
Carlos Rivas (born Oscar Weber) was a Native Hispanic/Latino-American actor, best remembered as Lun Tha in The King and I (1956), Dirty Bob in True Grit (1969), and Hernandez in Topaz (1969). Carlos Rivas was discovered in a bar in Mexico. He began his career in Latin-American westerns, though his Argentinian films were actually filmed in Mexico.
His American debut was in The King and I (1956) opposite Rita Moreno. After this career highlight, he was quickly reduced to supporting roles. That same year of 1956 he appeared as Johnny Bravo in the TV western Cheyenne in the episode titled "Johnny Bravo." Rivas had co-starring roles in two science fiction films, The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956) and The Black Scorpion (1957). Rivas played Chingachgook in The Deerslayer (1957) with Lex Barker, Forrest Tucker, and Rita Moreno.
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The titles people know Carlos from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.

as Padre

as Marcos

as Kulkan
as Two-Knife

as Sam
as Hernández
as Diaz
as "Dirty Bob"

as Tall Bandit

as Nicolás Vidal
as Camino Padua / Teo Padua
as Romulo
as Señor Cardona · 1 episode

as Carlitos

as Juan Guzmán

as Carlos


as Manuel Ortego
as Artur Ramos
as Alfredo Gomez · 1 episode
as Chingachgook

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