Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Héctor Elizondo (born December 22, 1936) is an American actor. Elizondo excelled in sports and later contemplated becoming an educator. Elizondo's first major role was that of "God" in a play for which he won an Obie Award. Since then Elizondo has participated in over eighty films and has made numerous television appearances, including his Emmy Award-winning role on the series Chicago Hope. Description above from the Wikipedia article Héctor Elizondo, lic...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
2023
as Dr. Neven Bell
Monk steps out of retirement as his stepdaughter's wedding turns tragic when her fiancé dies in a bungee jumping accident.

Max & Me
2023
as Gunter (voice)
The story unfolds through a present-day encounter of an older man, Gunther, and a rebellious teenager, DJ, as the story of Father Max teaches the youn...

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
as Self
Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award...

Music
2021
as George
Zu, a free spirit estranged from her family, suddenly finds herself the sole guardian of her half-sister, Music, a teenager on the autism spectrum who...

The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
2020
as Self
In a heartfelt tribute to Hollywood legend Garry Marshall, his family and friends share their favorite memories of the creative genius behind some of ...

The Lego Batman Movie
2017
as Jim Gordon (voice)
A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted ...

Mother's Day
2016
as Lance Wallace
Sandy is a stressed-out, single mom who learns that her ex-husband is marrying a younger woman. Her friend Jesse's parents don't know that she has a f...

The Book of Life
2014
as Carlos Sanchez (voice)
The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path t...

Go for Sisters
2013
as Jorge Moncal
Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne...

New Year's Eve
2011
as Kominsky
The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.

Knight to D7
2011
as Grandpa Binks
Knight To D7' is an extraordinary story of sacrifice that takes place one ordinary afternoon when Dustin Harper visits his longtime friend, Brady Coll...

New York Street Games
2010
as Self
Documentary describing various street games played by children in New York.

Big Sur: Wild California
2010
as Narrator
National Geographic presents a comprehensive view of the spectacular California coastal area known as Big Sur—through the eyes of three intrinsically ...

Valentine's Day
2010
as Edgar Paddington
Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day.

Love in the Time of Cholera
2007
as Don Leo
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on t...

Georgia Rule
2007
as Izzy
Rebellious, uncontrollable teenager, Rachel is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her estranged grandmother, Georgia. Her...

The Celestine Prophecy
2006
as Cardinal Sebastian
A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a w...

I-See-You.com
2006
as Greg Rishwain
A 17-year-old boy buys mini-cameras and displays the footage online at I-see-you.com. The cash rolls in as the site becomes a major hit. Everyone seem...

Mucha Lucha: The Return of El Malefico
2005
as Narrator / Ring Announcer (voice)
The hit TV series boldy goes bigger in an action-packed comedy/adventure starring everyone's favorite luchadoras! When the greatest evil the world has...

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
2004
as Joe
Mia Thermopolis is now a college graduate and on her way to Genovia to take up her duties as princess. Accompanied by her friend Lilly, Mia continues ...

On the Set: The Princess Diaries 2 – Royal Engagement
2004
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Garry Marshall's film, "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement".

Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie
2004
as Kragger (voice)
When the Thanagarians visit Earth, Hawkgirl is forced to choose between loyalty to her people and love for her friends on her adopted planet Earth.

Raising Helen
2004
as Mickey Massey
Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned u...

Remember the Alamo
2004
as Narrator
In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although ruled by Mexico, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers agitated by what they s...

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
2003
as Bane (voice)
As if the Penguin wasn't enough to contend with, a new vigilante has surfaced in Gotham City, and her strong-arm tactics give Batman cause for concern...

Zoot Suit Riots
2002
as Narrator (voice)
On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at a party. To white Los Angelenos, the murder was just more proof that Mex...

How High
2001
as Bill the Crew Coach
Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance ...

Tortilla Soup
2001
as Martin Naranjo
A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

The Princess Diaries
2001
as Joe
A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country becaus...

Entropy
1999
as The Chairman
Entropy is a semi-autobiographical film which tells the story of a young director struggling to make a film for a despotic studio while his life falls...

Runaway Bride
1999
as Fisher
Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded "the runaway bride" by jaded New York journalist Ike Graham. But, after his...

The Other Sister
1999
as Ernie
A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to coll...

Safe House
1998
as Dr. Simon
A psychological thriller; Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative and whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality,...

Borrowed Hearts
1997
as Javier Del Campo
Single mom Kathleen Russell (Roma Downey) and her daughter Zoey pretend to be Kathleen's boss's "family" so he can close a major business deal with th...

Turbulence
1997
as Lt. Aldo Hines
On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various peop...

Dear God
1996
as Vladek Vidov
A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter offi...

Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects
1995
as Chief Atacama
The evil Dr. Zin has genetically modified household pests into disturbingly large insects that he calls assassinoids, fearless and devoted warriors th...

Perfect Alibi
1995
as Det. Ryker
Melanie is married to Keith Bauers, she has two beautiful children and she is rich. She decides to engage a girl au pair, Janine, who arrives from Fra...

Exit to Eden
1994
as Dr. Martin Halifax
Photographer Elliot Slater has inadvertently snapped the only existing photos of elusive jewel thief Omar. When Elliot leaves for a private vacation o...

Backstreet Justice
1994
as Steve Donovan
A P.I. is burdened by her late father's reputation as a corrupt cop.

