Highest rated movie: Scarface (1983)
Lowest rated movie: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
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Looking for reviews of Manuel Padilla Jr. movies? Cinafilm has a total of 1,710 reviews across 7 movies.
Movies starring Manuel Padilla Jr. have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 58%.
Scarface - released in 1983 - is Manuel Padilla Jr.'s highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 788 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Manuel Padilla Jr. is Tarzan and the Valley of Gold - released in 1966 - with a score of 40% based on 3 reviews.
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.
Manuel Padilla Jr. has acted in films with Harrison Ford, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams and Charles Martin Smith.
Manuel Padilla Jr. has worked with these film directors: Robert Day, George Lucas, Brian De Palma and Martin Ritt.
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