Damian Chapa

Damian Chapa

Born: October 29, 1963
in Dayton, Ohio, USA
Damian Robert Chapa (born October 29, 1963) is a Mexican-American actor, film director and film producer.

Chapa was born in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He was briefly married to Natasha Henstridge. Among his earlier notable film roles are one of the leads in Taylor Hackford's Blood In Blood Out and the part of Ken in the film adaptation of Street Fighter. Subsequently, Chapa has directed and produced, in addition to starring in, his own films. These movies include 1998's Kill You Twice, 2000's The Lonely Life of Downey Hall, 2002's Man of Faith, 2004's Shade of Pale, 2004's El Padrino, and 2006's I.R.A.: King of Nothing.

Chapa co-wrote and directed Polanski Unauthorized, a biopic of Roman Polanski, in which he played the title role. It was released on February 13, 2009, in Los Angeles, California. Chapa will begin filming the only film about Marlon Brando ever to be made, in June 2010 called Brando Unauthorized. He followed this with "Vatos Locos", starring himself. Albert Pyun was supposed to direct, but left the project following a dispute over his salary, so Chapa directed himself. The film is about the Chinese mafia in Los Angeles and how the Mexican gang boys, known as "vatos," fought back and defeated the Chinese gang-bangers.

As of 2011, Chapa has yet another project in development, an indie drama titled "The Best So Far," which takes place in the late 80's, about a small-town Canadian girl who loves Judo and dreams about being one of the finalists at the '88 Olympics. The ensemble drama follows the lines of Rocky, in the sense that it's not about winning, but going the distance and getting your life back. Chapa, who wrote the drama, will play the widowed father, who does his best to make life easier for his daughter. Although the film is in its very early development stages, Chapa hopes the script will attract the interest of talented artists such as Ellen Page for the main role and Jennifer Connelly for the supporting role, this being the part of the final, toughest competition Page's character faces off during the '88 Olympics and gets defeated by. Although not winning, she gets her sense of victory be offering a brave stand against the better fighter, and both discover, in the process, they are quite simillar, despite their differences. Insiders who had a chance to read the script stated that it is one of the finest not-yet-filmed scripts they had ever seen. Acclaimed director David Cronenberg asked for New Line to bid for the script, but Chapa wouldn't sell it, because of his determination to direct the picture himself. The project is slated to be shot sometime in mid-2012, for tentative release in 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Born Into a Dream
Title: Born Into a Dream
Character: Scribe Of Dreams
Released: November 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Three unforgiving young men with anger issues entered the same dream. The Queen of Dreams takes them on a journey and tells them to find the Book of Wisdom, the only way they will cure their problems in real life.
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Mexican Connection
Title: Mexican Connection
Character: Anthony D'Angelo
Released: May 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Story of an Italian American joining forces with Mexican Americans to pull off a big safe heist.
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Iron Cross: The Road to Normandy
Title: Iron Cross: The Road to Normandy
Character: Brahms
Released: September 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Captain Muller struggles to survive fighting overwhelming Russian forces. Wounded, he is sent to Normandy as Americans Lee and Trey prepare for D-Day. Soon, scores are settled and battle brings our GIs and Germans on the same path.
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The Devil's Ring
Title: The Devil's Ring
Character: Mr.Deville
Released: December 6, 2021
Type: Movie
After a Traumatic past, a once promising young Boxing prospect , Anthony Santiago ( Alexander Luna) returns home from Prison to seek redemption, only to catch the attention of a big Boxing Promoter, Mr. Deville ( Damian Chapa) with a Sinister reputation. After a Deal gone wrong, the young boxer must now seek help from a retired Champion, Roy DeSilva ( Al Dias) in a literal fight for his Soul from the Devil himself. From Award Winning Director Juan Salas , "The Devil's Ring".
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Dark Light
Title: Dark Light
Character: Agent Sonny Pietra
Released: September 8, 2021
Type: Movie
Sonny Pietra used to work for the Los Angeles Occult crime unit. Sonny finds himself investigating a mysterious set of murders on the beautiful island of Ireland and unveils a set of satanic murders.
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Latin Hitman
Title: Latin Hitman
Character: Ramos
Released: November 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Ramos Ferarri is a half Italian hitman who is discriminated against by the mob because of his Latino Mothers roots. As a result of not being 100% Italian the mob sends Ramos (Damian Chapa from Blood In Blood Out on some jobs the last one being a hit on some young girl. Ramos refuses to kill the girl. But when the mob finds out they put a hit on Ramos.
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Rifkin's Festival
Title: Rifkin's Festival
Character: Festivalgoer
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.
