Albert Carrier

Albert Carrier was a Canadian-American actor whose screen career took in film and television. He entered acting in Mexico under the name Alberto Carrière during that country's Golden Age of cinema, and in 1951 he played Fernando Sandoval in Julio Bracho's History of a Heart. After moving to Los Angeles and gaining United States citizenship in 1955, he worked steadily in American movies, with an early starring role in Desert Hell. Among his film appearances were Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) and A New Kind of Love (1963). Sam Peckinpah cast him as the villainous Captain Jacques Tremaine in Major Dundee (1965). He also acted in Do Not Disturb (1965) and Fitzwilly (1967). He became best known as Pedro Quinn, a sugar mogul, in Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983). His television guest appearances included The Twilight Zone and The Rockford Files. He retired from acting in 1984.