Edward James Olmos

All Movies of Edward James Olmos

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  Walking with Herb
  65-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 besieg...
   2021

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  Chasing Wonders
  A story centered on a 12-year-old boy trying to escape his dysfunctional, multi-generational Spanish family.
   2020

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  5.0
  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.
  Character: Santiago | Movie director

   2019

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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.
  Character: Balthazar

   2019

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  5.7
  A Dog's Way Home
  "A Dog’s Way Home" chronicles the heartwarming adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
  Character: Axel

   2019

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  4.9
  Imprisoned
  Dylan Burke (Juan Pablo Raba), attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal, with his true love, Maria (Juana Acosta). He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden...
  Character: Hospicio

   2018

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  7.1
  Mayans M.C. (TV Series)
  "Mayans M.C." takes place two-and-a-half years after the events of "Sons of Anarchy" and it focuses on the struggles of Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes, a prospect in the Mayan M.C. charter on the California/Mexic...
  Character:  Felipe Reyes 20 episodes, 2018-2019

   2018

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  5.3
  The Predator
  From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black's explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier t...
   2018

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  8.1
  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 whats left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a ques...
  Character: Gaff

   2017

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  Marty Sader
  A story of people searching for connections and meaning in a messy world.
   2016

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  8.6
  Narcos (TV Series)
  NARCOS is the true story of U.S. and Colombian efforts in the 1980s to battle the infamous Pablo Escobar and the Medellin drug cartel, one of the richest, most ruthless criminal organizations in the history of modern crime.
  Character:  Chucho Peña 2 episodes, 2017

   2015

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  6.7
  Go For Sisters
  Character: Freddy Suarez

   2013

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  5.8
  2 Guns
  For the past 12 months, DEA agent Bobby Trench (Denzel Washington) and U.S. naval intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Mark Wahlberg) have been reluctantly attached at the hip. Working undercover as members of a narcotics syndicat...
  Character: Papi Greco

   2013

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  6.0
  Filly Brown
  FILLY BROWN is an inspiring and gritty portrait of a young artist’s striving to find her voice and seize her dreams without compromise. Majo Tonorio, a.k.a. “Filly Brown,” is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits...
  Character: Leandro

   2012

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  America
  America, a 30-year-old mother who lives in a remote Caribbean village, suffers the hardest hit when her abusive lover takes their daughter from her. Fury and fear push her to run away. In her new life as a nanny in New York City, ...
  Character: Mr. Irving

   2011

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  5.0
  The Green Hornet
  By night, debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid fights crime as a masked superhero known as The Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato. Britt Reid (Seth Rogen), son and heir to Los Angeles' largest newspaper fortu...
  Character: Axford

   2011

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  6.7
  Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
  The number One Cylon brothers Cavil organize a massive coordinate simultaneous attack to destroy the twelve colonies, but it fails to wipe out human life or break the human spirit. They now orchestrate deceptive actions, infiltrat...
  Character: Commander William Adama | Movie director

   2009

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  8.3
  Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
  The definitive three-and-a-half hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic "Blade Runner," culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost f
  Character: Self

   2007

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  7.6
  Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashback (TV Series)
  A series of webisodes that tell the story of William Adama who as a youth uncovers a Cylon experiment while serving in the first Cylon War.
  Character:  Commander William Adama 1 episode, 2007

   2007

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  7.6
  Battlestar Galactica: Razor (TV)
  A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.
  Character: Admiral William Adama

   2007

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  4.4
  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 s...
  Character: Captain Garcia

   2006

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  6.5
  Walkout (TV)
  Edward James Olmos directs this HBO Films drama that tells the true but little-known story of a group of Chicano students who staged a compelling 1968 walkout to protest the injustices of the public high-school system in East Los ...
  Director of the film

   2006

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  8.7
  Dexter (TV Series)
  TV Series (2006-2013). Based on Jeff Lindsay's novels "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" and "Dearly Devoted Dexter" this crime thriller follows Dexter Morgan. Dexter is a forensic blood spatter expert for the Miami Dade...
  Character:  Prof. James Gellar 10 episodes, 2011

   2006

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  8.2
  Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)
  TV Series (2004-2009). Sci-Fi. Entering these words is an act of optimism. The human race, in its entirety, now numbers only 50,000 souls. In a single day, in a matter of hours, the Cylons overrode the defenses of each of the 12 C...
  Character:  Admiral William Adama / ... 74 episodes, 2004-2009 | Movie director

   2004

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  8.3
  Battlestar Galactica (TV Miniseries)
  In a distant galaxy lie The Twelve Colonies of Man, a civilization that has been at peace for some forty years with an empire of machines, the Cylons, who were created generations before as worker drones for mankind, but became in...
  Character:  Admiral William Adama / ... 73 episodes, 2004-2009

   2003

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  6.7
  American Family (TV Miniseries)
  Mini-Serie (2002-2004). 2 Seasons. The head of the household, Jess Gonzalez, is your average father who is forced to fight everyday troubles, following the death of his loving wife Berta. Their beloved daughter, Nina, has recently...
   2002

