Pepe Serna
Durable Mexican-American actor Pepe Serna has appeared in more than 100 feature films and 300 television shows, but is most recognized for his gritty support performances in a variety of motion pictures, including Scarface (1983) as Al Pacino's ill-fated cocaine partner, as well as the western Silverado (1985) with Kevin Costner, the crime yarn The Rookie (1990) starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen, and the drama American Me (1992) starring Edward James Olmos. In a career surpassing five decades, Pepe's characters have played on both sides of the law -- from drug peddlers to sheriffs. He was born (and raised) in Corpus Christi, Texas on July 23, 1944, the son of a naval base interpreter for Latin American pilots and a hairdresser. His desires to become an actor happened early in life, moving to Hollywood in 1969 to finally pursue his dreams. He didn't have to wait long to find steady Latino work on film and TV. Making an inauspicious debut in the exploitation film The Student Nurses (1970), Pepe found more "A" quality work after being discovered by producer Hal B. Wallis for the coming-of-age film Tim Belcher starring Richard Thomas and Catherine Burns and the western Shoot Out (1971) starring Gregory Peck. Specializing in urban, streetwise roles, he went on to mix a number of popular films (The New Centurions (1972), The Day of the Locust (1975), Car Wash (1976), A Force of One (1979), Walk Proud (1979), Honeysuckle Rose (1980), Inside Moves (1980), Deal of the Century (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Caddyshack II (1988)) with a slew of popular TV crime dramas such as "Mannix," "Police Story," "Adam-12," "The Rookies," "The Rockford Files," "Baretta," "Kojak," "CHiPs," "Barney Miller," "Scarecrow & Mrs. King," "T.J. Hooker," "Simon & Simon," "Hill Street Blues," "Miami Vice," "Cagney & Lacey" and "Diagnosis Murder." Long married to wife Diane, Pepe is a noted keynote teacher and motivational speaker who tours colleges and universities. His strong sideline as a painter has been met with critical success, having been commissioned quite frequently. His vibrant paintings and one-man stage shows reflect a serious return to his Mexican roots and was the subject of the 2015 short documentary "Life Is Art."
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony...
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Downsizing
as Señor CárdenasA kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so...
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Flamin' Hot
as AbuelitoThe inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican...
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It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to...
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The Black Dahlia
as Tomas Dos SantosIn 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism,...
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After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also...
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American Me
as MundoDuring his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the...
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Car Wash
as ChucoThis day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash...
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The Jerk
as Punk #1After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin...
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
as Reno NevadaAdventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers,...
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Shoot Out
as PepeClay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 7 year sentence. He is looking after Sam...
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The Rookie
as Lt. Ray GarciaVeteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in...
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Lowriders
as PepeA young street artist in East Los Angeles is caught between his father's obsession with lowrider...
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Caddyshack II
as CarlosWhen a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club,...
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Only You
as Dock OfficialDumped by his fiancée, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a...
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Fandango
as Gas Station MechanicIn 1971, five college buddies from the University of Texas embark on a final road trip odyssey...
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The Brave
as AlessandroA down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star"...
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The Day of the Locust
as MiguelHollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in...
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Swashbuckler
as Street EntertainerA pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
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Deal of the Century
as VardisArms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a...
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The New Centurions
as Young Mexican ManAn idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is...
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Inside Moves
as HerradaAfter a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time...
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A Force of One
as OrlandoKarate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after...
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Vice Squad
as Pete MendezAn unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
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Picking Up the Pieces
as FlorencioA small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when...
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Bread and Roses
as RestaurateurMaya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes...
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Postcards from the Edge
as RaoulSubstance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox...
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The Deadly Tower
as ManoThe real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is...
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Out of Bounds
as MuranoFarm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he...
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Walk Proud
as CesarA young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he...
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Daybreak
as Herman OrtizDillan Johansen is a disorganized transit authority supervisor suffering from a serious personal...
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Honeysuckle Rose
as RoosterBuck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and...
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A Million to Juan
as Mr. OrtizRomantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling...
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Latin Dragon
as Hector SanchezIn the grand tradition of the lone hero who mysteriously appears in a town desperate for help...
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The Forgotten
as Sgt. Pepe GutierrezBased on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets,...
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The Planters
as JesúsAwkward telemarketer Martha Plant is down and out — sucking at her job and grieving her recently...
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Bad Jim
as Virgilio SeguraA cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.
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Man from Reno
as Paul Del MoralA mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese...
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Deadly Swarm
as Commandante AlvarezSeeking out a cure for his wife's serious illness, scientist Dr. Schroeder (McCormack) heads...
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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
as Migrant Worker (uncredited)An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of...
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City in Fear
as Raymond ZavalaA psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry...
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The Three Kings
as Alex SweetwoodThe made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in...
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The Gun
as NatchoThe odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.
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The Last Angry Man
as Charlie ParelliIn the midst of the Depression, a crotchety doctor, whose practice is in the Brooklyn slums,...
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The Killer Inside Me
as Johnny LopezHaunted by visions from his abusive childhood, Montana deputy sheriff Lou Ford gradually...
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Miracle on 34th Street
as Y LeaderA department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that...
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Seguin
as Manuel FloresA dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the...
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Jonny's Golden Quest
as Agent MenendezIn the first feature-length animated movie based on the Hanna-Barbera series, Jonny Quest fans...
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Road to Juarez
as FortunatoAn American ex-con with Mexican underworld ties ensnares a pair of young misfits into a...
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300 Miles for Stephanie
as Bobby HernandezA San Antonio cop, as an act of faith, vows to run more than 300 miles in five days, hoping his...
