Valentin de Vargas (born Albert Charles Schubert; April 27, 1935 – June 10, 2013) was an actor, who is probably best known for menacing Janet Leigh in Touch of Evil and playing Louis Francisco Garcia Lopez in Hatari!. He appeared in multiple motion pictures from the mid-1950s to the late 1990s.

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After serving in the Army, He made his film debut in The Blackboard Jungle whilst attending Loyola Marymount University when he responded to a flyer posted at Loyola to audition for a high school student role in the film. He had a variety of uncredited appearances in films and appeared in several television series until Touch of Evil in 1958 where he also met his first wife actress Arlene McQuade. He travelled to Mexico where played one of the Mexican bandidos inThe Magnificent Seven (1960).

In the 1960s he appeared on television programs including Bonanza, Daniel Boone, The Wild Wild West, Gunsmoke, Death Valley Days, The High Chaparral, Mission: Impossible, Barnaby Jones, The Streets of San Francisco, and Dallas. He later operated a realty firm, Schubert-DeVargas Realty, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1962 he played Joaquin Murieta in The Firebrand, and a Marine in The Nun and the Sergeant before joining the cast of international stars in Howard Hawks' Hatari.

After suffering for many months from myelodysplastic syndrome, he died on June 10, 2013. His interment was at Santa Fe National Cemetery. His first wife was actress Arlene McQuade, who died in 2014.