Pepe Serna

biography:
Durable Mexican-American actor Pepe Serna has appeared in more than 100 feature films and 300 television shows, but is most recognized for his gritty support performances in a variety of motion pictures, including Scarface (1983) as Al Pacino's ill-fated cocaine partner, as well as the western Silverado (1985) with Kevin Costner, the crime yarn The Rookie (1990) starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen, and the drama American Me (1992) starring Edward James Olmos. In a career surpassing five decades, Pepe's characters have played on both sides of the law -- from drug peddlers to sheriffs.

He was born (and raised) in Corpus Christi, Texas on July 23, 1944, the son of a naval base interpreter for Latin American pilots and a hairdresser. His desires to become an actor happened early in life, moving to Hollywood in 1969 to finally pursue his dreams. He didn't have to wait long to find steady Latino work on film and TV.

Making an inauspicious debut in the exploitation film The Student Nurses (1970), Pepe found more "A" quality work after being discovered by producer Hal B. Wallis for the coming-of-age film Tim Belcher starring Richard Thomas and Catherine Burns and the western Shoot Out (1971) starring Gregory Peck. Specializing in urban, streetwise roles, he went on to mix a number of popular films (The New Centurions (1972), The Day of the Locust (1975), Car Wash (1976), A Force of One (1979), Walk Proud (1979), Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Inside Moves (1980), Deal of the Century (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Caddyshack II (1988)) with a slew of popular TV crime dramas such as "Mannix," "Police Story," "Adam-12," "The Rookies," "The Rockford Files," "Baretta," "Kojak," "CHiPs," "Barney Miller," "Scarecrow & Mrs. King," "T.J. Hooker," "Simon & Simon," "Hill Street Blues," "Miami Vice," "Cagney & Lacey" and "Diagnosis Murder."

Long married to wife Diane, Pepe is a noted keynote teacher and motivational speaker who tours colleges and universities. His strong sideline as a painter has been met with critical success, having been commissioned quite frequently. His vibrant paintings and one-man stage shows reflect a serious return to his Mexican roots and was the subject of the 2015 short documentary "Life Is Art."

Lou Grant

overview: The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.

original_name: Lou Grant

CHiPs

overview: Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.

original_name: CHiPs

The Rookies

overview: The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.

original_name: The Rookies

Kung Fu

overview: The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

character: Los Vidrios

original_name: Kung Fu

T. J. Hooker

overview: 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 recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.

character: Frank Fierro

original_name: T. J. Hooker

The A-Team

overview: A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

character: Tómas Jefferson

original_name: The A-Team

Sliders

overview: In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an increase in power and an early departure leave all three, plus a washed-up soul singer named Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, lost in a parallel world. Now they must "slide" from world to world, not only adapting to their changing surroundings, but also trying to get back to their world. Will they ever make it home?

character: Roberto

original_name: Sliders

Miami Vice

overview: The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

character: Oswaldo Guzman

original_name: Miami Vice

Simon & Simon

overview: A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.

original_name: Simon & Simon

The Greatest American Hero

overview: The chronicles of  teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.

original_name: The Greatest American Hero

Knight Rider

overview: Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.

character: Lupo

original_name: Knight Rider

Baretta

overview: Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.

original_name: Baretta

Hill Street Blues

overview: A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

original_name: Hill Street Blues

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

overview: Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.

Mannix

overview: Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.

Quantum Leap

overview: Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

character: Manuel Vega

original_name: Quantum Leap

Kojak

overview: A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

character: Enorio Patias

Criminal Minds

overview: An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.

character: Ruben Garcia

original_name: Criminal Minds

Cagney & Lacey

overview: Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.

original_name: Cagney & Lacey

The Zeta Project

overview: Follow the futuristic adventures of Zeta, a renegade government-designed robot, and Ro, his 15-year-old streetwise companion.

original_name: The Zeta Project

Jesse

overview: Jesse Warner is a 26-year-old single mother juggling between her job, her dreams and her family responsibilities.

character: Pappa Vasquez

original_name: Jesse

Cannon

overview:
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones.

Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.

original_name: Cannon

Kingpin

overview: Kingpin is an American crime drama television series which debuted on the NBC network in the U.S. and CTV in Canada on February 2, 2003 and lasted 6 episodes. NBC's answer to The Sopranos and also influenced by The Godfather, Macbeth and Traffik, the story was about a Mexican drug trafficker named Miguel Cadena and his family life. It was to be followed by a television series, but low ratings canceled those plans. Commercials for the mini-series on NBC featured the song "Más" by the Mexican band Kinky.

original_name: Kingpin

Hunter

overview:
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.

character: Roberto Sanchez

original_name: Hunter

The PJs

overview: Thurgood Stubbs lives with his wife, Muriel, in the Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs housing project, where he is the superintendent. This animated comedy follows the adventures of the Subbs and their friends, while taking a satirical view of the ups and downs of life in a big-city housing project.

character: Sanchez (voice)

original_name: The PJs

Diagnosis: Murder

overview: Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

character: Capt. Collins

original_name: Diagnosis: Murder

Hotel Malibu

overview: Hotel Malibu is an American television series that aired on CBS in 1994 that was created and written by producers Bernard Lechowick and Lynn Marie Latham. Its cast includes Jennifer Lopez, Joanna Cassidy, Harry Reilly, and John Dye. The pilot episode was directed by Sharron Miller. It was a spin-off of the show Second Chances.

original_name: Hotel Malibu

Second Chances

overview:
Second Chances is an American television series created and written by producers Bernard Lechowick and Lynn Marie Latham. The series premiered December 2, 1993, on CBS. Its cast includes Jennifer Lopez, Connie Sellecca, Megan Follows, Michelle Phillips, and Matt Salinger. The two-hour pilot episode was directed by Sharron Miller.

