Edward James Olmos
Popularity:1.851
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1947-02-24
Place of Birth:Los Angeles, California, USA
Homepage:http://edwardjamesolmos.com/
Also Known As:Эдвард Джеймс Олмос, ادوراد جیمز اولموس

Blade Runner (1982)
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have...

In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are...

I'm Still Here (2010)
I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee...

Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard (2007)
Fans, filmmakers and people involved with the making of Blade Runner debate if main character Rick Deckard is himself in fact a Replicant or not.

Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling (2007)
A look back to the 2019 fashions, costumes and make-up as seen in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

12 Angry Men (1997)
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result...

American Me (1992)
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...

Evening in Byzantium (1978)
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about...

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.

The Green Hornet (2011)
Britt Reid, the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus far, happy to lead an aimless life....

Talent for the Game (1991)
Virgil Sweet is on the verge of losing his job as a talent scout with the California Angels when he discovers Sammy Bodeen, a country boy with no pro...

Stand and Deliver (1988)
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts...

Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her...

Virus (1980)
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the...

Blue Collar & Buddha (1970)
An exploration of the prejudice and culture clash faced by a small group of Lao Buddhist refugees in Rockford, Illinois.

Selena (1997)
In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young...

Splinter (2006)
A gang member, suffering from severe memory loss, searches for his brother's murderer. He secretly enlists the aid of the investigating Detective,...

My Family (1995)
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los...

Caught (1996)
A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't...

Gossip (2000)
For a class project, three college students decide to invent an unfounded rumor about the most popular girl on campus. But as the rumor spreads, it...

Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007)
The history and adventures of the Battlestar Pegasus, from shortly before the Cylon invasion to shortly after Lee Adama is made commander. The story...

Filly Brown (2013)
“Majo” Tonorio, a.k.a. Filly Brown, is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits from the heart. When a sleazy record producer...

Selena Remembered (1997)
A collection of moments and triumphs that helped Selena, and her band Selena y Los Dinos, into superstardom in North America.

Zoot Suit (1981)
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case...

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)
The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from...

Recycled Life (2006)
The dramatic and touching story of thousands of adults, children, and generations of families who have been living and working in the largest and...

Hollywood Confidential (1997)
A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types.

Alambrista! (1977)
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man, slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family...

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)
Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same...

Outlaw Posse (2024)
1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hills of Montana but is chased by Angel, whose...

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils)...

Blue Collar & Buddha (1986)
Exploration of prejudice and culture clash that a group of Laotian Buddhist refugees must endure in Rockford, Illinois.

Zapatista (1999)
"Zapatista" is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticks and their word against...

Exile Nation: The Plastic People (2014)
The September 11th attacks began a decade-long period of anti-immigrant policies in the United States. As a consequence, the US began the...

2 Guns (2013)
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob --...

The Judge (2001)
When a key witness in a case of corruption is killed in courts all suspicion falls on Judge Armando Acosta. Now the judge Madiani will defend his...

Go for Sisters (2013)
Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned...

The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997)
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared after his arrest by...

Mirage (1995)
Matteo Juarez is a retired detective hired by a local businessman to follow his wife Jennifer. She has a split personality and seems to be putting...

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983)
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in...

Slave of Dreams (1995)
The Egyptian executioner's wife tries to seduce Hebrew slave Joseph to fulfill a dream they are experiencing simultaneously.

Journey of a Female Comic (2014)
The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.

Americano (2016)
Cuco, a mexican parrot, goes on an adventure from Mexico to Hollywood in order to get help from El Americano, a famous superhero from TV, against an...

Dead Angle (1979)
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999)
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.

A Million to Juan (1994)
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...

Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994)
About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in...

Roosters (1993)
Gallo Morales is the proud patriach returning home after a seven-year stint for manslaughter. Seeking to re-establish his legendary status as a...

La Cerca (2005)
Edward James Olmos narrates this multi-fest winner about an immigrant who recalls a vivid and momentous memory where he discovered his boundaries.

Seguin (1982)
A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the...

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
During World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow...

The Wall (1998)
The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects...

Lives in Hazard (1994)
Lives in Hazard is a tough, uncompromising look at kids in gangs and the men they become in prison. Filmed in the barrios of east LA and in the...

Unity (2015)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one...

America (2011)
América, a 30-year-old mother who lives in a remote Caribbean village, suffers the hardest hit when her lover takes her daughter from her....

The Limbic Region (1996)
Original and unpredictable thriller about a seasoned cop determined to bring down San Francisco's most notorious serial killer in the turbulent...

One Fast Move (2024)
A dishonorably discharged soldier seeks out his estranged father to help him pursue his dream of becoming a professional motorcycle racer. While...

Maria's Story (1990)
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader...

Aloha, Bobby and Rose (1975)
Bobby and Rose, two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an...

The Earth Day Special (1990)
The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour...

Death in Granada (1996)
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of...

Walkout (2006)
Walkout is the true story of a young Mexican American high school teacher, Sal Castro. He mentors a group of students in East Los Angeles, when the...

A Bridge Apart (2013)
The journey of the thousands of people from Central America and Mexico who leave their homes and families and suffer extraordinary brutality -or loss...

The Road to El Dorado (2000)
Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold", where they quickly get in over their heads when...

The Nightingale (1983)
A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.

The Princess and the Barrio Boy (2000)
A teenager who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer has a romance with a boy from the wrong side of town.

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge...

LA 92 (2017)
Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses...

Coco (2017)
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la...

Saving Grace (1986)
A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished...

L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later (2017)
Documentary film exploring the lives of the people at the flashpoint of the LA riots, 25 years after the uprising made national headlines and...

Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017)
This animated short revolves around the events causing an electrical systems failure on the west coast of the US. According to Blade Runner...

