Pepe Hern was an American actor whose characters, usually Spanish and Latin (Mexican basically), were always secondary.
His real name was José Hernández Bethencourt and he was born June 6, 1927 in New Jersey

New Jersey

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. His parents were Spanish immigrants from Puerto de la Cruz

Puerto de la Cruz

Puerto de la Cruz is a city and municipality located in Spain, on the north coast of Tenerife island, in the Orotava Valley...

 on the island of Tenerife

Tenerife

Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...

, Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...

. He had two older brothers, both born in the Canary Islands, one of which, Tom Hernández

Tom Hernández

Tom Hernández was a Spanish - American actor whose characters were always secondary. He also player the character Don Diego at the annual fair Del Mar Fair in San Diego...

 was also an actor. Pepe Hern participated in nearly 50 films, which generally was heading to television. Many of his characters had little importance in the films in he appeared. However, he also played leading characters in some movies (as in Joe Kidd

Joe Kidd

Joe Kidd is a 1972 American western film starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges....

). He died in February 28, 2009 in 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...

, 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...

.

Filmography

This is a list of film of Pepe Hern

Year	Title	Role
1948	Bodyguard (1948 film) Bodyguard (1948 film) Bodyguard is an American semi-documentary crime film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Fred Niblo Jr.and Harry Essex, based on a story written by George W. George and Robert Altman, who would on to direct MASH and other notable films...	Pachuco
1949	Angels in Disguise Angels in Disguise (film) Angels in Disguise is a 1949 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on September 11, 1949 by Monogram Pictures and is the fifteenth film in the series.-Plot:...
1949	City Across the River	Pete
1949	Knock on Any Door Knock on Any Door Knock on Any Door is an American court-room trial film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart. The picture introduced John Derek to film and was based on the novel of the same name by Willard Motley.-Plot:...	player as Juan Rodríguez (uncredited)
1950	Crisis (1950 film) Crisis (1950 film) Crisis is a 1950 drama film starring Cary Grant, directed by Richard Brooks. The story of an American couple who inadvertently become embroiled in a revolution, it was based on the short story "The Doubters" by George Tabori.-Plot:Dr...
1950	The Capture The Capture (film) The Capture is a 1950 drama film starring Lew Ayres and Teresa Wright. The story deals with an ex-oil worker driven by guilt at causing the death of an innocent man to find out the truth about a robbery.-Synopsis:...	Policeman
1950	The Furies The Furies (film) The Furies is a Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, and, in his last performance, Walter Huston.In 2008, the film was released on DVD in the U.S. by the Criterion Collection.-Plot:T.C...	Feliz Herrera (uncredited)
1950	Borderline (1950 film) Borderline (1950 film) Borderline is a 1950 American film directed by William A. Seiter.-Plot:Pete Ritchie runs a narcotics smuggling operation to the USA from Mexico, which the Los Angeles Police Department and the US federal government have unsuccessfully tried to stop...	Pablo
1950	The Bandit Queen (1950 film) The Bandit Queen (1950 film) The Bandit Queen is a 1950 American Western film directed by William Berke. The movie featured Barbara Britton and Phillip Reed as the leaders of a Robin Hood type band. The Bandit Queen was produced by Lippert Pictures Inc. and shot in the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park as well as the San...
1951	My Favorite Spy My Favorite Spy My Favorite Spy is a 1951 comedy film starring Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr. The movie was directed by Norman Z. McLeod.-Cast:*Bob Hope as Peanuts White/Eric Augustine*Hedy Lamarr as Lily Dalbray*Francis L...
1951	Heart of the Rockies