The series last episode ran on February 10, 1994 as part of CBS's Crimetime After Primetime.

This show marked a reunion, however short-lived, between actors Ronny Cox and Frances Lee McCain, who last worked together on the series Apple's Way in the mid-1970s.

Produced a spin-off, Hotel Malibu.

character: Salvador Lopez

original_name: Second Chances

Police Story

overview: Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.

original_name: Police Story

The Paper Chase

overview: Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.

original_name: The Paper Chase

DEA

overview:
D.E.A. is a short-lived television program which was aired by Fox Broadcasting Company as part of its 1990-91 lineup.

D.E.A. was based on true stories of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Shot in cinéma vérité style, the program combined recreated scenes using actors with actual surveillance footage and film of actual newscasts covering the stories depicted.

Fox apparently had considerable confidence in this concept. When the initial version garnered low ratings and was put on hiatus, before its return the program was retooled into DEA—Special Task Force, which placed more emphasis on the agents' personal lives and showed less graphic violence. The revamped show premiered in April 1991, but also failed to achieve significant ratings and the program was canceled for good in June 1991.

original_name: DEA

Rafferty

overview: Rafferty is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from September 5 to November 28, 1977. The series stars Patrick McGoohan as Doctor Sid Rafferty, a former army doctor running his own private practice in Los Angeles and helping out part time at City General Hospital.

original_name: Rafferty

Bronk

overview:
Bronk is an American television series starring Jack Palance as Detective Lieutenant Alex Bronkov. The series is set in the fictional Ocean City, California.

24 episodes were aired from September 21, 1975 to March 28, 1976 on CBS. The series lasted only one season.

original_name: Bronk

Justice League

overview: The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter.

character: Shifflet (voice)

original_name: Justice League

With Love

overview: The Diaz siblings, Lily and Jorge, are on a mission to find love and purpose. They cross paths with seemingly unrelated residents during some of the most heightened days of the year—the holidays.

character: Luis Delgado

original_name: With Love

overview: Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.

character: Roger

Kojak

character: Rudy Diaz

Dudley

overview: Dudley is an American Primetime television series starring Dudley Moore and Joanna Cassidy. The series premiered April 16, 1993 on CBS, temporarily replacing on Friday primetime-slot the series Major Dad, and was canceled May 14, 1993, just one episode before its regular ending.

character: Santana

original_name: Dudley

A Year in the Life

overview: Following the success of the three-part miniseries of the same name, the drama series follows the daily lives of Seattle's Gardner family. Joe Gardner is the owner of a successful plastics business and the father of four adult children. The Gardner family includes twice-divorced daughter Anne, who returns home with her two teenaged children; daughter Lindley and husband Jim, parents of a newborn baby daughter; black sheep son Jack; and conservative youngest son Sam, newly married to free-spirited Kay.

character: Carlos

original_name: A Year in the Life

The Rockford Files

overview: Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.

character: Ray Ochoa

original_name: The Rockford Files

The Fortunate Pilgrim

overview: The saga of an Italian immigrant family in search of the American dream.

Barney Miller

overview: Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.

Hell Town

overview: Hell Town is an American drama series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1985 to December 25, 1985. The series features former Baretta star Robert Blake.

Dimension 404

overview: Inspired by the Internet’s “404” error code, Dimension 404 aims to evoke that 3 AM feeling of wandering onto the weird side of the web, stumbling upon stories that cannot be explained in the world that we know.

McNaughton's Daughter

overview: Series pilot about a female deputy district attorney assigned the task of trying to pin a murder rap on a "saint," a beloved religious crusader accused of killing her young lover.

Matlock

overview: Thrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always clothed in his trademark light-gray suit and driving his signature Ford Crown Victoria, has an uncanny knack for finding overlooked clues and exposing murderers in dramatic courtroom scenes.

American Playhouse

overview: American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

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Pepe Serna

biography:
Der mexikanisch-amerikanische Schauspieler Pepe Serna hat in über 100 Spielfilmen und 300 Fernsehsendungen mitgewirkt, ist aber vor allem für seine eindringlichen Nebenrollen in verschiedenen Filmen bekannt. Dazu gehören „Scarface“ (1983) als Al Pacinos unglückseliger Kokainpartner, der Western „Silverado“ (1985) mit Kevin Costner, der Krimi „The Rookie“ (1990) mit Clint Eastwood und Charlie Sheen sowie das Drama „American Me“ (1992) mit Edward James Olmos. In seiner über fünf Jahrzehnte währenden Karriere verkörperte Pepe Serna Charaktere auf beiden Seiten des Gesetzes – vom Drogenhändler bis zum Sheriff.

Er wurde am 23. Juli 1944 in Corpus Christi, Texas, geboren und wuchs dort auf. Sein Vater war Dolmetscher für lateinamerikanische Piloten auf einem Marinestützpunkt, seine Mutter Friseurin. Schon früh hegte er den Wunsch, Schauspieler zu werden, und zog 1969 nach Hollywood, um seinen Traum zu verwirklichen. Er musste nicht lange warten, bis er regelmäßig Arbeit als Latino in Film und Fernsehen fand.

