In the 1960s Padilla was a popular child actor usually playing the Mexican or Indian boy in TV westerns such as Rawhide Bonanza and Gunsmoke He was a regular in the 1960s TV series Tarzan with actor Ron Ely in dozens of episodes as native boy Jai and as also a semiregular in the TV series The Flying Nun with actress Sally Field In featured films as an adult Padilla made appearances in the films The Great White Hope American Graffiti A Man Called Horse and Scarface among others Padilla died unexpectedly at age 52 just after making a public appearance at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona California in January 2008
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