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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 ...
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 .
Lou Diamond Phillips' breakout role was playing the late Ritchie Valens in the 1987 film "La Bamba." ... how to look like he played the trumpet with his front tooth missing, like Baker. The 2015 ...
Valdez attended San Jose State University, where he won a playwriting contest with his one-act play The Theft in 1961. Two years later, he premiered his first full-length play, The Shrunken Head ...
Valens was born as Richard Steven Valenzuela on May 13, 1941, in Pacoima, [3] a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.The son of Joseph Steven Valenzuela (1896–1952) and Concepción "Concha" Reyes (1915–1987), he had two half-brothers, Robert "Bob" Morales (1937–2018) and Mario Ramirez, and two younger sisters, Connie and Irma.
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.
In 1993, he made an appearance in the TV show The Adventures of Pete and Pete as a guitar-playing meter reader, [12] and in 1994, he published a book as editor and contributor, Hollywood Rock: A Guide to Rock 'n' Roll in the Movies. [13] In 1995, he appeared in the music video for Yo La Tengo's single Tom Courtenay.