Nach einem wenig vielversprechenden Debüt in dem Exploitationfilm „The Student Nurses“ (1970) erhielt Pepe deutlich bessere Rollen, nachdem ihn Produzent Hal B. Wallis für den Coming-of-Age-Film „Tim Belcher“ mit Richard Thomas und Catherine Burns sowie für den Western „Shoot Out“ (1971) mit Gregory Peck entdeckt hatte. Er spezialisierte sich auf urbane, straßenschlaue Rollen und spielte in einer Reihe populärer Filme (Die neuen Centurions (1972), Der Tag der Heuschrecke (1975), Car Wash (1976), A Force of One (1979), Walk Proud (1979), Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Inside Moves (1980), Deal of the Century (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Caddyshack II (1988)) sowie in einer Vielzahl beliebter Krimiserien wie „Mannix“, „Police Story“, „Adam-12“, „The Rookies“, „Detektiv Rockford – Anruf genügt“, „Baretta“, „Kojak“, „CHiPs“, „Barney Miller“, „Scarecrow & Mrs. King“, „T.J. Hooker“, „Simon & Simon“, „Hill Street Blues“, „Miami Vice“, „Cagney & Lacey“ und „Diagnosis“. Mord.“

Pepe ist seit Langem mit seiner Frau Diane verheiratet und ein gefragter Keynote-Speaker und Motivationsredner, der an Hochschulen und Universitäten Vorträge hält. Seine erfolgreiche Nebentätigkeit als Maler hat ihm zahlreiche Aufträge eingebracht. Seine ausdrucksstarken Gemälde und Solo-Bühnenshows zeugen von einer tiefen Rückbesinnung auf seine mexikanischen Wurzeln und waren Thema des Kurzdokumentarfilms „Life Is Art“ aus dem Jahr 2015.

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帕皮·塞尔纳

biography: 经久不衰的墨西哥裔美国演员帕皮·塞尔纳（Pepe Serna） 出演了 100 多部故事片和 300 部电视节目，但最广为人知的是他在各种电影中坚韧不拔的支持表演，包括《疤面煞星》（1983 年）作为阿尔·帕西诺命运多舛的可卡因搭档，以及与凯文·科斯特纳合作的西部西尔维拉多（1985 年），克林特·伊斯特伍德和查理·辛主演的犯罪片《新秀》（1990 年）， 以及由爱德华·詹姆斯·奥尔莫斯主演的剧情片《美国人》（1992）。在超过五十年的职业生涯中，佩佩的角色在法律的两边都扮演过角色——从毒贩到警长。

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帕皮·塞爾納

biography: 經久不衰的墨西哥裔美國演員帕皮·塞爾納（Pepe Serna） 出演了 100 多部故事片和 300 部電視節目，但最廣為人知的是他在各種電影中堅韌不拔的支持表演，包括《疤面煞星》（1983 年）作為阿爾·帕西諾命運多舛的可卡因搭檔，以及與凱文·科斯特納合作的西部西爾維拉多（1985 年），克林特·伊斯特伍德和查理·辛主演的犯罪片《新秀》（1990 年）， 以及由愛德華·詹姆斯·奧爾莫斯主演的劇情片《他來自美國》（1992）。在超過五十年的職業生涯中，佩佩的角色在法律的兩邊都扮演過角色——從毒販到警長。

title: Scarface

overview: 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.

title: Fandango

overview: In 1971, five college buddies from the University of Texas embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.

title: The Day of the Locust

overview: Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

title: A Force of One

overview: Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.

title: The Jerk

overview: After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.

title: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

overview: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

original_title: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

title: The Forgotten

overview: Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

title: The Brave

overview: A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.

title: The Black Dahlia

overview: In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspiring young actress.

title: Exposed

overview: As the presenter of tabloid news show 'Probe', Bob Smith stoops to new lows to expose stories at any cost. When covering the lives of three high-flying women vying for the 'Woman of Distinction' award in broadcasting, he hopes to break through the glossy facade and reveal secrets all three women strive to keep hidden...even if that means inventing a few secrets himself.

title: The Killer Inside Me

overview: Haunted by visions from his abusive childhood, Montana deputy sheriff Lou Ford gradually exhibits the signs of a homicidal schizophrenic.

title: Car Wash

overview: This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.

title: Vice Squad

overview: An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

title: Caddyshack II

overview: When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a tacky amusement park.

title: Big Dreams Little Tokyo

overview: Big Dreams Little Tokyo is the story of Boyd, an American with an uncanny ability to speak Japanese. Boyd aspires to succeed in the world of Japanese business but finds himself mostly on the outside looking in. Meanwhile, his roommate Jerome, is a Japanese American who has always felt too American to be Japanese but too Japanese to be American. He aspires to be a sumo wrestler but finds his weight and blood pressure are thwarting his dreams. Together they struggle to find their place in a world where cultural identity is seldom what it seems.

title: Latin Dragon

overview: In the grand tradition of the lone hero who mysteriously appears in a town desperate for help (think "Shane, "Billy Jack", "James Bond" and "Chinese Connection"), having survived a war and now serving the government as an undercover agent, Danny Silva takes on his biggest foe yet: the street gangs that have taken over his neighborhood. Unwilling to play by the rules set down by the criminals, Silva forgoes the use of guns and decides to battle the thugs with the strength of his fists, spirit and willpower, turning himself into a real-life, modern-day superhero. Packed with pulse pounding, adrenaline-filled action; "Latin Dragon" gives us our first mainstream Latino martial arts action hero.

