Jimmy Ortega
Biography: He was born and raised in El Paso Texas. Miguel Ortega (father) was a cross country truck driver and Paulina Ortega (mother) a housewife. Began career doing summer stock theater for 2 years - El Paso Del Norte. Moved to Los Angeles in 1978. Shortly after arriving, he started to work as a stuntman on a picture by the name of Hooper (1978). His first acting job was in a guest starring role on a TV show by the name of CHiPs (1977). He has won a Stuntman's Award - Most Spectacular Sequence - "North & South" miniseries. He also won a Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Performance By Cast - Traffic (2000).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 18, 1957
Deathday: N/A
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Beverly Hills Cop III
1994-05-24
Beverly Hills Cop III
Overview: When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returning to sunny Beverly Hills once more, Foley reunites with Detective Billy Rosewood to solve the case. Along with Billy's new partner, Detective Jon Flint, they discover that Wonder World is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-24
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Moving Violations
1985-04-19
Moving Violations
Overview: A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep their records clean.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-19
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The Replacement Killers
1998-02-06
The Replacement Killers
Overview: Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's life. Afraid that Wei will take revenge on his family in China, Lee seeks out expert forger Meg Coburn to obtain the passport he needs to get out of the country, but a band of replacement killers is soon on his trail.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-06
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Last Man Standing
1996-09-20
Last Man Standing
Overview: John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-20
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Delta Farce
2007-05-11
Delta Farce
Overview: Three bumbling Army reservists are hustled onto a plane headed for combat in Iraq -- but the fact that the plane drops them in Mexico doesn't stop them from "liberating" what they believe to be the Middle East.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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Out of the Blue
2013-10-01
Out of the Blue
Overview: “Out of the Blue” is about a determined woman fighting her way through a series of unique physical challenges to stop a mad man. Her skills are put to the test when discovering a loved one in danger. The female character’s mission takes a surprising turn that leaves us wondering if it was all just a game.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-01
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Dead Connection
1994-05-01
Dead Connection
Overview: After a series of murders in motel rooms are connected, police detective Matt Dickson heads out on the trail to find a serial killer. He discovers that he signs the motel guest-books with the names of boxers, and gets a lead on him. However, just when he fails to catch up and arrest him, the chase becomes personal.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
1993-11-19
Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
Overview: A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbling upon a much bigger caper involving a mysterious fugitive.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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Babylon
2022-12-22
Babylon
Overview: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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Guilty As Charged
1991-04-19
Guilty As Charged
Overview: A female parole officer discovers a secret death row prison under a meat plant, that's being run by the plant's unhinged vigilante owner and his reverend friend. A politician with a shady past becomes its latest "guest". But is he guilty?
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-19
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Vampires
1998-10-30
Vampires
Overview: The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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L.A. Confidential
1997-09-19
L.A. Confidential
Overview: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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Juarez
1988-05-28
Juarez
Overview: Pilot series about a Mexican-American sheriff's detective living in El Paso.Pilot series about a Mexican-American sheriff's detective living in El Paso.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-28
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The A-Team
2010-06-09
The A-Team
Overview: A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, Smith and his men, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck, break out and go rogue, using their special talents to clear their names and find the perpetrator. Hot on their trail is Capt. Charissa Sosa, who was once involved with a member of Smith's team and has sworn to capture them, no matter what it takes.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-09
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The Rum Diary
2011-10-13
The Rum Diary
Overview: Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-13
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Man of the House
2005-02-25
Man of the House
Overview: Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of University of Texas cheerleaders. Sharp must now go undercover as an assistant cheerleading coach and move in with the young women.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006-06-27
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
Overview: A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighborhood whose actions determine where they will go in the afterlife.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-27
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Safe Harbor
2009-05-30
Safe Harbor
Overview: Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-30
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Just Like Heaven
2005-09-16
Just Like Heaven
Overview: Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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Sabotage
2014-03-28
Sabotage
Overview: John "Breacher" Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-28
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Jailbait
1993-10-22
Jailbait
Overview: 17 year old Kyle comes to the big city in search of her half-sister Merci. Merci is on the run after being used to set up a murder. The police and the killers both want her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-22
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Crank: High Voltage
2009-04-16
Crank: High Voltage
Overview: Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-16
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The Double
2011-10-27
The Double
Overview: The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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Extreme Prejudice
1987-04-24
Extreme Prejudice
Overview: A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-24
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Ticker
2002-11-12
Ticker
Overview: The Driver drives a wounded diplomat, who carries a mysterious briefcase, while under helicopter attack. During the attack the briefcase is struck by a bullet, causing a display on it to begin counting down, and it to leak an unknown fluid from the bullet hole. The Driver manages to destroy his pursuers, but refuses to proceed without knowing the contents of the damaged briefcase. It is revealed that the diplomat guards a human heart for a peacekeeper, whose life is needed for the continued freedom of the people. The case is delivered, and the tyrant is forced to give up his attempt to take the country by force. The Driver leaves for another mission.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-12
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Internal Affairs
1990-01-12
Internal Affairs
Overview: Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-12
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Persons Unknown
1996-12-27
Persons Unknown
Overview: When former cop and current security expert Jim Holland has a one night stand with Amanda after getting in her way roller-blading. That introduction turns out to be a well thought out plan by Amanda and her sister Molly, to obtain security codes. The girls and their cohorts rob his client and stash the loot. All the while, detective Jim has been following them and he grabs the money for himself. Then his conscience gets the best of him and he falls in love with Molly. His client turns out to be drug dealers and he's forced to risk his life to protect Molly and Amanda.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-27
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Traffic
2000-12-27
Traffic
Overview: An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Ground Zero
2000-05-12
Ground Zero
Overview: When a series of strange earthquakes hit California, a seismologist named Kimberly Stevenson is sent to the Angeles Forest to investigate the epicenter. This might prove to be her biggest task so far, but also the one that will bring her renown. She brings along her son, Justin, who was recently involved in a car accident with his father. In the wilderness outside Los Angeles, the two of them find a man named Michael Brandeis, who seems to know an awful lot about what is happening. As expected, these are not natural earthquakes, but the work of a dangerous company selling nuclear weapons.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-12
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Knox Goes Away
2024-03-15
Knox Goes Away
Overview: A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son. But to do so, he must race against the police closing in on him as well as the ticking clock of his own rapidly deteriorating mind.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-15
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