Perry Lopez

Perry Lopez was a character actor who portrayed Lieutenant Esteban Rodriguez in the first season episode . He filmed his scenes for the episode on Wednesday and Friday at . 
He may best be remembered for his supporting role as Lt. Lou Escobar in (1974, co-starring Noble Willingham, as well as fellow Original Series guest actor Roy Jenson, with cinematography by John A. Alonzo, music by Jerry Goldsmith and stunts by Hal Needham).
Lopez was born in New York City, New York, and began his acting career on the New York stage. He ultimately broke into film with an uncredited role in (1954, with Original Series guest star Whit Bissell). Later that year, Lopez appeared in (with Richard Webb) and (with Elisha Cook).
Between 1955 and 1956, Lopez was seen in such films as Battle Cry (1955, with William Campbell), (1955, co-starring Tige Andrews), Hell on Frisco Bay (1955, with Stanley Adams and Anthony Caruso), and The Young Guns (with Scott Marlowe). He also played the lead in (1956, with Kenneth Tobey).
Lopez worked with fellow Original Series guest actor Michael Ansara in (1956, featuring William Schallert and Beverly Washburn), (1968, co-starring Ricardo Montalban) and (1968, with Brock Peters). Lopez also appeared with Arthur Batanides in (1958, starring Brian Keith) (1959, with Barbara Luna) and (1961, starring Jeffrey Hunter). 
Lopez's other film credits include Taras Bulba (1962), (1963), (1966, starring Brian Keith), (1968, with Andrew Prine and Guy Raymond), (1969, with Sid Haig, Barbara Luna and Abraham Sofaer), and (1970). 1974's Chinatown was Lopez's last film until the late 1980s, when he appeared in (1987, with Tim Russ) and (1989).
Lopez was prominent in television, as well. He had a recurring role on the 1950s series Zorro (on which he worked with Barbara Luna) and has also guest-starred on The Rifleman (in an episode with Paul Fix and Lawrence Dobkin), (with Rex Holman), (four episodes, including two with Morgan Woodward), The Virginian (with John Hoyt), Mission: Impossible (with Mark Lenard and Percy Rodriguez), (starring James Darren, Whit Bissell and Lee Meriwether), The Wild Wild West (with Oliver McGowan, George Murdock, William O'Connell and Robert Pine), (with Tige Andrews, Meg Foster, Brock Peters and Clarence Williams III), (with John Colicos), and Hart to Hart (1984, with Julie Newmar and John Staible).
Fifteen years after Chinatown, Lopez reprised the role of Escobar (now a captain) in the sequel, The Two Jakes. This film co-starred Tracey Walter. After appearing in the 1994 crime drama Confessions of a Hitman, Lopez retired from acting. He died of lung cancer in Beverly Hills, California in 2008. 
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