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The Cisco Kid

as The Cisco Kid

1950
The Capture

as Carlos

1950
The Gay Amigo

as The Cisco Kid

1949
Sword of the Avenger

as Fernando

1948
Jungle Flight

as Police Captain Costa

1947
The Cisco Kid Returns

as Cisco Kid

1945
In Old New Mexico

as The Cisco Kid

1945
Hands Across the Border

as Juan Morales

1944
San Antonio Kid

as Johnny Bennett aka San Antonio Kid

1944
The Tiger Woman

as José Delgado

1944
Border Patrol

as Commandante

1943
Tiger Fangs

as Peter Jeremy

1943
A Yank in Libya

as Sheik David

1942
Outlaws of the Desert

as Sheik Suleiman

1941
King of the Texas Rangers

as Lt. Pedro Garcia

1941
Gauchos of El Dorado

as Gaucho / José Ojara

1941
South of Panama

as Captain of Police

1941
Heroes of the Saddle

as Rico

1940
Covered Wagon Days

as Rico Rinaldo

1940
Oklahoma Renegades

as Rico Rinaldo

1940
Gaucho Serenade

as Gaucho Don José

1940
South of the Border

as Andreo Mendoza

1939
The Lone Ranger Rides Again

as Juan Vasquez

1939
The Kansas Terrors

as Renaldo

1939
Spawn of the North

as Ivan

1938
Rose of the Rio Grande

as Sebastian

1938
The Painted Stallion

as Zamorro

1937
Zorro Rides Again

as Renaldo

1937
Sky Racket

as Count Barksi

1937
Duncan Renaldo Duncan Renaldo

Birthday

1904-04-23

Place of Birth

Biography

To most audiences, Duncan Renaldo will always be identified as film and TV's "The Cisco Kid." However, this role occurred late in his career, which consisted of much more than just this western character. Not much is known about Renaldo's early life. In fact, his date and place of birth is still questioned. The usual given birth date is April 23, 1904. His birthplace has been generally stated as Spain--he has said that his first memories as a child were in Spain--although Romania and even New Jersey have been mentioned as well. An orphan, he never knew his actual parents and was never able to ascertain the exact date and place of his birth. He was raised and educated in various European countries and arrived in the US in the early 1920s as a stoker on a Brazilian coal ship. Entering the country on a 90-day seaman's permit, he stayed when his ship caught fire at the dock and burned to the waterline. A paltry existence as a portrait painter forced him to seek other work, and he somehow found his way into films as a producer of short features, which in turn led to on-camera work as an actor with MGM in 1928. The studio capitalized on his dashing Hispanic looks and initially typed him as a "Latin lover", but it didn't last long. In the early 1930s his career was interrupted when he was arrested and faced deportation due to his illegal immigrant status. The actor was eventually pardoned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt--his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, had bought one of Renaldo's paintings, looked into his case and persuaded her husband to pardon him. He returned to minor films for both Republic and Monogram, alternating as heroic sidekick and villain. He co-starred as one of the Three Mesquiteers in the revamped film series, and showed up regularly in 1930s and 1940s cliffhangers, including The Painted Stallion (1937), Jungle Menace (1937), Zorro Rides Again (1937), King of the Mounties (1942), Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943) The Tiger Woman (1944). In 1945 he began the Cisco Kid film series and transferred the character successfully to TV in the early 1950s, with Leo Carrillo as faithful sidekick Pancho. Renaldo made the character clean-shaven and more of a do-gooder than the roguish bandit who actually was in the books. Renaldo retired soon after the series' demise and died years later at Goleta Valley Community Hospital in California of lung cancer in 1980.
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