title: Only You

overview: Dumped by his fiancée, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a sober party girl and his travel agent.

title: The Deadly Tower

overview: The real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold.  In August 1966, after killing his wife and mother, Whitman climbed to the top of the school's tower and opened fire on passers-by, killing 13 and wounding many others.

title: Walk Proud

overview: Emilio Mendez is a 17-year-old Chicano man in California comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.  Robby Benson plays a young gang member in Los Angeles who begins to question himself when Mendez meets and starts to fall for a White girl who encourages him to try and leave. Emilio, with great pride in his Native Mexican heritage, suffers a further identity crisis upon meeting his father, a European-American who got his Brown mother pregnant when she was just 16.

title: Bad Jim

overview: A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.

title: Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone

overview: In a Texas border town, car salesman Charlie moonlights as a masked Lucha libre wrestler going by the name “Green Ghost.” When unknown assailants arrive seeking an otherworldly emerald, Charlie discovers that he has super powers. As he learns to fight from the unconventional Master Gin, Charlie is told that he’s part of a secret warrior “triad of light” with his childhood friend Marco and Marco’s sister Karina led by La Nana. Together, they’ve been chosen to protect humanity from Drake, the embodiment of the Mayan apocalypse.

original_title: Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone

title: Moe

overview: Moe, a fun-loving theater artist working on a one woman show, finds out that he is dying from an AIDS related illness. Naturally, his response is to invite his closest friends over for a “going away for good” party as one last big celebration of his life. His plans go awry when his best friend, and his ex, decide to crash the party, despite 15 years without communication between them. Alternating between the painful reality of his current situation and scenes featuring his alter ego, a torch-singing drag queen who wants to take him for “the ride of his life,” MOE is an often light-hearted film that also packs a serious emotional punch.

title: Jonny's Golden Quest

overview: In the first feature-length animated movie based on the Hanna-Barbera series, Jonny Quest fans get to meet the women behind the adventurous men. Joining scientist Benton Quest, his plucky son Jonny, bodyguard Race Bannon and Jonny's young pal Hadji are Benton's biologist wife Rachel, Race's ex-wife Jade and young 12-year-old Jessie, who harbors a big secret. Throughout, Team Quest battles the evil schemes of modern-day alchemist Dr. Zin, who has cloned himself and created an army of mutant reptiles in the Peruvian rain forest. The clash there results in a tragedy that changes Jonny's life forever - and later leads to a worldwide pursuit of Zin that includes examining rare Leonardo da Vinci documents in Paris, exploring the Roman catacombs and a final confrontation in the Australian outback.

title: Bread and Roses

overview: Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

title: The Desperate Miles

overview: A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he finds his life is endangered by a deranged truck driver.

title: Shoot Out

overview: Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 7 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Knowing that, Foley hires three men to pay attention of Clay's steps. The things get complicated when Lomax, waiting to receive some money from his ex-lover, gets only the notice of her death and an 7 year old girl, sometimes very annoying, presumed to be his daughter.

title: Postcards from the Edge

overview: A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

title: Along for the Ride

overview: Two estranged brothers are forced to take a surreal and heartfelt journey to understanding, when they pick up the body of their deceased father in Mexico. A father they haven't seen in over 20 years.

title: The Streets of L.A.

overview: A woman embarks on a lone pursuit of three teenaged hoods in the Los Angeles barrio after becoming incensed at their malicious tire-slashing on parked cars including hers.

title: Man from Reno

overview: A mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese author Aki Akahori, and a traveler from Reno who soon disappears, leaving behind his suitcase and a trail of questions.

title: The New Centurions

overview: An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.

title: The Gun

overview: The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.

title: Road to Juarez

overview: An American ex-con with Mexican underworld ties ensnares a pair of young misfits into a dangerous heist in Mexico. Inspired by true events.

title: Seguin

overview: A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the turbulent decade between the Texas Revolution (1836) and the Mexican-American War (1846-1847).

title: Miracle on 34th Street

overview: A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.

title: Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

overview: An airplane carrying coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the venomous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the venomous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees

title: Daybreak

overview: Dillan Johansen is a disorganized transit authority supervisor suffering from a serious personal tragedy. Dillan's bravery is put to the test the day a major earthquake hits Los Angeles and traps Dillan in an underground tunnel with a handful of subway riders. Dillan works underground to save the panicked citizens from raging fire, rushing water, and a secret cache of toxic chemicals.

title: Out of Bounds

overview: Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl's brother and the small town boy ends up all alone in the big city, being pursued by both the drug dealer and the police, who suspect him of the murder.

title: Picking Up the Pieces

overview: A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.

title: Joe Dancer II: The Monkey Mission

overview: Robert Blake's second (of three) "Joe Dancer" movies has the hard-boiled private investigator teaming up with a chimp named Gregor, his trainer (who also happens to be an expert thief), and an electronics genius of questionable repute to steal back a priceless vase looted from a family collection during World War II.

title: Flamin' Hot

overview: The inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin' Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.

title: Deal of the Century

overview: Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.

title: Lowriders

overview: A young street artist in East Los Angeles is caught between his father's obsession with lowrider car culture, his ex-felon brother and his need for self-expression.

title: Kill or Be Killed

overview: In the autumn of 1900, outlaw Claude Barbee puts his 'retirement plan' in action, attempting to lead his train-robbing gang across Texas to recover a cash stash hidden after a botched railroad heist.

