Damian ChapaFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Steely, intense actor Damian Chapa built a formidable career tackling tough-guy roles, usually thugs and heavies, in such action outings as Under Siege (1992), Street Fighter (1994), U.S. Seals 2 (1999), and Hell's Gate (2001). Chapa took his initial bow as a writer/director/actor with 2002's...Read More

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Vampiro

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Damian Chapa, Vida Harlow, Leslie Garza, Rico Chapa

Synopsis: The gritty streets of East Los Angeles get even more dangerous with the arrival of a sexually ravenous coven of vampires in this low-budget Mexican-American horror film. When East L.A. resident Blanca (Vida Harlow) finds herself targeted by a seductive female vampire, Sexicana (Leslie Garza), she Read More

2009
Bad Cop

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Damian Chapa, David Carradine, Miguel Angel, Maricela Carmen, Peré Estefania

Synopsis: Screen legend David Carradine turns in one of his final screen performances in this low-budget, crime drama helmed by Mexican-American actor-director Damian Chapa. Chapa stars as honest but financially strapped cop Angel Alvarez, who makes some quick money -- but loses his soul -- when he goes to Read More

2009
The Bad Game

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Damian Chapa, Stacy Keach

Synopsis: Prolific Mexican-American actor-director Damian Chapa ventures into Hostel territory with this low-budget crime drama. Two best friends travelling through Europe find themselves targeted by Russian mobsters in a torture and kidnapping scheme that runs deeper than either one of them could imagine. Read More

2009
Mexican Gangster

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Damian Chapa

2008
Chicano Blood

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Damian Chapa

Synopsis: The thriller Chicano Blood tells the tale of a young man who has extricated himself from his days as a member in a street gang. Although he thought he was through with the part of his life, he finds himself pulled back in after his wife is killed and he seeks vengeance upon those responsible. Read More

2008
Death of Evil

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Damian Chapa, Natasha Blasick, Steve Nave

Synopsis: Supernatural traditions collide in this low-budget horror film from Mexican-American actor-director Damian Chapa. Chapa stars as Native American David Thunder, who summons up his ancestral spirituality to battle evil spirits when he finds out that his pregnant wife, Julieta (Natasha Blasik), comes Read More

2008
Fuego

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Damian Chapa, David Carradine, Elena Talan, Jorge Ramrer

Synopsis: An ex-convict and former spy embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue an ambassador's daughter from the clutches of the dangerous ETA terrorist group in this thriller starring Damian Chapa and David Carradine. Julio has just escaped from a Mexican prison, and he's making his way through the Read More

10/19/07
Mexican American

Crew: Director

Actors: Damian Chapa, Rachel Hunter, Joe Estevez

2007
Polanski Unauthorized

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Damian Chapa, Thomas Druilhet, Silva Suvadova, Christian Serritello, Elena Talan

Synopsis: Filmmaker Damian Chapa writes, produces, directs, and stars in this unsanctioned biopic tracing the remarkable life of controversial filmmaker Roman Polanski. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
I.R.A.: King of Nothing

Crew: Director

Actors: Damian Chapa

2006
The Switch

Crew: Director

2005
El Padrino: The Latin Godfather

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Kilo was born into a life of crime. By the time he was an adult, he was a full-time dealer, and when he meets Sabeva, the daughter of a Colombian drug kingpin, he reaches the upper levels of drug trafficking. It is a dangerous business, however, and eventually Kilo ends up in prison. Still running Read More

2004
Man of Faith

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A charismatic, modern-era healer must reconcile his relationship with his creator after his life and ministry are threatened in this religious-themed drama starring Brad Dourif, Robert Wagner, and Faye Dunaway, and based on the real life exploits of self-professed holy man Leroy Jenkins. Leroy Jenkins Read More

2002
Hell's Gate

Actors: Patsy Kensit, Patrick Muldoon

Synopsis: A beautiful-but-loony tunes insane asylum inmate thinks she's the reincarnated soul mate of a deranged 19th century serial killer who happens to live in modern times in the guise of her psychiatrist -- how handy. Agnes Thatcher (Patsy Kensit) uses her extraordinary sensuality -- not to mention her Read More

2001
Facade

Actors: Damian Chapa, Patricia Velasquez, Camilla Overbye Roos, Roger Guenveur Smith, Joe Viterelli, Jeannie Millar, Daniela Elle, Brad Garrett, Angus MacFadyen, Dawn Radenbaugh, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: A real estate developer (Eric Roberts) sells out his partner/buddy in order to clear the path for the construction of a major hotel. The wife of his buddy, who was a former lover of his, discovers the body of her husband (with the body of a woman he was having an affair with) and becomes aware his Read More

