Edward James Olmos

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Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1947-02-24

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197

Total plays

811

Edward James "Eddie" Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is a Mexican American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are Commander/Admiral William Adama in the Battlestar Galactica re-imagined series, Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, Detective Gaff in Blade Runner, and narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit. Olmos was born Edward James Olmos in Los Angeles <a

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 76,915x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 67,092x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 64,963x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,535x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,223x

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Quotes

• “Fight against typecasting? All the time. There’s a truth in the stereotype, that’s why it becomes a stereotype but the problem starts when it’s the only thing you see. When it comes to Latinos in the US, the truth is they [Americans] know very little about us.”
• “The stereotypical usage of any culture, any ethnicity, is based on fact or truth. The difficulty is that that’s the only fact and truth that they use. So therefore, it becomes, “Oh, everyone’s like that,” and everyone isn’t like that. Stereotypes are stereotypes. They’re just one-dimensional characterizations of what the person who’s depicted represents, and that’s the difficulty of what I learned as I moved older into the late ‘50s, early ‘60s, and I was 13, 14…”
• “My life has been a privilege. I come from a very humble family. No one in my family was an artist or worked in film…I’m not special. I completely understand that what I did, anyone can do it … I learned to do the things I love to do when I didn’t want to do them.”

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Key facts

Born

Edward Huizar Olmos , ( 1947-02-24 ) February 24, 1947 (age 79) , East Los Angeles , California , U.S.

Citizenship

United States Mexico

Occupations

Actor director producer activist

Years active

1974–present

Spouses

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Key dates

Born

24 February 1947

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

James

Gender

male

Citizenship

Mexico

Place of birth

East Los Angeles

Occupation

film producer

Educated at

California State University, Fresno

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Official website

edwardjamesolmos.com

Image

Edward James Olmos by Gage Skidmore.jpg

Residence

Los Angeles

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