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Richard Davalos

Richard Davalos

Birthday: 1930-11-05 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Davalos (born November 5, 1935) was an American actor. Davalos starred in East of Eden (1955) as James Dean's brother and portrayed the convict Blind Dick in Cool Hand Luke (1967). He won the Theatre World Award for his performance in the Arthur Miller play A Memory of Two Mondays in 1955. In the Civil War television series The Americans, broadcast by NBC in 1961, he played Jeff, the younger brother who joined Confederate Army, in opposition to Ben, the older brother (played by Darryl Hickman), who joined the Union Army. Davalos was the father of actress Elyssa Davalos and musician Dominique Davalos and grandfather of actress Alexa Davalos (The Chronicles of Riddick). An image of Davalos appears on the covers of The Smiths' albums Strangeways, Here We Come, Best...I, and ...Best II. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Davalos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2005
East of Eden

as    Aron Trask

1983
Something Wicked This Way Comes

as    Mr. Crosetti

1973
Snatched

as    Whit

1971
Blood Legacy

as    Johnny Dean

1970
Kelly's Heroes

as    Pvt. Gutowski

1969
Pit Stop

as    Rick Bowman

1962
The Cabinet of Caligari

as    Mark Lindstrom

1961
The Americans

as    Cpl. Jeff Canfield

1960
All the Young Men

as    Pvt. Casey

1955
I Died a Thousand Times

as    Lon Preisser