Zee is Chico's brother and one of the South American crewmen aboard the Rita in Creature from the Black Lagoon. He is played by Bernie Gozier. After seeing his brother get dragged down into the water by the Gill Man and killed, Zee fell victim to the creature as well when he attacked it with a machete trying to protect Kay Lawrence and it strangled him to death.
In the original screenplay for Creature From the Black Lagoon, the Gill Man kills Zee not by strangling him, but by picking him up and throwing him. The manner of his death was changed after the wires used to lift Bernie Gozier up kept breaking.
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