Edward James Olmos
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.
143 acting credits · 6 directing credits
Acting · 143
The Simpsons
1989
Dexter
2006
Blue Bloods
2010
The West Wing
1999
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013
Miami Vice
1984
Hill Street Blues
1981
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Battlestar Galactica
2004
Touched by an Angel
1994
Eureka
2006
Starsky & Hutch
1975
Police Woman
1974
Cannon
1971
Blade Runner 2049
2017
The Batman
2004
Coco
2017
Kojak
1973
CHiPs
1977
Mayans M.C.
2018
Portlandia
2011
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Blade Runner
1982
Police Story
1973
The Magic School Bus
1994
Battlestar Galactica
2003
The Road to El Dorado
2000
George Lopez
2002
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
Bless This Mess
2019
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
2 Guns
2013
The Green Hornet
2011
Selena
1997
12 Angry Men
1997
Gun
1997
American Family
2002
The Fitzpatricks
1977
Stand and Deliver
1988
A Dog's Way Home
2019
Unity
2015
Office Romance
2026
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
2017
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008
Greetings from Tucson
2002
Dead Man's Walk
1996
American Me
1992
I'm Still Here
2010
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
500 Nations
1995
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988
Gossip
2000
The Blue Knight
1975
Virus
1980
Dave Navarro's Spread
2007
One Fast Move
2024
The Earth Day Special
1990
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1994
The Judge
2001
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
2007
Caught
1996
The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II
2020
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009
The Unfinished Journey
1999
Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
1999
Dead Angle
1979
Wolfen
1981
The Devil Has a Name
2019
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
1994
La Californie !
2023
Triumph of the Spirit
1989
My Family
1995
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
Outlaw Posse
2024
LA 92
2017
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1998
Zoot Suit
1981
Evening in Byzantium
1978
Americano
2016
Go for Sisters
2013
Walkout
2006
The Judge
2001
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
1998
Windows on the World
2019
Saving Grace
1986
Death in Granada
1996
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
Splinter
2006
Imprisoned
2019
Roosters
1993
Filly Brown
2013
The Nightingale
1983
Hollywood Confidential
1997
Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard
2007
The Burning Season
1994
In the Time of the Butterflies
2001
Evening in Byzantium
1978
The Blade Runner Phenomenon
2021
Aloha Bobby and Rose
1975
Alambrista!
1977
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
1997
Walking with Herb
2021
The Wall
1998
Seguin
1982
America
2011
Chasing Wonders
2021
A Million to Juan
1994
Talent for the Game
1991
Every Night's a Saturday Night
2018
Zapatista
1999
The Princess and the Barrio Boy
2000
Mirage
1995
300 Miles for Stephanie
1981
Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire
2019
Space Songs: Through the Distance
2020
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
2007
Maria's Story
1991
The Limbic Region
1996
L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later
2017
The Journey of a Female Comic
2014
Slave of Dreams
1995
Recycled Life
2006
Lives in Hazard
1994
La Cerca
2005
Monday Nights at Seven
2016
A Bridge Apart
2013
A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story
2009
Selena Remembered
1997
Agave is Life
2014
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
2026
Prophecies of the Millennium
1997
Miami Vice: Freefall
1989
Blue Collar & Buddha
1986
Learning Not To Hurt
1993
Exile Nation: The Plastic People
2014
The Eyes of Martin Castillo
2018
Manu: Peru's Hidden Rain Forest
1997
Blue Collar & Buddha
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