Lou Diamond Phillips

Lou Diamond Phillips

1962-02-17 Subic Bay Naval Base, Olongapo City, Zambales, Philippines 113 Credits

Biography

Lou Diamond Phillips is an American film, television, and stage actor as well as director and writer. His breakthrough role came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the film La Bamba. His other best known film roles are as Jose Chavez y Chavez in Young Guns I and II, Angel Guzman in Stand and Deliver for which he earned a supporting actor Golden Globe Award nomination, Hank Storm in Renegades, Jesse Rainfeather Goldman in Sioux City in which he was also director, Staff Sergeant John Monfriez in...

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Keep Quiet

Keep Quiet

2025

as Teddy Sharpe

Acting

A weathered tribal cop and his new trainee must find a ruthless fugitive, whose return to their rural Indigenous reservation has exposed its darkest s...

Keep Quiet

Keep Quiet

2025

Executive Producer

Producing

A weathered tribal cop and his new trainee must find a ruthless fugitive, whose return to their rural Indigenous reservation has exposed its darkest s...

Et Tu

Et Tu

2025

as Brent Barrymore

Acting

A stage director is driven to madness during a regional production of Julius Caesar.

Aguadilla

Aguadilla

2025

as Benicio

Acting

A modern noir starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Rene Moran, and Alina Robert. As passions surge and secrets unravel, a lethal triangle emerges between a ...

Get Fast

Get Fast

2024

as The Cowboy

4.9
Acting

When The Thief’s partner is kidnapped after stealing millions in cash from a merciless drug lord named Nushi, he reluctantly teams up with an angst-ri...

Werewolves

Werewolves

2024

as Dr. Aranda

6.1
Acting

A year after a supermoon’s light activated a dormant gene, transforming humans into bloodthirsty werewolves and causing nearly a billion deaths, the n...

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three

2024

as The Spectre (voice)

7.2
Acting

Now fully revealed as the ultimate threat to existence, the Anti-Monitor wages an unrelenting attack on the surviving Earths that struggle for surviva...

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two

2024

as The Spectre (voice)

6.7
Acting

An endless army of shadow demons bent on the destruction of all reality swarms over our world and all parallel Earths! The only thing opposing them is...

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One

2024

as The Spectre / Owlman (voice)

7.3
Acting

Death is coming. Worse than death: oblivion. Not just for our Earth, but for everyone, everywhere, in every universe! Against this ultimate destructio...

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday

2022

as Lou Diamond Phillips

5.8
Acting

Comedian and actor Joe Valencia returns home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in this...

Constantine: The House of Mystery

Constantine: The House of Mystery

2022

as Spectre (voice)

6.9
Acting

John Constantine wakes up in the eerie House of Mystery with no recollection of how he got there. Fortunately, Zatanna and his friends are all there. ...

Adverse

Adverse

2021

as Dr. Cruz

4.8
Acting

In order to save his sister, a ride-share driver must infiltrate a dangerous crime syndicate.

Big Kill

Big Kill

2019

as Johnny Kane

6.1
Acting

A tenderfoot from Philadelphia, two misfit gamblers on the run, and a deadly preacher have a date with destiny in a boom town gone bust called Big Kil...

Urban Country

Urban Country

2018

as Warden Tono

6.4
Acting

A young, troubled city girl decides to move to her family owned horse ranch in a small, southern town for the summer to care for her dying mother.

Avenge the Crows

Avenge the Crows

2017

as Casper

5.1
Acting

A former gang member and her young cousin become embroiled in a vendetta between L.A. gangs, as rivals seek revenge for old crimes.

Quest

Quest

2017

as Gus

6.0
Acting

A non-romantic true love story between a humble teacher who believes there is no such thing as a bad kid, only a bad situation, and an abused 12 year ...

Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins

Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins

2017

as Victor Delgado (voice)

Acting

Join crown princess Elena as she soars through a hidden gateway into Vallestrella, the mysterious, dazzling domain of the Jaquins. On the way there, s...

Cop and a Half: New Recruit

Cop and a Half: New Recruit

2017

as Detective Simmons

5.7
Acting

In this family-friendly action reboot of the 1993 film, Karina Foley, an ambitious and spunky 12-year-old, inserts herself in a police investigation o...

Created Equal

Created Equal

2017

as Monsignor Renzulli

6.0
Acting

A woman who wishes to become a priest hires a lawyer to file suit against the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

The Last Train

The Last Train

2017

as Gunner

4.0
Acting

Two lost souls meet at a subway station and form an unexpected connection on the night they have both decided to commit suicide.

The Night Stalker

The Night Stalker

2016

as Richard Ramirez

6.8
Acting

An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.

