Castle or the Anza- Borrego Desert State Park. Even California Governor Pat Brown appointed him Honorary Ambassador of California.
Private life and death
Leo Carrillo, the long time with the actress Dorothy Dare (1911-1981) was associated, was from 1940 until her death, in 1953, married to Edith Haeselbarth. Both became parents of a daughter.
Carrillo himself died 80 years old from cancer and was interred in the Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery in Santa Monica.
Honors
Today, not only the Leo Carrillo State Park bears in honor of the actor 's name, but also a primary school in Westminster. For his achievements in television and film him two stars were dedicated on Hollywood Walk of Fame.