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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
as Romaldo CortezForced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman,...
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Streets of Justice
as Det. AlmosAfter bikers kill the wife and son of an auto worker (John Laughlin) and then get off with a...
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Kill or Be Killed
as Rudy GoebelIn the autumn of 1900, outlaw Claude Barbee puts his 'retirement plan' in action, attempting to...
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Restored Me
as MannyA troubled ex-con joins the colorful crew of an old movie theater and begins to rebuild his...
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Human Error
as uncreditedJack Farley and his family are asked to attend an experiment about social behavior for a planned...
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Moe
as uncreditedMoe, a fun-loving theater artist working on a one woman show, finds out that he is dying from an...
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The Princess and the Barrio Boy
as BumA teenager who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer has a romance with a boy from the wrong...
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Group Marriage
as RamonChris is not getting along with boyfriend Sandor and has an affair with parole officer Dennis....
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The Student Nurses
as LuisFollows the lives of a group of young nurses in Los Angeles, including a nurse who joins a band...
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Joe Dancer II: The Monkey Mission
as VitoRobert Blake's second (of three) "Joe Dancer" movies has the hard-boiled private investigator...
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The Desperate Miles
as RuizA disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by...
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Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone
as RancherIn a Texas border town, car salesman Charlie moonlights as a masked Lucha libre wrestler going...
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Break of Dawn
as HectorThe true story of the first Spanish-language radio announcer and political activist, Pedro J...
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The Streets of L.A.
as Sgt. CastroA woman embarks on a lone pursuit of three teenaged hoods in the Los Angeles barrio after...
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Exposed
as RaoulAs the presenter of tabloid news show 'Probe', Bob Smith stoops to new lows to expose stories at...
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The Margarita Man
as Jose MartinezA young latino man, who fears he will grow up to be like his working class father, goes to...
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White Water Rebels
as Harry CutterJames Brolin plays a renegade canoeist who illegally runs a river to protest its exploitation by...
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Best Kept Secrets
as Jim RamosBlaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic...
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Superpowerless
as Dr. George HolstA superhero loses his powers shortly after turning forty and must adjust to his new life.
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Monday Nights at Seven
as PaulMonday Nights At Seven is a love story about a single father, Lazo Saroby, who is struggling...
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Big Dreams Little Tokyo
as Mr. GonzalezBig Dreams Little Tokyo is the story of Boyd, an American with an uncanny ability to speak...
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Roots of Blood
as JuanDrama - Hailed as the first film to portray the Chicano experience -- and the first Chicano film...
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Under Water: Dive Deep
as Lil' Big MeDid you ever loose someone you love the most? Under Water: A surreal drama that chronicles Sii's...
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From the Dead
as RodrigoAfter Janie accidentally murders her husband during disputed infidelity over a stripper, her...
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Flavor of Life
as uncreditedA weary Latino chef and his estranged grandson must reconcile in order to save their beloved...
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The Rockford Files
as Ray OchoaCranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...
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Criminal Minds
as Ruben GarciaAn elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating...
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Sliders
as RobertoIn his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite...
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Adam-12
as RogerAdam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...
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Miami Vice
as uncreditedThe story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking...
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Hill Street Blues
as uncreditedA realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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The A-Team
as Tómas JeffersonA fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune...
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Quantum Leap
as Manuel VegaTheorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the...
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Diagnosis: Murder
as Capt. CollinsDr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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T. J. Hooker
as Frank FierroSergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who...
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Scarecrow and Mrs. King
as uncreditedScarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May...
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Knight Rider
as LupoMichael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead...
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Lou Grant
as uncreditedThe trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his...
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Mannix
as uncreditedMannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....
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Hunter
as Roberto SanchezHunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred...
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Justice League
as Shifflet (voice)The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder...
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Cannon
as uncreditedCannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26,...
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Simon & Simon
as uncreditedSimon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24,...
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Barney Miller
as Julio RodriguezBarney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police...
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The Rookies
as uncreditedThe Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows...
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The Zeta Project
as uncreditedFollow the futuristic adventures of Zeta, a renegade government-designed robot, and Ro, his...
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The Greatest American Hero
as uncreditedThe chronicles of teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red...
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Cagney & Lacey
as uncreditedMary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing...
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Baretta
as uncreditedBaretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show...
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Jesse
as Pappa VasquezJesse Warner is a 26-year-old single mother juggling between her job, her dreams and her family...
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Kojak
as Enorio PatiasA bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...
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Kojak
as Rudy DiazA bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...
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The Paper Chase
as uncreditedCritically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious...
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Police Story
as uncreditedPolice Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and...
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Dimension 404
as Wally NashInspired by the Internet’s “404” error code, Dimension 404 aims to evoke that 3 AM feeling of...
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The PJs
as Mr. SanchezThe PJs is an American stop-motion animated television series, created by Eddie Murphy, Larry...
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Bronk
as uncreditedBronk is an American television series starring Jack Palance as Detective Lieutenant Alex...
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Kingpin
as uncreditedKingpin is an American crime drama television series which debuted on the NBC network in the...
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Second Chances
as Salvador LopezSecond Chances is an American television series created and written by producers Bernard...
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With Love
as Luis DelgadoThe Diaz siblings, Lily and Jorge, are on a mission to find love and purpose. They cross paths...
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CHiPs
as uncreditedLighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main...
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Dudley
as SantanaDudley is an American Primetime television series starring Dudley Moore and Joanna Cassidy. The...
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
as John ColucciThe saga of an Italian immigrant family in search of the American dream.
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Kung Fu
as uncreditedThe adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in...
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