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Esai Morales. Actor: La Bamba. Award-winning actor Esai Morales is a graduate of New York's High School for the Performing Arts. He was born in Brooklyn, to Puerto Rican parents, and began his acting career on the stage, first appearing in El Hermano at the Ensemble Theatre Studio and at New York's Shakespeare Festival In The Park in The Tempest.
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- October 1, 1962
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He played Bob Morales, the real-life ex-convict and biker half-brother of 1950s rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens, in La Bamba (1987). He also played Nicholas Walker in Ultraviolet (1992). Some of his other roles have reflected his socio-political interests, such as The Burning Season in 1994, My Family/Mi Familia in 1995, The Disappearance ...
Jun 15, 2023 · Published Jun 15, 2023. Follow. Share. Link copied to clipboard. Esai Morales famously played Bob, the troubled older half-brother of famous musician Ritchie Valens in the 1987 biopic La Bamba, but the actor has also appeared in countless other projects since then.
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Jul 30, 2017 · Actor Esai Morales, who is now busy playing a lead role in the Netflix series, “Ozark,” and running for president of the SAG/AFTRA union, played Valens' brother Bob, a memorable character whom...
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Esai Morales. Actor: La Bamba. Award-winning actor Esai Morales is a graduate of New York's High School for the Performing Arts. He was born in Brooklyn, to Puerto Rican parents, and began his acting career on the stage, first appearing in El Hermano at the Ensemble Theatre Studio and at New York's Shakespeare Festival In The Park in The Tempest.
- October 1, 1962
Jul 24, 1987 · La Bamba: Directed by Luis Valdez. With Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña. Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
Nov 3, 2023 · Arts & Culture. Come on, let's go! Revisiting 'La Bamba' Texas Public Radio | By Nathan Cone. Published November 2, 2023 at 9:40 PM CDT. Courtesy the Criterion Collection. Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, and Lou Diamond Phillips in 'La Bamba.'
