ELENA VERDUGO BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Elena Verdugo was born on April 20th, 1926 in Hollywood, California with the birth name Elena Angela Verdugo.  As a little girl she took dance lessons and at the tender age of six she made her film debut in, "Cavalier of the West" (1931).
 
She then took a break from acting to go to school and live a normal childhood.  As a teenager she returned to acting and was seen in such films as, "Down Argentine Way" (1940), "Blood and Sand" (1941), "To the Shores of Tripoli" (1942) and her biggest film role up to that point was in, "The Moon and Sixpence" (1942).
 
Transitioning from a teenage actress into an adult actress in the film industry was not too difficult for Verdugo.  She continued to appear on the big screen in such films as, "House of Frankenstein" (1944), "The Frozen Ghost" (1945), "Little Giant" (1946), "Song of Scheherazade" (1947), "Thief of Damascus" (1952), "El Dorado Pass" (1948) and "The Big Sombrero" (1949).
 
Verdugo then began to focus her acting career on television roles such as on the series, "Meet Millie" (1952), "The New Phil Silvers Show" (1964), "Many Happy Returns" (1964-1965) and then she became most well known to viewers for her role on the television series, "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1969), playing Consuelo Lopez for which she received an Emmy nomination for her performance.
 
Throughout her career she has married twice, first to Charles R. Marion from 1946 through 1955 and together they had one child who she lost later when he was only fifty to a heart attack.  She then married Charles R. Rosewall in 1972 and they remain married today.
 
Her career has spanned in the industry over six decades and she was honored for all her hard work, with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.   

Filmography

1985 Suburban Beat
1984 Scarecrow and Mrs. King 
1984 The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D. 
1984 Emerald Point N.A.S. 
1978 The Boss' Son 
1969-1976 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-1973 Love, American Style
1973 The Alpha Caper
1969 The Flim-Flam Man
1969 Angel in My Pocket 
1969 Daniel Boone 
1968 Ironside
1968 How Sweet It Is!
1967 Mannix 
1967 Iron Horse
1965-1966 Mona McCluskey 
1964-1965 Many Happy Returns
1965 Day of the Nightmare
1964 Petticoat Junction 
1964 The New Phil Silvers Show
1963 Redigo 
1963 77 Sunset Stri
1962 Route 66
1956-1960 The Red Skelton Hour
1959 Rawhide 
1959 Law of the Plainsman
1959 The Gale Storm Show 
1959 Steve Canyon 
1958 The Bob Cummings Show
1957 Panama Sal
1952-1955 Meet Millie
1953 The Marksman
1953 G.E. True Theater 
1953 Cavalcade of America 
1952 The Pathfinder 
1952 Thief of Damascus 
1952 Dangerous Assignment 
1952 Jet Job 
1951 Gene Autry and The Mounties 
1950 Cyrano de Bergerac
1950 Snow Dog 
1950 The Lost Volcano 
1949 The Sky Dragon 
1949 The Lost Tribe 
1949 Tuna Clipper 
1949 The Big Sombrero
1948 El Dorado Pass 
1947 Song of Scheherazade 
1946 Strange Voyage 
1946 Little Giant 
1945 The Frozen Ghost 
1944 House of Frankenstein 
1944 Rainbow Island 
1942 The Moon and Sixpence
1942 To the Shores of Tripoli 
1941 Belle Starr 
1941 The Hard-Boiled Canary 
1941 Blood and Sand
1940 Down Argentine Way
1931 Cavalier of the West