Lou Diamond Phillips
Birthday: 1962-02-17
Place of Birth: Subic Bay Naval Base, Olongapo City, Zambales, Philippines
Biography: Lou Diamond Phillips is an American film, television, and stage actor as well as director and writer. His breakthrough role came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the film La Bamba. His other best known film roles are as Jose Chavez y Chavez in Young Guns I and II, Angel Guzman in Stand and Deliver for which he earned a supporting actor Golden Globe Award nomination, Hank Storm in Renegades, Jesse Rainfeather Goldman in Sioux City in which he was also director, Staff Sergeant John Monfriez in Courage Under Fire, Roy Knox in Brokedown Palace, and Wanda in Hollywood Homicide. He has also starred in many TV movies. His best known TV roles are as Lt. Gil Arroyo on Prodigal Son, Henry Standing Bear on Longmire, Col. David Telford on Stargate Universe, Agent Ian Edgerton on Numb3rs, and John Kanin on Wolf Lake. He voices for animated series as Chief Bill Bayani on Firebuds, Victor Delgado on Elena of Valor, and Surak on The Lion Guard. He's had recurring roles on TV shows including Trese, Blindspot, Blue Bloods, Goliath, NCIS: New Orleans, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Ranch, Southland, George Lopez, and 24. He has starred as himself on Cougar Town and You're the Worst. He's also guest starred on a number of shows including Bull, The Cleaning Lady, Search Party, Criminal Minds, Graves, Training Day, Ironside, Chuck, Psych, Law & Order: SVU, The Handler, The Twilight Zone (2002), Spin City, The Outer Limits, Tales from the Crypt, Miami Vice, and Dallas (1985). He earned a Tony Award nomination for his role in The King and I. Outside of acting, he has become notable for finishing 186th in the 2009 World Series of Poker World Championships "No Limit Texas hold 'em" main event.
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Supernova
Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew...
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Courage Under Fire
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a ...
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Absolon
In the near future, a virus has infected everyone on the planet, and Absolon is a drug that everyone...
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Bats
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them....
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Striking Range
When millionaire businessman Ted Billings (Glenn Morshower) double-crosses his partners in a weapons...
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Renegades
While investigating police corruption in his department, undercover cop Buster McHenry is forced to ...
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Disorganized Crime
Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everythi...
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Angel and the Badman
A remake of the classic 1947 John Wayne western about an injured gunslinger who falls in with good c...
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Hollywood Homicide
Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one ...
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El Cortez
A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to av...
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Red Water
In the quiet waters of the Mississippi, body parts are being discovered. No one knows what is behind...
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Easter Sunday
Comedian and actor Joe Valencia returns home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, ...
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Young Guns
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher w...
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Death Toll
New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier, the city was dub...
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Che: Part Two
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerg...
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The Big Hit
Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-en...
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Aquaman
A young twenty-something diver living in the Florida Keys discovers he has the power to breathe unde...
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Young Guns II
Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — re...
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Fingerprints
Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involv...
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Stand and Deliver
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his...
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The First Power
A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was giv...
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Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes
A look at why children smoke, showing how tobacco companies target their age group to perpetuate the...
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Carny
When a traveling carnival comes to a rural Nebraska town, the caged attraction everyone is talking a...
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Gone But Not Forgotten
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forg...
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Stark Raving Mad
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him....
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Murder at the Presidio
Based on the true story of the only homicide committed on the famed San Francisco Military base. A m...
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La Bamba
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a ...
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Knight Club
A wannabe actor becomes a bouncer and is seduced by the fast-paced world of Los Angeles nightlife....
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Never Forget
A man (Phillips) who wakes up with amnesia also finds his supposed friend has accused him of murder....
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Shadow of the Wolf
In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe a...
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Brokedown Palace
Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, th...
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Takedown
Five years ago David's life came undone when his young daughter fell victim to a brutal attack. The ...
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western....
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The Trail to Hope Rose
Lou Diamond Phillips and marina Black star together with Lee majors and Ernest Borgnine in a western...
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Boulevard
A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading...
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Young Guns III
Plot kept under wraps. Third installment of the 'Young Guns' film franchise....
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Termination Point
Top secret government experiments with time travel have been shut down and declared as too dangerous...
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The Dark Wind
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation....
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Route 666
Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it...
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Filly Brown
“Majo” Tonorio, a.k.a. Filly Brown, is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits from the he...
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Lone Hero
An actor in a Wild West show must become a mythical Western Hero when a biker gang descends upon a s...
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In a Class of His Own
Rich Donato is the high school janitor at an Oregon high school. He is looked up to by the kids who ...
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The Three Kings
The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Lo...
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Extreme Justice
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to ...
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Hangman
Death by noose. A nasty way to die if you're not dropped from a length, but instead just had the sup...
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Malevolent
Troubled police detective Jack Lucas is falsely accused of a series of murders and must prove his in...
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Constantine: The House of Mystery
John Constantine wakes up in the eerie House of Mystery with no recollection of how he got there. Fo...
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Et Tu
A stage director is driven to madness during a regional production of Julius Caesar....
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Teresa's Tattoo
Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want...
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Sanitarium
Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an ee...
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamond
Lou Diamond Phillips plays a hyperbolized version of himself known as the elusive and mysterious ‘LD...
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Sequoia
A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commi...
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Dangerous Touch
A promiscuous radio sex therapist is dragged into blackmail by a young hustler....
