Hector Elizondo
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Dec 22, 1936 New York City, NY |
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| Career: | 1969-2007 | ||
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USA |
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Comedy Drama Comedy Drama Thriller Romance |
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Biography by Hal Erickson
An actor of seemingly boundless range, New York-born Hector Elizondo began his career as a dancer. His initial training was at the Ballet Arts school of Carnegie Hall, from which he moved on to the Actors Studio. After several years' stage work, Elizondo made an inauspicious movie debut as "The Inspector" in the low-budget sex film The Vixens (1969). He was shown to better advantage in his next film, Hal Ashby's The Landlord (1970), which he followed up with strong character parts in such Manhattan-based productions as The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) and Thieves (1977). With Young Doctors in Love (1982), Elizondo began his long association with director Garry Marshall, who has since cast 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 screen roles have run the gamut from scrungy garbage scow captains to elegant concierges (Pretty Woman). In addition, he has been a regular on several mediocre television series: Popi, Freebie and the Bean, Casablanca (in the old Claude Rains role of Inspector Renault), a.k.a. Pablo, Foley Square, and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, In 1994, Elizondo took on a co-starring role as a demanding chief of surgery on the popular TV medical drama Chicago Hope.
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Filmography
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| Cane [TV Series] | 2007 | Actor [Starring] | ||
| Georgia Rule | 2007 |
  
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| Grey's Anatomy: My Favorite Mistake | 2007 | Actor [Starring] | ||
| Love in the Time of Cholera | 2007 |
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| Music Within | 2007 |
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| I See You.com | 2006 | Actor [Starring] / Producer |
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| Shay's Rebellion: America's First Civil War (January 25, 1787) | 2006 | Voice [Starring] | ||
| The Celestine Prophecy | 2005 |
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| Century City [TV Series] | 2004 | Actor [Starring] | ||
| Raising Helen | 2004 |
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| The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | 2004 |
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| Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman | 2003 |
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| Miracles [TV Series] | 2003 | Actor [Starring] | ||
| The Dating Experiment [TV Series] | 2003 | Voice [Starring] | ||
| American Experience: Zoot Suit Riots | 2002 | Actor [Starring] | ||
| Fidel | 2002 | Actor [Starring] |
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"Hector Elizondo is an American actor." Hector Elizondo was born in New York City, the son of Carmen Medina Reyes from Puerto Rico and Martin Echevarria Elizondo a Basque. His parents moved to New York City, like many other Hispan...
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The music is called "Another Life" and written by composer Sidney James specifically for Julie and Hector to dance to and unfortunately it has never been released
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Awards
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| 1990 Hollywood Foreign Press Association | Pretty Woman | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | (Nom) |
