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Leo Carrillo (Spanish pronunciation:[Cay-reel-yo]^[a]) (1881–1961) was an American cartoonist, a comedian in vaudeville, and an actor on stage, film and television.

He was best known in the United States as the Cisco Kid's sidekick Pancho on 1950s children's television, a role which capped a long show business career that began decades earlier.^[2]

Growing up in culturally diverse Los Angeles, Carrillo was conversant in five languages with a keen ear for dialects.^[3] When he went to work for the San Francisco Examiner as a cartoonist,^[4] he began performing humorous monologues on the San Francisco stage, easily transforming himself into a variety of personas.

Soon he began working in vaudeville with Major Bowes,^[5] and toured the Orpheum Circuit with Walter C. Kelly.^[6] Theatrical producer Oliver Morosco offered him a role in the original Broadway play Upstairs an