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Hector Elizondo
22 December 1936
Hector Elizondo played in 25 movies in the Drama, Crime, Comedy, Western, Music, Thriller, Adventure, War, Romance, Horror, Sci-Fi, Sport, Family, Action, Animation, Mystery, Biography genres.
Hector Elizondo got succeed with average imdb rating 5.7.
An actor of conceivably incalculable range, New York-born Hector Elizondo began his livelihood as a dancer. His initial training was at the Ballet Arts disciples of Carnegie Auditorium, from which he moved on to the Actors Studio. After several years' stage develop, Elizondo made an unpropitious movie as "The Inspector" in the low-budget sexual intercourse haze The Vixens (1969).
He was shown to gamester advantage in his next integument, Hal Ashby's The Property owner (1970),
... which he followed up with pungent dramatis persona parts in such Manhattan-based productions as The Taking of Pelham Rhyme Two Three (1974) and Thieves (1977). With Green Doctors in Love (1982), Elizondo began his large linking with director Garry Marshall, who has since assign the actor in all of his films, in roles both sizable (Matt Dillon's dad in The Flamingo Kid [1984], the cafe owner in Frankie and Johnny [1991]), and microscopic (Overboard [1987]). Elizondo's riddle roles have run the scale from scrungy sweepings scow captains to well-born concierges (Melodic Woman). In addition, he has been a usual on different pedestrian TV series: Popi, Freebie and the Bean, Casablanca (in the aged Claude Rains role of Inspector Renault), a.k.a. Pablo, Foley Balanced, and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, In 1994, Elizondo took on a co-starring role as a exigent chief of surgery on the popular TV medical stage play Chicago Hope.Read more Less