Joe Torres

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Joe Torres is a Mexican-American actor best known for portraying a Native American known as Danny Lightfoot on the Nickelodeon TV show Hey Dude, which as of August 2006 is his only screen role according to The Internet Movie Database. For a time, the Internet Movie database listed an additional role as "Drunken Indian" in a deleted scene from a film called Hindustani.1 as well as reported that he had died of kidney failure in 2004. These details have since been removed.

In fact, rumors of his death from kidney failure due to alcohol consumption have recurred periodically since at least 2004. Some unsourced reports posit that his death occurred when he took a drink and his kidneys spontaneously exploded. Although the above statement is obviously false, variants of these rumors are especially prevalent in the Internet Movie Database and Hey Dude fan communities. Interestingly, no official news sources have been found that confirm or disconfirm his death. Furthermore, none of the other actors or crew members are known to still associate with him, which makes Joe Torres' present life a mystery.