Raymond Cruz

Raymond Cruz

Born: July 9, 1961
in Los Angeles County, California, USA
Raymund Cruz (born July 9, 1961) is a Mexican American actor. He is mostly known for playing military roles. His movie roles include Clear and Present Danger as Ding Chavez, The Substitute as Tom Berenger's second-in-command Joey Six, The Rock in an un-credited U.S. Marine role, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money as Jesus, Alien Resurrection as USM Private Vincent DiStephano, and Under Siege as Ramirez. He also appeared in the gang movie Blood In Blood Out, playing the role of Chuey, a gang member from the Vatos Locos. In 2005 he played Chino In Havoc. He also appears in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, credited as "The Messenger," and in Training Day as a gang member named Sniper, the poker player who doesn't know that three-of-a-kind beats two pair.

He has made guest appearances in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Siege of AR-558", in The X-Files Season 4 episode "El Mundo Gira" and in the second season of 24 as a thug. In the Music Videoclip from Madonna Vogue ,He also made an appearance as the father of a murdered girl in CSI.

Cruz played a large distributor of methamphetamines named Tuco on Breaking Bad in 2008. He is now a regular cast member on the TV series The Closer. Cruz also had a recurring role as Paco on My Name Is Earl, and as Alejandro Perez on Nip/Tuck.

