Sergio Calderón, finest identified to film audiences for his roles within the 1997 sci-fi comedy “Males In Black” died Wednesday at 77 on account of pure causes, reports said.
Ten years later, he appeared in “Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s Finish,” taking part in the pirate lord Eduardo Villanueva.
The motion movie was the highest-grossing film of 2007.
Calderón, who labored as an English trainer, first appeared within the 1971 movie “The Bridge within the Jungle” starring John Huston.
He earned his Display Actors Guild card for showing within the 1979 comedy traditional “The In-Legal guidelines” starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.
Calderón additionally appeared within the Huston’s “Beneath the Volcano,” a 1984 drama starring Albert Finney.
Round that point, he performed a number of characters within the NBC hit sequence “The A-Workforce.”
In “Males in Black,” Tommy Lee Jones’ ‘Agent Okay’ stops a bunch making an attempt to cross the border and asks Calderon’s character, a head on a stick, “What if I break your face,” “You’re very ugly, no?” earlier than including, “You don’t converse a phrase of Spanish,” and utilizing a knife to reveal him as an alien.
In 2022, Calderón performed a corrupt cop within the thriller sequence “The Resort.”
“I like to play these sorts of characters, as a result of folks actually hate me,” he told the LA Times final week. “They inform me within the streets how a lot they hate me. However to me, that’s my success. As a result of meaning I used to be capable of persuade folks with what I carried out.”
Calderón additionally stated that he loved it when folks acknowledged him.
“If I could make them cry and I could make them chortle, then perhaps I’m a very good actor,” he stated.
He’s survived by his spouse, Karen Dakin, youngsters Patrick Calderón-Dakin and Johanna Calderón-Dakin, son-in-law Raaj, and grandchildren Krishnaavi, Emiliano and Victoria.