title: Group Marriage

overview: Chris is not getting along with boyfriend Sandor and has an affair with parole officer Dennis. Dennis invites the couple to dinner with his ex-girlfriend Jan. At a picnic on the beach, Jan meets lifeguard Phil, who later sleeps with Chris and moves in with the other five. Phil brings in a person, lawyer Elaine. The "group marriage" of the six of them attracts media attention, which brings trouble and prejudice.

title: In the Flesh

overview: A German woman travels to America with her baby to take up an au pair position with a rich couple. She has no idea that the childless couple are only interested in her child and want to kill her. In Mexico, she escapes the hired killers and survives further dangers together with a local.

title: Superpowerless

overview: A superhero loses his powers shortly after turning forty and must adjust to his new life.

title: Conagher

overview: Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is an honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.

title: Downsizing

overview: A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

title: Red Dawn

overview: It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.

title: Roots of Blood

overview: A deadly riot breaks out after unfair labor practices at a garment factory raises tensions between Mexican and Chicano workers.

title: Cake

overview: After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.

title: The Princess and the Barrio Boy

overview: A teenager who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer has a romance with a boy from the wrong side of town.

title: Deadly Swarm

overview: Seeking out a cure for his wife's serious illness, scientist Dr. Schroeder (McCormack) heads deep into a forbidden jungle in Guatemala, trapping thousands of killer wasps. Working with secret military backing, it is Schroeder's contention that the venom from the wasp's stingers can be of great medicinal benefit. But when they try to illegally smuggle the wasps into the US, the truck they are on crashes and the wasps are set free to wreak havoc, making a direct path to a small unsuspecting town. It is up to an American entomologist Daniel Lang and a nosey writer Sandra Kern to stop these deadly wasps - as they lay eggs in their victims to hatch thousands more wasps - before it's too late.

title: Inside Moves

overview: After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Rory and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?

title: Swashbuckler

overview: A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

title: Best Kept Secrets

overview: Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.

title: The Rookie

overview: Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.

title: Honeysuckle Rose

overview: Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

title: City in Fear

overview: A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.

title: Break of Dawn

overview: In 1930s Los Angeles, Mexican immigrant Pedro J. González becomes a pioneering Spanish-language radio star before being wrongly convicted and imprisoned at San Quentin.

title: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

overview: In 1901, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez is forced on the run from Texas Rangers, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days following a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman.

title: 300 Miles for Stephanie

overview: A San Antonio cop, as an act of faith, vows to run more than 300 miles in five days, hoping his critically ill five-year-old daughter will survive to greet him at the finish.

title: Under Water: Dive Deep

overview: Did you ever loose someone you love the most? Under Water: A surreal drama that chronicles Sii's journey to accept her son's untimely death at sea.

title: Flavor of Life

overview: A weary Latino chef and his estranged grandson must reconcile in order to save their beloved Mexican restaurant.

title: The Planters

overview: Awkward telemarketer Martha Plant is down and out — sucking at her job and grieving her recently deceased parents. When she finds unlikely friendship in Sadie Mayflower, a bubbly vagrant with multiple personalities, Martha discovers having three friends in one may be more than she bargained for.

title: Human Error

overview: Jack Farley and his family are asked to attend an experiment about social behavior for a planned space station. Therefore they move into an underground dome for three months. But then it turns out that a secret military department replaced the NASA scientists and conducts an experiment on its own...

title: Restored Me

overview: A troubled ex-con joins the colorful crew of an old movie theater and begins to rebuild his life, only to find his faith in God tested when he learns the theater he has grown to love is not what it seems.

title: American Me

overview: During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.

title: Monday Nights at Seven

overview: Monday Nights At Seven is a love story about a single father, Lazo Saroby, who is struggling unsuccessfully to let go of his past. Then he meets Isabel, a young woman who is also facing the consequences of her own life choices. As feelings for Isabel expose the lie Lazo is living, he is forced to get real with himself, as painful as it might be. Facing the truth is Lazo's ultimate battle, but it's the only way he stands a chance of ever being free.

title: The Margarita Man

overview: A young latino man, who fears he will grow up to be like his working class father, goes to college where his love for the party gets him cut off financially and forces him to sell margaritas in order to stay in school.

title: The Student Nurses

overview: Four female college students in Los Angeles, who live together and have nursing internships at the same hospital, have their lives complicated by love, sex, drugs and revolution.

title: The Three Kings

overview: The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio is suddenly struck with the delusion that they are really their Biblical counterparts on a quest to find the Baby Jesus. As TV cameras grind away, the three ersatz Kings surreptitiously ride out of the gates of the asylum—on camels—and into the mean streets of LA. As the story draws to its conclusion, the three escapees find themselves providing a Christmas miracle (but not in the form of rap) for a group of homeless people on the outskirts of the city.

title: White Water Rebels

overview: James Brolin plays a renegade canoeist who illegally runs a river to protest its exploitation by a greedy corporation.

title: Streets of Justice

title: A Million to Juan

overview: Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit are repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.

title: From the Dead

overview: After Janie accidentally murders her husband during disputed infidelity over a stripper, her husband's brother introduces her to an Aztec spell that resurrects him from the dead; Unfortunately, he returns to take revenge.

title: The Last Angry Man

overview: In the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums, takes an interest in a local teenager, whose hostility and erratic behavior the doctor believes is due to more than just his environment.

title: Say a Little Prayer

overview: Three best friends recite an ancient prayer to the patron saint of “all things lost” to find their true loves, unleashing an unexpected turn of events that will put their friendship to the test.

