Biography
Miguel Sandoval (born November 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Grotto
2022
as Richie
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
2016
as Arturo Rios
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
2016
Executive Producer
A group of lifeguards attempt to kill an atomic shark that is terrorizing the coast of San Diego.

Sun Belt Express
2015
as Ramon Velazquez
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
2014
as Land of the Remembered Captain (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...

Oculus
2013
as Dr. Shawn Graham
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
2012
as Narrator (English)
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Carlos Avila, this documentary program profiles three legendary wrestlers in a creative and imaginative exploratio...

Real Steel
2011
as Judge (uncredited)
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
2011
as Doctor Smith
A boy goes into surgery and battles his disease, which has morphed into a monster in an animated world.

Repo Chick
2009
as Arizona Gray
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
2009
as Emilio
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
2009
as Self / D.A. Manuel Devalos (uncredited)
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and p...

Tortilla Heaven
2008
as Gil Garcia
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
2008
as Mr. Garcia
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
2005
as Bill Johansen
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
2005
as Deputy Sheriff Ron
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
2004
as Captain Rivera
An American government hit man on the run makes a pact with two travelers to help him disappear in the Mexican jungle.

Black Point
2002
as Malcolm
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
2002
as Julio Martin
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!
2002
as Principal Zavala
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
2002
as Joe Phipps
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
2001
as Coach Montoya
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
2001
as Wendall the Therapist
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
2001
as Augusto Oliveras
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
2001
as Ramando Galvez
A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.

Panic
2000
as Detective Larson
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
2000
as Santiago
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
2000
as Raul Ventana, Drug Lord
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.

Flight of Fancy
2000
as Frank
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
2000
as Sam (segment "Love Waits For Kathy")
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
1999
as Detective Duarte
A psychology graduate student becomes embroiled in a murder mystery after he takes a job as manager of Wonder View Apartments.

Route 9
1998
as Jesse Segundo
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
1998
as Bennie Reyes
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?
1998
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
1998
as Mayor Melendez
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
1997
as Don Diego
Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his research to a panel of professors.

Scorpion Spring
1996
as Mexican Judicial
On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...

Mrs. Winterbourne
1996
as Paco
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
1996
as Dan Duarte
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
1995
as Detective Ybarra
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
1995
as Emilio Juantorena
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her

Get Shorty
1995
as Mr. Escobar
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
1995
as Carlo Sanchez
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
1994
as Lucky
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
1994
as Ernesto Escobedo
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
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
1994
as -
A Portland taxi dancer is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.

The Cisco Kid
1994
as Hidalgo
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
1994
Casting
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
1994
as Chief Naranjo
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
1994
as Hector Vasquez
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.

Quick
1993
as Vargas
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
1993
as Rostagno
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
1993
as Art Aragon
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
1992
as Gen. Herrera
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
1992
as Treviranus
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
1992
as FBI Agent Ruiz
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
1992
as Bruto Half-Tongue
A haggard cowboy reflects upon his life while awaiting his death.
La Pastorela: The Shepherd's Tale
1991
as Bartolo
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
1991
as Vaca
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Jungle Fever
1991
as Officer Ponte
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
1991
as Dr. Benito Rojas
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
1991
A San Antonio, Texas policeman must stop his best friend, a fellow officer turned vigilante.

El Diablo
1990
as Zamudio
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
1990
as Carl Ortega
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
1989
as Officer Ponte
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
1987
as Parker French
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
1987
Casting, Second Unit Director
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
1987
as George
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
1986
as Record Company Executive
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
1986
as Club Owner
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
1984
as Archie
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
1982
as Emil
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...