# Duncan Renaldo filmography

Duncan Renaldo (1904–1980) was an American actor of European birth. He was best known in the 1950s United States for his lead role in The Cisco Kid, which co-starred Leo Carrillo as Pancho. The children's television series ran for six years and 156 episodes 1950–1956. He and Carrillo first crossed professional paths in the 1935 film Moonlight Murder. Prior to his television success, Renaldo appeared in 67 feature-length films beginning in the silent era. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired him in 1929 for a silent version of The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Paramount Pictures cast him in five films, including the acclaimed Two Years Before the Mast and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Twenty of his films were for Republic Pictures, appearing alongside Republic lead stars John Wayne, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Bob Steele. When Ray Corrigan left the popular Three Mesquiteers series of western films in 1939, rather than immediately casting another actor in his recurring role of Tucson Smith, Republic created the role of Rico for Renaldo who portrayed the character in seven subsequent Mesquiteer films.
Although Renaldo was seen by audiences most often as Spanish surnamed characters, the Romania-born actor never knew his own parents or his ethnic heritage. His film career took a two-year hiatus at McNeil Island Federal Prison for falsifying passport documents by claiming his birthplace as New Jersey. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt granted him a pardon in 1936, he was able to resume his career and was granted full American citizenship by Judge James O'Connor in 1941.
In 1945, he appeared in three Monogram Pictures films as the Cisco Kid, paired with Martin Garralaga as Cisco's sidekick Pancho. Preceding the successful television series, he and Leo Carrillo teamed up in 1949 and 1950 for five feature length Cisco Kid movies for United Artists, four of which he co-produced. For his contributions to the entertainment industry, Renaldo received a star at 1680 Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960. Dunan Renaldo also appeared in the Republic Pictures 1937 serial Zorro Rides Again, as Zorro's confidant Renaldo.

## Films

Feature films credits of Duncan Renaldo :
| Title | Year | As actor (role) | As writer | Director | Producer | Studio/Distributor | Other cast members |
| Clothes Make the Woman | 1928 | unknown | | Tom Terriss | — | Tiffany-Stahl Productions | Eve Southern, Walter Pidgeon |
| The Naughty Duchess | 1928 | Armand | | Tom Terriss | — | Tiffany-Stahl Productions | Eve Southern, H. B. Warner |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | 1929 | Esteban | | Charles Brabin | — | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Lili Damita, Raquel Torres |
| Pals of the Prairie | 1929 | Francisco | | Louis King | — | F.B.O. Productions, Inc. | Frank Rice, Buzz Barton |
| Trader Horn | 1931 | Peru | | W. S. Van Dyke | — | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Harry Carey, Edwina Booth |
| Trapped in Tia Juana | 1932 | Kenneth/El Zorro | | Wallace Fox | George W. Weeks | Mayfair Pictures Corp, Action Pictures Inc. | Edwina Booth |
| Public Stenographer | 1933 | Jerome Eagan | | Lewis D. Collins | D. J. Mountan | Showmen's Pictures, Inc., State Rights, Screencraft Productions, Inc. | Lola Lane |
| The Moth | 1935 | Don Pedro | | Fred C. Newmeyer | Al Alt | Showmen's Pictures, Inc., Screencraft Productions, Inc. | Sally O'Neil, Paul Page, Wilfred Lucas |
| Rebellion | 1936 | Ricardo Castillo | | Lynn Shores | E. B. Derr | Crescent Pictures Corp. | Tom Keene, Rita Hayworth |
| Two Minutes to Play | 1936 | Lew Ashley | | Robert Hill | Sam Katzman | Victory Pictures Corp. | Herman Brix, Eddie Nugent |
| Moonlight Murder | 1936 | Pedro | | Edwin L. Marin | Lucian Hubbard, Ned Marin | MGM | Leo Carrillo, Chester Morris |
| Lady Luck | 1936 | Tony Morelli | | Charles Lamont | George R. Batcheller | Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corp | Patricia Farr, William Bakewell |
| Mile-a-Minute-Love | 1937 | Count Ribalto | X | Elmer Clifton | Fanchon Royer | Fanchon Royer Features, Inc., State Rights | William Bakewell, Arletta Duncan |
