# Leo Carrillo on stage and screen

Leo Carrillo (Spanish pronunciation:) (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

Feature and serial film credits of Leo Carrillo :
| Title | Year | Role | Director | Producer | Studio/Distributor | Other cast members |
| Mister Antonio | 1929 | Antonio Camaradino | James Flood | — | Tiffany-Stahl Productions, Inc. | Virginia Valli, Gareth Hughes |
| The Guilty Generation | 1931 | Mike Palermo | Rowland V. Lee | — | Columbia Pictures | Constance Cummings, Robert Young, Boris Karloff |
| Hell Bound | 1931 | Nick Cotrelli | Walter Lang | Samuel Zierler | James Cruze Productions, Inc., Tiffany Productions, Inc. | Lloyd Hughes, Ralph Ince |
| The Homicide Squad | 1931 | Big Louie Grenado | George Melford | Carl Laemmle, Carl Laemmle, Jr. | Universal Pictures | Mary Brian, Noah Beery, Sr. |
| Lasca of the Rio Grande | 1931 | Jose Santa Cruz | Edward Laemmle | Carl Laemmle | Universal Pictures | Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Burgess |
| The Broken Wing | 1932 | Captain Innocencio | Lloyd Corrigan | — | Paramount Pictures | Lupe Vélez |
| Deception | 1932 | Jim Hurley | Lewis Seiler | Bryan Foy | Columbia Pictures | Dickie Moore |
| Girl of the Rio | 1932 | Don Jose Maria Lopez y Tostado | Herbert Brenon | Merian C. Cooper | RKO Pictures | Dolores del Río |
| Men Are Such Fools | 1932 | Antonio Mello | William Nigh | Joseph I. Schnitzer, Samuel Zierler | RKO Pictures, Jefferson Pictures Corporation | Vivienne Osborne, Una Merkel |
| Before Morning | 1933 | Dr. Gruelle/Mr. Maitland | Arthur Hoerl | Robert Mintz | State Rights, Stage and Screen Productions, Inc. | Lora Baxter, Taylor Holmes |
| Moonlight and Pretzels | 1933 | Nick Pappacropolis | Karl Freund | Carl Laemmle | Universal Pictures | Mary Brian, Herbert Rawlinson |
| Obey the Law | 1933 | Tony Pasqual | Benjamin Stoloff | Bryan Foy | Fox Productions, Columbia Pictures | Dickie Moore, Lois Wilson |
| Parachute Jumper | 1933 | Kurt Weber | Alfred E. Green | — | Warner Bros. | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Lyle Talbot |
| Racetrack | 1933 | Joe Tomasso | James Cruze | Samuel Zierler | World Wide Pictures, Inc., Fox Film Corporation, James Cruze Productions, Inc., Tiffany Productions, Inc. | Junior Coghlan, Kay Hammond |
| The Band Plays On | 1934 | Angelo | Russell Mack | Ned Marin | MGM | Robert Young, Stu Erwin |
| Four Frightened People | 1934 | Montague | Cecil B. DeMille | Emanuel Cohen | Paramount Pictures | Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, William Gargan |
| The Gay Bride | 1934 | Mickey the Greek/John Mickapopolis | Jack Conway | John W. Considine Jr. | MGM | Carole Lombard, Chester Morris |
| Manhattan Melodrama | 1934 | Father Joe | W. S. Van Dyke | David O. Selznick | MGM | Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy |
| Viva Villa! | 1934 | Sierra | Jack Conway | David O. Selznick | MGM | Wallace Beery, Faye Wray |
| If You Could Only Cook | 1935 | Mike Rossini | William A. Seiter | Everett Riskin | Columbia Pictures | Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur |
| In Caliente | 1935 | Jose Gomez | Lloyd Bacon | Edward Chodorov | Warner Bros. | Dolores del Río, Pat O'Brien, Glenda Farrell, Edward Everett Horton |
| Love Me Forever | 1935 | Steve Corelli | Victor Schertzinger | Max Winslow | Columbia Pictures | Grace Moore |
| The Winning Ticket | 1935 | Joe Tomasello | Charles Reisner | Jack Cummings | MGM | Ted Healy, Louise Fazenda |
| The Gay Desperado | 1936 | Braganza | Rouben Mamoulian | Mary Pickford, Jesse Lasky | United Artists | Ida Lupino, Nino Martini |
| It Had to Happen | 1936 | Giuseppe Badjagaloupe | Roy Del Ruth | Darryl F. Zanuck | 20th Century Fox | Rosalind Russell, George Raft |
| Moonlight Murder | 1936 | Gino D'Acosta | Edwin L. Marin | Lucian Hubbard, Ned Marin | MGM | Duncan Renaldo, Chester Morris |
| 52d Street | 1937 | Fiorello Zamarelli | Harold Young | Walter Wanger | United Artists | Ian Hunter, ZaSu Pitts, Dorothy Peterson |
| The Barrier | 1937 | Poleon/Doret | Lesley Selander | Adolph Zukor, Harry Sherman | Paramount Pictures | Jean Parker, Otto Kruger |
