Hector Elizondo
          Actor  
	
	Filmography (All Films)
				 
	  
	        
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…