Manuel Padilla Jr.

In the 1960s, Padilla was a popular child actor, usually playing the Mexican or Indian boy in TV westerns such as Rawhide, Bonanza and Gunsmoke. He was a regular in the 1960s TV series Tarzan, with actor Ron Ely, in dozens of episodes as native boy 'Jai', and as also a semi-regular in the TV series, The Flying Nun, with actress Sally Field. In featured films, as an adult, Padilla made appearances in the films, The Great White Hope, American Graffiti, A Man Called Horse, and Scarface, among others.Padilla died unexpectedly at age 52, just after making a public appearance at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, California, in January 2008.