Lalo Ríos (7 February 1927 - 7 March 1973) was a Mexican-born American actor.

Biography

He was born the 7 February 1927, in San Miguelito (Sonora, Mexico), but moved as a child, along with his parents and two brothers, to East Los Angeles, California, in 1936, when he had 9 years old. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School. He was working as a carpenter when given his first role by Joseph Losey in the 1950 Paramount film The Lawless, cast as the young Mexican who faces a racist lynch mob in a small North California town. Since this moment, Ríos extended his career of actor by nearly twenty years. His greatest role came him in the The Ring 1952 film, which was protagonized by the himself Ríos. Eventually, the Mexican actor also got a certain relevance in films as Big Leaguer and Touch of Evil films. His last role in an American film was in 1962, participating in Lonely Are the Brave. Since 1966, Ríos was focused in his work in TV, where he already had started to work since 1958 (having then his first work in a TV series, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, where he acted in an episode, followed then by other TV series episodes such as The Untouchables (1961) or Gunsmoke (1961)). Since 1966, he participated in TV series episodes such as Laredo (1966) and Marcus Welby, M.D. (1968). Marcus Welby was the last TV series in which he participated, leaving also the American TV.

Ríos died in Los Angeles in 7 March 1973.