Jacob Vargas

Jacob Vargas

Born: August 18, 1971
in Michoacan, Mexico
Jacob Vargas (born August 18, 1971) is a Mexican-American actor. He began his acting career when he was discovered breakdancing in a schoolyard at age 12. His introduction to acting came with a bit part as a breakdancer on the hit TV show Diff'rent Strokes (1978).

His first movie role was in the TV movie The Children of Times Square (1986). He started to appear in more films including Last Resort (1986), Ernest Goes to Camp (1987), The Principal (1987), Little Nikita (1988), American Me (1992), and Gas Food Lodging (1992). In 1995, he won the very first ALMA Award (for Emerging Artist of the Year) for his work in both Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca (1993) and Gregory Nava's My Family (1995).

He next starred in films including Crimson Tide (1995), Get Shorty (1995), Selena (1997), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), and the cult favorite Next Friday (2000) as Ice Cube's nemesis, Joker.

His next role was Tijuana cop Manolo, 'Benicio del Toro"s partner in Steven Soderbergh's Academy Award- winning film Traffic (2000), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award and another ALMA Award.

In 2001, he executive produced and starred in the independent film Road Dogz (2002). He wrote, directed and acted in EDNY (2003). He also co-produced and starred in the stage play "Latinologues", which ran on Broadway in 2005 and is available on DVD.

He voiced for Pepito in Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). Next, he played Sammi the chef in John Moore's Flight of the Phoenix (2004), Marine sniper Juan Cortez in Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes' war drama Jarhead (2005), a straight-arrow DEA agent in the action drama The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2006), a politically charged busboy Miguel in Emilio Estevez's historical drama Bobby (2006), and a psychologically tortured drone pilot Rudy Ramirez in Alex Rivera's sci-fi political love story Sleep Dealer (2008).

He had roles in The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007), Are We Done Yet? (2007), Death Race (2008), Cesar Chavez (2014, Heaven is For Real (2014), The Tell-Tale Heart (2016), Plan B, (2021), and Kimi (2022).

His major TV roles are as Bob on Surfside Girls, Tony Medina on Mr. Iglesias, Horacio on Mosaic, Domingo Colon on Marvel's Luke Cage, Allesandro Montez on Sons of Anarchy and later on Mayans M.C., Guillermo on Moonlight, Ernesto Tiant on Greetings from Tucson, and Dr. Roberto Martinez on Max Steel. He had recurring roles on Colony, Blue, and Six Feet Under.

He has also guest starred on a number of shows including National Treasure: Edge of History, The Mentalist, Burn Notice, Psych, Numb3rs, Medium, CSI: NY, Cold Case, The Pretender, JAG, ER, Full House, and Hunter.

He has voiced for characters on animated series including Solar Opposites, Young Justice, and a recurring role on Tarantula.

Movies for Jacob Vargas...