| History Is Made at Night | 1937 | Cesare | Frank Borzage | Walter Wanger | United Artists | Charles Boyer, Colin Clive, Jean Arthur |
| Hotel Haywire | 1937 | Dr. Zodiac Z. Zippe | George Archainbaud | Adolph Zukor, Paul Jones, William LeBaron | Paramount Pictures | Franklin Pangborn, Spring Byington, Lynne Overman |
| I Promise to Pay | 1937 | Richard Farra | D. Ross Lederman | Myles Connolly | Columbia Pictures | Chester Morris, Helen Mack |
| Manhattan Merry-Go-Round | 1937 | Tony Gordoni | Charles Reisner | Harry Sauber | Republic Pictures | Ann Dvorak, Ted Lewis, Cab Calloway, Louis Prima, Gene Autry |
| Blockade | 1938 | Luis | William Dieterle | Walter Wanger | United Artists | Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, John Halliday, Reginald Denny |
| City Streets | 1938 | Joe Carmine | Albert S. Rogell | Wallace MacDonald | Columbia Pictures | Edith Fellows |
| Flirting with Fate | 1938 | Sancho Ramirez | Frank McDonald | David L. Loew | David L. Loew Productions, Loew's Inc. | Joe E. Brown, Jay Novello, Beverly Roberts |
| The Girl of the Golden West | 1938 | Mosquito | Robert Z. Leonard | William Anthony McGuire | MGM | Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon |
| Little Miss Roughneck | 1938 | Pascual Orozco | Aubrey Scotto | Irving Briskin | Columbia Pictures | Edith Fellows |
| Too Hot to Handle | 1938 | Joselito "José" Estanza | Jack Conway | Lawrence Weingarten | MGM | Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon |
| The Arizona Wildcat | 1939 | Manuel Hernandez | Herbert I. Leeds | John Stone | 20th Century Fox | Jane Withers |
| Chicken Wagon Family | 1939 | Jean Paul Batiste Fippany | Herbert I. Leeds | Sol M. Wurtzel | 20th Century Fox | Jane Withers |
| Fisherman's Wharf | 1939 | Carlo Roma | Bernard Vorhaus | Sol Lesser | RKO Pictures | Bobby Breen |
| The Girl and the Gambler | 1939 | El Rayo | Lew Landers | Cliff Reid | RKO Radio Pictures | Tim Holt |
| Rio | 1939 | Roberto | John Brahm | — | Universal Pictures | Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglen |
| Society Lawyer | 1939 | Tony Gazotti | Edwin L. Marin | John W. Considine Jr., Louis D. Lighton | MGM | Walter Pidgeon |
| 20 Mule Team | 1940 | Piute Pete | Richard Thorpe | J. Walter Ruben | MGM | Wallace Beery, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Baxter, Noah Beery, Jr. |
| Captain Caution | 1940 | Lucien Argandeau | Richard Wallace | Hal Roach | Hal Roach Productions, United Artists | Victor Mature, Bruce Cabot, Alan Ladd |
| Lillian Russell | 1940 | Tony Pastor | Irving Cummings | Darryl F. Zanuck | 20th Century Fox | Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold |
| One Night in the Tropics | 1940 | Escobar | A. Edward Sutherland | Leonard Spigelgass | Universal Pictures | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, William Frawley, Robert Cummings |
| Wyoming | 1940 | Pete Marillo | Richard Thorpe | Milton H. Bren | MGM | Wallace Beery, Ann Rutherford |
| Barnacle Bill | 1941 | Pico Rodriguez | Richard Thorpe | Milton H. Bren | MGM | Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main |
| Honolulu Lu | 1941 | Don Estaban Cordoba | Charles Barton | Wallace MacDonald, Irving Briskin | Columbia Pictures | Lupe Vélez |
| Horror Island | 1941 | Tobias Clump | George Waggner | Jack Bernard | Universal Studios | Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Foy Van Dolsen |
| The Kid from Kansas | 1941 | Juan Garcia Pancho | William Nigh | Ben Pivar | Universal Pictures | Dick Foran, Andy Devine |
| Riders of Death Valley (15-chapter serial) | 1941 | Pancho | Charles Lamont | Ben Pivar | Universal Pictures | Dick Foran, Andy Devine |
| Tight Shoes | 1941 | Amalfi | Albert S. Rogell | Jules Levey | Universal Pictures | Binnie Barnes, Broderick Crawford |
| American Empire | 1942 | Dominique Beauchard | William C. McGann | Lewis J. Rachmil, Harry Sherman, Dick Dickson | United Artists | Richard Dix, Jack La Rue, William Farnum |
| Danger in the Pacific | 1942 | Leo Marzell | Lewis D. Collins | Ben Pivar | Universal Pictures | Andy Devine, Turhan Bey |
