Trivia: Lead actor, onscreen from the '60s.

Trivia: Leading man and character actor Donald Buka had a long career in television, interspersed with the occasional notable feature film, and work on Broadway bridged both ends. Born in Cleveland, OH, in 1920, he made his Broadway debut in a 1940 production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which was directed by Margaret Webster and ran for four months. He appeared in such fare as the operatic musical Helen Goes To Troy (with a score adapted from Offenbach, and choreography by Leonide Massine), and made his big-screen debut in between these theater engagements, in Herman Shumlin's movie version of Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine (1943), starring Bette Davis and Paul Lukas. By the middle of the decade, both early television and films beckoned. Buka appeared in several early small-screen productions, as well as William Keighley's film noir The Street With No Name (1948). He then continued to squeeze in performances in feature films, including Gordon Douglas's Between Midnight and Dawn and Howard Hughes' notorious Vendetta (both 1950), between numerous appearances on anthology television series during the end of the 1940s and the early-to-mid-1950s. Buka also went to Vienna to star in Gunther Von Fritsch's drama Stolen Identity (1953), as a hapless, desperate cab driver caught in a web of deception. But after that film, he worked almost exclusively in television for the next decade, in everything from 77 Sunset Strip to Gomer Pyle, USMC. His last two feature film appearances came a decade apart, in Operation Eichmann (1961) and a small role in The Great White Hope (1970). Buka became a regular on All My Children in the 1980s, in between several stints on Broadway from the 1960s through the mid-1980s. Near the end of his life, Buka appeared at New York's Film Forum in connection with showings of Between Midnight and Dawn. He passed away in 2009.

Trivia: Not wishing to be typecast in Latino roles, actor Henry Thomas Delgado changed his professional name to Henry Darrow -- only to spend his first dozen or so years in show business playing Hispanics. Darrow gained nationwide attention when briefly cast as a Mexican lawyer on the ABC daytime drama General Hospital; he had previously been active in Spanish-language soap operas, and as a Hollywood voice-over artist, dubbing Hispanic films into English. While appearing in an L.A.-based stage play in early 1967, Darrow was spotted by TV producer David Dortort, who was then in the process of casting the upcoming Western series The High Chaparral. Dortort created the character of aristocrat-turned-ranchhand Manolito Montoya with Darrow specifically in mind; the actor remained in this role until High Chapparal completed its four-season run in 1971. Darrow was then seen in a handful of films (Badge 373, Maverick, etc.) and a whole slew of weekly TV programs, including The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1973-1974 season, as stage manager Alex Montenez) and Time Trax (1993). He also returned to the daily-serial grind as Rafael Castillo on Santa Barbara (1984-1992). In 1983, Henry Darrow was starred on the spoofish series Zorro and Son as Zorro Sr. (aka Don Diego de la Vega), a character he'd previously played via voice-over on the Saturday morning cartoon weekly The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour (1981); and in 1989, he was seen as the title character's father on the Family Channel cable series Zorro.

Trivia: Born William Anderson, this brawny, blond second lead had the looks of a Viking god. He worked as a band vocalist and trombone player, then gained a small amount of stage experience before debuting onscreen in a bit part (as a corpse) in Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935). Billed by Paramount as Glenn Erickson, he began his screen career as a leading man in Westerns. Because of his Nordic looks he was renamed Leif Erikson, which he later changed to Erickson. He played intelligent but unexciting second leads and supporting parts in many films. Erickson took four years off to serve in World War II and was twice wounded. He made few films after 1965 and retired from the screen after 1977. Also working on Broadway and in TV plays, he played the patriarch Big John Cannon in the TV series High Chaparral (1967-1971). From 1934 to 1942, he was married to actress Frances Farmer, with whom he co-starred in Ride a Crooked Mile (1938); later, he was briefly married to actress Margaret Hayes (aka Dana Dale).

Trivia: Argentinian actress Linda Cristal made her first American film in 1956. Typecast by virtue of her accent and her exotic Latino features, Linda could usually be found in westerns, notably Comanche (1956), The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958), The Alamo (1960) and Two Rode Together (1961). She also showed up in such European sword-and-sandal affairs as The Pharoah's Woman (1961). In 1959, Linda was given a rare opportunity to display her comic know-how as a temperamental Hollywood starlet in the Tony Curtis/Janet Leigh vehicle The Perfect Furlough. From 1967 through 1971, Linda Cristal played Victoria Cannon on the TV western The High Chaparral.