Carlos LaCamara

Carlos LaCamara is a Cuban actor who played Retaya in the third season episode .
LaCamara may be best known for his role as Paco Ortiz on , and for his role as (grand)father Ray Garcia on The Brothers Garcia and it's spin-off The Garcias, which was the most popular television program on it's channel at the time. He also had a recurring role as Ramone Ramirez on Silk Stalkings, during which he worked with fellow Star Trek alumni Charlie Brill, Kenneth Marshall, and Tracy Scoggins. He currently appears as Medical Examiner Schmidt on Close to Home, working alongside Erich Anderson, Bruce Davison, Jennifer Hetrick, Thomas Kopache, and series regular John Carroll Lynch.
LaCamara has appeared on several other TV series on which fellow Trek performers were regulars. In 1983, he and David Graf guest-starred on , starring Dwight Schultz, William Lucking, and Lance LeGault. The following year, he was seen on with series stars William Shatner, James Darren, and Richard Herd and fellow guest-star Tony Plana. LaCamara also appeared in two episodes of Hill Street Blues, one in 1983 and another in 1984. Among the regulars on this series were James B. Sikking, Barbara Babcock, and Barbara Bosson; Stanley Kamel was also a guest star on the 1983 episode. LaCamara has also been seen in multiple episodes of , with John Larroquette and including two episodes with Brent Spiner.
He went on to appear on (starring William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., Ronny Cox, Norman Lloyd, France Nuyen, Jennifer Savidge, Alfre Woodard, and Jane Wyatt), the first regular episode of (starring Robert Picardo, Megan Gallagher, Jeff Kober, and Concetta Tomei), (starring Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, and Michele Scarabelli), (starring Teri Hatcher and K Callan), (with John Glover, Albert Hall, Lori Petty, and Scott Lawrence), and Nikki (starring Nikki Cox). Other TV shows he has appeared on include Family Ties, ALF, A Different World, (with Michael Bofshever), Growing Pains, Tales from the Crypt (with Terri Garr and Bruce McGill), Empty Nest, (with Vaughn Armstrong), , Friends, (with Rosemary Forsyth), (with Paul Dooley), , and .
LaCamara has also been seen in small roles in (1982, with Merritt Butrick), (1987, starring Kirstie Alley), (1988, with Carol Kane and Michael Ensign), (1991, with John Cothran, Jr. and Sherman Howard), (1996, with Erick Avari, Tim Kelleher, Frank Novak, Randy Nolen, Randy Oglesby, Leland Orser, Robert Pine, Raphael Sbarge, Bill Smitrovich, and s Brent Spiner), The Apocalypse (1997, with Lee Arenberg and Matt McCoy), (1999, with Gabrielle Union), The Mexican (2001, with Jeremy Roberts and Daniel Zacapa), and The World's Fastest Indian (2005, with William Lucking and Eric Pierpoint). He was also seen in the 1986 TV movie Casebusters with star Tim Russ and guest starred in two episodes of Major Crimes with Jonathan Del Arco in 2016.
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