Victor Millan

Victor Millan was an American actor and theater educator. A native of East Los Angeles born to Mexican parents, he first took an interest in acting in junior high school, served in the Army Air Corps in World War II, and later earned bachelor's and master's degrees in theater arts from UCLA. Adopting the stage name Victor Millan, he built more than eighty television and film credits. Early screen work included The Ring (1952), Walk the Proud Land, Touch of Evil (1958), and The FBI Story (1959). On television he played schoolteacher Rafael Guerra in a 1960 episode of Wanted, Dead or Alive and appeared as Lazaro on The Big Valley in 1968. Later films included Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) and Scarface (1983). He spent his academic career teaching theater arts at Santa Monica College, serving more than twenty-five years as dean of the theater arts department. He died in 2009.