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Complete Filmography

F1
2025
as Baja Old Timer
Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver—while chasing one more cha...

Delfino's Journey
2025
as Abuelo
On the run from a bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartel, Delfino and Salvador cross the Rio Grande on an epic adventure in search of the American dream – i...

Atropia
2025
as Jerry Jiminez
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to...

Seven Cemeteries
2024
as Abuelo
A recent parolee gets a Mexican witch to resurrect his old posse so that they can help him save a woman's ranch from a ruthless drug lord.

Moe
2023
Moe, a fun-loving theater artist working on a one woman show, finds out that he is dying from an AIDS related illness. Naturally, his response is to i...

Centurion: The Dancing Stallion
2023
as Jorge Rodriquez
Ellissia adopts a white stallion to train in the art of Mexican horse dancing. As she starts teaching the handsome but previously abused Centurion, El...

Baby Blue
2023
as Bud
A group of teens stumble across the story of now dead serial killer Baby Blue and decide he'd be the perfect subject of a true crime vodcast. But when...

The Hyperions
2022
as Delano
In 1960, Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum invented the Titan badge - a device that enables humans to have a particular super power. He took in three down-o...

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
as Yucatan Elder
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s dea...

The Old Ways
2021
as Javi
Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidna...

Spiked
2021
as Jose
Inspired by True Events. When the murder of a migrant worker shakes a southwest border town to its core, the feud between a newspaper owner and the ch...

The Devil Has a Name
2019
as Farmhand 1
An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

Culture Shock
2019
as Coyote
A young Mexican woman crosses the border in search of the American dream, only to instead find her worst nightmare lying within.

El Chicano
2019
as El Gallo
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

Acuitzeramo
2019
as Salvador
Salvador, a gay Mexican elder who has lost his partner of 15 years, calls his partner’s estranged son, Anthony, to tell him of his father’s passing. U...

Velvet Buzzsaw
2019
as Roadside Vendor
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovere...

Monday Nights at Seven
2016
as Jorge
Monday Nights At Seven is a love story about a single father, Lazo Saroby, who is struggling unsuccessfully to let go of his past. Then he meets Isabe...

Road to Juarez
2015
as Manuel
An American ex-con with Mexican underworld ties ensnares a pair of young misfits into a dangerous heist in Mexico. Inspired by true events.

Go for Sisters
2013
as Morales
Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne...
Addicto de Salsa
2009
Crucial outline following the life of a heroin addicted salsa singer.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008
as Ring Announcer
A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her fri...

The Astronaut Farmer
2007
as Pepe Garcia
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unli...

Lost in Plainview
2006
as Roberto
On a stretch of lonely deserted highway, Melissa and Nina - two beautiful law students traveling cross-country - end up on a horrific, high speed, all...

ESL: English as a Second Language
2005
as Pepe
Bolivar De La Cruz (Kuno Becker) and Lola Sara (Danielle Camastra) share only ethnicity. He's just arrived from Mexico looking for work. Father´s Lola...

El padrino: The Latin Godfather
2004
as Loco
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns...

Silver City
2004
as Tony Guerra
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor o...

Paparazzi
2004
as Mexican Man
A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a perso...

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
2003
as Additional Voices (voice)
As if the Penguin wasn't enough to contend with, a new vigilante has surfaced in Gotham City, and her strong-arm tactics give Batman cause for concern...

The Banger Sisters
2002
as Pump Attendant
In the late '60s, the self-proclaimed belles of the rock 'n' roll ball, rocked the worlds of every music legend whose pants they could take off -- and...

Missing Pieces
2001
as Castillo
Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.

Price of Glory
2000
as Hector Salmon
An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded...

Luminarias
2000
Welcome to Luminarias-where hot spicy dish gets served up with a Latin twist by four successful friends from East LA...with very discriminating taste ...

Luminarias
2000
Producer
Welcome to Luminarias-where hot spicy dish gets served up with a Latin twist by four successful friends from East LA...with very discriminating taste ...

Flypaper
1999
as Leon
Greed, lust and fate bring together a motley collection of oddballs and lowlifes for some rather sticky situations in Hoch's twisted neo-noir debut. T...

Nightman
1997
as Mr. Alvarez
After lightning strikes saxophonist Johnny Domino, he finds he is telepathically tuned to the frequency of evil. This gives him an edge for finding th...

The End of Violence
1997
as Tito
In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

Selena
1997
as Juan Luis
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young d...

Breaking Through
1996
as John Sanchez
Laura is a 20 year old deaf girl who has never been taught sign language. She is rescued from neglect and physical abuse by Pam, a social worker. Pam ...

Journey
1995
as Boone
Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while living with their grandfather.

...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
1995
as El Mohado
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker fa...

There Goes My Baby
1994
as Chicano
It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth wa...

Blue Tiger
1994
as Luis
Gena is a sweet and dedicated mother to her little son. One day, whilst shopping with him for a halloween mask, her son is accidently shot through the...

River of Rage: The Taking of Maggie Keene
1993
as Paco
A white water rafting vacation turns into a nightmare when divorced mother Maggie Keene must confront the deadly and charismatic killer who is stalkin...

Return of the Living Dead III
1993
as Felipe
Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on...

From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One
1992
as Alfredo Ramirez
In the first of a potential series of films inspired by the real-life experiences of Los Angeles police officer turned bestselling author Joseph Wamba...

Cold Heaven
1992
as Young Doctor
An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life.

American Me
1992
as Pedro Santana
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana ...

Lookwell
1991
as Manny
The former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. The pilot was broadcast on NBC in July 1991 but was not picked up as a series despite being ...

El Diablo
1990
as Sentry
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...

Cartel
1990
as Steve Rodriguez / Bill Matthews
Chuck Taylor is a charter pilot who unknowingly smuggles cocaine for the Cartel into the U.S. Unfortunately he is captured by the feds. Ironically, so...

Down the Drain
1990
as Chico
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he...

Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
1989
as Carlos
A socially isolated and extremely shy Los Angeles painter finds his dream girl in the form of a struggling actress and finds himself at last finding t...

Born in East L.A.
1987
as What's Happening Boy
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As hi...

Full Metal Jacket
1987
as T.H.E. Rock
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the ...

Get Out of My Room
1985
as Illegal Alien (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...

The Glitter Dome
1984
as Chuey Verdugio
Al Mackey and Marty are homicide cops in Hollywood and hot on the trail of the murderer of a movie mogul that was moonlighting by making child porno p...

Zoot Suit
1981
as Hobo
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case an...

Midnight Madness
1980
as Blade - Blue Team
A genius grad student organizes an all-night treasure hunt in which five rival teams composed of colorful oddballs furiously match wits with one anoth...

Roses on the Vine
N/A
as Mr. Rodriguez
During a scorching Los Angeles summer, a single dad food delivery gig worker with a checkered past and his mischievous seven year old daughter crisscr...