Martín Garralaga
Actor
Biography
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Martín Garralaga (10 November 1894, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain – 12 June 1981 Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was a film and television actor who portrayed more than two hundred roles in film and television. The actor first came to the United States when he sailed from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to San Juan, Puerto Rico on the steamship Catherine in April 1924.
He is probably best known for his portrayal as "Pancho" in the early Cisco Kid films.
In 1958, Garralaga was cast as Ramirez in the episode "A Tree for Planting" of the CBS western television series, The Texan. Lurene Tuttle and Paul Fix were cast in the episode as Amy Bofert and Bert Gorman, respectively. In the story line, series character Bill Longley (Rory Calhoun) comes to the aid of a distressed Mexican farmer, Ramirez, whose peach orchards are being overrun by cattle ranchers.
Garralaga died 12 June 1981 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California aged 86.
Filmography
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
as Railroad Conductor (uncredited) 1948
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Captain Mora 1943
The Hitch-Hiker
as Bartender 1953
Going My Way
as Zuñiga (uncredited) 1944
Lonely are the Brave
as Old Man 1962
Another Thin Man
as Pedro (uncredited) 1939
The Left Handed Gun
as Saval 1958
The Outlaw
as Mike the Waiter (uncredited) 1943
5 Fingers
1952
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Spanish Officer (uncredited) 1952
Ride the Pink Horse
as Barkeeper 1947
Man in the Shadow
as Jesus Cisneros 1957
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
as Juan 1969
Framed
as (uncredited) 1947
Bride of the Gorilla
as Native 1951
The Bribe
as Pablo Gomez 1949