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Pistolera
Title: Pistolera
Character: Rico
Released: September 18, 2020
Type: Movie
A ruthless drug lord murders the family of a little girl in Spain, he makes a fatal mistake: letting her live, setting in motion a bloody chain of events in this tale of revenge and its cost.
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Enemy Within
Title: Enemy Within
Character: Nick
Released: July 14, 2020
Type: Movie
A sadomasochistic Killer is out to murder a beautiful dancer. Drugs seduction and hate fill the screen. But Concetta the dancer still believes that love conquers all.
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Title: FBI: Most Wanted
Character: Warden Smith
Released: January 7, 2020
Type: TV
The Fugitive Task Force relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. Seasoned agent Jess LaCroix oversees the highly skilled team that functions as a mobile undercover unit that is always out in the field, pursuing those who are most desperate to elude justice.
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Adam Weishaupt: The Illuminati
Title: Adam Weishaupt: The Illuminati
Character: Marquis de Sade
Released: June 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Adam Weishaupt learns all the secrets of ancient hidden knowledge finding himself in a war with the Catholic Church.
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Luz
Title: Luz
Character: Michael
Released: May 29, 2018
Type: Movie
Luz (Light) a beautiful European aristocrat finds herself estranged from her wealthy family and hooked on drugs in Los Angeles. Luz meets a postman who changes her way of thinking.
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Proof of the Illuminati
Title: Proof of the Illuminati
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Finally forensic and historical proof that the Illuminati existed and is still with us today.
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To Live and Die in Amsterdam
Title: To Live and Die in Amsterdam
Released: July 6, 2016
Type: Movie
An Interpol agent takes a mission to come to Amsterdam to investigate a drug ring. The new drug they are selling costs $100,000 a hit because it takes the person to Nirvana for two weeks. The catch is the drug Adrenalzon comes from dead people and only when they are having a heightened sense of fear near their death relating to their adrenaline gland. In other words – someone has to die for the person to get just one hit of the drug. The new drug dealer, king pin Paradisco begins making a fortune being the only Adrenaline dealer in the world. Paradiso begins to take over the whole drug trade in entire Europe. The only thing stopping this madman is the even crazier fallen Interpol agent, Swan, who can't seem to give up his own addictions. The only one who believes Swan can prove himself worthy again is his courageous sidekick, a sexy Russian Interpol agent.
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New York Murder
Title: New York Murder
Released: June 28, 2016
Type: Movie
As a child, Frank witnesses the brutal and devastating murder of his parents and years later grows up to lead a disturbing, sadomasochistic double life between night and day.
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Vatos Locos 2
Title: Vatos Locos 2
Character: Mickey Solis
Released: March 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Chicano gangster Micky Solis finds that his family has been slaughtered by the Chinese mob. His whole life force turns to finding the killers. A slick lawyer (Angus MacFadyen) leads Micky to a "nun" (Paz De La Huerta) who shows him who the killers are that took his family from him. Micky unleashes a war of bullets and emotions on the family until each one dies by the same sword they wielded. The only thought on Micky's mind is REVENGE: VENGANZA.
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Father Rupert Mayer
Title: Father Rupert Mayer
Character: Capitan Paintsville
Released: May 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Love, Hate & Security
Title: Love, Hate & Security
Character: Nick
Released: May 28, 2014
Type: Movie
Giulietta Di Messina a rich sensual European aristocrat (Romina Di Lella) has an unquenchable desire to be a lounge singer against her powerful banker husband's William Windsor's (Oliver Gruber) wish. Still she rebels against him and his high society family cause she keeps control of Williams black money cash safe code. Suddenly an assassination is attempted on their lives. Miraculously Giulietta finds a gun in their car and hits two men with an onslaught of wild firing. William calls afterwards New York High level security head hunter Tony (Ralf Moeller). Tony sends his best man Nick Angelo (Damian Chapa). Upon Nicks arrival he finds himself in the middle of an intense dispute between the rich couple. He saves Giulietta's life many times during many street war battles and finally realizes it is William who has set up to kill his wife, so he may run off with his gay lover with the family fortune. Nick falls in love with Giulietta and risks his life to save her from her demise.
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Mafia Man: Robstown Gangster
Title: Mafia Man: Robstown Gangster
Character: Eduardo
Released: August 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A Mexican-American gangster from Robstown, Texas takes on the mafia on his own, while coming to terms with an age old vendetta.