| Special Agent K-7 | 1937 | Tony Black | | Raymond K. Johnson | — | C. C. Burr Productions, Inc. | Walter McGrail, Queenie Smith |
| Sky Racket | 1937 | unknown | | Sam Katzman | Sam Katzman | Victory Pictures | Herman Bix, Joan Barclay |
| Zorro Rides Again | 1937 | Renaldo | | William Witney John English | Sol C. Siegel | Republic Pictures | John Carroll Helen Christian Reed Howes Noah Beery Sr. Richard Alexander |
| Spawn of the North | 1938 | Ivan | | Henry Hathaway | Albert Lewin | Paramount Pictures | George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, John Barrymore |
| Ten Laps to Go | 1938 | Eddie DeSilva | | Elmer Clifton | Fanchon Rover | Fanchon Royer Features, Inc., State Rights, Ace Pictures Corp | Rex Lease, Muriel Evans |
| Tropic Holiday | 1938 | Young Blood | | Theodore Reed | — | Paramount Pictures | Dorothy Lamour, Bob Burns, Ray Milland, Martha Raye, Binnie Barnes |
| Rose of the Rio Grande | 1938 | Sebastian | | William Nigh | Dorothy Davenport Reid | Monogram Pictures | Movita Castaneda, John Carroll |
| Rough Riders' Round-up | 1939 | Alcalde Don Enriguez | | Joseph Kane | Joseph Kane | Republic Pictures | Roy Rogers |
| Cowboys from Texas | 1939 | Rico | | George Sherman | Harry Grey | Republic Pictures | Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Yakima Canutt |
| South of the Border | 1939 | Andreo/Mendoza | | George Sherman | William A. Berke | Republic Pictures | Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette |
| The Kansas Terrors | 1939 | Rico | | George Sherman | Harry Grey | Republic Pictures | Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Yakima Canutt |
| The Mad Empress | 1939 | Colonel Miguel Lopez | | Miguel Contreras Torres | Miguel Contreras Torres | Warner Bros. | Conrad Nagel, Lionel Atwill, Medea Novora |
| Zaza | 1939 | Animal trainer | | George Cukor | Albert Lewin | Paramount Pictures | Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr |
| Covered Wagon Days | 1940 | Rico | | George Sherman | Harry Grey | Republic Pictures | Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton |
| Gaucho Serenade | 1940 | Gaucho Don José | | Frank McDonald | William Berke | Republic Pictures | Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette |
| Pioneers of the West | 1940 | Rico | | Lester Orlebeck | Harry Grey | Republic Pictures | Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton |
| Oklahoma Renegades | 1940 | Rico | | Nate Watt | Harry Grey | Republic Pictures | Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton |
| Heroes of the Saddle | 1940 | Rico | | William Witney | Harry Grey | Republic Pictures | Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton |
| Rocky Mountain Rangers | 1940 | Rico | | George Sherman | Harry Grey | Republic Pictures | Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton |
| Bad Men of Missouri | 1941 | Henchman | | Ray Enright | Jack L. Warner | Warner Bros. | Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris |
| King of the Texas Rangers | 1941 | Pedro Garcia | | William Witney, John English | Hiram S. Brown Jr | Republic Pictures | "Slingin' Sammy Baugh" |
| Down Mexico Way | 1941 | Juan | | Joseph Santley | Harry Grey | Republic Pictures | Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette |
| Gauchos of El Dorado | 1941 | José Ojara, the Gaucho | | Lester Orlebeck | Louis Gray | Republic Pictures | Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Rufe Davis, Yakima Canutt |
| Outlaws of the Desert | 1941 | Sheik Suleiman | | Howard Bretherton | Harry Sherman | Paramount Pictures | William Boyd |
| South of Panama | 1941 | Captain of police | | Jean Yarbrough | Melville Shyer | Producers Releasing Corp., T. H. Richmond Productions, Inc. | Roger Pryor |
| We Were Dancing | 1942 | Sam Estrella | | Robert Z. Leonard | Robert Z. Leonard, Orville O. Dull | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick |
| A Yank in Libya | 1942 | Sheik Isic David | | Albert Herman | George M. Merrick | Producers Releasing Corp., M & A Productions | H.B. Warner |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1943 | Lieutenant Berrendo | | Sam Wood | Sam Wood | Paramount Pictures | Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff |
