Wenn du gerade bei Film/Serie in Drama, Abenteuer unterwegs bist, taucht Manuel Padilla Jr. ziemlich oft in den Credits auf. Hier bekommst du einen schnellen Überblick — plus ein paar gute Einstiege.
Wenn die offizielle Bio dünn ist: kein Stress — die Highlights und die Filmografie-Auswahl weiter unten helfen meistens mehr beim Einstieg.
In the 1960s, Padilla was a popular child actor, usually playing the Mexican or Indian boy in TV westerns such as "Rawhide," "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke". He was a regular in the 1960s TV series "Tarzan", with actor Ron Ely, in dozens of episodes as native boy 'Jai', and as also a semi-regular in the TV series, "The Flying Nun", with actress Sally Field. In featured films, as an adult, Padilla made appearances in the films, "The Great White Hope", "American Graffiti", "A Man Called Horse", and "Scarface", among…
others.
Padilla died unexpectedly at age 52, just after making a public appearance at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, California, in January 2008.
