Carlos Rivas

Born: 1925-02-16

Carlos Rivas (born Oscar Weber) was an American actor, best remembered as Lun Tha in The King and I (1956), Dirty Bob in True Grit (1969), and Hernandez in Topaz (1969). Carlos Rivas was discovered in a bar in Mexico. He began his career in Mexican and Argentinian westerns, though his Argentinian films were actually filmed in Mexico. His American debut was in The King and I (1956) opposite Rita Moreno. After this career highlight, he was quickly reduced to supporting roles. That same year of 1956 he appeared as Johnny Bravo in the TV western Cheyenne in the episode titled "Johnny Bravo." Rivas had co-starring roles in two science fiction films, The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956) and The Black Scorpion (1957). Rivas played Chingachgook in The Deerslayer (1957) with Lex Barker, Forrest Tucker, and Rita Moreno. In 1970, Rivas joined Ricardo Montalban, Henry Darrow, and other Latino actors in co-founding the Nosotros ("We") Foundation, a Los Angeles based organization devoted to improving the way Hispanics are depicted in entertainment and advocating for Latinos in the movie and television industry.


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True Grit

as "Dirty Bob"
Released: 1969-06-11

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves...

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The Unforgiven

as Lost Bird
Released: 1960-04-06

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted...

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Young Rebels

as Mr. Vincenzo
Released: 1989-10-31

From Amir Shervan, the director of SAMURAI COP, comes another great 90's action classic. One man...

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The Undefeated

as Diaz
Released: 1969-10-04

After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon...

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The King and I

as Lun Tha
Released: 1956-06-29

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many...

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Topaz

as Hernández
Released: 1969-12-17

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French...

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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze

as Kulkan
Released: 1975-06-01

In the Fabulous Thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the...

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The Black Scorpion

as Artur Ramos
Released: 1957-10-11

Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside...

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Gas Food Lodging

as Padre
Released: 1992-07-10

Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a...

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The Miracle

as Carlitos
Released: 1959-11-12

A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.

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Pepe

as Carlos
Released: 1960-12-21

Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood...

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The Gatling Gun

as Two-Knife
Released: 1971-05-01

Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns.

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The Deerslayer

as Chingachgook
Released: 1957-09-10

After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a...

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Sonatas

as Juan Guzmán
Released: 1959-10-12

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain...

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Machete

as Carlos
Released: 1958-12-01

This 1959 film-noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as...

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The Beast of Hollow Mountain

as Felipe Sanchez
Released: 1956-08-01

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric...

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The Phantom Gunslinger

as Sam
Released: 1970-04-30

The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is...

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Gypsy

as Marcos
Released: 1990-10-12

An ex-soldier saves wild horses from being slaughtered and helps protect a desert "freedom...

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Tarzan and the Valley of Gold

as Romulo
Released: 1966-07-01

In Central America, a little native boy, Ramel, is abducted by Vinaro, a madman who believes the...

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Panama Sal

as Manuel Ortego
Released: 1957-10-18

The story finds Sal Regan singing and dancing for her supper in a low-class Panamanian dive....

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They Saved Hitler's Brain

as Camino Padua / Teo Padua
Released: 1968-08-18

At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a...

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La vida tiene tres días

as José
Released: 1955-09-01

Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.

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Love in Four Parts

as Antonio del Río
Released: 1955-08-19

Anthology film, four episodes.

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De carne somos

as Mario Vidal
Released: 1955-10-05

Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a...

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Where Are Our Children Going?

as uncredited
Released: 1958-06-26

One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they...

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La máscara roja

as uncredited
Released: 1962-05-10

Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into...

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The Madmen of Mandoras

as Camino Padua / Teo Padua
Released: 1963-11-13

A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a...

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Hang Your Hat on the Wind

as Tall Bandit
Released: 1969-06-11

A handsome thoroughbred yearling accidentally escapes from a cross-country van in the desert,...

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Los viciosos

as uncredited
Released: 1964-09-17

"The Vicious Ones" - The police investigates a drug trafficking network. Other social issues are...

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The Dalton That Got Away

as Grey Wolf
Released: 1960-11-01

The story of one of the notorious members of the infamous Dalton Brothers outlaw gang.

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The Chinese Room

as Nicolás Vidal
Released: 1968-08-29

An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.

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¡Yo sabia demasiado!

as Ricardo
Released: 1960-10-27

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Gray neighborhood

as Federico
Released: 1954-10-27

The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the...

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Los secretos del buzón

as uncredited
Released: 1948-08-22

The theft of a village mailbox wreaks havoc on the relationships and secrets of its neighbors.

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The A-Team

as Police Officer
First aired: 1983-01-23

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune...

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Perry Mason

as Alfredo Gomez
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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The Addams Family

as Señor Cardona
First aired: 1964-09-18

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric...

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