Satanic Hispanics
Title: Satanic Hispanics
Character: El Jefe
Released: September 14, 2023
Type: Movie
When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.
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Title: National Treasure: Edge of History
Character: Rafael
Released: December 14, 2022
Type: TV
While searching for history's greatest treasure, Jess Valenzuela unburies her family's secret past.
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Title: Surfside Girls
Character: Bob
Released: August 18, 2022
Type: TV
Quick wits lead to daring discoveries for beachside besties Sam and Jade as they sleuth out supernatural mysteries in their sleepy hometown of Surfside. Based on the best-selling young adult graphic novels.
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Kimi
Title: Kimi
Character: Glasses Thug
Released: February 10, 2022
Type: Movie
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.
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Plan B
Title: Plan B
Character: Pastor Pedro
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: Movie
After a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.
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Billy D and the Hall of Feathered Serpents featuring Money Shot by Puscifer
Title: Billy D and the Hall of Feathered Serpents featuring Money Shot by Puscifer
Character: Bartesian
Released: April 17, 2021
Type: Movie
Puscifer (Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round) perform every song from the 2015 album Money Shot.
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Princess of the Row
Title: Princess of the Row
Character: Donald
Released: November 27, 2020
Type: Movie
The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally-ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA's skid row.
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Title: GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event
Character: Tony Ochoa
Released: August 10, 2020
Type: TV
Worlds collide in this special event featuring familiar faces, surprise cameos and stories of spirited competition from four different comedy series.
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Title: Mr. Iglesias
Character: Tony Medina
Released: June 21, 2019
Type: TV
Hilarious high school teacher Gabriel Iglesias tries to make a difference in the lives of some smart but underperforming students at his alma mater.
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The Public
Title: The Public
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: Movie
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
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Peel
Title: Peel
Character: Chuck
Released: February 7, 2019
Type: Movie
After his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state of arrested development. Once his mother dies, he must forge his own path and attempts to find his lost brethren.
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Title: Mayans M.C.
Character: Allesandro Montez
Released: September 4, 2018
Type: TV
Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the Cali/Mexi border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.
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Title: Mosaic
Character: Horacio
Released: January 22, 2018
Type: TV
Explore the psychological underpinnings of love and murder in a small mountain resort town while following popular children’s book author and illustrator Olivia Lake, whose literary success makes her a local celebrity in the tight-knit community.
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Beyond Skyline
Title: Beyond Skyline
Character: Garcia
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.
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Title: Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Character: Mario
Released: September 17, 2017
Type: TV
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Title: Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Character: Animation Voice (voice)
Released: October 7, 2016
Type: Movie
A quiet teenage artist Rafe Katchadorian has a wild imagination and is sick of middle school and the rules that have been put before him. Rafe and his best friend Leo have come up with a plan: break every rule in the school hand book and as you expect trouble follows.
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Title: Marvel's Luke Cage
Character: Domingo Colon
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: TV
Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
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Crossing Point
Title: Crossing Point
Character: Jesus
Released: May 3, 2016
Type: Movie
A young American couple in love, Michael and Olivia vacation in Baja, but things take a frightening turn when Olivia is kidnapped by drug dealer, who demands that Michael smuggle a backpack full of cocaine-stolen from a rival cartel-over the border into the U.S. within twelve hours or else Olivia will be killed. A good Tijuana Cop is on the trail, as Michael navigates the treacherous underworld of Mexico, and he himself becomes a force to be reckoned with...
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Title: The Tell-Tale Heart
Character: Adams
Released: April 5, 2016
Type: Movie
A haunting account of a tormented man, haunted by the heart of a man he murdered, who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness.
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Title: Colony
Character: Carlos
Released: January 14, 2016
Type: TV
In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which has been occupied by a force of outside intruders. While some people have chosen to collaborate with the authorities and benefit from the new order, others have rebelled — and suffer the consequences.
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The 33
Title: The 33
Character: Edison 'Elvis' Peña
Released: August 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
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Title: Complications
Character: Ramon
Released: June 18, 2015
Type: TV
John Ellis, a disillusioned suburban ER doctor, who finds his existence transformed when he intervenes in a drive-by shooting, saving a young boy's life and killing one of his attackers. When he learns the boy is still marked for death he finds himself compelled to save him at any cost and discovers that his life and his outlook on medicine may never be the same.
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Water & Power
Title: Water & Power
Released: May 2, 2014
Type: Movie
Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the hard scrabble Eastside streets of Los Angeles rise like prince's through the city's political and police ranks to become players in a complex and dangerous web of the powerful and corrupt of Los Angeles.
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Journey of a Female Comic
Title: Journey of a Female Comic
Released: May 2, 2014
Type: Movie
The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.
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Heaven Is for Real
Title: Heaven Is for Real
Character: Michael
Released: April 16, 2014
Type: Movie
The true story of the 4-year old son of a small-town pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. When he awakes, he recounts his experiences on the other side.
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Cesar Chavez
Title: Cesar Chavez
Character: Richard Chavez
Released: March 28, 2014
Type: Movie
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.
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Red Sky
Title: Red Sky
Character: Jorge 'P-Dawg' Vasquez
Released: March 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.
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Go for Sisters
Title: Go for Sisters
Character: Navajas
Released: November 8, 2013
Type: Movie
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’s parole officer- just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law.
