Chris Alcaide

Alcaide moved to Hollywood in 1942 and worked as a bouncer at the Hollywood Palladium.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=79g1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|title=Classic Movie Fight Scenes: 75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914-1989|page=84|date=September 11, 2017|publisher=McFarland|first=Gene|last=Freese|isbn=9781476629353|via=Google Books}} He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946 during World War II. After the war, he returned to the Hollywood Palladium and joined the Ben Bard Players, in 1948.{{Cite web|url=http://www.westernclippings.com/heavies/chrisalcaide_charactersheavies.html|title=Chris Alcaide - Western Clippings|first=Boyd|last=Magers|website=westernclippings.com|access-date=April 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421000737/http://www.westernclippings.com/heavies/chrisalcaide_charactersheavies.shtml|archive-date=April 21, 2021|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}

In 1958, Alcaide was the original choice of star as the lead role in Black Saddle, but studio executives thought he was too associated with badman roles and chose Peter Breck for the lead role.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltUkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1828|title=Television Western Players, 1960-1975|page=54|date=May 25, 2017|publisher=McFarland|first=Everett|last=Aaker|isbn=9781476662503|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cb1kAAAAMAAJ|title=Prime Time Law|page=204|date=1998|publisher=Carolina Academic Press|first=Robert, Paul|last=Jarvis, Joseph|isbn=0890898081|via=Google Books}} While filming the pilot, Alcaide injured his back in a fall causing permanent damage to his back that bothered him for years.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vZNTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT33|title=The Encyclopedia of Feature Players of Hollywood, Volume 1|date=August 2012|publisher=BearManor Media|first=Tom, Jim|last=Goldrup|page=33|isbn=9781593932930|via=Google Books}}

From 1972 to 1985, Alcaide ran a photography studio named "Peri's Pictures" in Los Angeles, California, with his wife, Peri.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mst3kinfo.com/rolodex/Alcaide.html|title=Chris Alcaide|website=mst3kinfo.com|access-date=April 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040815073609/http://www.mst3kinfo.com/rolodex/Alcaide.html|archive-date=August 15, 2004|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}

For his contributions to film and television, Chris Alcaide has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Alcaide died of cancer on June 30, 2004, at Palm Springs, California, at the age of 80.{{Cite book|title=Resting Places - The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d Ed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|publisher=McFarland|first=Scott|last=Wilson|date=August 19, 2016|page=13|isbn=9781476625997|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8uTzAEACAAJ|page=14|date=2004|publisher=McFarland|first=Harris|last=Lentz|isbn=9780786421039|via=Google Books}}

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• [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/chris_alcaide/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]

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