Sergio Calderón, best known to movie audiences for his roles in the 1997 sci-fi comedy “Men In Black” died Wednesday at 77 due to 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 action film was the highest-grossing movie of 2007.
Calderón, who worked as an English teacher, first appeared in the 1971 film “The Bridge in the Jungle” starring John Huston.
He earned his Screen Actors Guild card for appearing in the 1979 comedy classic “The In-Laws” starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.
Calderón also appeared in the Huston’s “Under the Volcano,” a 1984 drama starring Albert Finney.
Around that time, he played several characters in the NBC hit series “The A-Team.”
In “Men in Black,” Tommy Lee Jones’ ‘Agent K’ stops a group 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 expose him as an alien.
In 2022, Calderón played a corrupt cop in the mystery series “The Resort.”
“I love to play those types of characters, because people really hate me,” he told the LA Times last week. “They tell me in the streets how much they hate me. But to me, that is my success. Because that means I was able to convince people with what I performed.”
Calderón also said that he enjoyed it when people recognized him.
“If I can make them cry and I can make them laugh, then maybe I’m a good actor,” he said.
He is survived by his wife, Karen Dakin, children Patrick Calderón-Dakin and Johanna Calderón-Dakin, son-in-law Raaj, and grandchildren Krishnaavi, Emiliano and Victoria.
