Trinidad Silva Trailers
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Trinidad Silva, a character actor from Mission, Texas, had a promising career that was tragically cut short. He moved to Los Angeles in his mid-20s and landed his first acting role on "Baretta" in 1977. Unfortunately, due to the Latino typecasting prevalent at the time, most of his TV roles were as criminals or gang members. However, his role as Jesus Martinez on "Hill Street Blues" broke this stereotype, portraying a former gang leader turned community activist. Silva also played more positive roles in films like "Alambrista!" and "El Norte." Sadly, while filming "UHF" in 1988, Silva was killed by a drunk driver in Whittier, California. The film was dedicated to his memory. He was married to Sofia Alvarez.
Most Popular Trinidad Silva Trailers
Total trailers found: 15
13 November 1987
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity.
13 July 1988
A psychopath second grader starts knocking off his schoolmates one by one in order to maintain control of the lunchline.
15 April 1988
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
14 December 1979
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again.
15 April 1988
A popular beauty surprisingly asks a nerd to take her to the prom. He wakes up hours later in a sleazy alley.
17 February 1984
Down-and-out Weslake is reduced to minding the counter at a San Francisco pawn shop when he stumbles onto a scheme by some of the boss's disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place.
14 November 1986
When an odd-ball tennis team of a Los Angeles college sets out on a road trip to a regional college tennis tournament in fun-filled Las Vegas, all the stops are out and literally "anything goes" both on and off the court.
21 July 1989
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
15 June 1979
Emilio Mendez is a 17-year-old Chicano man in California comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
18 March 1988
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.
23 April 1982
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
11 October 1983
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
16 October 1977
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man, slips across the border into the United States.
07 March 1983
Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her ex John Michael.
29 January 1988
A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two of them find peace they were missing.
