Carlos Rivas

Biography

Carlos Rivas was a Native Hispanic/Latino-American actor, best remembered for his roles in The King and I (1956), True Grit (1969), and Topaz (1969). Born Oscar Weber on February 16, 1925, in El Paso, Texas, to a German father and Mexican mother, he was discovered in a bar in Mexico and began his career in Latin-American westerns. He later co-founded the Nosotros Foundation with other Hispanic/Latin American actors.