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Harley
Harley is a 'troubled teen' from L.A. who is arrested. A progressive social worker has Harley sent t...
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Lone Rider
Bobby Hattaway (Lou Diamond Phillips), an honored soldier, returns home after the American Civil War...
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Override
Override is a 1994 American science fiction short film. It was the directorial debut of Danny Glover...
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Undertow
After his car breaks down, Jack seeks shelter, lost in a thunderstorm in a remote shack in the woods...
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Picking Up the Pieces
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it ac...
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
Death is coming. Worse than death: oblivion. Not just for our Earth, but for everyone, everywhere, i...
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Grandpa's Place
Jason and Grandpa are in Grandpa's basement where they enjoy an afternoon of imagination, fun and le...
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Ambition
Mitchell Osgood dreams of being a famous writer, but the book he has written constantly is rejected ...
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Werewolves
A year after a supermoon’s light activated a dormant gene, transforming humans into bloodthirsty wer...
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Naked Movie
When director Sam Henry Kass gets little help from his agent in procuring funding for his flick, he ...
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The Invited
A young married couple who are pregnant with their first child moves into their turn-of-the-century ...
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Alien Express
A new super train is built when a meteorite crashes near by, releasing a tiny creature. Once it kill...
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
An endless army of shadow demons bent on the destruction of all reality swarms over our world and al...
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Trespasses
A couple of drifters (Adam Roarke and Lou Diamond Phillips) molest Sharon (Mary Pillot). Franklin (R...
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The Night Stalker
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s....
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The 33
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated un...
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
Now fully revealed as the ultimate threat to existence, the Anti-Monitor wages an unrelenting attack...
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A Show of Force
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Pu...
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Sky
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband....
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Keep Quiet
A weathered tribal cop and his new trainee must find a ruthless fugitive, whose return to their rura...
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The Wiggles - Rock and Roll Preschool
What's the school where you sing and dance all day? The Wiggles' Rock & Roll Preschool! Anthony, Emm...
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Wind in the Wire
A movie within a movie about making a movie...Randy Travis stars in a western movie that is being fi...
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Sioux City
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cu...
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Another Day in Paradise
In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go dis...
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Dakota
John Dakota is young bum with a hidden past. He meets a nice family and works on their ranch. He soo...
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Created Equal
A woman who wishes to become a priest hires a lawyer to file suit against the Archdiocese of New Orl...
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Love Takes Wing
Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear a...
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Quest
A non-romantic true love story between a humble teacher who believes there is no such thing as a bad...
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Hourglass
A business executive gets mixed up with a killer female and her lesbian roommate, who plot to take o...
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Interface
A group of strange beings at a master computer control room use their equipment to kill people by re...
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Cop and a Half: New Recruit
In this family-friendly action reboot of the 1993 film, Karina Foley, an ambitious and spunky 12-yea...
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Avenge the Crows
A former gang member and her young cousin become embroiled in a vendetta between L.A. gangs, as riva...
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Big Kill
A tenderfoot from Philadelphia, two misfit gamblers on the run, and a deadly preacher have a date wi...
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Urban Country
A young, troubled city girl decides to move to her family owned horse ranch in a small, southern tow...
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Backyards & Bullets
Strange things are afoot at a local suburban neighborhood watch group....
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A Better Way to Die
Boomer is a rookie cop based in the urban hellhole that is downtown Chicago. After his involvement i...
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The Last Train
Two lost souls meet at a subway station and form an unexpected connection on the night they have bot...
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The Wharf Rat
Two brothers live on the opposite sides of the law. One a cop, the other working the waterfront as a...
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Adverse
In order to save his sister, a ride-share driver must infiltrate a dangerous crime syndicate....
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Behind The Music: The Day The Music Died
On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopp...
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An Untold Triumph: America's Filipino Soldiers
During World War II, 7,000 Filipino Americans volunteered their services to the U.S. Army and helped...
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Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
Willie Nelson and friends celebrate his sixtieth birthday in a star-studded concert event....
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Metal Tornado
The HELIOS PROJECT is a high tech facility tasked with storing and converting solar rays into an end...
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The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in d...
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Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins
Join crown princess Elena as she soars through a hidden gateway into Vallestrella, the mysterious, d...
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Get Fast
When The Thief’s partner is kidnapped after stealing millions in cash from a merciless drug lord nam...
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The Panama Deception
This winner of the 1993 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature details the case that the 1989 in...
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Stunt C*cks
A mockumentary about two best friends working in the adult film industry as stand-ins due to their a...
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Demon Wind
The strange and brutal deaths of Cory’s grandparents has haunted him for years. Determined to discov...
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Aguadilla
As passions surge and secrets unravel, a lethal triangle emerges between a wheelchair-dependent Ex-S...
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Casa Grande: The Movie
A prodigal daughter rejoins her family at their farm during a difficult time, as her ailing father f...
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Drowning
Centers on Cece, a single mother battling poverty and eviction while raising a sick son. Her brother...
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The Ambulance Chaser
A successful attorney's life begins to unravel when human skeletal remains tied to his past resurfac...
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One for the Money: The Birth of Rock & Roll
For many music fans, history is divided into the long, dull centuries before rock 'n' roll was born ...
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Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration is a special produced forSesame Street’s 25th anniversary. ...
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Widow
Desperate and on the run with her infant son, a young mother races across empty highways and forgott...
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One in a Million
Young Jade Kassis is suddenly stricken with HLH — a rare and deadly blood disorder that throws his f...
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