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  8.0
  The Judge (TV)
  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 harsh and inflexible rulings are notorious...
  Character: 2 episodes, 2001

   2001

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  5.9
  In the Time of the Butterflies (TV)
  In the Time of the Butterflies tells the real-life story of the Mirabal sisters, courageous revolutionaries known covertly as las Mariposas ("the Butterflies"). The sisters' years of dissent during the Trujillo dictators...
  Character: Trujillo

   2001

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  4.6
  Gossip
  Derrick, Cathy, and Travis, three students and fellow roommates, decide to do a class project on gossip. Derrick witnesses couple Naomi and Beau making out at a night club, but then she passes out and Beau leaves. Cathy spreads th...
  Character: Detective Curtis

   2000

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  6.0
  Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (TV)
  A young Sicilian sets off for the new world in this TV drama directed by Michel Poulette. His dream is to make a good living and build an honest life, but once he reaches America, he submits to the siren call of crime and vice. Hi...
  Character: Salvatore Maranzano

   1999

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  4.0
  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (TV)
  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.
  Character: Det. Anthony Piscotti

   1998

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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...
  Character: Vamanos

   1998

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  6.0
  The Wall (TV)
  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
   1998

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  4.0
  Hollywood Confidential (TV)
  A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types.
  Character: Stan Navarro, Sr.

   1997

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  8.0
  Twelve Angry Men (12 Angry Men) (TV)
  Made for cable television version of the 1957 classic about eleven jurors quick to condemn a Latino youth on trial for murdering his father before reviewing the evidence. Juror #8 holds out with a verdict of not guilty, thus setti...
  Character: Juror #11

   1997

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  Gun (TV)
  TV miniseries (1997). 6 episodes. A security guard who is certain an Arab man who has entered the airport is a threat. A bunch of friends in a country club when an abandoned and loaded gun turns up. A young girl stuck with her pas...
  Character:  Father Santos 1 episode, 1997

   1997

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  6.7
  Selena
  A celebration of the life of Tejano princess Selena Quintanilla Perez, the rising star who was gunned down by the president of her own fan club in 1995. Amid the racial tensions and economic hardships of 1980s South Texas, the dau...
  Character: Abraham Quintanilla

   1997

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  5.0
  The Limbic Region (TV)
  A San Francisco detective is obsessed with catching a serial killer who has been killing people for over 20 years. When the detective learns that he has only a few weeks of life left, he tries his one last shot - taking the suspec...
  Character: Jon Lucca

   1996

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  6.3
  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 B...
  Character: Joe

   1996

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  7.1
  Dead Man's Walk (TV Miniseries)
  Character:  Captain Salazar 3 episodes, 1996

   1996

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  6.7
  The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
  A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Federico Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
  Character: Roberto Lozano

   1996

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  500 Nations (TV Miniseries)
  An exploration of the various Native American nations and their fall to the European conquerors.
  Character: 3 episodes, 1995

   1995

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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.
   1995

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  6.7
  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 fa...
   1995

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  Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (TV)
  Investigation based upon the true story of the Mendendez Brothers and the murder of their parents.
  Character: Jose Menendez

   1994

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  6.7
  The Burning Season (TV)
  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 wil...
  Character: Wilson Pinheiro

   1994

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  3.4
  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
  Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising and her NY agent 'the Countess' sends her to his ranch in CA to shoot a commercial, set agai...
  Character: Musician at Barbecue

   1993

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  6.8
  American Me
  Character: Montoya Santana | Movie director

   1992

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  6.0
  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-hung...
  Character: Virgil Sweet

   1991

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  6.9
  Triumph of the Spirit
  Character: Gypsy

   1989

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  The Fortunate Pilgrim (TV Miniseries)
  Character:  Frank Corbo 3 episodes, 1988

   1988

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  7.3
  Stand and Deliver
  Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos) is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hoper...
  Character: Jaime Escalante

   1988

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  6.6
  Miami Vice (TV Series)
  TV Series (1984-1990). 5 Seasons. 111 Episodes. Miami Vice was one of the most innovative and powerful TV series of all time, focusing on the Miami Metro-Dade police "Vice" department and it`s continued battle against th...
  Character:  Lieutenant Martin Castillo / ... 107 episodes, 1984-1989

   1984

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  8.6
  Blade Runner
  Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a retired cop in Los Angeles circa 2019. L.A. has become a pan-cultural dystopia of corporate advertising, pollution and flying automobiles, as well as replicants, human-like androids with short lif...
  Character: Gaff

   1982

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  6.4
  Wolfen
  A city cop is assigned to solve a bizarre set of violent murders where it appears that the victoms were killed by animals. In his pursuit he learns of an Indian legend about wolf spirits.
  Character: Eddie Holt

   1981

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  6.8
  Zoot Suit
  Character: El Pachuco

   1981

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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.
  Character: Chicano #1 (as Eddie Olmos)

   1975