Guy Williams
Birthday: January 14, 1924 in New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: Armando Joseph Catalano
Height: 188 cm
An exceptionally handsome and charismatic performer with a serene baritone voice, Guy Williams was born Armand Joseph Catalano (nicknamed "Armando" by his family) of Italian parentage in New ...Show More
[on playing Don Diego de la Vega in Zorro (1957)] [Tyrone] Power played Don Diego as a sissy, a real Show more
[on playing Don Diego de la Vega in Zorro (1957)] [Tyrone] Power played Don Diego as a sissy, a real gay caballero. It was OK for him to do that once in a movie, but I knew that it wouldn't work every week on TV. It would get tiresome, not to mention this was the '50s and a show with an audience including kids. So, I had to play Don Diego 'neutral,' which was difficult because it means nothing. How do I make 'nothing' interesting? Don Diego became acceptable, not peculiar, an OK guy. Hide
[on Zorro (1957)] Zorro was set in California, we didn't call it a Western, but a South-Western. We Show more
[on Zorro (1957)] Zorro was set in California, we didn't call it a Western, but a South-Western. We called the actors 'stuntmen' because the scripts were being changed at the last minute, and to learn new dialogue and film it immediately was the real stunt. The work on Zorro was interesting. Nobody was doing any better fencing than we were, and working with the production people was fun. I could have kept doing it on and on. Hide
Guy Williams's FILMOGRAPHY
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