Leo Carrillo
Overview
Actor
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, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist
Conservationist
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.
Although he played stereotypical Latino
Latino
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s, Leo Carrillo was part of an old and respected California
California
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family. His great-great grandfather, José Raimundo Carrillo
José Raimundo Carrillo
Captain José Raimundo Carrillo was an early Spanish settler of San Diego, California and founder of the Carrillo family in Spanish California.-Biography:Carrillo was born in 1749 in New Spain at Loreto, Baja California...
(1749–1809), was an early Criollo settler of San Diego, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. His great-grandfather Carlos Antonio Carrillo
Carlos Antonio Carrillo
Carlos Antonio Carrillo , Governor of Alta California from 1837 to 1838. He took his oath as governon in Pueblo de Los Angeles, present day Los Angeles, on December 6, 1836. aCarlos Antonio Carrillo was the son of a prominent California family...
(1783–1852) was Governor of Alta California from 1837 to 1838, his great-uncle, José Antonio Carrillo
José Antonio Carrillo
Captain José Antonio Ezequiel Carrillo was a Californio rancher, officer, and politician in the early years of Mexican Alta California and U.S...
, was a Californio
Californio
Californio is a term used to identify a Spanish-speaking Catholic people, regardless of race, born in California before 1848...
defender and three-time mayor of Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, and his paternal grandfather, Pedro Carrillo, who was educated in Boston
Boston
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, was a writer.
The family moved from San Diego to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
then to Santa Monica
Santa Mônica
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, where Carrillo's father Juan José Carrillo
Juan José Carrillo
Juan José Carrillo was member of one of the early Spanish families, and a prominent figure in early Southern California history.-Biography:...
(1842–1916), served as the city's police chief and later the first mayor.