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Red Rose of Normandy
Title: Red Rose of Normandy
Character: Brahms
Released: May 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Klaus Muller, a battle-hardened veteran, finds himself fighting for his life on the Russian front. Surrounded by overwhelming numbers of Russian tanks and planes, he and his men are doomed until famed German tank ace, Michael Wittmann, shows up in his Tiger Tank and saves the day. Once wounded, Klaus is transferred to Normandy to serve under Field Marshal Rommel just days before the Allied invasion. Much to his surprise, he finds that his beloved Klaudia is also stationed nearby as a field nurse. Unfortunately, so is her father, who is working with the French resistance and now finds himself pursued by the ruthless Gestapo officer Brahms, whose search leads him to Klaus and Klaudia attempting a rescue. They are caught and imprisoned. As D-Day begins and the Allies attack from the beaches and the sky, they escape from the prison, fighting the Gestapo in the middle of the biggest invasion in world history... Written by tino struckmann
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Brando Unauthorized
Title: Brando Unauthorized
Character: Marlon Brando
Released: January 31, 2011
Type: Movie
This biopic of the legendary actor Marlon Brando stars Damian Chapa as the two-time Oscar-winner and focuses primarily on the troubled relationship Brando had with his son Christian who battled drug addiction
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Killer Priest
Title: Killer Priest
Released: January 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A hit man is hired by a mystery man to assassinate a man in Italy, only to find out during the hit that his victim will be a priest.
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Vatos Locos
Title: Vatos Locos
Character: Mickey Solice
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Thriller - Two Chicano brothers, Estaban and Raul grow up hard on the streets of Los Angeles. Their papa gets executed for a drug deal gone bad when only seven years old. Half Irish, half Mexican gangster named Mickey Solis takes the two boys in and brings them up as lieutenants in his family business. - Damian Chapa, Gabriel Tang, Ricco Chapa
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Dark Crossing
Title: Dark Crossing
Character: Jack O'Reilly
Released: April 26, 2010
Type: Movie
Emilio (Jairo Osuna) is a Mexican teenager who tries to save his younger sister after she's abducted by relatives who cross into the United States. But Emilio's own attempt at an illegal crossing lands him in the clutches of a ruthless drug smuggler (James Bardo). When he finally reaches the U.S., Emilio gets help from a sympathetic car mechanic (Damian Chapa) but still faces daunting odds in the violent world that the border has created.
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Bad Cop
Title: Bad Cop
Character: Angel Almaraz
Released: November 3, 2009
Type: Movie
A cop Angel Almaraz saves the life of a local crime boss who, in return, offers him a job as part of his security. Almaraz accepts but soon has doubts.
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Bobby Fischer Live
Title: Bobby Fischer Live
Character: Bobby Fischer
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A bio about the life of Bobby Fischer.
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Polanski Unauthorised
Title: Polanski Unauthorised
Character: Roman Polanski
Released: February 13, 2009
Type: Movie
An unauthorized chronicle of the life of Roman Polanski.
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Vampiro
Title: Vampiro
Character: Casanova
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Half-human and half-vampire Casanova Vladimires, played by Damian Chapa, protects humans and fights vampires in East LA.
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Mexican Gangster
Title: Mexican Gangster
Character: Johnny Sun
Released: November 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Johnny Sun is a Mexican American with a white mother and Mexican dad. He witnesses his parents murder and gets his revenge years later, leading to a hard life as a gangster in drugs and smuggling. He tries to keep his borther from the life and finds himself fending for his own life.
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Chicano Blood
Title: Chicano Blood
Character: Gabriel Bentez
Released: May 13, 2008
Type: Movie
A former gang member is pulled back into his former violent world after a Russian gang vying for control of the local drug trade kills his wife. Taking a solemn pledge to seek vengeance for his wife's murder, he plunges deeply into the arena of kidnapping and murder. Written by Larry B.
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El Padrino II: Border Intrusion
Title: El Padrino II: Border Intrusion
Character: Kilo
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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Fuego
Title: Fuego
Character: Fuego
Released: October 29, 2007
Type: Movie
The daughter of the American Ambassador to Spain has been kidnapped. There is only one man who can save her.
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I.R.A. King of Nothing
Title: I.R.A. King of Nothing
Character: Bobby O'Brien
Released: July 10, 2007
Type: Movie
A disgruntled IRA member becomes Ireland's biggest threat to the peace process.
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Mexican American
Title: Mexican American
Character: Tony
Released: May 29, 2007
Type: Movie
A washed-up Mexican-American prize fighter is just starting to get back on his feet when his daughter is kidnapped while investigating a political splinter group in Mexico. The police and the State Department are little help, so he must take justice into his own hands and rescue her from the clutches of a bizarre racist cult.
