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Leo Carrillo On Stage And Screen

Leo Carrillo (Spanish pronunciation: [Cay-reel-yo]) (1881–1961) was an American cartoonist, a comedian in vaudeville, and an actor on stage, film and television. He was best known in the United States as the Cisco Kid's sidekick Pancho on 1950s children's television, a role which capped a long show business career that began decades earlier.

Growing up in culturally diverse Los Angeles, Carrillo was conversant in five languages with a keen ear for dialects. When he went to work for the San Francisco Examiner as a cartoonist, he began performing humorous monologues on the San Francisco stage, easily transforming himself into a variety of personas. Soon he began working in vaudeville with Major Bowes, and toured the Orpheum Circuit with Walter C. Kelly. Theatrical producer Oliver Morosco offered him a role in the original Broadway play Upstairs and Down in 1916, and within a year, he landed the title role in Lombardi, Ltd. For the next decade he performed on the vaudeville circuit in between acting in Broadway productions. A 1927 touring revival production of Lombardi, Ltd., again featured Carrillo in the lead, and began at George M. Cohan's Theatre before going on the road.

Carrillo's first screen appearances were in 1927 Vitaphone shorts. In the early decades of his film career, he was often the starring lead. And while he played many different ethnic roles, or characters with no discernible ethnicity, he was often cast as Italian or Hispanic. He played everything from the hero to the villain, in straight dramatic parts as well as appearing in light comedy and musical films. Over the course of his movie career, Carrillo appeared in over 80 feature-length films, ending in 1950 with Pancho Villa Returns. He was 68 years old when he first teamed with Duncan Renaldo to co-star in five Cisco Kid movies in 1949–1950. The ensuing popular The Cisco Kid television series ran for 156 episodes 1950–1956.

For his contributions to the entertainment industry, Carrillo received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960 . The star for his contributions to motion pictures is located at 1635 Vine Street, and the star for his television work is a block away at 1517 Vine Street.

Stage

Broadway credits of Leo Carrillo
Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Notes
Fads and Fancies	1915	Sir Giovanni Gasolini	Knickerbocker Theatre	Vaudeville skits and monologues
Upstairs and Down	1916	—	Cort Theatre	Carrillo's play debut
Lombardi, Ltd.	1917	Tito Lombardi	Morosco Theatre
Mike Angelo	1923	Mike Angelo	Morosco Theatre
Magnolia	1923	Tom	Liberty Theatre
Gypsy Jim	1924	Gypsy Jim	49th Street Theatre
The Saint	1924	Valdez	Greenwich Village Theatre
The Padre	1926	Father Pellegrin	Ritz Theatre
Lombardi, Ltd.	1927	Tito Lombardi	George M. Cohan's Theatre	Touring production went on the road.

Television

Television credits of Leo Carrillo
Year	Title	Role	Notes
The Cisco Kid	1950–56	Pancho	156 episodes
TV Club	1951	Himself	Episode #1.18
Tournament of Roses Parade	1954	Himself	January 1, 1954
The Red Skelton Hour	1958	Latin American Dictator	Episode: "Calypso Clem"
This Is Your Life	1959	Himself	April 15, 1959
Hollywood Without Make-Up	1963	Himself	Ken Murray home movies of actors
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood	2002	Himself (footage)	Documentary
California's Golden Parks	2007	Himself (footage)	#156, "Leo Carrillo Ranch"

Films

Film shorts

Film short credits of Leo Carrillo
Year	Title	Studio/Distributor	Notes
At the Ball Game	1927	Vitaphone	Vaudeville skit
The Foreigner	1928	Vitaphone	Vaudeville skit
The Hellgate of Soisson	1928	Vitaphone	Vaudeville skit
Running Hollywood	1932	Universal Pictures
The 42nd. Street Special	1933	Warner Brothers
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove	1934	MGM	Master of Ceremonies
Hollywood on Parade	1934	Paramount Pictures	No. B-8
A Dream Comes True	1935	Vitaphone	(uncredited)
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara	1935	MGM
Things You Never See on the Screen	1935	Warner Brothers	(never released; blooper reel compiled for studio personnel)
Cinema Circus	1937	Lewis Lewyn Productions
Screen Snapshots	1938	Columbia Pictures	Series 17, No. 8
Screen Snapshots	1938	Columbia Pictures	Series 17, No. 9
Screen Snapshots	1938	Columbia Pictures	Series 18, No. 2
Screen Snapshots	1939	Columbia Pictures	Series 19, No. 3, Outdoor Parties
Screen Snapshots	1940	Columbia Pictures	Seeing Hollywood, Rodeo Parade Participant
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood	1942	Paramount Pictures	No. 4
Screen Snapshots	1944	Columbia Pictures	Series 24, No. 4, Rodeo Star. With Gloria Jean, Alan Mowbray, Bela Lugosi.
Screen Snapshots	1945	Columbia Pictures	Series 25, No. 3, Fashions and Rodeo
Around the World in California	1947	MGM	(uncredited)
Screen Snapshots	1950	Columbia Pictures	The Great Snowman
Screen Snapshots	1953	Columbia Pictures	Series 33, No. 4, Hollywood's great entertainers. Gene Nelson, Sid Grauman testimonial dinner, December 24, 1953

Feature and serial films