Miguel Sandoval

Miguel Sandoval

1951-11-16 Washington, D.C., USA 73 Credits

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Miguel Sandoval  (born November 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor.

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The Grotto

The Grotto

2022

as Richie

2.0
Acting

When her fiancé dies unexpectedly and she loses her job, 40-something music manager Alice Kendall inherits half ownership of The Grotto, a struggling ...

Blood Father

Blood Father

2016

as Arturo Rios

6.2
Acting

An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.

Saltwater

Saltwater

2016

Executive Producer

3.7
Producing

A group of lifeguards attempt to kill an atomic shark that is terrorizing the coast of San Diego.

Sun Belt Express

Sun Belt Express

2015

as Ramon Velazquez

6.2
Acting

A down-on-his-luck ethics professor ends up on a completely unhinged run across the Mexican border with his teenage daughter in tow - and four undocum...

The Book of Life

The Book of Life

2014

as Land of the Remembered Captain (voice)

7.5
Acting

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...

Oculus

Oculus

2013

as Dr. Shawn Graham

6.5
Acting

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

Tales of Masked Men

Tales of Masked Men

2012

as Narrator (English)

8.0
Acting

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Carlos Avila, this documentary program profiles three legendary wrestlers in a creative and imaginative exploratio...

Real Steel

Real Steel

2011

as Judge (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up w...

Deep Blue Breath

Deep Blue Breath

2011

as Doctor Smith

Acting

A boy goes into surgery and battles his disease, which has morphed into a monster in an animated world.

Repo Chick

Repo Chick

2009

as Arizona Gray

3.2
Acting

As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens to wipe out the city of Los Angeles...

Spoken Word

Spoken Word

2009

as Emilio

4.8
Acting

A San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to the...

Brüno

Brüno

2009

as Self / D.A. Manuel Devalos (uncredited)

5.6
Acting

Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and p...

Tortilla Heaven

Tortilla Heaven

2008

as Gil Garcia

4.6
Acting

Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, I...

Bottle Shock

Bottle Shock

2008

as Mr. Garcia

6.3
Acting

Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stum...

Crazylove

Crazylove

2005

as Bill Johansen

5.3
Acting

Letty Mayer, young and beautiful, has a cherished job as a teacher, a successful attorney boyfriend, and a tight knit family that is excited about her...

Nine Lives

Nine Lives

2005

as Deputy Sheriff Ron

6.1
Acting

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

2004

as Captain Rivera

4.7
Acting

An American government hit man on the run makes a pact with two travelers to help him disappear in the Mexican jungle.

Black Point

Black Point

2002

as Malcolm

5.8
Acting

In an Alaskan fishing town, a local crime boss suspects a local fisherman knows where his stolen money is, but this fisherman is no regular Joe.

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

2002

as Julio Martin

4.3
Acting

Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in o...

Gotta Kick It Up!

Gotta Kick It Up!

2002

as Principal Zavala

6.6
Acting

This was going to be the first year that Marshal Middle School was not going to have a dance team. All that changes when the new Biology teacher, Ms. ...

Collateral Damage

Collateral Damage

2002

as Joe Phipps

5.8
Acting

Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing cr...

Air Bud: World Pup

Air Bud: World Pup

2001

as Coach Montoya

5.0
Acting

In this second heartwarming and hilarious sequel to the popular favorite, Air Bud masters two new starring roles: soccer player and fatherhood. Loaded...

Human Nature

Human Nature

2001

as Wendall the Therapist

6.0
Acting

Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the ...

Blow

Blow

2001

as Augusto Oliveras

7.4
Acting

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family....

Wild Iris

Wild Iris

2001

as Ramando Galvez

7.0
Acting

A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.

Panic

Panic

2000

as Detective Larson

6.2
Acting

Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and hi...

Thin Air

Thin Air

2000

as Santiago

5.0
Acting

Frank Belson didn't ask too many questions about the past of his new wife Lisa St. Claire, even after she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared one ni...

The Crew

The Crew

2000

as Raul Ventana, Drug Lord

5.5
Acting

Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.

Flight of Fancy

Flight of Fancy

2000

as Frank

3.4
Acting

A young single mother, Mercedes, is about to marry solid, dependable Frank, when a dashing aviator, Clay, comes into her life. But when pilot Clay cra...

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

2000

as Sam (segment "Love Waits For Kathy")

5.8
Acting

In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker fo...

The Apartment Complex

The Apartment Complex

1999

as Detective Duarte

5.8
Acting

A psychology graduate student becomes embroiled in a murder mystery after he takes a job as manager of Wonder View Apartments.

Route 9

Route 9

1998

as Jesse Segundo

6.7
Acting

During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several d...

Three Businessmen

Three Businessmen

1998

as Bennie Reyes

6.2
Acting

An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art d...

