Sergio Calderón, best known to movie audiences for his roles within the 1997 sci-fi comedy “Men In Black” died Wednesday at 77 as a consequence of natural causes, reports said.
Ten years later, he appeared in “Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End,” playing the pirate lord Eduardo Villanueva.
The motion film was the highest-grossing movie of 2007.
Calderón, who worked as an English teacher, first appeared within the 1971 film “The Bridge within the Jungle” starring John Huston.
He earned his Screen Actors Guild card for appearing within the 1979 comedy classic “The In-Laws” starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.
Calderón also appeared within the Huston’s “Under the Volcano,” a 1984 drama starring Albert Finney.
Around that point, he played several characters within the NBC hit series “The A-Team.”
In “Men in Black,” Tommy Lee Jones’ ‘Agent K’ stops a gaggle attempting to cross the border and asks Calderon’s character, a head on a stick, “What if I break your face,” “You’re very ugly, no?” before adding, “You don’t speak a word of Spanish,” and using a knife to reveal him as an alien.
In 2022, Calderón played a corrupt cop within the mystery series “The Resort.”
“I like to play those varieties of characters, because people really hate me,” he told the LA Times last week. “They tell me within the streets how much they hate me. But to me, that’s my success. Because meaning I used to be in a position to persuade individuals with what I performed.”
Calderón also said that he enjoyed it when people recognized him.
“If I could make them cry and I could make them laugh, then perhaps I’m actor,” he said.
He’s survived by his wife, Karen Dakin, children Patrick Calderón-Dakin and Johanna Calderón-Dakin, son-in-law Raaj, and grandchildren Krishnaavi, Emiliano and Victoria.