映画やドラマでDrama, Petualanganを漁ってるなら、Manuel Padilla Jr.って名前はわりと何度も目に入るはず。ここではざっくり経歴と代表作、つまみ食いできるフィルモグラフィをまとめたよ。
公式のプロフィールが薄めでも大丈夫。下の「おすすめフィルモグラフィ」を見れば、どこから入るか決めやすい。
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.