| Mission to Moscow | 1943 | Italian reporter | | Michael Curtiz | Jack L. Warner | Warner Bros. | Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka |
| Tiger Fangs | 1943 | Peter Jeremy | | Sam Newfield | Jack Schwarz | Producers Releasing Corporation | Frank Buck |
| Secret Service in Darkest Africa | 1943 | Captain Pierre LaSalle | | Spencer Gordon Bennet | William J. O'Sullivan | Republic Pictures | Rod Cameron |
| Border Patrol | 1943 | Commandant La Barca | | Lesley Selander | Harry Sherman | United Artists | William Boyd, Robert Mitchum |
| The Tiger Woman | 1944 | José Delgado | | Spencer Gordon Bennet | William J. O'Sullivan | Republic Pictures | Linda Stirling |
| The Desert Song | 1944 | Captain of the Guard | | Robert Florey | Robert Buckner | Warner Bros. | Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot |
| Hands Across the Border | 1944 | Juan Morales | | Joseph Kane | — | Republic Pictures | Roy Rogers |
| The Fighting Seabees | 1944 | Juan | | Edward Ludwig | Albert J. Cohen | Republic Pictures | John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley |
| Call of the South Seas | 1944 | Charcot | | John English | Walter H. Goetz | Republic Pictures | Allan Lane, Janet Martin |
| Around the World | 1944 | Dragoman | | Allan Dwan | Allan Dwan | RKO Pictures | Kay Kyser, Mischa Auer, Joan Davis |
| The San Antonio Kid | 1944 | Johnny Bennett, the San Antonio Kid | | Howard Bretherton | William J. O'Sullivan | Republic Pictures | Bill Elliott, Robert Blake |
| Sheriff of Sundown | 1944 | Chihuahua Ramirez | | Lesley Selander | William J. O'Sullivan | Republic Pictures | Allan Lane |
| In Old New Mexico | 1945 | The Cisco Kid | | Phil Rosen | Philip N. Krasne | Monogram Pictures | Martin Garralaga |
| The Cisco Kid Returns | 1945 | The Cisco Kid | | John P. McCarthy | Philip N. Krasne | Monogram Pictures | Martin Garralaga |
| South of the Rio Grande | 1945 | The Cisco Kid | | Lambert Hillyer | Lindsley Parsons | Monogram Pictures | Martin Garralaga |
| Don Ricardo Returns | 1946 | — | X | Terry O. Morse | James S. Burkett, Duncan Renaldo | Producers Releasing Corporation | Fred Coby, Isabelita |
| Two Years Before the Mast | 1946 | Mexican captain | | John Farrow | Seton I. Miller | Paramount Pictures | Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Da Silva |
| Bells of San Fernando | 1947 | — | X | Terry O. Morse | Duncan Renaldo, James S. Burkett | Screen Guild Productions, inc., Hillcrest Productions, Inc. | Donald Woods, Gloria Warren |
| Jungle Flight | 1947 | Police Captain Costa | | Sam Newfield | — | Pine-Thomas Productions, Paramount Pictures | Robert Lowery, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane |
| Sword of the Avenger | 1948 | Fernando | | Sidney Salkow | Sidney Salkow | Eagle-Lion Films, United Philippine Artists, Inc. | Ramon Delgado, Sigrid Gurie |
| The Valiant Hombre | 1949 | The Cisco Kid | | Wallace Fox | Philip N. Krasne, Duncan Renaldo | United Artists, Inter-American Productions, Inc. | Leo Carrillo, John Litel |
| The Daring Caballero | 1949 | The Cisco Kid | | Wallace Fox | Philip N. Krasne, Duncan Renaldo | United Artists, Inter-American Productions, Inc. | Leo Carrillo, Kippee Valez |
| The Gay Amigo | 1949 | The Cisco Kid | | Wallace Fox | Philip N. Krasne, Duncan Renaldo | United Artists, Inter-American Productions, Inc. | Leo Carrillo, Armida |
| Satan's Cradle | 1949 | The Cisco Kid | | Ford Beebe | Philip N. Krasne, Duncan Renaldo | United Artists, Inter-American Productions, Inc. | Leo Carrillo, Ann Savage |
| The Girl from San Lorenzo | 1950 | The Cisco Kid | | Derwin Abrahams | Philip N. Krasne | United Artists, Inter-American Productions, Inc. | Leo Carrillo, Jane Adams |
| The Capture | 1950 | Carlos | | John Sturges | Niven Busch | RKO Pictures | Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory |
| The Highwayman | 1951 | — | X | Lesley Selander | Hal E. Chester, Jack Dietz | Monogram Pictures | Wanda Hendrix, Victor Jory, Charles Coburn |
| The Lady and the Bandit | 1951 | — | X | Ralph Murphy | — | Columbia Pictures | Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina |