Duncan Renaldo

Duncan Renaldo (1904-1980) was an actor noted for his most popular role as The Cisco Kid, a character he played in twelve films and in 156 television episodes. Cisco and his sidekick Pancho (played by Leo Carrillo) traveled the West righting wrongs and fighting injustice wherever they found it. The Cisco Kid character was the creation of short story writer O. Henry, who had written stories about The Kid’s adventures 50 years before he was seen on television from 1950 to 1956. In the O. Henry stories, Cisco was a bandito, but he became a hero when he was first seen in several silent films in the 1920s.