Via carrillo biography of albert
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Manuel Carrillo
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Leo Carrillo on stage and screen
Filmography
Leo Carrillo (Spanish pronunciation:[Cay-reel-yo][a]) (1881–1961) was an American cartoonist, a comedian in vaudeville, and an actor on stage, film and television. He was best known in the United States as the Cisco Kid's sidekick Pancho on 1950s children's television, a role which capped a long show business career that began decades earlier.[2]
Growing up in culturally diverse Los Angeles, Carrillo was conversant in five languages with a keen ear for dialects.[3] When he went to work for the San Francisco Examiner as a cartoonist,[4] he began performing humorous monologues on the San Francisco stage, easily transforming han själv into a variety of personas. Soon he began working in vaudeville with Major Bowes,[5] and toured the Orpheum Circuit with Walter C. Kelly.[6] Theatrical producer Oliver Morosco offered him a role in the original huvudgata play Upstairs an
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The Secret Life of H.G. Carrillo
On the first day of the Fall 2009 semester at George Washington University in Washington D.C., professor H.G. “Hache” Carrillo marched into his own creative writing class 10 minutes late, clutching a copy of The Norton Anthology of English Literature in one hand. “He pulls it above his head and we all look at him, thinking this is going to be a required book,” says former student Tarek al-Hariri. “And he slams it so hard on the table, and we all jump three feet. And he says, ‘Now that I have your attention… ’ ”
Carrillo then reached into his bag, pulled out an orange, and placed it on the table alongside the book. “ ‘Now, inom want all of you to take out paper and inom want you to write the orange,’ ” al-Hariri remembers Carrillo saying. “And I’m like, ‘What the fuck are you talking about?’ ” Bewildered, the students picked up their pens. &l