Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos

Date of Birth: 24 Feb 1947

Country: USA

Biography: Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is a Mexican American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, Detective Gaff in Blade Runner, and narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit...(Wikipedia)

Total Credits at Criticker: 58 (Actor), 5 (Director)

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    Blade Runner
    Harrison Ford stars as former detective Rick Deckard who is on the hunt for "replicants," androids, attempting to pass as humans in technogrunge 2019 Los Angeles.
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    Gossip
    Sex, deception and rumor detonate when fellow university students and roommates Derrick (Marsden), Jones (Headey) and Travis (Reedus) collaborate on their new journalism class assignment: identifying the link between news and gossip. (Warner Brothers)
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    The Road to El Dorado
    The story is about two swindlers who get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado while pulling off some sort of scam. Their plan goes bad and the rogues end up lost at sea after a number of misfortunes. Oddly enough, they end up on the shores of El Dorado and are worshiped by the natives for their foreign appearance. (imdb)
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    Selena
    This biographical drama charting the extraordinary career and tragic slaying of pop singing sensation Selena. (Warner Bros.)
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    American Me
    This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who... (imdb)
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    Stand and Deliver
    A dedicated teacher inspires his dropout prone students to learn calculus to build up their self-esteem and do so well that they are accused of cheating. (imdb)
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    12 Angry Men
    Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jury's decision. (imdb)
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    Wolfen
    A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks. (imdb)
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    Battlestar Galactica
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    My Family
    Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930's. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the 50's. As the second generation become adults in the 60's, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent. (imdb)
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    Splinter
    On the mean streets of LA, two gangsters - - Dreamer (Almeida) and Dusty (Noel G.) - - unite over the mysterious murder of their brother. Dreamer, with the bullet that killed his brother still lodged in his skull, is desperately seeking revenge when he crosses paths with Detective Gramm (Atis), a confident rookie cop partnered with corrupt veteran Cunningham (Sizemore)... (imdb)
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    Battlestar Galactica: Razor
    A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica. (imdb)
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    Recycled Life
    Recycled Life (2006) - Short Film
    The dramatic and touching story of thousands of adults, children, and generations of families who have been living and working in the largest and most toxic landfill in Central America, the Guatemala City Garbage Dump, over the last sixty years. (imdb)
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    The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
    Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a suit - it makes wishes of the one wearing it come true. (imdb)
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    Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe, a ritzy Beverly Hills chihuahua, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order to get back home. (imdb)
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    Virus
    A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction. (imdb)
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    The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
    A journalist (Morales) starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca (Garcia), who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
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    Triumph of the Spirit
    A stevedore in Thessaloniki, Greece, Arouch's passion is boxing. Captured along with his family and fiance Allegra in 1943 and interred in Auschwitz, Arouch is used by his SS captors as entertainment, forced to box against fellow prisoners. He knows that if he refuses, his family will be punished; if he wins, he will be given extra rations which he can share with them; if he loses, he will be sent to the gas chamber...
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    Aloha Bobby and Rose
    Bobby and Rose, two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an assassination. (imdb)
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    American Playhouse
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    Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
    The Cylons began as humanity's robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan: destroy the race that enslaved them. This film tells the story of two Cylon leaders, working separately, and their determination to finish the task.
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    The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
    In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away? (imdb)
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    Caught
    Joe and Betty run a fish market and have sunk into a comfortable, if somewhat boring life. Enter the drifter Nick, who takes a job in the store and a place in their home. He proceeds to awaken Joe's hope in the future as well as Betty's sexual passions. Until their son Danny returns home and notices the changes... (imdb)
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    500 Nations
    500 Nations (1995) - TV Mini-Series
    his comprehensive documentary chronicles the history of the indigenous people of North and Central America, beginning with the pre-Colombian era through their brushes with European colonization, capping off with the defeat of the North American Plains Indians in the 19th century. The remarkable story unfolds through transcripts depicting the historical events, as well as first-hand recollections, photographs and computer reenactments.
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    In the Time of the Butterflies
    In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. (imdb)
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    I\
    A documentary on Joaquin Phoenix's transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper.
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    Talent for the Game
    Virgil Sweet is on the verge of losing his job as a talent scout with the California Angels when he discovers Sammy Bodeen, a country boy with no pro ball experience, but with a pitching arm no one has seen the like of. Money-hungry owners want to make a quick buck while Sammy just wants to play ball. Virgil finds himself caught in the middle. Written by Lars Skogan (imdb)
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    The Green Hornet
    Seth Rogen and writing partner Evan Goldberg (Superbad) apply their trademark humor to the superhero genre in this big-screen action-adventure about a newspaper-publishing playboy (Rogen) who dons a disguise to fight crime after hours. As the Green Hornet, Britt Reid's power is no longer limited to the printed page -- and thanks to a nimble martial-arts expert (Jay Chou), he has the skills to expose the city's roughest criminals.