Sky

Sky

2015

6.2
Acting

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

The 33

The 33

2015

as Luis Urzua 'Don Lucho'

6.4
Acting

Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

The Wiggles - Rock and Roll Preschool

The Wiggles - Rock and Roll Preschool

2015

as Himself

10.0
Acting

What's the school where you sing and dance all day? The Wiggles' Rock & Roll Preschool! Anthony, Emma, Lachy and Simon have created over 20 songs that...

Sequoia

Sequoia

2014

as Colin

5.8
Acting

A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.

Filly Brown

Filly Brown

2013

as Jose Tonorio

6.2
Acting

“Majo” Tonorio, a.k.a. Filly Brown, is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits from the heart. When a sleazy record producer offers her a cr...

Sanitarium

Sanitarium

2013

as James Silo

4.7
Acting

Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamond

Lucy in the Sky with Diamond

2013

as Lou Diamond Phillips

3.5
Acting

Lou Diamond Phillips plays a hyperbolized version of himself known as the elusive and mysterious ‘LDP’ – a renegade, spirit guide, life coach characte...

Metal Tornado

Metal Tornado

2011

as Michael Edwards

4.6
Acting

The HELIOS PROJECT is a high tech facility tasked with storing and converting solar rays into an endless supply of renewable energy. After years of re...

Takedown

Takedown

2010

as David

4.7
Acting

Five years ago David's life came undone when his young daughter fell victim to a brutal attack. The subsequent emotional fallout cost him his marriage...

The Invited

The Invited

2010

as Garrett

3.2
Acting

A young married couple who are pregnant with their first child moves into their turn-of-the-century home where they discover that a great evil has res...

Angel and the Badman

Angel and the Badman

2009

as Quirt Evans

5.0
Acting

A remake of the classic 1947 John Wayne western about an injured gunslinger who falls in with good company in the form of some Quakers.

Carny

Carny

2009

as Sheriff Atlas

4.8
Acting

When a traveling carnival comes to a rural Nebraska town, the caged attraction everyone is talking about is the alleged Jersey Devil. When the beast e...

Love Takes Wing

Love Takes Wing

2009

as Ray Russell

6.8
Acting

Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local re...

Love Takes Wing

Love Takes Wing

2009

Director

6.8
Directing

Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local re...

Che: Part Two

Che: Part Two

2008

as Mario Monje

6.7
Acting

After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a sma...

Death Toll

Death Toll

2008

as Mayor Padial

3.4
Acting

New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier, the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country". Drugs and...

Lone Rider

Lone Rider

2008

as Bobby Hattaway

4.0
Acting

Bobby Hattaway (Lou Diamond Phillips), an honored soldier, returns home after the American Civil War to find his father's (Stacy Keach) formerly prosp...

Never Forget

Never Forget

2008

as Frank Hill

5.8
Acting

A man (Phillips) who wakes up with amnesia also finds his supposed friend has accused him of murder.

Naked Movie

Naked Movie

2008

as Self

2.0
Acting

When director Sam Henry Kass gets little help from his agent in procuring funding for his flick, he turns to a porn king for bucks. Soon, however, Kas...

Termination Point

Termination Point

2007

as Dr. Daniel Winter

4.5
Acting

Top secret government experiments with time travel have been shut down and declared as too dangerous to continue. The lead scientist has disappeared w...

Backyards & Bullets

Backyards & Bullets

2007

10.0
Acting

Strange things are afoot at a local suburban neighborhood watch group.

Fingerprints

Fingerprints

2006

as Doug

5.7
Acting

Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town p...

El Cortez

El Cortez

2006

as Manny DeSilva

5.6
Acting

A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry...

Aquaman

Aquaman

2006

as Tom Curry

5.9
Acting

A young twenty-something diver living in the Florida Keys discovers he has the power to breathe underwater.

Striking Range

Striking Range

2006

as Eugene "Vash" Vasher

3.9
Acting

When millionaire businessman Ted Billings (Glenn Morshower) double-crosses his partners in a weapons deal, he decides to hire some protection. Billing...

Alien Express

Alien Express

2005

as Vic Holden

4.5
Acting

A new super train is built when a meteorite crashes near by, releasing a tiny creature. Once it kills and consumes everyone on board the train, it beg...

Murder at the Presidio

Murder at the Presidio

2005

as CWO James Chandler

4.8
Acting

Based on the true story of the only homicide committed on the famed San Francisco Military base. A military Criminal Investigations Officer goes beyon...

Gone But Not Forgotten

Gone But Not Forgotten

2005

as Alan Page

4.9
Acting

An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has...

Stunt C*cks

Stunt C*cks

2004

as Self

Acting

A mockumentary about two best friends working in the adult film industry as stand-ins due to their ability to project 'loads' upon the climaxes.

