Geno Silva

Geno Silva

Born: January 20, 1948
Died: May 9, 2020
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Geno Silva (born January 20, 1948) is a Mexican American actor. He is best known for his role as The Skull in Scarface.

Silva has also appeared in films such as 1941, Tequila Sunrise, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Amistad, Mulholland Dr. and A Man Apart.

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Tortilla Heaven
Title: Tortilla Heaven
Character: Don Transito
Released: October 14, 2008
Type: Movie
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all the town, including his wife and son, are piously praying mass, a miracle occurs. Upon one of his famous, hand-made tortillas appears the face of Jesus Christ.
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A Man Apart
Title: A Man Apart
Character: Memo Lucero
Released: April 4, 2003
Type: Movie
When Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when all Vetter can focus on is revenge.
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Title: Star Trek: Enterprise
Character: Senator Vrax
Released: September 26, 2001
Type: TV
During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.
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Mulholland Drive
Title: Mulholland Drive
Character: Hotel Manager / Emcee
Released: June 6, 2001
Type: Movie
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
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Mulholland Dr.
Title: Mulholland Dr.
Character: Cookie
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.
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Amistad
Title: Amistad
Character: Ruiz
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Title: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Character: Barge Captain
Released: May 23, 1997
Type: Movie
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
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Title: The Sentinel
Character: Hector Carasco
Released: March 20, 1996
Type: TV
The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.
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It Is Now Our Time: Peter Sellars’ The Merchant of Venice
Title: It Is Now Our Time: Peter Sellars’ The Merchant of Venice
Character: Antonio
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
A BBC documentary about a pre-rehearsal workshop held in New York prior to the Goodman Theater’s 1994 production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Peter Sellars in Chicago.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: General Carbinsco
Released: December 5, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the greatest Native American warrior who, together with the rest of his Apache tribesmen, defied American and Mexican Armies in 1867. Finally caught and sent to a reservation camp, he eluded a military force of 5000 for 18 months before finally surrendering to the government.
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Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Title: Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Character: The Fugitive
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbling upon a much bigger caper involving a mysterious fugitive.
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Title: Key West
Released: January 19, 1993
Type: TV
Key West was a short-lived 1993 hour long comedy-drama television series set in Key West, Florida. Thirteen episodes aired on Fox between January and June 1993. It was created by David Beaird and Allan Marcil. The show was produced by Viacom Productions. The main character is Seamus O'Neill, played by Fisher Stevens, a factory worker from New Jersey who dreams of being a writer. When he wins the lottery, he uses his newfound wealth to move to Key West to pursue his writing career, Where his idol, Hemingway, had lived. Seamus finds the island inhabited by eccentrics. He takes a job as a reporter for The Meteor," a local newspaper. In addition to Stevens: Jennifer Tilly, Denise Crosby, and Brian Thompson led the large ensemble cast as the town's high-class prostitute, conservative mayor and eccentric sheriff, respectively.
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Title: Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Character: Rodriguez Gacha
Released: January 19, 1992
Type: TV
A D.E.A. Agent goes to Columbia to take on the Cartel. He learns that the Cartel is not above killing anyone who opposes them, like judges and Police. Eventually a man who worked for the Cartel, who is in an American prison, offers to help them take down the Cartel. So another Federal Agent poses a money launderer and the try to take the Cartel down.
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Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Title: Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Character: José Rodriguez Gacha
Released: January 19, 1992
Type: Movie
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to bring down billionaire drug lords Don Pablo Escobar Gaviria and José Rodriguez Gacha, leaders of the infamous Medellin Cartel.
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Night Eyes II
Title: Night Eyes II
Character: Luis
Released: October 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Security expert Will Griffith has been hired to secure the mansion of South American expatriate Hector Mejenes...
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El Diablo
Title: El Diablo
Character: Chak Mol
Released: July 22, 1990
Type: Movie
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 cowboy skills of his own, he signs on a speedy gunslinger (Joe Pantoliano) and a no-nonsense cowboy (Louis Gossett Jr.) to help. Now, Smith may just have a chance at capturing his man: the merciless bandit El Diablo (Robert Beltran).
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My Mom's a Werewolf
Title: My Mom's a Werewolf
Character: Dr. Rod Rodriguez
Released: May 11, 1989
Type: Movie
The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment. Through a bite in her toe he starts her slow transformation in a werewolf. Home again, she desperately tries to hide the often disgusting process from her family, but her daughter Jennifer and her - from horror magazines well educated - friend recognize what's going on, and help to kill the non-human.
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Tequila Sunrise
Title: Tequila Sunrise
Character: Mexican Cop
Released: December 2, 1988
Type: Movie
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.
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Title: Favorite Son
Character: Colonel Octavio Martinez
Released: October 30, 1988
Type: TV
Favorite Son is a miniseries about political intrigue that aired on NBC in 1988 a week before that year's presidential election. It starred Harry Hamlin, Linda Kozlowski, James Whitmore, Robert Loggia, John Mahoney, Ronny Cox, and a pre-Seinfeld Jason Alexander. The miniseries was adapted from the 1987 novel of the same written by Steve Sohmer, who also wrote the teleplay.
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Police Story: Cop Killer
Title: Police Story: Cop Killer
Released: October 27, 1988
Type: Movie
The best friend and partner of a dedicated cop is killed by a pair of holdup men during a routine traffic check.
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Title: MacGyver
Character: Pablo Delasora
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
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Title: Hunter
Character: Miguel Ortiz
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.
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Scarface
Title: Scarface
Character: The Skull
Released: December 9, 1983
Type: Movie
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
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Title: T. J. Hooker
Character: Jensen
Released: March 13, 1982
Type: TV
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recuits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.
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Zoot Suit
Title: Zoot Suit
Character: Galindo
Released: October 2, 1981
Type: Movie
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 and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.
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Belle Starr
Title: Belle Starr
Character: Blue Duck
Released: April 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.
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Title: Wild Times
Character: Ibran
Released: January 24, 1980
Type: TV
Fictional Western adventure about dime novel hero-turned-Wild West show impresario Hugh Cardiff.
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1941
Title: 1941
Character: Martinez
Released: December 14, 1979
Type: Movie
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
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Wanda Nevada
Title: Wanda Nevada
Character: Apache Ghost
Released: June 1, 1979
Type: Movie
In the American Southwest of the 1950s, middle-aged vagabond Beaudray Demerille survives as a cardsharp who moves from town to town. But his latest victory brings him unwanted spoils in the form of Wanda Nevada, a fiery 13-year-old. At first Beaudray does everything he can to ditch Wanda -- until the girl chances upon a treasure map. But Wanda and Beaudray aren't the only ones after the loot, and they must contend with a ruthless pair of crooks.
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Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
Title: Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
Character: Elder Uncle
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
A touching dramatization of a short chapter of American history, tracing the life of the last Yahi Indian from his childhood to his death in 1917 and the story of his friendship with an anthropologist after his discovery in northern California in 1911.
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Mean Dog Blues
Title: Mean Dog Blues
Character: Tonto
Released: March 3, 1978
Type: Movie
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.
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The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
Title: The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
Character: Army Scout
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: Movie
During a Cavalry massacre at an Indian village, two brothers, searching for their captured sister, rescue a white woman long ago kidnapped by the Cheyenne. They ride for their lives, haunted by the chant of the tribal Death Song.
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Thomasine & Bushrod
Title: Thomasine & Bushrod
Character: Taffy
Released: April 10, 1974
Type: Movie
A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites.