[6] Some of the film roles that Marroquin appeared in were while he was still working as for Kika de la Garza and also when he was chief of staff.
[7] After Marroquin left the army in the late 1950s, he moved to Los Angeles and attended the Hollywood School of Drama.
[10][11][12] In 1977, he played the part of Ranchero Rico in the Gilberto Martínez Solares directed film Caballo prieto afamado.
Both himself and Melinda Marroquin produced and acted in the film[17] which is about a young religious woman who had been betrayed by her fiancé and taken for a night out by her friends and encounters a handsome stranger who isn't as he appears.
[18] Decades later he was photographed with She Came to the Valley associate producer Maurine Duncun, both of them holding the hats they wore in the movie.