Ned Romero (born 1925) is an American actor and opera singer who has appeared in television and film.Romero was born in Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish in South Louisiana, the son of Anna and Sidney Romero. His ancestry is Chitimacha Native American, as well as Spanish and French. He began his career in 1943 as an opera singer, appearing in productions with the San Francisco Opera and in Los Angeles. He also appeared in musicals, such as Kiss Me, Kate, Kismet and Oklahoma!.After twenty years on the stage, he moved into television and film. His first television appearance was an opera skit on CBS's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis with Dwayne Hickman, in which he performed a medley of famous opera arias. He has since appeared in dozens of films and television programs. His credits include appearances in Walker: Texas Ranger, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Custer, Police Woman, Land of the Lost, Kung Fu, The Six Million Dollar Man, Ironside, Death Valley Days, The Incredible Hulk, Adam-12, and Emergency!, and in an unaired episode of the short-lived series The New Land.In 1990 he starred in the soap opera Santa Barbara as Shamar, an Indian who gave Cruz the talisman.He also starred in a television drama of the life of Chief Joseph entitled: I Will Fight No More Forever and was nominated for an Emmy award as Best Actor. In 2006, he appeared in the feature film Expiration Date.
He was awarded the 1995 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Black Elk Speaks," in a Denver Center Theatre Company production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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Back in the era of "park & bark" opera singers, the young Ned Romero was a fine actor and powerful baritone on the operatic stage, notably as a blood-chilling, villainous "Baron Scarpia" in Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca".
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He has Spanish, French and Chitimacha Indian roots.
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He started as an Opera singer.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Munsters
1966
TV Series
Wonga
Get Smart
1965
TV Series
Agent #2
Run for Your Life
1965
TV Series
Maj. Miguel Del Rio
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1965
TV Series
Militiaman
McHale's Navy
1964
TV Series
The Fierce Native
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1963
TV Series
Funcoli
Expiration Date
2006
Old Native Man
Fabulous Shiksa in Distress
2003
Sam
The Invisible Man
2001
TV Series
Joseph Leaning Tree
The Lost Child
2000
TV Movie
Yazzi Monroe
Walker, Texas Ranger
1998-2000
TV Series
Judge Henry Fivekills / Ned Grey Fox / Shaman
Roswell
1999-2000
TV Series
River Dog
Star Trek: Voyager
1999
TV Series
Chakotay's Great-Grandfather
Seven Days
1998
TV Series
Navajo Grandfather
Dharma & Greg
1998
TV Series
John Running Bear
Spin City
1998
TV Series
Chief
The Magnificent Seven
1998
TV Series
Seminole Chief
Two
1996
TV Series
Katua
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1994
TV Series
Anthwara
Diagnosis Murder
1994
TV Series
Mr. Clarke
Murder, She Wrote
1994
TV Series
Joe Quill
Northern Exposure
1993
TV Series
Leston Havens
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
1992
Frank Redbear
MacGyver
1992
TV Series
Baba
House IV
1992
Video
Ezra
Santa Barbara
1990
TV Series
Shaman
Life Goes On
1989
TV Series
Chief Lenny Running Cloud
Stranger on My Land
1988
TV Movie
Doc
The Wizard
1987
TV Series
Dan Lone Eagle
Houston: The Legend of Texas
1986
TV Movie
Chief John Jolley
Simon & Simon
1986
TV Series
Clerk
The Mystic Warrior
1984
TV Movie
Wisa
George Washington
1984
TV Mini-Series
Tanachriston
Born to the Wind
1982
TV Series
Broken Foot
Diff'rent Strokes
1982
TV Series
John Longwalker
Quincy M.E.
1981
TV Series
Ramon
Galactica 1980
1980
TV Series
Hector Alonzo
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1980
TV Series
Lou Grant
1980
TV Series
Howard Sweetwater
Dan August: Murder, My Friend
1980
TV Movie
Sgt. Joe Rivera
Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
1980
TV Movie
Sgt. Joe Rivera
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
1980
TV Movie
Sgt. Joe Rivera
Dan August: The Trouble with Women
1980
TV Movie
Sgt. Joe Rivera
The Deerslayer
1978
TV Movie
Chingachgook
The Incredible Hulk
1978
TV Series
Thomas Logan
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
1978
TV Series
Police Woman
1975-1978
TV Series
Delgado
Gates
Det. Ed
...
ABC Weekend Specials
1977
TV Series
Painted Bear
Last of the Mohicans
1977
TV Movie
Chingachgook
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
1977
TV Movie
Red Cloud
Bigfoot and Wildboy
1977
TV Series
Lucas
Most Wanted
1977
TV Series
Dan Fox
Land of the Lost
1976
TV Series
Lone Wolf
The Six Million Dollar Man
1975-1976
TV Series
Akmed Khaduri / Boris
The Quest
1976
TV Series
Salcedo
The Blue Knight
1976
TV Series
Detective Orlando
Joe Forrester
1976
TV Series
ABC Afterschool Specials
1975
TV Series
Chief Red Eagle
I Will Fight No More Forever
1975
TV Movie
Chief Joseph
Emergency!
1975
TV Series
Officer Garcia
Kung Fu
1974-1975
TV Series
Lame Dog / Indian Leader
Harry O
1974
TV Series
Deputy Gutierrez
Ironside
1968-1974
TV Series
Sgt. Keller / Sgt. Raul Garcia / Monsignor / ...
Cannon
1972-1973
TV Series
Sgt. Taggart / Ben
Escape
1973
TV Series
Ramirez
Gentle Savage
1973
Richard Allen
Jigsaw
1973
TV Series
Sgt. Delgado
Banacek
1972
TV Series
Chief Frank Mendoza
Adam-12
1972
TV Series
Sgt. Jesse Marco
The Smith Family
1971
TV Series
The D.A.
1971
TV Series
D.A. Investigator Bob Ramirez
Dan August
1970-1971
TV Series
Sgt. Joe Rivera
Death Valley Days
1967-1970
TV Series
Father de la Cuesta / Geronimo Kid / Running-in-a-Circle