Natividad Vacío

Natividad Vacío was an American character actor and musician. Born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Pasadena, California, he studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse and later served in the US Army during World War II. He began screen work in 1950 on The Lone Ranger, then built a career largely in television while taking occasional film parts, especially in Westerns. He held a key role in Ida Lupino's film noir The Hitch-Hiker (1953). On television he played Frank Smith, the family gardener, across several episodes of Father Knows Best, and in 1958 he portrayed a Mexican police inspector on Adventures of Superman. His most prominent movie part was Miguel, a Mexican villager, in The Magnificent Seven (1960). He also appeared in Robert Redford's The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) as Onofre, a one-armed man.