Lou Diamond Phillips
Biography
Lou Diamond Phillips is an American film, television, and stage actor as well as director and writer. His breakthrough role came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the film La Bamba. His other best known film roles are as Jose Chavez y Chavez in Young Guns I and II, Angel Guzman in Stand and Deliver for which he earned a supporting actor Golden Globe Award nomination, Hank Storm in Renegades, Jesse Rainfeather Goldman in Sioux City in which he was also director, Staff Sergeant John Monfriez in Courage Under Fire, Roy Knox in Brokedown Palace, and Wanda in Hollywood Homicide. He has also starred in many TV movies.…
Filmography
An Untold Triumph: America's Filipino Soldiers
2002 · 10.0
Wind in the Wire
1993 · 8.5
Criminal Minds
2005 · 8.3
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013 · 8.2
The Legend of Vox Machina
2022 · 8.2
Prodigal Son
2019 · 8.0
Aquaman
2006 · 8.0
Override
1994 · 8.0
One for the Money: The Birth of Rock & Roll
2006 · 8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · 8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · 8.0
Southland
2009 · 7.9
Psych
2006 · 7.9
Stand and Deliver
1988 · 7.8
Blue Bloods
2010 · 7.8
24
2001 · 7.8
Hawaii Five-0
2010 · 7.7
Chuck
2007 · 7.7
The Outer Limits
1995 · 7.7
Longmire
2012 · 7.7
Stranger Things: Tales from '85
2026 · 7.6
Wolf Lake
2001 · 7.6
Goliath
2016 · 7.6
The Cleaning Lady
2022 · 7.5
George Lopez
2002 · 7.5
Miami Vice
1984 · 7.4
Family Guy
1999 · 7.4
Stargate Universe
2009 · 7.4
Blindspot
2015 · 7.4
The Ranch
2016 · 7.4
Jack & Bobby
2004 · 7.3
La Bamba
1987 · 7.3
Trese
2021 · 7.3
NCIS: New Orleans
2014 · 7.3
Casa Grande
2026 · 7.3
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
2024 · 7.2
The Twilight Zone
2002 · 7.2
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
2024 · 7.1
Night Visions
2001 · 7.1
The Beast
2009 · 7.1
The Chair Company
2025 · 7.1
Bull
2016 · 7.1
Spin City
1996 · 7.0
American Dad!
2005 · 7.0
Numb3rs
2005 · 7.0
Quantum Leap
2022 · 7.0
Love Takes Wing
2009 · 7.0
The Panama Deception
1992 · 7.0
Search Party
2016 · 6.9
Arli$$
1996 · 6.9
Another Period
2015 · 6.8
DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery
2022 · 6.8
Gangland
2025 · 6.8
The Night Stalker
2016 · 6.8
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
2024 · 6.7
Young Guns
1988 · 6.7
American Playhouse
1982 · 6.6
Che: Part Two
2008 · 6.6
Courage Under Fire
1996 · 6.6
Cougar Town
2009 · 6.5
The Handler
2003 · 6.5
Young Guns II
1990 · 6.5
Brokedown Palace
1999 · 6.4
Elena of Avalor
2016 · 6.4
The 33
2015 · 6.4
Urban Country
2018 · 6.4
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · 6.3
The Triangle
2005 · 6.3
Stranger Things: Tales from '85 Theatrical Preview
2026 · 6.3
Time Bomb
1984 · 6.3
Another Day in Paradise
1998 · 6.2
Sky
2016 · 6.2
Filly Brown
2013 · 6.2
Stark Raving Mad
2002 · 6.1
The Big Hit
1998 · 6.0
Get Fast
2024 · 6.0
Shadow of the Wolf
1992 · 6.0
Aquaman
2006 · 6.0
Created Equal
2017 · 6.0
Quest
2017 · 6.0
Big Kill
2019 · 5.8
Never Forget
2008 · 5.8
Undertow
1996 · 5.8
Sequoia
2014 · 5.8
Werewolves
2024 · 5.7
The First Power
1990 · 5.7
Fingerprints
2006 · 5.7
Easter Sunday
2022 · 5.7
A Better Way to Die
2001 · 5.6
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997 · 5.6
El Cortez
2006 · 5.6
The Trail to Hope Rose
2004 · 5.6
Cop and a Half: New Recruit
2017 · 5.5
The Dark Wind
1992 · 5.5
Disorganized Crime
1989 · 5.4
A Show of Force
1990 · 5.3
Renegades
1989 · 5.3
The Wharf Rat
1996 · 5.3
Hollywood Homicide
2003 · 5.2
Murder at the Presidio
2005 · 5.2
Ironside
2013 · 5.1
Sioux City
1994 · 5.1
Route 666
2001 · 5.1
Graves
2016 · 5.0
Angel and the Badman
2009 · 5.0
Extreme Justice
1993 · 5.0
Malevolent
2002 · 5.0
Supernova
2000 · 5.0
Demon Wind
1990 · 4.9
Boulevard
1994 · 4.9
Teresa's Tattoo
1994 · 4.9
Trespasses
1986 · 4.9
Hourglass
1997 · 4.9
Gone but Not Forgotten
2005 · 4.8
Adverse
2021 · 4.8
Carny
2009 · 4.8
Alien Express
2005 · 4.8
Metal Tornado
2011 · 4.7
Avenge the Crows
2017 · 4.7
Sanitarium
2013 · 4.7
Bats
1999 · 4.6
Termination Point
2007 · 4.6
Dakota
1988 · 4.5
Takedown
2010 · 4.5
Picking Up the Pieces
2000 · 4.4
Et Tu
2025 · 4.3
Ambition
1991 · 4.3
The Last Train
2017 · 4.3
Absolon
2003 · 4.2
Lone Hero
2002 · 4.2
Red Water
2003 · 4.1
Knight Club
2001 · 4.0
The Three Kings
1987 · 4.0
Harley
1991 · 4.0
Lone Rider
2008 · 3.9
Dangerous Touch
1995 · 3.9
Striking Range
2006 · 3.9
The Invited
2010 · 3.9
Lucy in the Sky with Diamond
2013 · 3.5
Interface
1985 · 3.4
Death Toll
2008 · 3.3
The General Motors Playwrights Theater
1991 · 0.0
Young Guns 3: Alias Billy the Kid
— · 0.0
We Could Be in Love
— · 0.0
Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins
2017 · 0.0
One in a Million
— · 0.0
Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes
1997 · 0.0
Widow
— · 0.0
Drowning
— · 0.0
Aguadilla
2025 · 0.0
The Ambulance Chaser
— · 0.0
City Kid
— · 0.0