Danny Bravo

Danny Bravo
Born	Daniel Zaldivar (1948-01-29) January 29, 1948 (age 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1959–1969

Danny Bravo (born January 29, 1948) is an American former child actor, best known as the voice of Hadji in the TV series Jonny Quest . ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Early life

He was born Daniel Zaldivar in Los Angeles, California. ^[6] His surname Zaldivar is of Basque origin. ^[7]

Career

After a handful of minor film appearances, he played the title role of an Indian boy training a race horse, to win money to build a shrine for his village, in the 1960 film For the Love of Mike (credited as "Danny Zaidivar"). The same year he had a minor role in the classic Western film The Magnificent Seven . In 1962 he played the title character "Ramon", a Latino boy featured prominently in an episode of 87th Precinct . He provided the voice of the character Hadji, the Calcutta-raised foster brother of the title character in the well-remembered animated television series Jonny Quest (1964–1965). He continued acting and doing voice work for a few years after its cancellation.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1959	Holiday for Lovers	Young Boy	Uncredited
1960	For the Love of Mike	Michael Littlebear	Credited as Danny Zaldivar
1960	The Magnificent Seven	Boy with O'Reilly
1966	For Pete's Sake!

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1959	General Electric Theater	Chico	Episode: "Beyond the Mountains"; credited as Danny Zaidivar
1960–1961	One Step Beyond	Jorge / Juanito	2 episodes; credited as Danny Zaldivar
1961	Adventures in Paradise	Pea	Episode: "The Fires of Kanua"
1962	87th Precinct	Ramon Morales	Episode: "Ramon"
1962	The Lloyd Bridges Show	Tasso	Episode: "Wheresoever I Enter..."
1963	Wagon Train	Felipe Perez	Episode: "The Adam MacKenzie Story"
1963	The Richard Boone Show		Episode: "Captain Al Sanchez"
1963	The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters	Kiwa	Episode: "The Day of the Pawnees: Part 1"
1964	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Juan	Episode: "A Truce to Terror"
1964–1965	Jonny Quest	Hadji (voice)	25 episodes
1966–1967	Run for Your Life	Lorenzo Romero / Paco	2 episodes
1968	Off to See the Wizard	Kim	2 episodes
1969	The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Prince / Chaboonu (voice)	2 episodes; uncredited, final role

References

1. Fischer, Stuart (2014-06-10). Kids' TV: The First Twenty-Five Years. Open Road Media. ISBN   978-1-4976-3390-2.
2. Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009-06-24). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN   978-0-307-48320-1.
3. Weatherly, Reese (2020-01-08). "Adapting Jonny Quest's Race Problem". Medium. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
4. Eury, Michael (2019-12-04). RetroFan #7. TwoMorrows Publishing.
5. Paulsen, Rob (2019-10-08). Voice Lessons: How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   978-1-63228-122-7.
6. "Danny Bravo". www.listal.com.
7. "Zaldivar Name Meaning & Zaldivar Family History at Ancestry.com®". www.ancestry.com.

External links

• Danny Bravo at IMDb