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    Dead Man\
    Dead Man's Walk (1996) - TV Mini-Series
    Gus (David Arquette) and Woodrow (Jonny Lee Miller) join up with a ragtag band of Rangers determined to take Santa Fe away from Mexico, but they soon find they've walked into a dangerous but forbidding territory of populated by hostile Indians and dangerous opportunists. Dead Man's Walk also features Brian Dennehy, F. Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, and Edward James Olmos. (allmovie.com)
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    The Judge
    The Judge (2001) - TV Movie
    Everything brilliant and compassionate defense attorney Paul Madriani stands for is put to the test when he's hired to defend an indefensible adversary, Baltimore's Judge Armando Acosti's. Acosti is arrested for soliciting a prostitute-undercover vice cop, Brittany Hill, who's called in as key witness for the prosecution. When Hill is murdered, and all evidence points to the judge, Acosti finds himself in desperate need of a savvy defense. (imdb)
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    Saving Grace
    A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately teach the Pope and his new friends some important lessons about friendship and self-esteem. (imdb)
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    Filly Brown
    "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 crack at rap stardom, Majo faces some daunting choices. With an incarcerated mother, a record contract could be the ticket out for her struggling family. But taking the deal means selling out her talent and the true friends who helped her to the cusp of success. (mubi.com)
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    Zoot Suit
    A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped almost to the ankle.... the rebellious fashion of young men) had on the morals and attitudes of the people of that era. (imdb)
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    The Burning Season
    Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder. (imdb)
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    Evening in Byzantium
    Terrorists invade the Cannes Film Festival. (imdb)
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    2 Guns
    A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from. (imdb)
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    Go for Sisters
    Upon her release from jail, Fontayne enlists the help of Bernice - her estranged old friend and current parole officer - and a disgraced cop to search for his son, who went missing on the Mexican border.
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    The Wall
    The Wall (1998) - TV Movie
    The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects the living with the dead and are left as either memorials or to heal the wounds of war.
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    Exile Nation: The Plastic People
    September 11th then a decade-long period of anti-immigrant policies in the United States. Mass-deportation of "non-citizens." Current estimates are between 4 to 6 million. Latinos, primarily Mexicans, make up 97% of those deported. They return to a country with a devastated economy in the midst of a cartel war. Stripped of all identification they are considered "illegal" in Mexico too, and as a consequence, unemployable...and criminal. Disavowed by both nations, they struggle to survive ... (devolverdigital.com)
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    Mirage
    Matteo Juarez is a retired detective hired by a local businessman to follow his wife Jennifer. She has a split personality and seems to be putting herself in danger without knowing it. (Sounds familiar? Yes indeed, same plot as Vertigo.)
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    Battlestar Galactica
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    Miami Vice
    Miami Vice (1984) - TV Series
    The adventures of the vice squad detectives of the Miami Police Department. (imdb)
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    Unity
    Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years. (Nation Earth)
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    Blade Runner 2049
    Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. (imdb)
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    Americano
    A Mexican parrot named Cuco sets off on an adventure to defend his family. (imdb)
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    Coco
    Aspiring musician Miguel teams up with charming trickster Hector on an extraordinary journey through the Land of the Dead. (imdb)
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    Mayans M.C.
    Mayans M.C. (2018) - TV Series
    Set in a post-Jax Teller world, "Mayans MC" sees EZ Reyes, a former golden boy now fresh out of prison, as a prospect in the Mayan MC charter on the California-Mexico border who must carve out his new outlaw identity.
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    Imprisoned
    Dylan Burke has made many mistakes in his former life as a small-time criminal, but he put his dark past behind him when he found the love of his life, Maria. (imdb)
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    A Dog\
    A dog travels 400 miles in search of her owner. (imdb)
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    Hollywood Confidential
    A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types. (imdb)
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    The Devil Has a Name
    A psychotic oil matriarch leaves the whole industry exposed when she attempts to outfight a bullish farmer whose water has been poisoned. (imdb)
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    Walking with Herb
    Sixty-five-year-old Joe Amable-Amo thinks nothing much in his background distinguishes him from other guys his age. He is struggling with his faith after tragedy hits. As the former amateur golfer's life continues to unfold, Joe is besieged with his marriage, working as a bank executive, and gearing up for retirement. But as he is about to discover, life has a way of throwing a curveball that changes everything.
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    Chasing Wonders
    A coming-of-age story set across the lush wine country of both Australia and Spain, a young man explores the nature of father-son relationships and the pathway toward understanding and forgiveness. (imdb)
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    Roosters
    Gallo Morales returns home after being imprisoned for seven years for murdering a man over a cockfight. His family welcomes him back with mixed feelings. While his daughter Angela is eager to have him back, his son Hector feels otherwise. Hector desires to leave behind the farm and wants to use the family's prize-winning cock, which he has inherited from his grandfather, to win money in order to move his family away.
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    Bless This Mess
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    The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
    After he is accused of murdering a lawman in 1901 Texas, a Mexican-American farmer flees and manages to elude a large posse for two weeks before he is finally captured. (imdb)
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    Windows on the World
    After watching the news on 9/11 with his family, Fernando travels from Mexico to New York City to find his father, an undocumented worker at the World Trade Center's famous Windows on the World restaurant.
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    Bonanno: A Godfather\
    The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America. (imdb)
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