Grandpa's Place

Grandpa's Place

2004

as Self

2.0
Acting

Jason and Grandpa are in Grandpa's basement where they enjoy an afternoon of imagination, fun and learning.

The Trail to Hope Rose

The Trail to Hope Rose

2004

as Keenan Deerfield

5.0
Acting

Lou Diamond Phillips and marina Black star together with Lee majors and Ernest Borgnine in a western drama. Lou plays an ex convict who tries to make ...

Red Water

Red Water

2003

as John Sanders

3.9
Acting

In the quiet waters of the Mississippi, body parts are being discovered. No one knows what is behind it all, until a huge man eating bull shark turns ...

Hollywood Homicide

Hollywood Homicide

2003

as Wanda

5.2
Acting

Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan moonligh...

Absolon

Absolon

2003

as Walters

4.1
Acting

In the near future, a virus has infected everyone on the planet, and Absolon is a drug that everyone must take to stay alive. One corporation controls...

Malevolent

Malevolent

2002

as Jack Lucas

4.6
Acting

Troubled police detective Jack Lucas is falsely accused of a series of murders and must prove his innocence by catching the real serial killer.

Stark Raving Mad

Stark Raving Mad

2002

as Gregory

6.1
Acting

A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.

Lone Hero

Lone Hero

2002

as Bart

3.6
Acting

An actor in a Wild West show must become a mythical Western Hero when a biker gang descends upon a small Montana town.

An Untold Triumph: America's Filipino Soldiers

2002

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

During World War II, 7,000 Filipino Americans volunteered their services to the U.S. Army and helped liberate their homeland from Japanese occupation....

Route 666

Route 666

2001

as Jack La Roca

5.1
Acting

Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catc...

A Better Way to Die

A Better Way to Die

2001

as William Dexter

5.7
Acting

Boomer is a rookie cop based in the urban hellhole that is downtown Chicago. After his involvement in a drug bust operation which results in the death...

Hangman

Hangman

2001

as Detective Nick Roos

3.9
Acting

Death by noose. A nasty way to die if you're not dropped from a length, but instead just had the support kicked from beneath you. A series of murders ...

Knight Club

Knight Club

2001

as Dirk Gueron

3.7
Acting

A wannabe actor becomes a bouncer and is seduced by the fast-paced world of Los Angeles nightlife.

Picking Up the Pieces

Picking Up the Pieces

2000

as Officer Alfonso

4.3
Acting

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...

Supernova

Supernova

2000

as Yerzy Penalosa

4.9
Acting

Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. Wha...

Bats

Bats

1999

as Sheriff Emmett Kimsey

4.6
Acting

Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.

In a Class of His Own

In a Class of His Own

1999

as Ricardo 'Rich' Donato

8.0
Acting

Rich Donato is the high school janitor at an Oregon high school. He is looked up to by the kids who often seek his advice. There is only one problem: ...

Brokedown Palace

Brokedown Palace

1999

as Roy Knox

6.4
Acting

Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls hi...

Behind The Music: The Day The Music Died

1999

as Self

Acting

On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash ...

Another Day in Paradise

Another Day in Paradise

1998

as Jewels (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and...

The Big Hit

The Big Hit

1998

as Cisco

6.0
Acting

Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassin...

Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes

1997

as Camel

Acting

A look at why children smoke, showing how tobacco companies target their age group to perpetuate the rise in tobacco usage.

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

1997

as Self

Acting

Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

1997

as Abba Kovner / Eliahu Rosenberg (voices)

5.8
Acting

David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made...

Hourglass

Hourglass

1997

as uncredited

4.8
Acting

A business executive gets mixed up with a killer female and her lesbian roommate, who plot to take over his fashion business.

Courage Under Fire

Courage Under Fire

1996

as Staff Sergeant John Monfriez

6.5
Acting

A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female cho...

Undertow

Undertow

1996

as Jack Ketchum

5.7
Acting

After his car breaks down, Jack seeks shelter, lost in a thunderstorm in a remote shack in the woods. He finds himself held at gunpoint by a deranged ...

The Wharf Rat

The Wharf Rat

1996

as Petey Martin

4.6
Acting

Two brothers live on the opposite sides of the law. One a cop, the other working the waterfront as a crooked businessman. When the policeman is myster...

Override

Override

1994

as Cal

Acting

Override is a 1994 American science fiction short film. It was the directorial debut of Danny Glover and starred Lou Diamond Phillips and Emily Lloyd....

Boulevard

Boulevard

1994

as Hassan

4.4
Acting

A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dread...

Sioux City

Sioux City

1994

as Jesse Rainfeather Goldman

5.1
Acting

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller...

