Children: DeeDee (Denise) and Tom.
He played Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro in "Zorro and Son" (1983) and his father Don Alejandro de la Vega in "Zorro" (1990).
He was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997 and 2005.
He was the first actor to be involved with three different productions of Zorro, and he is also the first Latino to play the role of Zorro for television. He was the voice of Zorro/Don Diego in the animated series "The New Adventures of Zorro" (1981) (which was broadcast as part of "The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour" (1980)). He then starred as the elderly Zorro/Don Diego in the series "Zorro and Son" (1983). Then he was Don Alejandro, Don Diego's father, in "Zorro" (1990) for three of its four seasons.
Of Puerto Rican descent, he was born in New York City but lived in Puerto Rico as a teen and collegiate before returning to America on an acting scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse in the late 50s.