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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Keep Quiet
2025
as Teddy Sharpe
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
2025
Executive Producer
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
2025
as Brent Barrymore
A stage director is driven to madness during a regional production of Julius Caesar.

Aguadilla
2025
as Benicio
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
2024
as The Cowboy
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
2024
as Dr. Aranda
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
2024
as The Spectre (voice)
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
2024
as The Spectre (voice)
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
2024
as The Spectre / Owlman (voice)
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
2022
as Lou Diamond Phillips
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
2022
as Spectre (voice)
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
2021
as Dr. Cruz
In order to save his sister, a ride-share driver must infiltrate a dangerous crime syndicate.

Big Kill
2019
as Johnny Kane
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
2018
as Warden Tono
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
2017
as Casper
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
2017
as Gus
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
2017
as Victor Delgado (voice)
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
2017
as Detective Simmons
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
2017
as Monsignor Renzulli
A woman who wishes to become a priest hires a lawyer to file suit against the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

The Last Train
2017
as Gunner
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
2016
as Richard Ramirez
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.

Sky
2015
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

The 33
2015
as Luis Urzua 'Don Lucho'
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
2015
as Himself
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
2014
as Colin
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
2013
as Jose Tonorio
“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
2013
as James Silo
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
2013
as Lou Diamond Phillips
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
2011
as Michael Edwards
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
2010
as David
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
2010
as Garrett
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
2009
as Quirt Evans
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
2009
as Sheriff Atlas
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
2009
as Ray Russell
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
2009
Director
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
2008
as Mario Monje
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
2008
as Mayor Padial
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
2008
as Bobby Hattaway
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
2008
as Frank Hill
A man (Phillips) who wakes up with amnesia also finds his supposed friend has accused him of murder.

Naked Movie
2008
as Self
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
2007
as Dr. Daniel Winter
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
2007
Strange things are afoot at a local suburban neighborhood watch group.

Fingerprints
2006
as Doug
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
2006
as Manny DeSilva
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
2006
as Tom Curry
A young twenty-something diver living in the Florida Keys discovers he has the power to breathe underwater.

Striking Range
2006
as Eugene "Vash" Vasher
When millionaire businessman Ted Billings (Glenn Morshower) double-crosses his partners in a weapons deal, he decides to hire some protection. Billing...

Alien Express
2005
as Vic Holden
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
2005
as CWO James Chandler
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
2005
as Alan Page
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
2004
as Self
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
2004
as Self
Jason and Grandpa are in Grandpa's basement where they enjoy an afternoon of imagination, fun and learning.

The Trail to Hope Rose
2004
as Keenan Deerfield
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
2003
as John Sanders
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
2003
as Wanda
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
2003
as Walters
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
2002
as Jack Lucas
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
2002
as Gregory
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.

Lone Hero
2002
as Bart
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)
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
2001
as Jack La Roca
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
2001
as William Dexter
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
2001
as Detective Nick Roos
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
2001
as Dirk Gueron
A wannabe actor becomes a bouncer and is seduced by the fast-paced world of Los Angeles nightlife.

Picking Up the Pieces
2000
as Officer Alfonso
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
2000
as Yerzy Penalosa
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
1999
as Sheriff Emmett Kimsey
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
1999
as Ricardo 'Rich' Donato
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
1999
as Roy Knox
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
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
1998
as Jewels (uncredited)
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
1998
as Cisco
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
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
1997
as Self
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
as Abba Kovner / Eliahu Rosenberg (voices)
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
1997
as uncredited
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
1996
as Staff Sergeant John Monfriez
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
1996
as Jack Ketchum
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
1996
as Petey Martin
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
1994
as Cal
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
1994
as Hassan
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
1994
as Jesse Rainfeather Goldman
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
1994
Director
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
1994
as Wheeler
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
1994
as Mick Burroughs
A promiscuous radio sex therapist is dragged into blackmail by a young hustler.

Dangerous Touch
1994
Director, Writer
A promiscuous radio sex therapist is dragged into blackmail by a young hustler.

Wind in the Wire
1993
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
1993
as Jeff Powers
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
1993
as Self
Willie Nelson and friends celebrate his sixtieth birthday in a star-studded concert event.

The Panama Deception
1992
as English Voice-over
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
1992
as Officer Jim Chee
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.

Shadow of the Wolf
1992
as Agaguk
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
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
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
1991
as Harley
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
1990
as Jose Chavez y Chavez
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
1990
as Demon
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
1990
as Jesus Fuentes
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
1990
as Det. Russell Logan
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
1989
as Hank Storm
While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to participate in a heist, leading to innocent casual...

Disorganized Crime
1989
as Ray Forgy
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
1988
as John Dakota
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
1988
Associate Producer
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
1988
as Angel Guzman
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional...

Young Guns
1988
as Chavez y Chavez
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
1987
as Tag
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
1987
as Ritchie Valens
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
1986
as Drifter
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
1985
as Punk no. 1
A group of strange beings at a master computer control room use their equipment to kill people by remote control.

Time Bomb
1984
as Terrorist
A gang of terrorists tries to hijack a truck carrying plutonium.

Young Guns III
N/A
as Chavez
Plot kept under wraps. Third installment of the 'Young Guns' film franchise.
City Kid
N/A
as Harley
Story of a troubled youth growing up on the mean streets of the big city.
Casa Grande: The Movie
N/A
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
Centers on Cece, a single mother battling poverty and eviction while raising a sick son. Her brother Dante, fresh from prison, returns, mirroring Cece...