The Devil Has a Name (2019)
An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

A Dog's Way Home (2019)
The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.

A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story (2009)
Built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, the film interweaves the stories of its central characters with a broader story of the...

The Eyes of Martin Castillo (2018)
An exploration of the faces and spaces of Lieutenant Martin Castillo, as portrayed by Edward James Olmos, on the television series Miami Vice.

Windows on the World (2019)
After watching the news on 9/11 with his family, Fernando travels from Mexico to New York City to find his father, an undocumented worker at the...

300 Miles for Stephanie (1981)
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...

The Burning Season (1994)
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their...

Every Night's a Saturday Night (2018)
The Life & Times of Bobby Keys ... decades-long Sax player with The Rolling Stones, best friend to Keith Richards, and session player with John...

Chasing Wonders (2021)
A coming-of-age story set across the lush wine country of both Australia and Spain, a young man explores the nature of father-son relationships and...

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage (2019)
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from...

Imprisoned (2019)
Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt...

Wolfen (1981)
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral...

Agave is Life (2014)
AGAVE IS LIFE is an exploration of the history of the agave plant in the cultures of Mexico and the American Southwest. Starting thousands of years...

Space Songs: Through the Distance (2020)
"Space Songs" is a YouTube concert event, sharing songs about space and isolation to celebrate how extreme situations can bring out the very best in...

The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II (2020)
Ryan Seacrest hosts the second Disney Family Singalong featuring celebrities and their families as they take on their favorite Disney tunes from...

Monday Nights at Seven (2016)
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...

Carlos Almaraz: Playing with Fire (2019)
Mixing archival footage with interviews, this film celebrates one of Los Angeles's most influential painters and Chicano art activists from the 1970s.

The Unfinished Journey (1999)
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.

Walking with Herb (2021)
Joe Amable-Amo is a bank executive and former amateur golfer struggling with his faith after an unexpected tragedy. Faced with growing doubts about...

The Blade Runner Phenomenon (2021)
Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is one of the most influential science fiction films...

Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika (1997)
Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with...

Miami Vice: Freefall (1989)
Crockett and Tubbs, figuring they're on their way out, are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country - with...

Gun (1997)
Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it.

CHiPs (1977)
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two...

The West Wing (1999)
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional...

Starsky & Hutch (1975)
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the...

Hawaii Five-O (1968)
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired...

Battlestar Galactica (2004)
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of...

The Batman (2004)
A young billionaire Bruce Wayne fights crime and evil as the mysterious vigilante, The Batman.

E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known...

George Lopez (2002)
George raises daughter Carmen and dyslexic son Max with his wife Angie, after surviving a miserable, dysfunctional childhood at the hands of his...

Hill Street Blues (1981)
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

Kojak (1973)
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.

Cannon (1971)
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...

500 Nations (1995)
500 Nations is an eight-part documentary on the Native Americans of North and Central America. It documents from pre-Columbian to the end of the 19th...

Gun (1997)
Gun is an American television anthology series which aired on ABC on Saturday night from April 12, to May 31, 1997 at 10:00 p.m Eastern time. The...

Police Woman (1974)
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover...

Police Story (1973)
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a...

American Family (2002)
The head of the household, Jess Gonzalez (Edward James Olmos), is your average father who is forced to fight everyday troubles, following the death...

Dave Navarro's Spread (2007)
Dave Navarro's avant garde internet talk show focusing on the arts and the human condition.

The Fitzpatricks (1977)
The Fitzpatricks is an American drama series which ran on CBS during the 1977–78 season. The series aired from September 5th, 1977 to January...

Dexter (2006)
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who...

The Blue Knight (1975)
The Blue Knight is an American CBS Crime TV series, running in 1975 and 1976, starring George Kennedy as Officer Bumper Morgan. The show was based on...

Miami Vice (1984)
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership...

Dead Man's Walk (1996)
The final chapter of Larry McMurty's popular and critically acclaimed mini-series, 'Lonesome Dove', recounting the thrilling first adventure of Gus...

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013)
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to...

Eureka (2006)
The sleepy Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world's geniuses and their families...

Greetings From Tucson (2002)
In this autobiographical family comedy, based on the life of series creator Peter Murrieta, life is seen through the eyes of 15-year-old David Tiant...

100 Years of Warner Bros. (2023)
Tracing a century of movie and TV history, these four documentary specials explore the unparalleled global impact of Warner Bros. on art, commerce,...

The Magic School Bus (1994)
An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magical school bus.

La Californie ! (2023)
From the 1950s to the present day, from Los Angeles to San Francisco via Berkeley University or Silicon Valley, this three-part documentary series...

Battlestar Galactica (2004)
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of...

Battlestar Galactica (2003)
A re-imagining of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing robots while simultaneously...

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.

Mayans M.C. (2018)
Set in the aftermath of Jax Teller’s death, Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the...

The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six...

Portlandia (2011)
Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023)
After 13-year-old super-genius Lunella accidentally brings ten-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York City via a time vortex, the duo...

The Simpsons (1989)
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa...

The Real History of Science Fiction (2014)
The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television history of science fiction, told through its impact...

Dexter (2006)
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who...

Bless This Mess (2019)
After dropping everything to make the move from skyscrapers to farmhouses, Rio and Mike soon realize that the simpler life isn't as easy as they...

Touched by an Angel (1994)
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988)
The saga of an Italian immigrant family in search of the American dream.

The Judge (2001)
Everything brilliant and compassionate defense attorney Paul Madriani stands for is put to the test when he's hired to defend an indefensible...

The Judge (1970)
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of...

The Judge (1970)
Omar Chaparro takes his son on a motorcycle trip to Chihuahua to show him his humble origins. You think you are teaching your son a lesson, but he...