Carlos Rivas
Date of birth: 1925-02-16
Place of birth: El Paso, Texas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Oscar Weber (birth name), Oscar von Weber, Karl Weber
Biography
Carlos Rivas (born Oscar Weber) was a Hispanic/Latin 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. In 1970, Rivas joined Ricardo Montalban, Henry Darrow, and other Hispanic/Latin American actors in co-founding the Nosotros ("We") Foundation, a Los Angeles based organization devoted to improving the way Hispanic/Latin Americans are depicted in entertainment and advocating for Hispanic/Latin Americans in the movie and television industry.
Movie Credits
The Unforgiven
1960-04-06
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daug
Los secretos del buzón
1948-08-22
The theft of a village mailbox wreaks havoc on the relationships and secrets of its neighbors.
The Black Scorpion
1957-10-11
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and
The King and I
1956-06-29
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many chil
Gas Food Lodging
1992-07-10
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop d
Discriminación Maldita
1990-01-01
The Undefeated
1969-10-04
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are
Pepe
1960-12-21
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director b
Machete
1958-12-01
This 1959 film-noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as flirtatious Je
The Madmen of Mandoras
1963-11-13
A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine.
The Deerslayer
1957-09-10
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohi
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
1956-08-01
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinos
Sonatas
1959-10-12
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares,
Gray neighborhood
1954-10-27
The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
1966-07-01
In Central America, a little native boy, Ramel, is abducted by Vinaro, a madman who believes the chi
The Miracle
1959-11-12
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
They Saved Hitler's Brain
1968-08-18
At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hidi
De carne somos
1955-10-05
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a livi
The Phantom Gunslinger
1970-04-30
The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupt
Where Are Our Children Going?
1958-06-26
One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they thin
The Gatling Gun
1971-05-01
Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns.
The Dalton That Got Away
1960-11-01
The story of one of the notorious members of the infamous Dalton Brothers outlaw gang.
Mi Vida Loca
1994-06-08
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborh
Panama Sal
1957-10-18
The story finds Sal Regan singing and dancing for her supper in a low-class Panamanian dive. Wealthy
The Chinese Room
1968-08-29
An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.
Gypsy
1990-10-12
An ex-soldier saves wild horses from being slaughtered and helps protect a desert "freedom school" f
La ciudad de los niños
1957-05-31
Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.
Young Rebels
1989-10-31
From Amir Shervan, the director of SAMURAI COP, comes another great 90's action classic. One man (Jo
La máscara roja
1962-05-10
Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into actio
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
1975-06-01
In the Fabulous Thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of
Los viciosos
1964-09-17
"The Vicious Ones" - The police investigates a drug trafficking network. Other social issues are dis
True Grit
1969-06-11
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging h
Hang Your Hat on the Wind
1969-06-11
A handsome thoroughbred yearling accidentally escapes from a cross-country van in the desert, and is
Topaz
1969-12-17
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French int
Love in Four Parts
1955-08-19
Anthology film, four episodes.
¡Yo sabia demasiado!
1960-10-27
La vida tiene tres días
1955-09-01
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.