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'''Lalo Ríos''' (7 February 1927 - 7 March 1973) was a Mexican actor who worked often in American movies.<ref>William Anthony Nericcio ''Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America'' 2007 "But "Mike" is not done; Heston as Vargas grabs Risto, played with surly acerbic detachment by the late Lalo Ríos (b. 1927, Sonora, Mexico; d. 1973, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.), and demands to know where Susy (drugged and kidnapped by the ...</ref>
He was born the 7 February 1927, in San Miguelito ([[Sonora]], [[Mexico]]), but moved as a child, along with his parents and two brothers, to [[East Los Angeles, California]], in 1936, when he had 9 years old. He graduated from [[Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles)|Abraham Lincoln High School]].<ref>Frank Javier Garcia Berumen ''Brown Celluloid: Latino/A Film Icons and Images in the Hollywood '' Volume 1 - 2003 -Page 355 "Lalo Ríos - Lalo Ríos was one of the most promising actors of the premature Chicano cinema of the 1950s. He was born in San Miguelito, Mexico, on February 7, 1927, in Sonora, Mexico. He moved with his parents and two brothers..."</ref><ref>Clara Rodriguez - Heros, Lovers and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood 2008 -p142 "Ricardo Montalban, Anthony Quinn, Rafael Campos (born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City), and Lalo Rios (born in Mexico and raised in East Los Angeles) all took roles in a number of films that focused on life in the barrio and the place of Latinos in American society."</ref> He was working as a carpenter when given his first role by [[Joseph Losey]] in the 1950 [[Paramount films|Paramount film]] ''[[The Lawless]]'', cast as the young Mexican who faces a racist lynch mob in a small North California town.
Ríos died in Los Angeles in 7 March 1973.
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