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Title: Blue
Character: Roy
Released: June 11, 2012
Type: TV
Blue is a mother with a secret life. She'll do anything to keep it from her son. But her past has other plans.
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Title: Young Justice
Character: Sebastian Cardona / Cisco Ramon (voice)
Released: November 26, 2010
Type: TV
Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League.
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Devil
Title: Devil
Character: Ramirez
Released: September 16, 2010
Type: Movie
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
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The Odds
Title: The Odds
Character: Sergio Vargas
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A couple of Las Vegas police officers live a life almost as wild as the crimes they investigate.
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Sleep Dealer
Title: Sleep Dealer
Character: Rudy Ramirez
Released: December 10, 2008
Type: Movie
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
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Title: The Mentalist
Character: Chief Rick Anaya
Released: September 23, 2008
Type: TV
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
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Title: Sons of Anarchy
Character: Allesandro Montez
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: TV
An adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming. The MC must confront threats from drug dealers, corporate developers, and overzealous law officers. Behind the MC’s familial lifestyle and legally thriving automotive shop is a ruthless and illegal arms business driven by the seduction of money, power, and blood.
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Death Race
Title: Death Race
Character: Gunner
Released: August 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
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Love Lies Bleeding
Title: Love Lies Bleeding
Character: Detective Billy Jones
Released: January 15, 2008
Type: Movie
A struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money after a shootout in their apartment building.
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Title: Moonlight
Character: Guillermo
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: TV
Mick St. John is a captivating, charming and immortal private investigator from Los Angeles, who defies the traditional blood-sucking norms of his vampire tendencies by using his wit and powerful supernatural abilities to help the living.
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Title: The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Character: Jorge Escobar
Released: July 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.
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Title: Burn Notice
Character: Omar Hernandez
Released: June 28, 2007
Type: TV
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
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Are We Done Yet?
Title: Are We Done Yet?
Character: Mike the Plumber
Released: April 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor with a bizarre approach to business.
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The Hills Have Eyes 2
Title: The Hills Have Eyes 2
Character: Crank
Released: March 22, 2007
Type: Movie
A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.
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Bobby
Title: Bobby
Character: Miguel
Released: September 5, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
Title: National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
Character: Tijuana Cop 2 / Announcer / Charlotte
Released: August 6, 2006
Type: Movie
A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society-- it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials.
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Title: Psych
Character: Juan Lava
Released: July 7, 2006
Type: TV
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
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Jarhead
Title: Jarhead
Character: Juan Cortez
Released: November 4, 2005
Type: Movie
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
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The Wendell Baker Story
Title: The Wendell Baker Story
Character: Reyes Morales
Released: August 3, 2005
Type: Movie
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
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Title: Numb3rs
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: TV
Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.
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Title: Medium
Character: Eduardo Garcia
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
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Flight of the Phoenix
Title: Flight of the Phoenix
Character: Sammi
Released: December 17, 2004
Type: Movie
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.
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Title: CSI: NY
Character: Luis Torres
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".
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Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother
Title: Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother
Character: Vincent Enano
Released: September 18, 2004
Type: Movie
Meet Blanche Monroe aka The Evil Stepmother, an out-of-work daytime drama queen. When her stunning stepdaughter (Snow White) is discovered by a hotshot Hollywood agent, Blanche wreaks her revenge.
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Title: Cold Case
Character: Angelo Rivera (2009)
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: TV
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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Title: Kingpin
Released: February 2, 2003
Type: TV
Kingpin is an American crime drama television series which debuted on the NBC network in the U.S. and CTV in Canada on February 2, 2003 and lasted 6 episodes. NBC's answer to The Sopranos and also influenced by The Godfather, Macbeth and Traffik, the story was about a Mexican drug trafficker named Miguel Cadena and his family life. It was to be followed by a television series, but low ratings canceled those plans. Commercials for the mini-series on NBC featured the song "Más" by the Mexican band Kinky.
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EDNY
Title: EDNY
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A supercharged, brilliant prosecutor leads a team of U.S. attorneys in the Eastern District of New York.
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Title: Greetings From Tucson
Character: Ernesto Tiant
Released: September 20, 2002
Type: TV
In this autobiographical family comedy, based on the life of series creator Peter Murrieta, life is seen through the eyes of 15-year-old David Tiant as he faces the challenges of growing up in an ethnically mixed, upwardly mobile family.
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Road Dogz
Title: Road Dogz
Character: Danny Pacheco
Released: March 26, 2002
Type: Movie
"Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days hanging out and playing basketball. But everything is about to change...when one of them gets involved with a dangerous drug dealer, all their lives are at risk and they must make some life and death decisions.
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Dragonfly
Title: Dragonfly
Character: Victor
Released: February 22, 2002
Type: Movie
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
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Truth Be Told
Title: Truth Be Told
Character: Gonzalez
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Rayne Johnson is a shrewd investment company assistant who turns a mob slaying into a golden opportunity for a new improved lifestyle, managing to outsmart the crooked cops who are very eager to see her disappear.