title: Three Years Gone

overview: Maria and her father, David, search for an exorcism to rid him of the demons he believes followed him back from the war. David, haunted by his past, kidnaps Maria from her mother, Veronica, who faces her inner battles.

title: Ana Maria in Novela Land

overview: Ana Maria is having a bad day until she magically switches places with the main character of her favorite telenovela. As she struggles to escape from Novela Land, Ana Maria finally understands why her real life was such a mess.

title: Land of Milk & Honey

overview: In this psychological drama, Sam (Richard Panebianco) has come to work on a dairy farm in Marin, California. He had been living in New York, but found himself tormented with terrible nightmares. On the farm he works closely with his friend Danny. Not long after his arrival, Sam gets in trouble with Robert, the owner. He is also in trouble with Danny's daughter, Rosie who wanted the job Sam filled. The trouble with the owner comes when Sam begins trying to save poor Rachel, the dairyman's daughter whom Robert keeps locked in the house. Thinking she is being abused, Sam talks to her. She shows her gratitude sexually. Now Sam becomes even more determined to save her. Unfortunately, Rachel isn't as much abused as she is dangerously unstable.

title: Heartbreaker

overview: Car clubs in East LA provide the background for gang rivalry and a blossoming romance between Beto (Fernando Allende in his first English-speaking role) and the blonde newcomer to the neighborhood, Kim (Dawn Dunlap)

title: Luminarias

overview: Welcome to Luminarias-where hot spicy dish gets served up with a Latin twist by four successful friends from East LA...with very discriminating taste in men! When separated divorce attorney Andrea finds herself guilty of falling for her white and Jewish opposing council, her three single friends choose sides in the ongoing and often hilarious debate over race and sex. As they discover just how much negative stereotypes color their relationships with men-and even with each other-it becomes clear that the search for Mr. Right is not exactly black and white! Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

title: White on Rice

overview: 40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law Tak. He thinks that if only he could get married all his problems would be solved. But when he falls head over heels for Tak's niece things only go from bad to worse.

title: Johnny Got His Gun

overview: A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.

title: The Virgin of Juarez

overview: When a reporter travels to Juarez to cover the ongoing story of the mass murder of local working women, she uncovers the amazing story of "The Virgin Of Juarez," a survivor of an attack who has developed stigmata, a sign of holiness, and whose followers will do whatever she asks.

title: Aguruphobia

overview: When Crystal meets her idol, internet guru Nanak, she quickly learns that searching for enlightenment can be dangerous.

title: Disco Beats

overview: Set in Detroit 1979, an elderly man tries to convince a jaded disco dance instructor to teach him how to dance so he can surprise his wife on their 60th wedding anniversary...in one week.

title: Kill or Be Killed

title: From the Dead

title: Scarface

title: Fandango

title: The Day of the Locust

title: A Force of One

title: The Jerk

title: The Forgotten

title: The Brave

title: The Black Dahlia

title: Exposed

title: The Killer Inside Me

title: Car Wash

title: Vice Squad

title: Caddyshack II

title: Big Dreams Little Tokyo

title: Latin Dragon

title: Only You

title: The Deadly Tower

title: Walk Proud

title: Bad Jim

title: Moe

title: Jonny's Golden Quest

title: Bread and Roses

title: The Desperate Miles

title: Shoot Out

title: Postcards from the Edge

title: Along for the Ride

title: The Streets of L.A.

title: Man from Reno

title: The New Centurions

title: The Gun

title: Road to Juarez

title: Seguin

title: Miracle on 34th Street

title: Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo

title: Daybreak

title: Out of Bounds

title: Picking Up the Pieces

title: Joe Dancer II: The Monkey Mission

title: Flamin' Hot

title: Deal of the Century

title: Lowriders

title: Kill or Be Killed

title: Group Marriage

title: In the Flesh

title: Superpowerless

title: Conagher

title: Downsizing

title: Red Dawn

title: Roots of Blood

title: Cake

title: The Princess and the Barrio Boy

title: Deadly Swarm

title: Inside Moves

title: Swashbuckler

title: Best Kept Secrets

title: The Rookie

title: Honeysuckle Rose

title: City in Fear

title: Break of Dawn

title: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

title: 300 Miles for Stephanie

title: Under Water: Dive Deep

title: Flavor of Life

title: The Planters

title: Human Error

title: Restored Me

title: American Me

title: Monday Nights at Seven

title: The Margarita Man

title: The Student Nurses

title: The Three Kings

title: White Water Rebels

title: Streets of Justice

title: A Million to Juan

title: From the Dead

title: The Last Angry Man

title: Say a Little Prayer

title: Three Years Gone

title: Ana Maria in Novela Land

title: Land of Milk & Honey

title: Heartbreaker

title: Luminarias

title: White on Rice

title: Johnny Got His Gun

title: The Virgin of Juarez

title: Aguruphobia

title: Disco Beats

title: Kill or Be Killed

title: From the Dead


Al Israel

biography:
Al Israel (1935/1936 – March 16, 2011) was an American film and TV actor who is best known for his role as the chainsaw-wielding Colombian drug dealer "Hector the Toad" in the 1983 film Scarface. He also appeared alongside Al Pacino in Carlito's Way a decade later.

He was one of three original cast members to voice the 2006 video game based on the film. The game entitled Scarface: The World Is Yours sold more than two million units in less than two years.

