Eloy Casados was born in Long Beach, California in 1949 and is an actor. He won 'Best High School Actor' for his role in Antigone and attended the prestigious 'Colorado Springs School for Girls' as an exchange student actor. After Sidney Poitier won the Best Actor Academy Award, Eloy was hired out of the state employment office as an extra and then as a stand-in for the leading man, which led to him directing background extras. He studied Art at the University of New Mexico and worked in front of and behind the camera on dozens of Hollywood movies. He was inducted into the American Cowboy Hall of Fame for his work in Ishi and has acted in eight Ron Shelton films. Eloy has also worked internationally in England and narrated at the Disney Concert Hall with the California Philharmonic. He is a writer, director, editor, camera operator, and artist, and is married with three daughters.
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He is best known for playing Ishi in the 1978 NBC television movie Ishi: The Last of His Tribe and as Sheriff Sam Coyote in the CBS action television series Walker, Texas Ranger.