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The Switch
Title: The Switch
Released: April 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Tara, a middle-aged painter from Georgia suddenly loses her husband Claude (Stacy Keach). Claude’s sudden death leads Tara on a search for a new beginning. She decides to leave Georgia and her family to follow her dream of becoming a bohemian artist. Tara arrives in Venice Beach,CA. She meets a handsome younger named Stephen (Damian Chapa) who takes her on an exiciting journey through love and companionship. Tara falls in love a little too quick and a little too hard. She then discovers Stephen has been hustling her out of her small fortune. Through an exciting tale of wit and mind games, Tara with the aid of a slippery attorney (Robert Wagner) and his assistant (Rachel Hunter), make Stephen pay back his debts again and again and again…
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El padrino: The Latin Godfather
Title: El padrino: The Latin Godfather
Character: Kilo
Released: September 27, 2004
Type: Movie
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new life as a dealer begins. In a world where a man wants everything, he may end up with nothing.
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The Calling
Title: The Calling
Character: Leroy Jenkins
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
The Calling follows the controversial life of evangelist Leroy Jenkins.
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Betrayal
Title: Betrayal
Character: Tony
Released: August 1, 2003
Type: Movie
When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss.
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U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force
Title: U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force
Character: Chief Frank Ratliff
Released: June 21, 2001
Type: Movie
At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team must infiltrate without conventional weapons and use a mixture of martial arts skills, swords, crossbows and unconventional arms in their top secret attack.
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Facade
Title: Facade
Character: Raul Belliard
Released: June 15, 1999
Type: Movie
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth: chaos!
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Cypress Edge
Title: Cypress Edge
Character: Beau McCammon
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Reeling from the news of his sister's suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father, who has just barely won another term as senator, doesn't take things well when Beau approaches him with the sinking suspicion that the suicide may have actually been a murder. Determined to solve the mystery, Beau uncovers a plethora of family secrets, deception, and implications of unspeakable political wrongdoings.
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Hitman's Run
Title: Hitman's Run
Character: Paolo Catania
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list of new names for individuals in the FBI witness protection program. The list includes his dad, who separated from his mother years before and hadn't been seen since.
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Sometimes They Come Back... for More
Title: Sometimes They Come Back... for More
Character: Dr. Carl Schilling
Released: November 1, 1998
Type: Movie
On a arctic circle radio shack, an ancient evil lurks, ready to strike at a psychologist, an army man and their collective forces.
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Exposé
Title: Exposé
Character: Jason Drake
Released: February 23, 1998
Type: Movie
Jason Davis is a reporter who gets an anonymous tip that turns him into an eyewitness to a judge's murder.
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Kill You Twice
Title: Kill You Twice
Character: Mickey
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A simple crime gets complicated, forcing a man to do all the wrong things for all the right reasons.
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Money Talks
Title: Money Talks
Character: Carmine
Released: August 22, 1997
Type: Movie
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
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Midnight Blue
Title: Midnight Blue
Character: Martin
Released: April 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Shortly before he moves from New York to Los Angeles a banker visits his Atlanta branch. One evening he is propositioned, by a high-class call girl. Their night of passion leaves him besotted, but he is unable to find her again even with the help of a private investigator. In L.A. he is introduced to his boss's wife and is sure she is his lady of the night. But she insists she isn't.
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On Seventh Avenue
Title: On Seventh Avenue
Character: Anthony Occipente
Released: June 10, 1996
Type: Movie
A rising designer leaves a top fashion house to rescue her retired father's New York apparel business.
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Street Fighter
Title: Street Fighter
Character: Ken Masters
Released: December 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
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Saints and Sinners
Title: Saints and Sinners
Character: Pooch
Released: September 28, 1994
Type: Movie
After many years Pooch returns to his neighbourhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord. To Pooch, this reunion is painful because he is, actually, undercover cop sent to bring Big Boy down.
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Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
Title: Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
Character: Lyle Menendez
Released: May 22, 1994
Type: Movie
About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly Hills, allegedly for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
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Dead Connection
Title: Dead Connection
Character: Det. Louis Donato
Released: May 1, 1994
Type: Movie
After a series of murders in motel rooms are connected, police detective Matt Dickson heads out on the trail to find a serial killer. He discovers that he signs the motel guest-books with the names of boxers, and gets a lead on him. However, just when he fails to catch up arrest him, the chase becomes personal.
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Title: Walker, Texas Ranger
Character: Santiago 'Santos' Perez
Released: April 21, 1993
Type: TV
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.
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Bound by Honor
Title: Bound by Honor
Character: Miklo
Released: February 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
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Under Siege
Title: Under Siege
Character: Tackman
Released: October 8, 1992
Type: Movie
Disgruntled ex-CIA operative Strannix, his assistant Krill and their group of terrorists seize the battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback -- an error that could be fatal.
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Title: Melrose Place
Released: July 8, 1992
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.
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Night Bird
Title: Night Bird
Character: Jack Kennedy
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
As a child, Frank witnesses the brutal and devastating murder of his parents and years later grows up to lead a disturbing double life between night and day.