Davalos appeared in
East of Eden (1955) as
James Dean's brother Aron and portrayed the convict Blind Dick in
Cool Hand Luke (1967). His other film credits include roles in
I Died a Thousand Times (1955);
All the Young Men (1960);
The Cabinet of Caligari (1962);
Pit Stop (1969); ''
Kelly's Heroes (1970); Brother, Cry for Me (1970); Hot Stuff (1979); Death Hunt (1981); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) and Ninja Cheerleaders'' (2008). He won the 1956
Theatre World Award for his performances in the
Arthur Miller plays
A View from the Bridge and
A Memory of Two Mondays. In a 1960 episode of the drama
Bonanza, Davalos played a young man planning to kill his father, a sheriff who had sent him to prison. In the
American Civil War television series,
The Americans, broadcast by NBC in 1961, he played Jeff, the younger brother who joined the
Confederate Army, in opposition to Ben, the older brother, played by
Darryl Hickman, who joined the
Union Army. In 1962, Davalos appeared on
Perry Mason as James Anderson in "The Case of the Hateful Hero". In 1964, he appeared in "The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands". He guest-starred in an episode of the espionage drama series
Blue Light in 1966. == Personal life and death ==