Richard Martin(1917-1994)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Richard Martin began working in
films as a receptionist at MGM in the late 1930s. He began appearing in
films while under contract to RKO in the early 1940s. Martin created
the character of "Chito Jose Gonzalez Bustamonte Rafferty", the
Irish-Mexican comic sidekick of cowboy star
Tim Holt, in the 1943 film
Bombardier (1943). He played the
character in a series of 29 films through the early 1950s. Martin
married actress Elaine Riley, who
co-starred with him in several films. He retired from the screen to
work in the insurance business in the early 1950s.
