Chrispin Martin
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Chrispin Martin (19 November 1893 - 27 June 1953) was a Mexican-American actor. His real name was Ysabel Ponciana Paiz and he was also credited in his films by many other names, such as Chris-Pin Martin, Chris King Martin, Chris Martin, Cris-Pin Martin and Ethier Crispin Martini.
His roles were always as a rotund, roly-poly comic character where he would be bumbling or slow, of Mexican heritage and spoke in broken English.
He acted in over one hundred films between 1925 and 1953, including over 50 westerns. His most remembered western film role was as a sidekick on Gordito and Pancho in nine of the Cisco Kid films.
His death record can be found here by searching for Chrispin Martin with Paiz as the mother's maiden name.
There is also a picture of Martin's grave here at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in California.
