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Don Del Oro was the villain of the 1939 serial, Zorro's Fighting Legion. He was a wannabe dictator who used the local Yatze tribe to carry out a series of preemptive strikes, leading to an attack on the local mines.
Character Description[]
Don Del Oro - the "Golden Lord" - poses as the deity worshiped by the local Yatze tribe and orders them to carry out a series of strikes in the area, causing the local authorities to set up a Fighting Legion to oppose him.
In the process of stopping one of the attacks, the original leader of the Fighting Legion is mortally wounded and is found by Don Diego de la Vega, aka El Zorro, who then himself assumes leadership of the Fighting Legion and joins the battle against Don Del Oro. Zorro is forced to undergo a series of perils as, one by one, the local authorities are killed by Don Del Oro using golden arrows.
Eventually, he discovers that the villain is in fact Pedro, the director of the mine, who is then executed by the Yatze.
Notes[]
The character was voiced by Billy Bletcher, the comedian, and portrayed by Bud Geary, a former lead actor turned stuntman who went on to portray many of Republic's masked vilains anonymously. After his unmasking, he was portrayed by J Carrol Naish, who also portrayed Don Del Oro's alter ego Pedro in the film. Reed Hadley, the first actor to portray Red Ryder on the radio, portrayed Don Diego/Zorro, and still holds the distinction of being the only actor to portray the original Zorro in any serial. Don Del Oro was adapted into a Disney Zorro comic published in the Brazilian comic book Almanaque Disney #34 (March 1974), written by Ivan Saidenberg and illustrated by Rubens Cordeiro.
References[]
'Zorro's Fighting Legion' at YouTube Zorro's Fighting Legion at the Internet Archive
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