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Title: The Proud Family
Character: Punch Alto (voice)
Released: September 15, 2001
Type: TV
Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of teen-dom. Penny's every encounter inevitably spirals into bigger than life situations filled with hi-jinks, hilarity and heart. Her quest to balance her home, school and social lives are further complicated by friends like the sassy Dijonay, Penny's nemesis LaCienega Boulevardez, her loving, if not over-protective parents and her hip-to-the-groove-granny, Suga Mama.
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Dr. Dolittle 2
Title: Dr. Dolittle 2
Character: Pepito (voice)
Released: June 22, 2001
Type: Movie
A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce. Undaunted, Dolittle persuades a circus bear to help out, but he has to teach him not just the ways of the wild, but the wiles of lady bears too.
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Title: Six Feet Under
Character: Manuel 'Paco' Bolin
Released: June 3, 2001
Type: TV
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
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Traffic
Title: Traffic
Character: Manolo Sanchez
Released: December 27, 2000
Type: Movie
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
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Title: Max Steel
Character: Dr. Roberto Martinez (voice)
Released: February 25, 2000
Type: TV
A teenage boy with accidental body enhancements fights the enemies of peace as a super-powered secret agent.
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Next Friday
Title: Next Friday
Character: Joker
Released: January 12, 2000
Type: Movie
A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.
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The Hi-Lo Country
Title: The Hi-Lo Country
Character: Delfino Mondragon
Released: December 30, 1998
Type: Movie
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.
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Santa Fe
Title: Santa Fe
Character: Jesus
Released: June 25, 1997
Type: Movie
A cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after eight months.
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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Title: Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Character: Ramon
Released: April 25, 1997
Type: Movie
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.
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Selena
Title: Selena
Character: A. B. Quintanilla
Released: March 21, 1997
Type: Movie
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.
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Title: Clueless
Released: September 20, 1996
Type: TV
CLUELESS is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name. The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996 as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season. The show then spent its last two seasons on UPN ending on May 25, 1999.
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Title: The Pretender
Character: Javi Padillo
Released: September 19, 1996
Type: TV
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.
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Title: Malibu Shores
Released: March 9, 1996
Type: TV
Malibu Shores is an American primetime teen drama/soap opera that aired on Saturday Night at 8:00PM EST from to June 1996 for ten episodes on NBC. Created by Aaron Spelling and starring Keri Russell and Tony Lucca, the program followed the exploits of Southern California teens.
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Get Shorty
Title: Get Shorty
Character: Yayo Portillo
Released: October 20, 1995
Type: Movie
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
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Title: JAG
Character: Corporal Cortez
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: TV
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
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Crimson Tide
Title: Crimson Tide
Character: Sonarman #2
Released: May 12, 1995
Type: Movie
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsay insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.
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My Family
Title: My Family
Character: Young Jose
Released: May 3, 1995
Type: Movie
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 1930s. 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 '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.
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Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: Prince Luis (voice)
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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Title: ER
Character: Diablo
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Mi Vida Loca
Title: Mi Vida Loca
Character: Ernesto
Released: June 8, 1994
Type: Movie
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.
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Airborne
Title: Airborne
Character: Snake
Released: September 17, 1993
Type: Movie
Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to navigate the perils of high school—avoid the bullies, get the girl, and win a little respect.
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Gas Food Lodging
Title: Gas Food Lodging
Character: Javier
Released: July 10, 1992
Type: Movie
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
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American Me
Title: American Me
Character: Paulito - Age 15
Released: March 13, 1992
Type: Movie
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 goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.
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Seeds of Tragedy
Title: Seeds of Tragedy
Character: Cholo #2
Released: June 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.
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The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Title: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Character: Miguel
Released: November 11, 1990
Type: Movie
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."
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Little Nikita
Title: Little Nikita
Character: Miguel
Released: March 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, including "sleepers," agents under deep cover awaiting orders. Roy interviews a high school lad, Jeff Grant, an applicant to the Air Force Academy. In a routine background check, Roy discovers that Jeff's parents are sleepers. He must see if Jeff is also a spy, confront the parents yet protect them, and catch his nemesis. Meanwhile, the Soviets have sent their own spy-catcher, the loner Karpov, to reel in Scuba. Alliances shift; it's cat and mouse.
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Title: Full House
Released: September 22, 1987
Type: TV
After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.
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The Principal
Title: The Principal
Character: Arturo Diego
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
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Ernest Goes to Camp
Title: Ernest Goes to Camp
Character: Bubba Vargas
Released: May 22, 1987
Type: Movie
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
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Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story
Title: Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story
Character: Enrique Mendoza
Released: March 31, 1986
Type: Movie
A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.
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Last Resort
Title: Last Resort
Character: Carlos
Released: March 31, 1986
Type: Movie
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Emilio Morales
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.