The Shield

overview: The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.

character: Jupo Nunez

original_name: The Shield

original_language: en

Miami Vice

overview: The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

character: Guzman

original_name: Miami Vice

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

overview: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

character: Coroner

original_name: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Red Shoe Diaries

overview: Jake takes out an ad in the newspaper after the suicide of his unfaithful fiancée, in an effort to understand the reasons for the betrayal. By soliciting the secret diaries of other women, he hopes to find some reconciliation with the truth.

character: Armie

original_name: Red Shoe Diaries

Seven Days

overview: "Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get screwed up, I'm the guinea pig they send back to take care of it. The catch is, I can only go back 7 days."

character: Subway Operator

original_name: Seven Days

Vengeance Unlimited

overview:
The mysterious Mr. Chapel helps others to gain vengeance against criminals…

VENGEANCE UNLIMITED was an American crime drama series broadcast during 1998-1999 on ABC which lasted for just one season of sixteen episodes. The show starred Michael Madsen and Kathleen York. The show originally aired Thursdays at 8:00 pm up against NBC's Top 5 hits Friends and Jesse.

character: Joey

original_name: Vengeance Unlimited

Land's End

overview: Mike Land is a disgruntled ex-Los Angeles police officer who moves to a Mexican resort to work as a private investigator. With beautiful scenery as a backdrop, attractive Courtney is his boss and he occasionally enlists his buddies Willis and Dave in his cases.

character: Movie Operator

original_name: Land's End

P.S. I Luv U

overview: P.S. I Luv U is an American crime drama series. The title derived from the phone number of fictitious Palm Security and Investigations, which was 774-5888, which can be reached by dialing "PSI-LUVU" on a standard North American telephone.

character: Colonel Escobar

original_name: P.S. I Luv U

Hooperman

overview: A full-time police detective becomes a part-time landlord when he inherits his murdered landlady's building — along with her ferocious little dog.

character: Lovelace

original_name: Hooperman

Sledge Hammer!

overview: Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.

character: Hit Man

original_name: Sledge Hammer!

Hunter

overview:
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.

character: Frank Corona

Hill Street Blues

overview: A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

character: Al Biomonte

original_name: Hill Street Blues

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Al Israel

biography:
Al Israel (1935/1936 – 16. März 2011) war ein US-amerikanischer Film- und Fernsehschauspieler, der vor allem für seine Rolle als kettensägenschwingender kolumbianischer Drogendealer „Hector die Kröte“ in dem Film „Scarface“ von 1983 bekannt ist. Zehn Jahre später spielte er an der Seite von Al Pacino in „Carlito’s Way“.

Er war einer von drei Sprechern der Originalbesetzung des 2006 erschienenen Videospiels zum Film. Das Spiel mit dem Titel „Scarface: The World Is Yours“ verkaufte sich in weniger als zwei Jahren über zwei Millionen Mal.

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english_name: German

title: Scarface

overview: 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.

character: Hector The Toad

original_title: Scarface

title: Marilyn and Me

overview: Aspiring writer Robert Slatzer befriends Norma Jean Baker in 1946, the year she becomes Marilyn Monroe.

character: Doctor

original_title: Marilyn and Me

title: Old Enough

overview: The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite occupancies, like make-up, shoplifting, skipping school and lying to the parent about it, but confessing to the priest later. But Karen also learns some honesty from Lonnie. A film about social differences and growing up.

character: Bodega Owner

original_title: Old Enough

title: Dangerous Minds

overview: Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.

character: Mr. Santiego

original_title: Dangerous Minds

title: Driven

overview: Set in the callous streets of L.A., a group of sleep deprived cab drivers are changed forever by the arrival of a mysterious new cabbie and the events of one incredible week.

character: "Juanita"

original_title: Driven

title: Confessions of a Hitman

overview: A former hitman named Bruno steals some cash from his mobster uncle. He plans to go to Tahiti, but things go wrong and he finds himself headed for Vegas via Death Valley in a comandeered airport limousine, pursued by his uncle's henchmen and accompanied by a limo driver and an enigmatic blonde.

character: Frank

original_title: Confessions of a Hitman

title: Broken Vessels

overview: A young Pennsylvania man moves to Los Angeles to begin work for an ambulance service. There he is teamed with a supremely confident vet who seemingly has gone through a large number of partners. Initially the novice is awed by the more experienced man's capabilities to deal with the high pressure situations they encounter. However, gradually he discovers that all is not as it seems. While the vet is ice on the surface, he actually gets through the ordeals by heavy drug use and avoids commitments. Soon the younger man finds himself pulled into the same world and has to decide what direction he wants to take.

character: Detective McMahon

original_title: Broken Vessels

title: Carlito's Way

overview: Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

character: Rolando

original_title: Carlito's Way

title: Marked for Death

overview: Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug lord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death.

character: Tito Barco

original_title: Marked for Death

title: The Soldier

overview: Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

character: Gunman #1

original_title: The Soldier

title: Drop Zone

overview: A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.

character: Schuster Stephens

original_title: Drop Zone

title: Body Double

overview: After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

character: Corso

original_title: Body Double

title: Klepto

overview: Emily Brown is a kleptomaniac with a penchant for watches. She shoplifts and has an apartment full of things she doesn't need. Nick Ruiz is a department store loss prevention specialist who dislikes his job. He needs some fast cash to start his own private security business. One day Emily enters a department store and her compulsion to steal sets her in motion. Nick catches her on tape and instead of arresting her, he becomes intrigued and pursues her. After the two have become involved, Nick forces Emily to use her unique talent to bail him out of a bad situation. The outcome results in a climactic turn of events where justice plays its hand.

