Richard Davalos (November 5, 1930 – March 8, 2016) was an American stage, film, and television actor.
Early life
Davalos was born in New York City[1] of Spanish and Finnish descent.[2] At age six, he acted in a school performance of Cinderella, in which he played both the talking mirror and the prince.[1]
In a 1960 episode of the drama Bonanza, Davalos played a young man planning to kill his father, a sheriff who had sent him to prison. In the American Civil War television series, The Americans, broadcast by NBC in 1961, he played Jeff, the younger brother who joined the Confederate Army, in opposition to Ben, the older brother, played by Darryl Hickman, who joined the Union Army. In 1962, Davalos appeared on Perry Mason as James Anderson in "The Case of the Hateful Hero". In 1964, he appeared in "The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands". He guest-starred in an episode of the espionage drama series Blue Light in 1966.
