Don Diamond(1921-2011)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Brooklyn-born Don Diamond's most famous role is probably that of the
scheming and ambitious, but inept and somewhat cowardly, underling
Crazy Cat to Frank DeKova's Chief Wild
Eagle in the cult western comedy series
F-Troop (1965). By the time he got
that role he had been an actor for quite some time, starting out in
radio in the early 1940s, where he discovered that he had a knack for
picking up dialects, especially Spanish. He became so proficient in it
that many believed he was actually Spanish or Mexican, when in reality
his family came from Russia. His facility in that dialect got him the
role as the Mexican sidekick of Kit Carson in the early TV series
The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951).
He also landed a recurring part as a Spanish corporal, "Corporal Reyes", in the Disney TV
series Zorro (1957). In addition to his
TV and film work, he did much voice-over work in both cartoons and
commercials, such as voicing Toro from the DFE series, Tijuana Toads.