1952	The Ring (1952 film) The Ring (1952 film) The Ring was a film directed by Kurt Neumann and is based on a novel by Irving Shulman. It tells the story of a Mexican American who becomes a boxer to gain reputation in the U.S. and be respected by the white majority anglophone. The film is shot in various locations in Los Angeles...	Rick
1952	Thunderbirds (1952 film)	Pvt. Jim Lastchance
1953	The Wild One The Wild One The Wild One is a 1953 outlaw biker film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is famed for Marlon Brando's iconic portrayal of the gang leader Johnny Strabler.-Basis:...
1953	San Antone (1953 film)	Mexican
1953	Appointment in Honduras Appointment in Honduras Appointment in Honduras is a comedy adventure film, starring Glenn Ford and directed by Jacques Tourneur- Plot :This story originates from a Central American country. Ms. Sylvia Sheppard and a handsome gentleman Jim Corbett is in the jungle and facing dangerous lizards, tigers and other animals...	Stranger
1954	The Bamboo Prison	Ramírez
1954	Make Haste to Live Make Haste to Live Make Haste to Live is an American suspense film released by Republic Pictures.- Plot :'Chris' Crystal Benson is a single mother living in a small town in New Mexico. One night she feels a man is stalking. She grabs a gun and makes a series of arrangements anticipating his own death...	Rodolfo Gonzales
1954	Jubilee Trail
1955	Hell's Island Hell's Island Hell's Island is an American color film noir starring John Payne and dircted by Phil Karlson. The film was the last teaming of actor Payne and film director Karlson. The film was shot in the VistaVision wide-screen format...	Lalo
1955	The Last Command (1955 film) The Last Command (1955 film) The Last Command is a 1955 Trucolor film about Jim Bowie and the fall of the Alamo during the Texas War of Independence. Filmed by Republic Pictures, it was an unusually expensive undertaking for the low-budget studio.-Production:...	Seguin's Son
1956	Santiago	Dragoon
1956	Jaguar	Jorge
1956	Back from Eternity Back from Eternity Back from Eternity is a 1956 drama film about a planeload of people stranded in the South American jungle and subsequently menaced by headhunters. It is a remake of an earlier 1939 film, Five Came Back, starred Chester Morris and Lucille Ball, also directed and produced by John Farrow...	Attendant
1957	The Brothers Rico The Brothers Rico The Brothers Rico is an American crime film noir directed by Phil Karlson and written by Lewis Meltzer, Ben Perry, and Dalton Trumbo. The film is based on a story written by Georges Simenon, a French detective-story specialist...	Bank officer / Henchman
1960	The Magnificent Seven The Magnificent Seven The Magnificent Seven is an American Western film directed by John Sturges, and released in 1960. It is a fictional tale of a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from a group of marauding Mexican bandits...	Sotero
1961	Summer and Smoke Summer and Smoke (film) Summer and Smoke is a 1961 film directed by Peter Glenville based on the Tennessee Williams play of the same name.The film starred Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page with Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Lee Patrick and Earl Holliman...	Nico (uncredited)
1962	The Bride Who Died Twice
1962	13 West Street	Mexican
1967	Stranger on the Run
1968	Madigan Madigan Madigan is a 1968 American thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda.The screenplay, originally titled Friday, Saturday, Sunday, was adapted by two writers who had been blacklisted in the 1950s, Abraham Polonsky and Howard Rodman , based on a novel titled The...
1969	Change of Habit Change of Habit Change of Habit is a 1969 musical drama film starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore. It was Presley's 31st and final film acting role; his remaining two film appearances were concert documentaries. It was also Moore's fourth and final film under her brief Universal Pictures contract; she...
1972	Joe Kidd Joe Kidd Joe Kidd is a 1972 American western film starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges.... ”	Priest
1977	Fight for your life Fight For Your Life Fight for Your Life is a 1977 action film starring William Sanderson .-Synopsis:Sanderson plays Kane, a hate-fuelled redneck who absconds from jail with his sidekicks... ”	Navarro

