Posted on 07/10/2020 12:45:04 AM PDT by Jyotishi
Danny Trejo: The actor who went from prisoner to film star
[Image] Danny Trejo has been shot, stabbed, crushed, eaten and tortured . . . multiple times.
Con Air, Zombie Hunter and 3-Headed Shark Attack (yes . . . that's a real film) are just three of the movies in which he's ended up dead.
If you're a Breaking Bad fan, he's the guy whose head famously ends up on top of a tortoise.
According to one survey, the 76-year-old has died on screen more than any other actor.
"It shows I've been working," he jokes.
And if you didn't know his name before reading this, you'd definitely know his face from the hundreds of movies, TV shows and games he's appeared in.
[Image] Some of Danny Trejo's films include Spy Kids, Muppets Most Wanted, xXx and The Ridiculous 6
In his movies, his long hair is usually pulled back in a ponytail, he's got his tattooed bare chest out and he's more than likely carrying a weapon.
"When I was starting to get famous, a good friend of mine told me, 'The whole world can think you're a movie star, but you can't'. I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be a good actor."
He jokes that when he started acting he was always cast in jail as "inmate number one", due to his physical appearance and attitude.
But before his movie career began, he had really been a high-profile prisoner.
It's the back story many of his fans will now get to find about in his new documentary Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo.
"It's a miracle because I wasn't supposed to get out of the 1960s," he tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.
Champion boxer
Growing up in California, Trejo was . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Heat...best death ever
“. . . TX, he owns a restaurant there . . .”
Many movie and TV stars own or have owned bars and restaurants. I must have patronized about a dozen of them.
Bruce Gordon owned one and wore the Frank Nitti outfit sometimes.
I sat next to him on a Delta flight between Minneapolis and LAX a few years ago. Really nice guy.
“Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything.”
That’s from IMDB. What an important thing to learn and recognize in life for everybody.
Range 15.
I was going to mention that one. Great movie.
Until the next movie he's in. Then he'll die again.
He’s a better actor than Dave Bautista of Guardians of the Galaxy. I know the standard is low as is, heck, Groot and Rocky are better than both of them.
A true Hollyweed survivor, I’d take him over Edward James Olmos any day as my teacher.
I thought he should have had a bigger role in the movie
Heat. He was good in it.
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