Edward James Olmos
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1947-02-24
- Lieu de naissance:
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Biographie
Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, and activist. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in Miami Vice (1984–1989), actor in and director of American Me (1992), William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988), and Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982), and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017). In 2018, he played the father of two members of an outlaw motorcycle club in the FX series Mayans MC. For his work in Miami Vice, Olmos won the 1985 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. For his performance in Stand and Deliver, Olmos was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He is also known for his roles as patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit, and the voice of Chicharrón in Coco. Over the course of his career, Olmos has been a pioneer for more diversified roles and images of Hispanics in the U.S. media. His notable direction, production, and starring roles for films, made-for-TV movies, and TV shows include Wolfen, Triumph of the Spirit, Talent for the Game, American Me, The Burning Season, My Family/Mi Familia, Caught, 12 Angry Men, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, Walkout, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, American Family, and Dexter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward James Olmos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Connu pour
Filmographie
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Office Romance
Mami Está Aquí
M.I.A.
Beyond the Border: Latino Representation in Hollywood
One Fast Move
Outlaw Posse
La Californie !
100 Ans de Warner Bros.
Marvel Moon Girl et Devil le Dinosaure
Chasing Wonders
« Blade Runner » : au-delà de la fiction
Walking with Herb
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
Space Songs: Through the Distance
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Imprisoned
Contaminations
Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire
Bless This Mess
Windows on the World
L'Incroyable Aventure de Bella
Mayans MC
The Eyes of Martin Castillo
Every Night's a Saturday Night
Coco
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner : Black Out 2022
L.A. 92 : Les émeutes
L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later
Monday Nights at Seven
El Americano: The Movie
Unity
Exile Nation: The Plastic People
The Journey of a Female Comic
The Real History of Science Fiction
Agave is Life
Go for Sisters
Marvel : Les Agents du S.H.I.E.L.D.
2 Guns
Filly Brown
A Bridge Apart
América
Portlandia
The Green Hornet
Blue Bloods
I'm still here
Battlestar Galactica : The Plan
A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story
Le Chihuahua de Beverly Hills
Dangerous Days : Making Blade Runner
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
Battlestar Galactica : Razor
Dave Navarro's Spread
Dexter
Splinter
Eureka
Soulèvement
Recycled Life
La Cerca
Battlestar Galactica
Batman
Battlestar Galactica : Mini-série
Greetings from Tucson
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Une famille du tonnerre
American Family
In the Time of the Butterflies
The Judge
The Judge
The Princess and the Barrio Boy
Fausses Rumeurs
La Route d'El Dorado
The Unfinished Journey
Zapatista
À la Maison Blanche
Bonanno L'histoire d'un parrain
The Wall
Le Métro de l'angoisse
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
Manu: Peru's Hidden Rain Forest
Douze hommes en colère
Prophecies of the Millennium
Hollywood Confidential
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
Gun
Selena Remembered
Selena
Death in Granada
E! True Hollywood Story
The Limbic Region
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Dead Man's Walk
Caught
Slave of Dreams
Mirage
Rêves de famille
500 Nations : L’histoire des indiens d'Amérique du nord
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Les Anges du bonheur
La Forêt de tous les Dangers
Le bus magique
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
A Million to Juan
Même les cow-girls ont du vague à l'âme
Lives in Hazard
Learning Not to Hurt
Roosters
Sans rémission
Talent for the Game
Maria's Story
The Earth Day Special
Les Simpson
Triumph of the Spirit
Miami Vice: Freefall
The Fortunate Pilgrim
Envers et contre tous
Blue Collar & Buddha
Saving Grace
Deux Flics à Miami
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
The Nightingale
Faerie Tale Theatre
Blade Runner
Seguin
American Playhouse
Zoot Suit
Wolfen
Capitaine Furillo
300 Miles for Stephanie
Virus
白昼の死角
Evening in Byzantium
Alambrista!
CHiPs
The Fitzpatricks
Starsky & Hutch
The Blue Knight
Aloha Bobby and Rose
Sergent Anderson
Kojak
Police Story
Cannon
Hawaï police d'État
Blue Collar & Buddha