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Stand and Deliver was filmed before La Bamba, but it was released a year later. Lou Diamond Phillips in 1987, the year that the film "La Bamba" was released. In 1988 Phillips co-starred with Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland in the Western film Young Guns, in which he plays José Chávez y Chávez, a historical Old West outlaw.
La Bamba is a 1987 American biographical drama film written and directed by Luis Valdez. The film follows the life and short-lived musical career of American Chicano rock and roll star Ritchie Valens. [1] [2] [3] The film stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Valens, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck and Joe Pantoliano ...
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in the films Bad Boys with Sean Penn and La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips.His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series American Family, the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd. (2000–2002), portraying Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue (2001–2003), Joseph Adama in the science fiction series ...
Luis Valdez has so much to be proud of over the course of his decades-long career. The 83-year-old playwright, screenwriter, director and actor is considered “the father of Chicano film and ...
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In 1987, Valdez served as an associate producer of La Bamba, the biopic based on the life of Ritchie Valens. [17] [18] The project, which became a hit, was a "life-long dream" of Valdez's that came true. [8] That same year, he appeared and wrote songs in Born in East L.A. (1987), starring Cheech Marin. [8] [9] [12] He performed some of the ...
Nearly 40 years after its theatrical release, 'La Bamba' is being remade, but the film's original director and writer questions why rock 'n' roll star Ritchie Valens' life is being told, again.
1987 La Bamba: Howard 1987 Summer Heat: Strother 1987 Born in East L.A. Border Patrol Sergeant 1987 Good Morning, Vietnam: General Taylor 1989 Blind Fury: Claude MacCready 1990 Pastime: Clyde Bigby 1991 Career Opportunities: Roger Roy McClellan 1991 City Slickers: Clay Stone 1991 The Last Boy Scout: Sheldon 'Shelly' Marcone 1992 Article 99 ...