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Duncan Renaldo is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 23 april 1904

Duncan Renaldo

Duncan Renaldo
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Birth name Renault Renaldo Duncan
Nationality USA
Birth 23 april 1904
Death 3 september 1980 (at 76 years)

Renault Renaldo Duncan (April 23, 1904 – September 3, 1980), better known as Duncan Renaldo, was a Romanian-born American actor best remembered for his portrayal of The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950-1956 American TV series, The Cisco Kid.

Biography

Early years

Renaldo told some interviewers that he actually did not know where he was born. Various sources claim that he was born in Oancea, Galați County, Romania as Vasile Dumitru V. Couyanos or Basil Couyanos. Renaldo apparently never knew his biological parents and was raised in several European countries. His birthplace has been generally stated as Romania and he said his first childhood memories were in Romania.

He emigrated to America in the 1920s. Failing to support himself as a portrait painter, he tried producing short films. He eventually took up acting and signed with MGM in 1928 where he worked in at least two major films, The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Trader Horn. The latter film was shot on location in Africa and is notorious for adventures that rivaled the source book's and film's plot of a "great white hunter" and a white blonde jungle queen, the lost daughter of a missionary. One crew member was taken by a crocodile and another killed by a charging rhino. Many crew and stars were stricken with malaria but Renaldo told one interviewer in 1971 that he never contracted the parasite because he took a hunter's advice to "race the blood" with a shot of whiskey in the morning and another at dusk.

In 1934, he was arrested for illegal entry into the United States, but eventually was pardoned by President Franklin Roosevelt and returned to acting. He found minor roles at Republic Studios and other Poverty Row studios until he convinced Republic head Herbert Yates in 1939 to introduce a Latin cowboy into The Three Mesquiteers series. The character only lasted a year, though, and Renaldo was back to minor roles in B-films, for example Tiger Fangs (1943). Renaldo did play some roles in mainstream films as well, including in Spawn of the North (1938) with George Raft, Henry Fonda and John Barrymore; and For Whom the Bell Tolls with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. He was also a producer, writer and director.


Television star

In the late 1940s, Renaldo starred in several Hollywood Westerns as The Cisco Kid, and in 1950, he began playing the role in a popular television series that ran until 1956. In the age of black-and-white television, the show was filmed in color. As Cisco, Renaldo roamed the Old West on a black-and-white horse named Diablo, accompanied by his constant companion, Pancho, played by Leo Carrillo, who was 24 years Renaldo's senior. The Cisco Kid always helped where needed, and unlike most Western heroes, rarely killed anyone.

Renaldo illustrated a book of poetry by Moreton B. Price titled Drifter's Dreams. His illustrations are ink sketches of idyllic scenes, primarily seascapes and landscapes. He also painted in oils. Two of his large paintings of members of the Maasai tribe whom he met in Kenya while filming Trader Horn were prominently displayed in his Santa Barbara home in 1971.


Death
Renaldo died of lung cancer in 1980, aged 76, in Goleta, California. His interment took place in Calvary Cemetery in Santa Barbara, California.

Best films

Trader Horn (1931)
(Actor)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
(Actor)

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Filmography of Duncan Renaldo (68 films)

