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Renault Renaldo Duncan (April 23, 1904 – September 3, 1980), better known as Duncan Renaldo, was a Romanian-born American actor best remembered for his portrayal of The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950–1956 American TV series The Cisco Kid.
Duncan Renaldo. Actor: Trader Horn. To most audiences, Duncan Renaldo will always be identified as film and TV's Cisco Kid. However, he began this role late in his career, and little is known about Renaldo's early life.
Duncan Renaldo. Actor: Trader Horn. To most audiences, Duncan Renaldo will always be identified as film and TV's Cisco Kid. However, he began this role late in his career, and little is known about Renaldo's early life.
Duncan Renaldo (1904–1980) was an American actor of European birth. He was best known in the 1950s United States for his lead role in The Cisco Kid, which co-starred Leo Carrillo as Pancho. The children's television series ran for six years and 156 episodes 1950–1956. [1]
Oct 30, 1980 · Duncan Renaldo, the suave, smiling actor, who as the Cisco Kid worked to minimize violence in 159 episodes of the popular Fifties television series, died of heart failure on Sept. 3 in Goleta, Ca. at the age of 76.
May 7, 2024 · Duncan Renaldo (born April 23, 1904?, Oancea, Romania?—died September 3, 1980, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.) was an actor who was best known for his role in the popular western television series The Cisco Kid (1951–56).
Born in Romania on April 23, 1904, Duncan Renaldo (birth name Vasile Dumitru Cughieaneas) was orphaned at an early age and never knew his birth parents. He was raised and educated in various European countries and arrived in the United States in 1917 as a stoker on a Brazilian coal ship.
Mystery shrouds the ancestral roots of actor Duncan Renaldo. A stoker for a coal ship (some say from Brazil, others insist Romania), he arrived in the United States in the early 1920s and was provided with a pass allowing him to remain in the country for 90 days, a deadline he ignored.
The Cisco Kid is a 1950–1956 half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, the Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho.
In 1945 he began the Cisco Kid film series and transferred the character successfully to TV in the early 1950s, with Leo Carrillo as faithful sidekick Pancho. Renaldo made the character clean-shaven and more of a do-gooder than the roguish bandit who actually was in the books.