character: Watch Salesman

original_title: Klepto

title: Attention Shoppers

overview: An actor's promotional appearance at a new shopping centre is ruined when a popular rival shows up at a nearby store.

original_title: Attention Shoppers

title: Killer Snake

overview: Four actresses struggling with racism and limited opportunities in Hollywood find themselves up for the same role

character: Parking Attendant

original_title: Killer Snake

title: Three Way

overview: Lew is a small time loser with a troubled past and a very big secret. Overhearing a couple plan a kidnapping, Lew is tempted to come up with a scheme of his own. He decides to get to the victim first and then blackmail the real criminals. His plan soon spins out of control.

character: Cashier

original_title: Three Way

title: Streets of Justice

overview: After bikers kill the wife and son of an auto worker (John Laughlin) and then get off with a light sentence in the court system, he decides to seek his revenge as a clandestine vigilante.

character: Columbian

original_title: Streets of Justice

place_of_birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

title: Scarface

media_type: movie

title: Marilyn and Me

title: Old Enough

title: Dangerous Minds

title: Driven

title: Confessions of a Hitman

title: Broken Vessels

title: Carlito's Way

title: Marked for Death

title: The Soldier

title: Drop Zone

title: Body Double

title: Klepto

title: Attention Shoppers

title: Killer Snake

title: Three Way

title: Streets of Justice


Kim So-hee

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

also_known_as:
김소희
So-hee Kim

title: Boy

overview: Winter 1988 - Middle school student Jin-Woo lives with his unemployed alcoholic father and his mother who frequently attempts to run away from home due to her unhappiness with her husband. Jin-Woo's older sister does whatever she wants and fumes at her mother for the life she lives. Jin-Woo feels sorry for his mom who has to support the family alone and starts to work as a newspaper delivery boy.  At the newspaper distribution plant, he meets another boy named Chang-Geun who works hard to save money. Jin-Woo learns from Chang-Geun things like how to smoke, drink alcohol and how to deal with girls. Jin-Woo learns about life through Chang-Geun.

character: Mother

original_title: 굿바이 보이

original_language: ko

title: Pascha

overview: Is it acceptable for a forty-something woman to be in a relationship with 17-year-old boy? The idea of love between two people with such an age gap and the social exclusion that it can bring is the subject of Pascha.  Gaeul is a 40-year-old screenwriter who lives with 17-year-old Joseph and their cats. The families of the two lovers cannot comprehend the relationship. Gaeul's family are especially baffled by every aspect of her life; raising a cat and living off of vegetables, let alone having a 17-year-old lover! Gaeul's family see her as the family's dirty little secret. More and more obstacles from society are placed between the lovers and their happy ever after; poverty, death, opposition against vegetarianism and the couple's pregnancy. Can a love like this survive no matter the odds in today's society?

character: Gaeul

original_title: 파스카

title: Hyeon's Quartet

overview: There are four people who want to become an actor. Their names are Hun, Eun, Jun, and Kyung. After watching the play [QUARTET]. They decide to participate in an acting workshop. They are trained by Mirae, the renowned actor of the [QUARTET]. Through the workshop sessions, Mirae is able to look into the inner lives of the four youths.

character: Mirae

original_title: 나의 연기 워크샵

title: Crown Princess Hong

overview: Jeong Jo holds a birthday party in the new Hwaseong Temporary Palace to celebrate his mother Princess Hong's 60th birthday. He elects his father Prince Sado in the name of King Jang Jo and Princess Hong meets the ghost of the dead Prince Sado. She follows her memory and retraces the steps back into her past life, going back and forth the boundaries of life and death.

character: 혜경궁 홍씨

original_title: 혜경궁 홍씨

title: Night Flight

overview: Yong-ju, Gi-woong and Gi-taek used to be best friends in middle school, but in high school, Gi-woong becomes a member of the gang that bullies Gi-taek. As Yong-ju tries to fix this broken relationship, he realizes his special feeling toward Gi-woong.

character: Gi-woong's Mother

original_title: 야간비행

title: The Bird Who Stops in the Air

overview: KIM serves as a professor of film studies at a rural college, away from his family. Having kept the memories of birds from his childhood, he intends to make a film based on the images of birds that appear in his dreams. In his position as educator, KIM finds himself torn between artistic ideals of the film and the realities of life which his student's must encounter daily. It is in this setting that he struggles to discover the nature of his identity. A middle school science teacher, Young-hee, although a long-time lover of KIM's is not confident in their future relationship. She asks KIM to accompany her to her childhood hometown. During the trip, the two begin to realize that each belongs to different realities from the other. Young-hee begins to desire a relationship of a different sort with him. However, KIM's ambition is to redeem his own artistic value blurred between film fantasy and reality.

character: Young-hee

original_title: 새는 폐곡선을 그린다

title: Ogu, A Hilarious Mourning

overview: Angels land on earth in human form with a simple assignment: escort an old lady to her final resting place. But first they enjoy a drink. The angels sense a long-lost connection with Mi-yeon, the bar-owner. The old lady goes to Sok-chool, the shaman to ask him for a gut, a ritual to mediate between the living and the dead. She may want it for her late husband who appeared to her in a dream or for her son Yong-taek who took his own life. The shama..

character: So-hee

original_title: 오구

title: Boy

title: Pascha

title: Hyeon's Quartet

title: Crown Princess Hong

title: Night Flight

title: The Bird Who Stops in the Air

title: Ogu, A Hilarious Mourning

known_for_department: Acting