Biography
Castillo was a founding member of The Latino Theater Company. He co-wrote the company’s plays Stone Wedding and August 29. In addition to the plays, he wrote and directed the film The History of The Latino Theater Company, a documentary chronicling the theater company, and co-produced the company’s annual comedy fundraiser Noche de Risa y Susto. In 1997 Castillo created Four Brown Hats Entertainment (FBHE), a film and theater production company. With FBHE, he adapted and directed The Last Ang...
Known For
Complete Filmography
In Other Words
2020
A tech geek lands an investor for his matchmaking app. But when his app matches him with a beautiful girl who doesn't speak English, he travels with h...
Beatriz at Dinner
2017
as Marcus
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthr...
Homebound
2013
as Gilberto Escamilla
A successful young man must return to his childhood small town in Texas to help his father. His father, who's ill, wants him to take over the family b...
A Beautiful Life
2009
as Don Miguel
A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a frien...
El Padrino II: Border Intrusion
2008
as Jesse Mendoza
A man who rose to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world is trapped by the FBI and must confront the man who now controls the business.
Fuego
2007
The daughter of the American Ambassador to Spain has been kidnapped. There is only one man who can save her.
Déjà Vu
2006
as Claire's Father
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the sce...
In Good Company
2004
as Hector
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naiv...
Picking Up the Pieces
2000
as Grasiento
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband...
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
as Levi Gomez
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War I...
The End of Violence
1997
as Ramon
In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Hispanic Colonel
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim...
Nixon
1995
as Virgilio Gonzales, Watergate Burglar
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994
A criminal gang commits a string of violent robberies and murders, culminating in the assassination of the police detective on the case, which may lea...
Bound by Honor
1993
as Montana
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It ...
Maniac Cop 2
1990
as (voice)
After being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, Officer Matt Cordell teams up with a vicious serial killer to track down tho...
The Delos Adventure
1987
as Luis Vasquez
She's caught in a deadly battle between two superpowers and it's going to take every trick she knows to survive
Black Moon Rising
1986
as Mechanic #1
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Get Out of My Room
1985
as "El Coyote" (segment 'Born In East L.A.')
Get Out of My Room, was a mockumentary in the style of This Is Spinal Tap, written and directed by Cheech Marin. In the film, he and Tommy Chong are s...
Little Treasure
1985
as Cantina Voice #2
Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling pr...
Graffiti
1985
Graffiti is a 1985 English language short film directed by Matthew Patrick. It follows a young man who lives in a South American military dictatorship...
El Norte
1983
as Jorge
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the drea...
Losin' It
1983
as Taxi Driver #2
In 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Mexico, for ...
Seguin
1982
as Gregorio Esparza
A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the turbul...
A Small Killing
1981
as Latin Student
A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid row...
Borderline
1980
as Arturo
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of ...
Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
1980
as Carlos Martinez
Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then ...
The Sellouts
1972
A 1972 television adaptation of Los Vendidos, a one-act play by Chicano playwright Luis Valdez, a founding member of El Teatro Campesino. The play exa...