Small-part supporting actor who made a niche for himself playing Indians and Mexicans and natives in 1930s and '40s second-feature westerns and serials.
Although his 1896 birth certificate in Ventura, CA, lists the names of his parents as Joaquin and Ellen Botiller, the 1910 census--when he was 14--listed him as living in an orphanage in Watsonville, CA.