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Medellin
Title: Medellin
Character: El Diablo
Released: June 1, 2023
Type: Movie
To save his little brother from the hands of dangerous narcos of the Medellín cartel, Reda has a plan that is as simple as it is totally insane: put together a team and raid Colombia. But this adventure is going to get completely out of control when he decides to kidnap the son of the cartel leader to exchange him for his brother's life.
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Six Feet
Title: Six Feet
Character: Gus
Released: October 30, 2022
Type: Movie
A lone front desk attendant in an isolated motel must battle his anxiety disorder, cleaning obsession and possible motel contamination while serving quarantined guests in the middle of a deadly global pandemic.
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Ten Tricks
Title: Ten Tricks
Character: Sal
Released: September 27, 2022
Type: Movie
In one night, a madam at a brothel makes plans to get pregnant, while a magician working across the street makes a drastic move to change his life.
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My Dead Dad
Title: My Dead Dad
Character: Frank
Released: October 7, 2021
Type: Movie
A young burnout discovers his estranged father is dead, leaving him the responsibility of managing an apartment complex. With hopes of cutting ties, he's forced to grow up, learning about the dad he never knew through the eclectic tenants.
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Blue Miracle
Title: Blue Miracle
Character: Hector
Released: May 27, 2021
Type: Movie
To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
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Wander
Title: Wander
Character: Sherif Luis Santi
Released: December 4, 2020
Type: Movie
After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same 'conspiracy cover up' that caused the death of his daughter.
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The Curse of La Llorona
Title: The Curse of La Llorona
Character: Rafael Olvera
Released: April 17, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1970s Los Angeles, ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own young kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
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Title: Get Shorty
Character: Swayze
Released: August 13, 2017
Type: TV
Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times bestselling novel.
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a Gringo Honeymoon
Title: a Gringo Honeymoon
Character: Carlos
Released: July 6, 2015
Type: Movie
James Wallace is a young American. To him Mexico was just another adventure in a life lived without any grand plans. A place to go where nobody knew who you were and nobody cared. A chance to drop out and get by within Mexico's flourishing underground economy. When he finds himself working as a 'surgeon' in Carlos Melgarejos' burgeoning organ trafficking ring things start looking up. But that was before he met Rosalita, a prostitute at the amateur lucha libre whose profound beauty shakes his insouciance. Suddenly there's more to life than cutting out kidneys south of the border. James wants out and he wants to take Rosalita with him. For Carlos this is more than just another headache in a life filled with niggling trespasses, this is personal.
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Cleveland Abduction
Title: Cleveland Abduction
Character: Ariel Castro
Released: May 2, 2015
Type: Movie
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
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Title: Better Call Saul
Character: Tuco Salamanca
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: TV
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
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No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Title: No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
Character: Self
Released: November 26, 2013
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.
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Title: Major Crimes
Character: Detective Julio Sanchez
Released: August 13, 2012
Type: TV
Major Crimes explores how the American justice system approaches the art of the deals as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction. Los Angeles Police Captain Sharon Raydor heads up a special squad within the LAPD that deals with high-profile or particularly sensitive crimes.
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Title: The Eric Andre Show
Character: Self
Released: May 20, 2012
Type: TV
A comedic talk show from an alternate reality featuring unstable hosts, a variety of celebrities—both real and fake—and unusual studio action.
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Title: White Collar
Character: Enrico Morales
Released: October 23, 2009
Type: TV
In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive white-collar criminals.
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Title: Breaking Bad
Character: Tuco Salamanca
Released: January 20, 2008
Type: TV
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
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Title: Day Break
Released: November 15, 2006
Type: TV
Today Detective Brett Hopper will be accused of shooting state attorney Alberto Garza. He will offer his rock solid alibi. He will realize he's been framed. And he will run. Then, he will wake up and start the day over again.
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Playing Patti
Title: Playing Patti
Released: April 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Dark-humored documentary about television child actress Patti Cohoon and how, on the occasion of her 40th birthday, she reflects on having attained her greatest creative and financial success before she reached the age of 19.
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Havoc
Title: Havoc
Character: Chino
Released: October 16, 2005
Type: Movie
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
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Title: My Name Is Earl
Character: Paco
Released: September 20, 2005
Type: TV
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma.
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Title: The Closer
Character: Julio Sanchez
Released: June 13, 2005
Type: TV
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
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Brothers in Arms
Title: Brothers in Arms
Character: Reverend
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
Title: My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure
Character: Raphael Garcia
Released: September 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's bodyguard. When she's unable to prevent the owner's murder at the hands of an old foe, Modesty is hell-bent on seeking revenge. --- An adaptation of the Modesty Blaise novels and comic strip by Peter O'Donnell.
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Just Hustle
Title: Just Hustle
Character: Spanish Professor
Released: January 27, 2004
Type: Movie
A young private detective is set up to take the fall for a college gambling ring that has paid a football player to throw the National Championship.
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Title: Nip/Tuck
Released: July 22, 2003
Type: TV
Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance problems.
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Title: CSI: Miami
Character: Martin
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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Collateral Damage
Title: Collateral Damage
Character: Junior
Released: February 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
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Training Day
Title: Training Day
Character: Sniper
Released: October 5, 2001
Type: Movie
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
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Blood Money
Title: Blood Money
Character: Gutierrez
Released: October 12, 2000
Type: Movie
A family run business is being forced to become a front for the mob. Ronnie (Brian Bloom) stands up against the Cancino family to save his family's life.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Miguel Durado
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Donald Balboa
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
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Title: Harsh Realm
Released: October 8, 1999
Type: TV
Harsh Realm is a science fiction television series about humans trapped inside a virtual reality simulation.
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The Last Marshal
Title: The Last Marshal
Character: T-Boy
Released: October 2, 1999
Type: Movie
Marshall McClary, one of the most violent, racist, foul- mouthed Marshalls in Texas, is in the middle of resolving a hostage situation (by shooting everyone he sees) when the FBI agents show up, interfering with his negotiation, and ending the event with McClary being wounded and two of the criminals escaping. After hearing that the two fugitives has fled to Miami, McClary follows behind them, working with the local police and offending every single person he encounters.
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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Title: From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Character: Jesus
Released: March 16, 1999
Type: Movie
A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood.