Where's Marlowe?

Where's Marlowe?

1998

5.7
Acting

After making a disastrous 3-hour documentary on New York City's water supply, two young filmmakers focus on the goings-on of life in the LA offices of...

The Fixer

The Fixer

1998

as Mayor Melendez

4.2
Acting

Jack Killoran is a lawyer who can 'fix' any situation for his wealthy clients, usually by bribing or blackmailing corrupt officials. Killoran runs afo...

A Scent of Paradise

A Scent of Paradise

1997

as Don Diego

1.0
Acting

Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his research to a panel of professors.

Scorpion Spring

Scorpion Spring

1996

as Mexican Judicial

6.6
Acting

On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...

Mrs. Winterbourne

Mrs. Winterbourne

1996

as Paco

7.2
Acting

Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. Th...

Up Close & Personal

Up Close & Personal

1996

as Dan Duarte

6.3
Acting

Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tap...

Red Wind

Red Wind

1995

as Detective Ybarra

Acting

In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake pear...

Fair Game

Fair Game

1995

as Emilio Juantorena

5.1
Acting

Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her

Get Shorty

Get Shorty

1995

as Mr. Escobar

6.5
Acting

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror fil...

Breach of Trust

Breach of Trust

1995

as Carlo Sanchez

4.0
Acting

For opposite reasons, an undercover federal agent and a small time hood join forces to take on a union of drug lords and dirty cops.

Girls in Prison

Girls in Prison

1994

as Lucky

4.2
Acting

Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries ...

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger

1994

as Ernesto Escobedo

6.7
Acting

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ...

Green Dolphin Beat

1994

as Captain Juan Garcia

10.0
Acting

Two cops try to solve the murder of a former prostitute while fighting for their jobs in a crime-ridden precinct of a Northwestern city.

Dancing with Danger

Dancing with Danger

1994

as -

5.0
Acting

A Portland taxi dancer is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.

The Cisco Kid

The Cisco Kid

1994

as Hidalgo

3.8
Acting

This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of the old west to somewhat anti-"gringo" Mexican revolutiona...

Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition

Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition

1994

Casting

5.0

In the middle of the desert, a solipsistic Japanese-American woman, along with her elderly and paralysed friend Barbara, runs the Desert Rose Cafe. Th...

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

1994

as Chief Naranjo

5.0
Acting

Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigato...

Death Wish V: The Face of Death

Death Wish V: The Face of Death

1994

as Hector Vasquez

5.5
Acting

Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.

Quick

Quick

1993

as Vargas

4.5
Acting

A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her ho...

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park

1993

as Rostagno

8.0
Acting

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of e...

It's Nothing Personal

It's Nothing Personal

1993

as Art Aragon

Acting

An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after the suspected killer of her brother in a robbery.

Majority Rule

Majority Rule

1992

as Gen. Herrera

3.0
Acting

A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of p...

Death and the Compass

Death and the Compass

1992

as Treviranus

5.8
Acting

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series o...

White Sands

White Sands

1992

as FBI Agent Ruiz

5.9
Acting

A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigat...

Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life

Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life

1992

as Bruto Half-Tongue

3.0
Acting

A haggard cowboy reflects upon his life while awaiting his death.

La Pastorela: The Shepherd's Tale

1991

as Bartolo

4.7
Acting

Originally produced for PBS's Great Performances Series, La Pastorela is a musical retelling of the shepherds' journey to Bethlehem to see the Christ ...

Ricochet

Ricochet

1991

as Vaca

6.1
Acting

An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

1991

as Officer Ponte

6.4
Acting

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference wo...

Switched at Birth

Switched at Birth

1991

as Dr. Benito Rojas

6.6
Acting

This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not ...

Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance

Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance

1991

7.0
Acting

A San Antonio, Texas policeman must stop his best friend, a fellow officer turned vigilante.

El Diablo

El Diablo

1990

as Zamudio

5.6
Acting

When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith (Anthony Edwards) vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowbo...

The Gumshoe Kid

The Gumshoe Kid

1990

as Carl Ortega

3.0
Acting

Originally bound for Harvard, Jeff joins the family detective business to save his mother and sister from eviction. He learns the ropes quickly when a...

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

1989

as Officer Ponte

7.8
Acting

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzer...

Walker

Walker

1987

as Parker French

6.4
Acting

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Walker

Walker

1987

Casting, Second Unit Director

6.4
Directing

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Straight to Hell

Straight to Hell

1987

as George

5.2
Acting

A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full ...

Sid and Nancy

Sid and Nancy

1986

as Record Company Executive

6.7
Acting

January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental ba...

Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck

1986

as Club Owner

5.4
Acting

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, fr...

Repo Man

Repo Man

1984

as Archie

6.7
Acting

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revo...

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

1982

as Emil

5.3
Acting

Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's f...