Getting Even with Dad
1994
as Lt. G. Romayko
Con man Ray is going after one last heist – a stash of rare coins – when his estranged son Timmy unexpectedly shows up. Ray is too preoccupied with hi...

Beverly Hills Cop III
1994
as Jon Flint
When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returnin...

Being Human
1994
as Dom Paulo
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Samantha
1992
as Walter
A young woman sets out to find her birth parents when she finds out that she is adopted.

There Goes the Neighborhood
1992
as Norman Rutledge
A dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychologist, who heads to the New Jersey suburbs to find it. Two prisoners overh...
Mrs. Cage
1992
as Lieutenant Angel
A proper matron marches into a police station to announce that she has just shot a fellow shopper in a supermarket's parking lot.

Final Approach
1991
as Dr. Dio Gottlieb
Final Approach deals with the mental condition of Amnesia when a stealth test pilot, Col. Jason Halsey, is involved in an air disaster. A psychiatrist...

Frankie and Johnny
1991
as Nick
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fl...

Necessary Roughness
1991
as Coach Ed Gennero
When the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from ...

Chains of Gold
1991
as Lieutenant Ortega
Scott Barnes is an alcoholic turned social worker hellbent on saving a young boy named Tommy from self-destructing when he finds out he has begun sell...

Finding the Way Home
1991
as Ruben Lazarado
Sixty year old Max is having something of a middle-age crisis. His marriage seems to go nowhere as the passion, tenderness and happiness vanished when...

Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files
1990
as Hasan Demir
A lawyer representing Amnesty International tries to find the whereabouts and condition of 17 political prisoners detained in a country known for its ...

Dark Avenger
1990
as Captain David Strauss
An acid-scarred judge turns masked avenger, backed by an electronics expert and her crime lab.

Taking Care of Business
1990
as Warden Toolman
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

Pretty Woman
1990
as The Hotel Manager (Barney Thompson)
While on a business trip in Los Angeles, Edward Lewis, a millionaire entrepreneur who makes a living buying and breaking up companies, picks up a pros...

Sparks: The Price of Passion
1990
as Vic Ramos
A female mayor (Victoria Principal) of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic center. In the midst of this, she ...

Kojak: Ariana
1989
as Edson Saunders
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash y...

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots
1989
as Sergeant Burke
An overprotective single mother tries to stop her son joining the parachute unit by sending him to the college, fearful that he may end up his life li...

Leviathan
1989
as C.P. Cobb
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The cre...

Beaches
1988
as Judge (uncredited)
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Addicted to His Love
1988
as Det. Currigan
Larry Hogan, using various aliases, meets middle-aged women through dating services and personal ads and uses his charm to cheat them out of their mon...
Astronomy
1988
as Mr. Fisk
A Los Angeles mother and her seven-year-old daughter search for an escape from the poverty in which they live.

Overboard
1987
as Garbage Scow Skipper (uncredited)
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after J...

Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson
1987
as Morris King
In the 1930's an aging film producer and his much younger wife live separate lives. Whenever a young starlet catches the husband's eye, he eventually ...

Courage
1986
as Nick Miraldo
A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug ...

Nothing in Common
1986
as Charlie Gargas
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.

Out of the Darkness
1985
as Father George
A gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" — the infamous serial killer who stalked Ne...

Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1985
as Ben Haggarty
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wif...

Private Resort
1985
as The Maestro
Chasing women for the weekend at a luxurious Miami resort, teen buddies Ben and Jack get more than they bargained for after crossing paths with a craf...

The Flamingo Kid
1984
as Arthur Willis
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flaming...

Women of San Quentin
1983
as Capt. Mile Reyes
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.

Honeyboy
1982
as Emilio Ramirez
Rico 'Honeyboy' Ramirez is a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx who finds fame and fortune as a middleweight boxer. But he soon learns that it's not al...

Young Doctors in Love
1982
as Angelo / Angela Bonafetti
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order...

The Fan
1981
as Police Inspector Raphael Andrews
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly vio...

American Gigolo
1980
as Detective Sunday
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife...

Cuba
1979
as Capt. Raphael Ramirez
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances...

Thieves
1977
as Man Below
Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin's the head of a fancy private school...

Wanted: The Sundance Woman
1976
as Pancho Villa
Katharine Ross repeats her portrayal of Etta Place (from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") in this adventure of the fugitive who, alone and desper...

Diary of the Dead
1976
as Stan
An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relieve himself of the old bat, which tangles him in a ...

Report to the Commissioner
1975
as Captain D'Angelo
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instr...

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974
as Grey
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Deadhead Miles
1972
as Duke
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non seq...

Stand Up and Be Counted
1972
as Lou Kellerman
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving a...

Pocket Money
1972
as Juan
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked cattle dealer.

Born to Win
1971
as Vivian
A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
The Impatient Heart
1971
as Mr. Hernandez
A social worker has problems in her private life.

Valdez Is Coming
1971
as Mexican Rider
Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon ...

The Landlord
1970
as Hector
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope sec...

The Vixens
1969
as Inspector
In this modern sexual morality thriller, a pair of modern country couples lounge around, eyeing each other with heavy-lidded salaciousness, then pairi...

The Fat Black Pussycat
1963
A detective investigates the murders of three young women, searching for the killer with a fetish for high heels.