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Alien Resurrection
Title: Alien Resurrection
Character: Pvt. Vincent Distephano
Released: November 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
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Last Stand at Saber River
Title: Last Stand at Saber River
Character: Manuel
Released: January 19, 1997
Type: Movie
As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort.
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The Rock
Title: The Rock
Character: Sergeant Rojas (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1996
Type: Movie
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the stills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
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The Substitute
Title: The Substitute
Character: Joey Six
Released: April 19, 1996
Type: Movie
When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.
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Up Close & Personal
Title: Up Close & Personal
Character: Fernando Buttanda
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
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Broken Arrow
Title: Broken Arrow
Character: Air Force Staff Officer at Casualty Briefing (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1996
Type: Movie
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
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Operation Dumbo Drop
Title: Operation Dumbo Drop
Character: Staff Sergeant Adams
Released: July 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized headache!
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Dead Badge
Title: Dead Badge
Character: Tomas Gomez
Released: March 28, 1995
Type: Movie
After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many Torres - a cop who died of a heroin O.D. Now it belongs to Dan Sampson... and it's haunting him.
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Dragstrip Girl
Title: Dragstrip Girl
Character: Doogie
Released: September 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Johnny is a bad guy whom is trying to go straight whom becomes smitten with Laura, a wealthy good girl whom is rebelling against her parents by pretending to go steady with him, all set among the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles.
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Clear and Present Danger
Title: Clear and Present Danger
Character: Domingo Chavez
Released: August 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
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Title: Rebel Highway
Character: Doogie
Released: July 7, 1994
Type: TV
Rebel Highway was a short-lived revival of American International Pictures created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff and Debra Hill for the Showtime channel in 1994. The concept was 10-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" B-movies remade "with a '90s edge". The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, "what it would be like if you made Rebel Without a Cause today. It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had Natalie Wood's top off".
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Title: NYPD Blue
Character: Raoul Calderon
Released: September 21, 1993
Type: TV
Police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwined several plots involving an ensemble cast.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Eladio Buente
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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When the Party's Over
Title: When the Party's Over
Character: Mario
Released: March 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Four housemates try to find love and happiness in Los Angeles -- often at the expense of their well-being and friendships. Artist Amanda is trying to make it on the gallery scene, while aspiring actor Banks attempts to hit it big in Hollywood. Meanwhile, Frankie has an emotionally draining yet rewarding job as a social worker, but would be shattered to know that her roommate M.J. is sleeping with her boyfriend.
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Bound by Honor
Title: Bound by Honor
Character: Chuey
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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Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Title: Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Character: Arturo
Released: January 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Life in space. Beam-ins. Intergalactic war. What about getting a driver's license or doing the laundry? This one-hour special features dozens of space professionals---from astronauts and life systems engineers to space suit designers, interior decorators and the "Lunar Lettuce Man." A moving story concerning Jaime Escalante and one of his students (Raymond Cruz) is interwoven with imaginative vignettes that explore the humor and drama of day-to-day life away from Earth. A documentary AND fantasy. Shot on video and on film. Guest stars include Kathy Bates, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Pat Morita, Esai Morales, and Billy Bob Thornton.
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Title: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Character: Vargas
Released: January 3, 1993
Type: TV
At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.
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Under Siege
Title: Under Siege
Character: Ramirez
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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Judgement
Title: Judgement
Character: Cyclone
Released: August 5, 1992
Type: Movie
A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.
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Nails
Title: Nails
Character: Paco Sanchez
Released: July 25, 1992
Type: Movie
The wife of a wild Los Angeles police detective becomes a hostage of the heroin ring he and his partner have exposed.
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Man Trouble
Title: Man Trouble
Character: Balco
Released: July 17, 1992
Type: Movie
A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
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Perfect Crimes
Title: Perfect Crimes
Character: Diego
Released: November 8, 1991
Type: Movie
True stories about individuals seeking to commit a perfect crime.
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Out for Justice
Title: Out for Justice
Character: Hector
Released: April 12, 1991
Type: Movie
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Title: Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Character: Messenger
Released: June 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
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Made in Hollywood
Title: Made in Hollywood
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of television and cinema. Quoting from a catalogue of popular styles and sources, from TV commercials to The Wizard of Oz, the Yonemotos construct a parable of the Hollywood image-making industry from a pastiche of narrative cliches: A small-town ingenue goes West to find her dream and loses her innocence; the patriarch of a Hollywood studio nears death; a New York couple seeks screenwriting fame and fortune in the movies. With deadpan humor and hyperbolic visual stylization, the Yonemotos layer artifice upon artifice, constructing an image-world where reality and representation, truth and simulation, are meaningless distinctions.
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Title: I Know My First Name Is Steven
Character: Punk #2
Released: May 22, 1989
Type: TV
In 1973, 7-year-old Steven Stayner is kidnapped by pedophile Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive sexual abuse the entire time. Finally, in 1980, when Parnell kidnaps another young boy, Steven finds a way for them both to escape and return home.
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A Nightmare on Drug Street
Title: A Nightmare on Drug Street
Character: Felipe
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Middle class teenagers Jill, Felipe and Eddie, talk about their addiction and drug-related death.
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Twice Dead
Title: Twice Dead
Character: Cheeta
Released: November 18, 1988
Type: Movie
The ghost of a hanged movie star helps a brother and sister rid their mansion of punks.
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Maid to Order
Title: Maid to Order
Character: Sam
Released: July 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell which causes Charles to no longer have a daughter. Jessie, now penniless and without a friend, must take a maid's job to earn a living, and hopefully to learn her lesson.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: José 'Joseph' Galvan
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: The Americans
Character: Memo
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The Valenzuela family live in Los Angeles in a multi-generational household. Lee and his mother Lucia differ on how to deal with the problems that arise including alcoholism, teenage rebellion and immigration difficulties.
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Serpentine
Title: Serpentine
Character: Sergio Sanchez
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
FBI Agents Luke Murphy and Jessica Rosen must resort to creative and unethical methods to combat Noah Moretti and his criminal crew who have partnered with a major cartel to traffic young women and children. In PRE-PRODUCTION