Gonzalez Gonzalez, Pedro

▪ 2007

Ramiro Gonzalez Gonzalez 

      Mexican American actor (b. May 24, 1925, Aguilares, Texas—d. Feb. 6, 2006, Culver City, Calif.), was such a hit when he appeared as a contestant on the Groucho Marx quiz show You Bet Your Life in 1953 and stole the show with his hilarious banter that John Wayne signed him to a film contract. Besides appearing with Wayne in movies that included The High and the Mighty (1954) and Rio Bravo (1959), he acted in numerous other motion pictures and in such television series as Wanted: Dead or Alive and Gunsmoke and became one of the most recognizable Latino actors of the 1950s and '60s.

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