| Escape from Hong Kong | 1942 | Pancho | William Nigh | Marshall Grant | Universal Pictures | Andy Devine, Marjorie Lord |
| Men of Texas | 1942 | Sam Sawyer | Ray Enright | George Waggner | Universal Pictures | Broderick Crawford, Robert Stack, Jackie Cooper |
| Sin Town | 1942 | Anjelo Colina | Ray Enright | George Waggner | Universal Pictures | Constance Bennett, Broderick Crawford, Patric Knowles, Anne Gwynne |
| Timber | 1942 | Quebec | Christy Cabanne | Ben Pivar | Universal Pictures | Andy Devine, Marjorie Lord |
| Top Sergeant | 1942 | Corporal Frenchy Devereaux | Christy Cabanne | Ben Pivar | Universal Pictures | Andy Devine, Don Terry, Don Porter, Alan Hale, Jr. |
| Unseen Enemy | 1942 | Nick | John Rawlins | Marshall Grant | Universal Pictures | Irene Hervey, Turhan Bey, Hugh Beaumont |
| What's Cookin'? | 1942 | Marvo the Great | Edward F. Cline | Ken Goldsmith | Universal Pictures | Billie Burke, Donald O'Connor, The Andrews Sisters |
| Crazy House | 1943 | — | Edward F. Cline | Milton Feld | Universal Pictures | Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Hans Conreid |
| Follow the Band | 1943 | — | Jean Yarbrough | Paul Malvern | Universal Pictures | Eddie Quillan, Mary Beth Hughes, Leon Errol, Robert Mitchum, Hilo Hattie, Frances Langford |
| Frontier Badmen | 1943 | Chinito | Ford Beebe | Howard Benedict, Ford Beebe | Universal Pictures | Anne Gwynne, Noah Beery Jr., Thomas Gomez |
| Larceny with Music | 1943 | Gus Borelli | Edward Lilley | Howard Benedict | Universal Pictures | Kitty Carlisle, Lee Patrick, William Frawley |
| Phantom of the Opera | 1943 | Signor Ferretti | Arthur Lubin | George Waggner | Universal Pictures | Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Hume Cronyn |
| Moonlight and Cactus | 1944 | Pasqualito | Edward F. Cline | Frank Gross | Universal Pictures | The Andrews Sisters, Shemp Howard |
| Bowery to Broadway | 1944 | P.J. Fenton | Charles Lamont | John Grant, Milton Feld | Universal Pictures | Maria Montez, Jack Oakie, Susanna Foster |
| Ghost Catchers | 1944 | Jerry | Edward F. Cline | Milton Feld, Edmund L. Hartmann | Universal Pictures | Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Gloria Jean, Andy Devine |
| Gypsy Wildcat | 1944 | Anube | Roy William Neil | George Waggner, Jack Gross | Universal Pictures | Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard |
| Crime, Inc. | 1945 | Tony Marlow | Lew Landers | Leon Fromkess, Martin Mooney | Producers Releasing Corporation | Lionel Atwill, Martha Tilton, Tom Neal |
| Mexicana | 1945 | Esteban Guzman | Alfred Santell | Alfred Santell | Republic Pictures | Tito Guízar, Constance Moore, Estelita Rodriguez |
| Under Western Skies | 1945 | King Carlos Randall | Jean Yarbrough | Joseph Gershenson, Warren Wilson | Universal Pictures | Noah Beery, Jr., Martha O'Driscoll |
| The Fugitive | 1947 | Chief of police | John Ford | Merian C. Cooper, Emilio Fernández, John Ford | Argosy Pictures, RKO Pictures | Henry Fonda, Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendáriz |
| The Daring Caballero | 1949 | Pancho | Wallace Fox | Philip N. Krasne, Duncan Renaldo | United Artists, Inter-American Productions, Inc. | Duncan Renaldo, Kippee Valez |
| The Gay Amigo | 1949 | Pancho | Wallace Fox | Philip N. Krasne, Duncan Renaldo | United Artists, Inter-American Productions, Inc. | Duncan Renaldo, Armida |
| Satan's Cradle | 1949 | Pancho | Ford Beebe | Philip N. Krasne, Duncan Renaldo | United Artists, Inter-American Productions, Inc. | Duncan Renaldo, Ann Savage |
| The Valiant Hombre | 1949 | Pancho | Wallace Fox | Philip N. Krasne, Duncan Renaldo | United Artists, Inter-American Productions, Inc. | Duncan Renaldo, John Litel |
| The Girl from San Lorenzo | 1950 | Pancho | Derwin Abrahams | Philip N. Krasne | United Artists, Inter-American Productions, Inc. | Duncan Renaldo, Jane Adams |
| Pancho Villa Returns | 1950 | Pancho Villa | Miguel Contreras Torres | Hispanic Continental Films Inc. | Hispanic Continental Films Inc. | Rodolfo Acosta, Esther Fernández |