Mario Alcalde

{{short description|American film and television actor}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Mario Alcalde

|image = Mario Alcalde in Man with a Camera (Blind Spot).jpg

|caption = Alcalde in Man with a Camera, 1958

|birth_date = {{birth date|1926|09|06}}

|birth_place = Key West, Florida, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1971|04|22|1926|09|06}}

|death_place = Glendale, California, U.S.

|occupation = Film and television actor

|spouse = Nancy Alcalde

|children = 3

}}

Mario Alcalde (September 6, 1926{{Citation|title=John Willis' Theatre World: Volume 21|page=239|date=1965|publisher=Crown Publishers}} – April 22, 1971) was an American film and television actor.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/421258782/|title=How sweet it really is|work=The Gazette|location=Montreal, Quebec, Canada|date=January 14, 1967|access-date=July 24, 2022|page=46|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}

Alcalde was born in Key West, Florida, the son of Armando Alcalde.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106006612/mario-alcalde/|title=Mario Alcalde|work=Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles, California|date=April 24, 1971|access-date=July 24, 2022|page=32|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} Alcalde attended the American Theatre Wing. He began his screen career in 1954, appearing in the television drama series Robert Montgomery Presents. Alcalde then made an appearance in the 1956 film Crowded Paradise, which starred Hume Cronyn and Nancy Kelly.{{Citation|title=Films in Review: Volume 34|page=462|date=1983|publisher=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures}} He played as Juan Figueroa. In the early 1950s he had also acted on stage, appearing in an Off-Broadway production of the play Bullfight.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/453294383/|title=Pair Set for 'Carousel'; A New Post for Whorf|first=Douglas|last=Watt|work=Daily News|location=New York, New York|date=April 23, 1954|access-date=July 24, 2022|page=515|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}

Alcalde later guest-starred in television programs including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 77 Sunset Strip, Dr. Kildare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Man with a Camera, The Virginian and The Wild Wild West.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gq-uf3wB-TcC&pg=PA246|title=Irwin Allen Television Productions, 1964-1970: A Critical History of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants|page=32|first=Jon|last=Abbott|date=June 14, 2015|publisher=McFarland|ISBN=9780786486625|via=Google Books}} He played the recurring role of Yellow Hawk in the western television series The Texan. Alcalde also played therapist Chuck Atwell in the television soap opera Peyton Place.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/693950103/|title=Peyton Place|work=The Wichita Beacon|location=Wichita, Kansas|date=September 16, 1968|access-date=July 24, 2022|page=4|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} He appeared in "Have Gun Will Travel" S2 E19 as Carlos in "The Monster", first airing on 1/14/1960.

Alcalde appeared in films including All the Young Men (1960), Dead Ringer (1964), and Hail, Hero! (1969).{{Citation|title=Films in Review: Volume 25|page=144|date=1974|publisher=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures}} His final credit was from the 1971 film Clay Pigeon.{{Citation|title=John Willis' Theatre World: Volume 21|page=101|date=1972|publisher=Crown Publishers|first=John|last=Willis|work=University of California}} He had two screenwriting credits, for the medical drama television series The Nurses and the crime drama television series The Fugitive.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-fugitive--the-savage-street-v451584/|title=The Fugitive: The Savage Street (1967)|work=AllMovie|access-date=July 24, 2022}}

Alcalde died in April 1971 in Glendale, California, at the age of 44. According to the Ancient Faces web site, he died from complications of a ruptured appendix, and is buried at the Grand View Cemetery in Glendale, CA.