Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, appearing in works set in the Pueblo de Los Ángeles in Alta California. Zorro is typically portrayed as a dash
Zorro's debut in the novel The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, The All-Story Magazine (August 9, 1919).
Douglas Fairbanks in the first Zorro film, The Mark of Zorro (1920), which was instrumental in the early success of the character
Zorro (Guy Williams) and Bernardo (Gene Sheldon) in Walt Disney's 1957–1959 Zorro television series
Poster for the serial Zorro Rides Again (1937), starring John Carroll as a descendant of the original Zorro
The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 American Western swashbuckler film based on the fictional character Zorro by Johnston McCulley. Directed by Martin Campbell from a screenplay by John Eskow, Ted Elliott, an
Zorro
…Joaquin Murrieta, whose life was fictionalized in the novel The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (1854) by John Rollin Ridge. In the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro Murrieta's (fictitious) brother Alejandro succeeds Diego as Zorro. As a hero with a secret identity who taunts his foes by signing his deeds, Zorro…
Theatrical release poster
Antonio Banderas portrayed Zorro.
Robert Rodriguez (pictured) cast Antonio Banderas as Zorro before dropping out as director in June 1996. He was replaced by Martin Campbell one month later.