Sioux City

Sioux City

1994

Director

5.1
Directing

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller...

Teresa's Tattoo

Teresa's Tattoo

1994

as Wheeler

4.9
Acting

Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want her to live a little, drag her out to parties. Th...

Dangerous Touch

Dangerous Touch

1994

as Mick Burroughs

3.7
Acting

A promiscuous radio sex therapist is dragged into blackmail by a young hustler.

Dangerous Touch

Dangerous Touch

1994

Director, Writer

3.7
Directing Writing

A promiscuous radio sex therapist is dragged into blackmail by a young hustler.

Wind in the Wire

Wind in the Wire

1993

7.0
Acting

A movie within a movie about making a movie...Randy Travis stars in a western movie that is being filmed. There is lots of singing and fighting going ...

Extreme Justice

Extreme Justice

1993

as Jeff Powers

4.9
Acting

Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop...

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

1993

as Self

Acting

Willie Nelson and friends celebrate his sixtieth birthday in a star-studded concert event.

The Panama Deception

The Panama Deception

1992

as English Voice-over

6.9
Acting

This winner of the 1993 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature details the case that the 1989 invasion of Panama by the US was motivated not by th...

The Dark Wind

The Dark Wind

1992

as Officer Jim Chee

5.3
Acting

An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.

Shadow of the Wolf

Shadow of the Wolf

1992

as Agaguk

5.8
Acting

In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes perse...

Ambition

1991

as Mitchell Osgood

3.8
Acting

Mitchell Osgood dreams of being a famous writer, but the book he has written constantly is rejected by the editors. When the psychopathic killer Alber...

Ambition

1991

Screenplay

3.8
Writing

Mitchell Osgood dreams of being a famous writer, but the book he has written constantly is rejected by the editors. When the psychopathic killer Alber...

Harley

Harley

1991

as Harley

2.7
Acting

Harley is a 'troubled teen' from L.A. who is arrested. A progressive social worker has Harley sent to Texas to live with the Nortons, an open-minded, ...

Young Guns II

Young Guns II

1990

as Jose Chavez y Chavez

6.5
Acting

Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of ...

Demon Wind

Demon Wind

1990

as Demon

4.9
Acting

The strange and brutal deaths of Cory’s grandparents has haunted him for years. Determined to discover the truth, he has returned to the desolate regi...

A Show of Force

A Show of Force

1990

as Jesus Fuentes

4.8
Acting

In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe m...

The First Power

The First Power

1990

as Det. Russell Logan

5.6
Acting

A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and p...

Renegades

Renegades

1989

as Hank Storm

5.3
Acting

While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to participate in a heist, leading to innocent casual...

Disorganized Crime

Disorganized Crime

1989

as Ray Forgy

5.4
Acting

Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do...

Dakota

Dakota

1988

as John Dakota

4.0
Acting

John Dakota is young bum with a hidden past. He meets a nice family and works on their ranch. He soon becomes a good friend of the disabled son and he...

Dakota

Dakota

1988

Associate Producer

4.0
Producing

John Dakota is young bum with a hidden past. He meets a nice family and works on their ranch. He soon becomes a good friend of the disabled son and he...

Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver

1988

as Angel Guzman

7.6
Acting

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional...

Young Guns

Young Guns

1988

as Chavez y Chavez

6.7
Acting

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes t...

The Three Kings

The Three Kings

1987

as Tag

2.8
Acting

The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the ...

La Bamba

La Bamba

1987

as Ritchie Valens

7.3
Acting

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his g...

Trespasses

Trespasses

1986

as Drifter

4.8
Acting

A couple of drifters (Adam Roarke and Lou Diamond Phillips) molest Sharon (Mary Pillot). Franklin (Robert Kuhn) scares them away, but loses his son wh...

Interface

Interface

1985

as Punk no. 1

3.1
Acting

A group of strange beings at a master computer control room use their equipment to kill people by remote control.

Time Bomb

Time Bomb

1984

as Terrorist

4.0
Acting

A gang of terrorists tries to hijack a truck carrying plutonium.

Young Guns III

Young Guns III

N/A

as Chavez

Acting

Plot kept under wraps. Third installment of the 'Young Guns' film franchise.

City Kid

N/A

as Harley

Acting

Story of a troubled youth growing up on the mean streets of the big city.

Casa Grande: The Movie

N/A

Acting

A prodigal daughter rejoins her family at their farm during a difficult time, as her ailing father faces both a terminal diagnosis and mounting pressu...

Drowning

N/A

as Tommy Nuts

Acting

Centers on Cece, a single mother battling poverty and eviction while raising a sick son. Her brother Dante, fresh from prison, returns, mirroring Cece...