Carlos Rivas
Also Known As: Oscar Weber (birth name), Oscar von Weber, Karl Weber
Biography: Carlos Rivas (born Oscar Weber) was an 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 Mexican and Argentinian 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 Latino actors in co-founding the Nosotros ("We") Foundation, a Los Angeles based organization devoted to improving the way Hispanics are depicted in entertainment and advocating for Latinos in the movie and television industry.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 16, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 16, 2003
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The Unforgiven
Overview: The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-06
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Los secretos del buzón
Overview: The theft of a village mailbox wreaks havoc on the relationships and secrets of its neighbors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-08-22
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The Black Scorpion
Overview: Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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The King and I
Overview: Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
Genres: Music Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-29
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Gas Food Lodging
Overview: Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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Discriminación Maldita
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Undefeated
Overview: After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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Pepe
Overview: Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-21
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Machete
Overview: This 1959 film-noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as flirtatious Jean, who marries an older man, plantation owner Don Luis, for financial security and finds herself falling for his virile foster son, Carlos. Fearing that Jean will inherit Luis's money, his greedy cousin, Miguel, poisons the bridegroom against his new wife, informing him about her passion for another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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The Madmen of Mandoras
Overview: A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine. The Nazis plan to release a deadly gas destroying all life on the planet. To ensure their success they kidnap Professor Coleman the only man on the planet with the antidote to the poison gas.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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The Deerslayer
Overview: After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-10
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The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Overview: An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Genres: Western Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Sonatas
Overview: In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-10-12
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Gray neighborhood
Overview: The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-10-27
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Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Overview: In Central America, a little native boy, Ramel, is abducted by Vinaro, a madman who believes the child to be the sole link to a lost Aztec city of gold. Vinaro uses one of his diabolical explosive mechanisms to eliminate police and army officials; and the legendary Tarzan is flown in to help locate the jungle city, rescue the boy, and bring Vinaro to justice.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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The Miracle
Overview: A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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They Saved Hitler's Brain
Overview: At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of Mandoras, in order to revive the Third Reich at a later date. By the 1960s, the time has come, so a top scientist is kidnapped in order to help keep Hitler alive. This film is a re-edit of The Madmen of Mandoras released in theaters in 1963.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-18
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De carne somos
Overview: Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-10-05
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The Phantom Gunslinger
Overview: The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a gang of bandits, including Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, and some others. The sheriff leaves town, but not before naming Bill as his successor. Bill, unfortunately, doesn't carry or even know how to use a gun, and the outlaws take over Tucca Flats. But with the help of some Indians, a suit of armor, and springs on his shoes, Bill manages to run the gang out of town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-30
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Where Are Our Children Going?
Overview: One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they think about marriage! Mom and Pop have their own #firstworldproblems.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-26
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The Gatling Gun
Overview: Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-01
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The Dalton That Got Away
Overview: The story of one of the notorious members of the infamous Dalton Brothers outlaw gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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Mi Vida Loca
Overview: Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-08
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Panama Sal
Overview: The story finds Sal Regan singing and dancing for her supper in a low-class Panamanian dive. Wealthy Dennis P. Dennis takes a liking to Sal, and decides to do the "My Fair Lady" bit. He takes the girl back to the States, where, after teaching her the social graces, he makes her famous as a high-toned supper club songstress. Along the way, Dennis falls in love with Sal, much to the dismay of his wealthy pals, who try to break up the romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-18
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The Chinese Room
Overview: An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-29
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Gypsy
Overview: An ex-soldier saves wild horses from being slaughtered and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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La ciudad de los niños
Overview: Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-31
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Young Rebels
Overview: From Amir Shervan, the director of SAMURAI COP, comes another great 90's action classic. One man (Johnny Greene) teams up with another (Tadashi Yamashita) to take down the cartel run and its evil leader (Robert Z'Dar).
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-31
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La máscara roja
Overview: Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into action-hero mode to correct them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-10
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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Overview: In the Fabulous Thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of Doc's father disappearing in the wilds of South America. The maniacal Captain Seas tries to thwart them at every turn as they travel to the country of Hidalgo to investigate Doc's father's death and uncover a vast horde of Incan gold.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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Los viciosos
Overview: "The Vicious Ones" - The police investigates a drug trafficking network. Other social issues are discloses. A rare film including the famous Coccinelle.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-09-17
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True Grit
Overview: The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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Hang Your Hat on the Wind
Overview: A handsome thoroughbred yearling accidentally escapes from a cross-country van in the desert, and is found and loved by a young Mexican boy. He hides the horse from searchers, but eventually mends his ways and tries to return the animal. However, two hoodlums steal the horse. The boy leads a sheriff to the rescue, and receives an apt reward.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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Topaz
Overview: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Love in Four Parts
Overview: Anthology film, four episodes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-19
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¡Yo sabia demasiado!
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Genres: Action Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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La vida tiene tres días
Overview: Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-01
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