Hector Elizondo
Actor
- Born To Win (Addict) (1971)
- Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Karen Black…
- Obscure, but charmingly unique drama–comedy about a former NYC hairdresser (Segal), who has turned street hustler to finance his destructive…
- Valdez Is Coming (1971)
- Dir. Edwin Sherin
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera…
- An underrated late Western, with Lancaster playing a down–heels Mexican sherriff who takes a dangerous stand on principle against a powerful…
- Pocket Money (1972)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin…
- Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher. Amiable comedy written by a pre–fame…
- Taking of Pelham 123, The (1974)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Robert Shaw, Walter Matthau, Martin Balsam…
- Superlative '70s heist movie – four gunmen hi–jack a train and threaten to kill one passenger for every minute the ransom is late. Taut,…
- American Gigolo (1980)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo
- Low–key but effective drama. Richard Gere is suspected in a Hollywood murder.
- Nothing in Common (1986)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint…
- Tom Hanks stars as a precocious ad exec who's forced to deal with his aging, unloving father (Jackie Gleason) after his parents separate.
The…
- Exit to Eden (1994)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Rosie O'Donnell…
- Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell are cops assigned to an undercover mission on a sex–fantasy island. Based on a lewd Anne Rice novel, its…
- Being Human (1994)
- Dir. Bill Forsyth
Feat. Robin Williams, Robert Carlyle, John Turturro…
- An episodic comic–drama in which Robin Williams plays five men named Hector, who each search for their place in their own historical period…
- Beverly Hills Cop 3 (1994)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Hector Elizondo…
- Second and final sequel in the Axel Foley comedy–action series. Nominally concerning a counterfeit ring in L.A., this is definitely better than…
- Tortilla Soup (2001)
- Dir. Maria Ripoll
Feat. Hector Elizondo, Raquel Welch, Jacqueline Obradors
- Tangy comedy in which Mexican–American widower Elizondo has kept his family – three adult daughters – together and at home through…
- Raising Helen (2004)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack…
- Sweet comic fluff, with Hudson playing a successful New York party animal who is exiled to the suburbs when she 'inherits' the three children of her…
- Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo…
- Opening on the 21st birthday of the budding Genovian Princess (Hathaway), this creditable, if hardly superior sequel, finds the transplanted San…
- Celestine Prophecy, The (2006)
- Dir. Armand Mastroianni
Feat. Matthew Settle, Hector Elizondo, Annabeth Gish…
- New Age prophecy meets jungle thriller in this exotic, widescreen adaptation of the James Redfield bestseller.
Concerning a teacher who travels to…
- Valentine's Day (2010)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Jessica Alba, Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Garner…
- Star–studded romantic comedy is an ode to that special day with multiple story lines devoted to the search for love.
Although cynics might…