1999
Hitman's Run

Actors: Eric Roberts

Synopsis: A mafia triggerman turns on the family and is placed into protective custody, via the FBI Witness Protection Program. He begins to realize, however, that his new guardians are just as deadly as his foes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1999
U.S. Seals 2

Synopsis: A soldier comes out of retirement to confront a former friend who betrayed his loyalties in this action thriller. Casey Sheppard (Michael Worth) and Frank Ratliff (Damian Chapa) were once members of an elite Navy SEALs squadron; while close friends, Sheppard is a disciplined, by-the-book warrior Read More

1999
Cypress Edge

Actors: Damian Chapa, Brad Dourif, Ashley Laurence, Charles Napier, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Reeling from the news of his sister's suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father, who has just barely won another term as senator, doesn't take things well when Beau approaches him with the sinking suspicion that the suicide may have actually been a murder. Read More

1999
Sometimes They Come Back ...For More

Actors: Clayton Rohner, Faith Ford, Damian Chapa, Chase Masterson, Max Perlich

Synopsis: Adapted from characters created by Stephen King, Sometimes They Come Back ...For More is set in Antarctica, where a remote government outpost has been the scene of a horrible disaster, leaving only two survivors - medical officer Jennifer Wells (Faith Ford) and technical officer Shebanski (ax Read More

1998
Kill You Twice

Crew: Director

1998
Footsteps

Actors: Damian Chapa, Karina Lombard, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Written and directed by filmmaker Daphna D. Edwards, this erotic thriller stars Damian Chapa as Jason a reporter who finds himself tangled in a web of intrigue involving sex and murder. After a local judge is found dead, Jason begins investigating the homicide. Meanwhile, he also starts an affair Read More

1998
On Seventh Avenue

Synopsis: Created by William Finkelstein of Civil Wars fame, the made-for-TV feature On Seventh Avenue was intended as the pilot for a weekly series. Wendy Makkena stars as Nadine Jacobs, the owner of a high-profile fashion business established by her father (played by actor-director Gene Saks). In order to Read More

1996
Saints and Sinners

Synopsis: Sex, drugs, lies and betrayal form the basis of this gritty crime thriller that centers on two white guys, Pooch and Big Boy, lifelong friends who decide they want a piece of the local drug trade action in their old neighborhood. They end up being distracted by aspiring-model and pathological-liar Read More

1995
Final Combination

Actors: Michael Madsen, Lisa Bonet, Gary Stretch, Tim Russ, Damian Chapa

Synopsis: Sex and death are the main themes running through this thriller. Matt Dickson is a former hockey player turned L.A. cop. Since his wife left him he has become a hard-drinking carouser. Dickson is on the trail of Welton, a psychotic boxer, using the names of famous fighters for his aliases has left Read More

1994
Street Fighter

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue

Synopsis: Based on the popular video game Street Fighter II, Street Fighter stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Col. Guile, the cocky but brave leader of an Allied Nations fighting force. When the evil General Bison (Raul Julia), the power-mad leader of Shadaloo, kidnaps a bus full of Allied Nations relief Read More

1994
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills

Actors: Edward James Olmos, Beverly D'Angelo, Damian Chapa, Travis Fine, Julio Oscar Mechoso

Synopsis: We'd rather not rehash the sordied Menendez murder case in this space; besides, it isn't necessary, inasmuch as no fewer than two TV movies were produced on the subject in 1994. The first was Fox's Honor Thy Father and Mother; the second, telecast less than a month later, was Menendez: A Killing Read More

1994
Blood In Blood Out

Actors: Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Enrique J. Castillo, Victor Rivers

Synopsis: Taylor Hackford directed this urgent melodrama about the realities of street crime, gangs, and prison life among the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. Miklo (Damian Chapa), Paco (Benjamin Bratt) and Cruz (Jesse Borrego) are three friends who are living in the East Los Angeles of 1972 as it is torn Read More

1993
Under Siege

Actors: Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak, Patrick O'Neal

Synopsis: Andrew Davis directed this exciting thriller starring Steven Seagal, sans ponytail, and featuring electric, over-the-top performances by Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones. This action saga takes place on the battleship USS Missouri, about to be decommissioned from service after a visit from George Read More

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