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The Capture, 1h31
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Jacqueline White, Jimmy Hunt, Barry Kelley
Roles Carlos
Rating59% 2.951492.951492.951492.951492.95149
Lin Vanner (Lew Ayres), is manager of an oil company. The payroll has been stolen in a hold-up. His fiance urges him to pursue the suspect in hope that he will gain recognition. Deducing the road the robber may have taken over the border with Mexico, he goes along to intercept him. He shoots a man who shouts back at him and does not raise his hands when challenged by Lin.
The Girl from San Lorenzo, 58minutes
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Leo Carrillo, Duncan Renaldo, Byron Foulger, Don C. Harvey, Poni Adams, Lee Phelps
Roles The Cisco Kid
Rating66% 3.32363.32363.32363.32363.3236
This script must be run from the command line
The Daring Caballero, 1h
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Leo Carrillo, Duncan Renaldo, Charles Halton, Pedro de Cordoba, Edmund F. Cobb
Roles The Cisco Kid
Rating67% 3.376433.376433.376433.376433.37643
This script must be run from the command line
Satan's Cradle, 1h
Directed by Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Leo Carrillo, Duncan Renaldo, Ann Savage, Douglas Fowley, Byron Foulger, Claire Carleton
Roles The Cisco Kid
Rating57% 2.8657052.8657052.8657052.8657052.865705
This script must be run from the command line
The Valiant Hombre, 1h
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Leo Carrillo, Duncan Renaldo, John Litel, Barbara Billingsley, Stanley Andrews, John James
Roles The Cisco Kid
Rating59% 2.971352.971352.971352.971352.97135
This script must be run from the command line
Jungle Flight, 1h7
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Robert Lowery, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Douglas Fowley, Robert Kent, Curt Bois
Roles Police Captain Costa
Rating56% 2.8457452.8457452.8457452.8457452.845745
The Cisco Kid Returns, 1h4
Directed by John P. McCarthy
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Duncan Renaldo, Roger Pryor, Fritz Leiber, Jan Wiley
Roles The Cisco Kid
Rating69% 3.452633.452633.452633.452633.45263
In Old New Mexico, 1h2
Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Duncan Renaldo, Pedro de Cordoba, Edward Earle
Roles The Cisco Kid
Rating60% 3.006163.006163.006163.006163.00616
The Fighting Seabees, 1h35
Directed by Yakima Canutt, Edward Ludwig, Philip Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey, J. M. Kerrigan
Roles Construction Worker at Party
Rating63% 3.197873.197873.197873.197873.19787
Wedge Donovan (John Wayne) is a tough construction boss, building airstrips in the Pacific for the U.S. Navy during World War II. He clashes with his liaison officer, Lieutenant Commander Robert Yarrow (Dennis O'Keefe), over the fact that his men are not allowed to arm themselves against the Japanese. When the enemy lands in force on the island, he finally takes matters into his own hands, leading his men into the fray. This prevents Yarrow from springing a carefully devised trap that would have wiped out the invaders in a murderous machinegun crossfire, with minimal American losses. Instead, many of Donovan's men are killed unnecessarily.
Hands Across the Border, 1h12
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Ruth Terry, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Roy Barcroft, Onslow Stevens, Duncan Renaldo
Roles Juan Morales
Rating58% 2.9091852.9091852.9091852.9091852.909185
Les éleveurs de chevaux Adams et Brock se disputent le contrat de l'armée. Quand Adams est tué en essayant de monter son cheval Trigger, Roy sauve le cheval d'être abattu. Il l'entraîne puis prévoit de le monter dans la course pour remporter le contrat.
San Antonio Kid, 1h9
Directed by Howard Bretherton
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Wild Bill Elliott, Robert Blake, Alice Fleming, Linda Stirling, Earle Hodgins, Glenn Strange
Roles Johnny Bennett aka San Antonio Kid
Rating62% 3.137313.137313.137313.137313.13731
A geologist, Walter Garfield (LeRoy Mason, discovers oil on land owned by Ben Taylor (Jack Kirk). Believing that the deposits extend to the surrounding ranches as well, Garfield wires his company that oil may be present and then teams up with Red Ryder’s arch enemy, Ace Hanlon (Glenn Strange) . Hanlon, the local saloon owner and his gang instigate a wave of terror against the ranchers hoping to drive the ranchers away, buy their land cheaply and make a fortune selling it to Metropolitan Oil Company for whom Garfield works.
The Tiger Woman
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Adventure
Actors Linda Stirling, Allan Lane, George J. Lewis, Duncan Renaldo, LeRoy Mason, Robert Frazer
Roles José Delgado
Rating66% 3.328053.328053.328053.328053.32805
Evil oil speculators in South America attempt to drive away a native tribe and their leader, the Tiger Woman. The Tiger Woman, a white woman, might be the lost heiress to a vast fortune, and later plotlines in the serial are built around determining her true identity.