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Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo

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FredandRuby > Duncan Renaldo
Actor
Born Renault Renaldo Duncan on April 23, 1904
Died Sept. 3, 1980 of heart failure in Goleta Valley Community Hospital, CA

Duncan Renaldo, the dashing star of scores of romantic movies, rode to his greatest fame as television's Cisco Kid during the 1950s.

Renaldo's life was as adventurous in fact as any fictional role he played during his long career.

Orphaned at an early age, he had no recollection of his parents and never knew exactly where he was born, although he believed it was in Spain.

He became a merchant sailor at 13 and was stranded in the United State in 1922 when his ship burned at dockside in Baltimore. Shortly afterward, he got a janitorial job in New York's old Tec Art movie studio, became a scenery designer and eventually got into producing, writing and acting.

His first starring role came in 1929 when he played in "Trader Horn," which took two years to film and became one of the greatest hits of the 1930s.

Just before the picture premiered in 1931, Renaldo was arrested by U.S. immigration authorities on charges of entering the country illegally.

His trial became one of the sensations of the time. He was convicted of perjury for claiming he had been born in New Jersey. After serving 18 months in federal prison, he was granted an unconditional pardon by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The pardon came the day before he was to complete his term.

After the prison experience, his career was in ruins and he started over as a janitor at Republic Studios. A few months later a producer "rediscovered" him, cast him in a series of westerns with such beginners Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.

By the 1940s he had reestablished himself as a box-office draw. All told, he said, he made 164 motion pictures, but it was television and his role as the early California hero Cisco Kid — created by short-story writer O. Henry — that made him a superstar with young Americans.

Between 1949 and 1955, Renaldo starred in 159 Cisco Kid episodes, riding at the side of co-star Leo Carrillo, who played his sidekick Pancho.

He was proud of the fact that neither Cisco nor Pancho ever killed anyone; they defeated the bad guys by using their wits.

— Jerry Belcher in the Los Angeles Times Sept. 3, 1980

FredandRuby > Duncan Renaldo - The Cisco Kid

Actor. He is best remembered for his title role in the 1950s television series, The Cisco Kid (1950-1956), along with actor Leo Carrillo, who played his sidekick, Pancho. Born probably in Spain, Renaldo was an orphan and never knew his birth parents. He was raised in several European countries, passed on to a series of stepparents, relatives and guardians. He would often say that he was unsure of where and when he was born (his given birth date is assumed for legal purposes), but that his earliest memories were of Spain. Renaldo initially worked as a stoker aboard a Brazilian coal ship. When the ship docked in Baltimore, Maryland, it caught fire and burned to the waterline, and Renaldo decided to stay in the United States. He made a bare living painting portraits and landscapes, and in 1928, found a job with MGM Studios in Hollywood as a background "extra" actor. His first (uncredited) film is believed to be the silent film, "Clothes Make the Woman" (1928). Eventually he received talking roles, and his good looks got him into better roles, with Hollywood transforming him into the Latin Lover type roles. In 1934, he was arrested for illegal entry into the United States (his original occupation as a sailor allowed him only 90 days in the country between cruises; he overstayed his visa). Due to the uncertainty of his country of origin, he was held in prison for nearly a year, before Republic Studios President Herbert J. Yates decided to intercede in his behalf, vouching for his good behavior and promising him employment at Republic. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President, who had purchased one of his paintings, then aided his cause by asking her husband to pardon him. By early 1936, his legal status problems were over and he returned to Hollywood to make films. He would act in films for both Republic and Monogram studios, alternating as a hero or as a villain, often in numerous westerns or in the popular serial cliffhangers of the late 1930s and early 1940s, such as "Jungle Menace" (1937), "Zorro Rides Again" (1937), and "The Secret Service in Darkest Africa" (1943). In 1945, he starred in the Cisco Kid film series, making seven films based on the radio series, which in turn had been taken from the teen-adventure book series. Beginning with "The Cisco Kid Returns" (1945) and ending with "The Girl from San Lorenzo" (1950), he transferred the movie role to television in 1950, in which he remade the Cisco Kid character more of a clean-shaven do-gooder than the roguish bandit who was in the original books. The television version of the Cisco Kid would always help where needed, and unlike most western heroes, he never killed anyone. In the 1953 television season, he was severely injured in a rock fall, and hospitalized while the studio shot nine more episodes. The producers used doubles, disguises, previously shot footage and voice-overs to keep the public from knowing the truth about his injuries, until he was healed enough to return to acting. He would also try his hand at producing films during the late 1940s, but gave it up to return to acting on television. He retired as an actor in 1956, when the television series ended, and was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to television. He died of lung cancer in 1980 at the age of 76 in Goleta, California.

FredandRuby > Leo Carrillo

Actor, preservationist and conservationist Leo Carrillo (1880-1961) was born in Los Angeles. But his beginnings were in San Diego's Old Town where his grandparents Josefa (Bandini) and Boston-educated Pedro Carrillo, were married, maintained their residence and raised a large family. As a wedding gift, Governor Pio Pico awarded them title to Coronado Island which they sold 23 years later for $1,000. As Leo jokingly observed, "I think the family let it go too soon."

As an entertainer Leo was highly successful, appearing in 15 major stage plays (several on Broadway) and more than 90 motion pictures in which he was featured in supporting or character roles. He worked with the very biggest stars in the Hollywood galaxy. However, Leo's greatest fame came from his portrayal of Pancho, the mischievous sidekick to Duncan Renaldo's Cisco Kid in a pioneering television series of the early 1950's.

Shot entirely in color - a first in tv production - its 156 action-western episodes ran for six enormously popular years. (The Cisco Kid was based on an O. Henry short story which in turn was drawn from Cervantes' Don Quixote. In this classic Spanish novel the sidekick was named Sancho Panza.)

As his showmanship blossomed Leo experienced parallel success as a politically well-connected supporter of recreational and cultural resources for the public. He served 18 years on the California Beaches and Parks Commission and the Leo Carrillo State Park near Malibu is named in his honor. He was a key factor in the development of the Los Angeles Olvera Street complex, the Los Angeles Arboretum and the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Most notably, his personal relationship with the family led to the acquisition of the exquisite Hearst Castle at San Simeon. He toured the world as the state's official Ambassador of Good Will. Small wonder Governor Edmund G. Brown called Leo "Mr. California."

At the peak of his film career Leo felt an intense yearning to find a retreat where he could re-create an Old California-style working rancho, an important cultural asset he felt was rapidly dying out. In 1937 he came across the Rancho de Los Kiotes in what is now southeast Carlsbad and which was once owned by the Kelly family, very large, long-standing landowners in the area. Leo quickly snapped up his first 840 acres for $65,000 or $77 per acre. He immediately began construction of 18 structures necessary for his ranch operations and, over time, increased his spread to 2,538 acres.

In 1977 the city acquired a tiny 10.5 acre remnant that contained and protected the most critical original buildings. Thanks to a state preservation grant and matching funds contributed by local civic organizations, some of the buildings were seismic retrofitted and partially restored in 1992. A $5.5 million catch-up round of restoration has now been completed.

FredandRuby > Leo Carrillo

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