TV

This is a list of television series in which he has appeared.

Year	Title	Role	episodes
1952	Fireside Theatre	Manuel Soledad	The Birds Are Walking
1952	Hopalong Cassidy Hopalong Cassidy Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of popular short stories and twenty-eight novels based on the character....	Actor	A Star Shall Rise
1955	Family Theater Family Theater Family Theater was a dramatic anthology radio show which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States from February 13, 1947 to September 11, 1957.-Production background:...	Angelo	The Waiting Game
1955	Jungle Jim Jungle Jim (TV series) Jungle Jim is a 26-episode syndicated adventure television series which aired from 1955-1956, starring Johnny Weismuller, as Jim "Jungle Jim" Bradley, a hunter, guide, and explorer in, primarily, Africa. The program should not be confused with Ramar of the Jungle, but is based on the Jungle Jim...	Niron Kan	Junge Justice
1955	Cheyenne Cheyenne (TV series) Cheyenne is a western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season...	Ricardo	Fury and Rio Hondo
1955	The Man Behind the Badge The Man Behind the Badge The Man Behind the Badge is the title of a half-hour American television police drama series which aired on the CBS from 1953-1955 starring and hosted by character actor Charles Bickford. Years later, Bickford appeared as one of the owners of Shiloh Ranch in the NBC western series, The Vrginian.In...	Pedro	The Case of the Priceless Passport
1956	Chevron Hall of Stars	Pepe	Hour of Truth
1959	Four Star Playhouse Four Star Playhouse Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953...	Diego	Desert Encounter
1957	Zorro (1957 TV series)		chapters in 1957
1957	Conflict Conflict (TV series) Conflict is a 1956 ABC series that directly succeeded Warner Brothers Presents. It is most famous for having hosted the effective pilots of 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick....		Passage to Maranga
2001	Broken Arrow Broken Arrow (TV series) Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were shown by ABC on Sunday afternoons during the 1959–60 season...	Tokumo (1956) and Ruklai (1958)	Passage Deferred (1956) and Escape (1958)
1959	Border Patrol Border Patrol (US TV series) Border Patrol is a 34-episode syndicated half-hour adventure/drama television series which aired in the United States during calendar year 1959, with Richard Webb cast as Don Jagger, the fictitious deputy chief of the Border Patrol...	Algusto Herrera	Everglades Story
1959	The Restless Gun The Restless Gun The Restless Gun is a western television series that appeared on NBC between 1957 and 1959, with John Payne in the role of Vint Bonner, a wandering cowboy in the era after the American Civil War. A skilled gunfighter, Bonner is an idealistic person who prefers peaceful resolutions of conflict...	Costa	>-	1959	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and some episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, that also inspired the 1953 film The Affairs of Dobie Gillis with Debbie...	Hernández	The General Cried at Dawn
1959	Rawhide Rawhide (TV series) Rawhide is an American Western series that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes...	Frank Volaro	Incident at Spanish Rock
1960	Thriller Thriller (US TV series) Thriller is an anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of macabre horror tales and suspense thrillers....	Lt. Contreras	The Bridge who died Twice
1960	Surfside 6 Surfside 6 Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered around a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield, II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison ; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne...	Carlos	The Clown
1960	The Chevy mystery show	Mercado	>-	1961 - 62	The Rifleman The Rifleman The Rifleman is an American Western television program that starred Chuck Connors as homesteader Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show, filmed in black-and-white with a half hour running time, ran...		(chapters of 1961 and 1962)
1963	The Fugitive The Fugitive (TV series) The Fugitive is an American drama series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death...	Cardinez	Smoke Screen (chapter in 1963)
1963	Gunsmoke Gunsmoke Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....	Miguel	Extradition (2) (chapters in 1963)
1964 - 70	Bonanza Bonanza Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...	Maximo (1964) and Rojas (1970)	The Companeros and The Chief (chapters of 1964 and 1970 years)
1965	Run for your Life Run for Your Life (TV series) Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.-Synopsis:Gazzara plays lawyer...	Desk Clerk	The sex object (1965)
1965 - 66	The Big Valley The Big Valley The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969, which starred Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman...	Carlos, Pedro and Vaquero	Legend of a general (1), The Death merchant, the way to kill a killer (chapters of 1965 and 1966 year) respectively
1965	I Spy (1965 TV series)	Bellboy	Bellboy Turkish Delight
1966	Family Affair Family Affair Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis' traditional...		>-	1967	The High Chaparral The High Chaparral The High Chaparral is a Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The show was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network...	Teofilo	Mark of the turtle
1968	The Mod Squad The Mod Squad The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...	Amoroso	The Haeler
1970	The Flying Nun The Flying Nun The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the 1965 book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios, which starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille...	Roul	My Sister, the Doctor
1971	O'Hara, U.S. Treasury O'Hara, U.S. Treasury O'Hara, U.S. Treasury is an American television crime drama broadcast by CBS during the 1971-72 television season. Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited packaged the program for Universal Television. Webb and longtime colleague James E. Moser created the show; Leonard B. Kaufman was the...	Santiago Bustamante	Operation: Payoff (1971)
1972	The Streets of San Francisco The Streets of San Francisco The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...		Hall of Mirrors
1973	Marcus Welby, M.D. Marcus Welby, M.D. Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell...	Maitre D'	A Cry in the Night
1974	Adam-12 Adam-12 Adam-12 was a television police drama which followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12. Created by Jack Webb who is known for creating Dragnet, the series captured a...	Jesse Rodríguez	>-	1967	The Bionic Woman The Bionic Woman The Bionic Woman is an American television series starring Lindsay Wagner that aired for three seasons between 1976 and 1978 as a spin off from The Six Million Dollar Man. Wagner stars as tennis pro Jaime Sommers who is nearly killed in a skydiving accident. Sommers' life is saved by Oscar Goldman ...	Antonio Pinedo	Brain wash
1977	Lou Grant Lou Grant (TV series) Lou Grant is an American television drama series starring Ed Asner in the titular role as a newspaper editor. Unusual in American television, this drama series was a spinoff from a sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Aired from 1977 to 1982, Lou Grant won 13 Emmy Awards, including "Outstanding Drama...	Navarro	Hostages
1979	Charlie's Angels Charlie's Angels Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men...	Gomes	Cruising Angels (chapter in 1979)
1980	Quincy, M.E. Quincy, M.E. Quincy, M.E., also called Quincy, is a United States television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC...	Judge Jules Aquilar	The Hope of Elkwood
1981	Simon & Simon Simon & Simon Simon & Simon is an American detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker.-History:The original 1978 pilot called Pirate's Key was set in Florida...	Mendoza	The Least Dangerous Game (chapter in 1981)
1980	The White Shadow The White Shadow The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27, 1978, to March 16, 1981.-Overview:...	Garcia	The Hitter
1980	Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,...	Antonio	Paint Me a Murder (1984)
1984	Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations ...		Intestinal fortitude

External links

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