Jimmy SmitsFilmography

American Experience: Roberto Clemente

Synopsis: Roberto Clemente not only became the first Latino pro baseball player to achieve superstar status, he made sure that people were aware of the issues affecting areas of the world in need of humanitarian aid. His life was tragically cut short while on a flight to Nicaragua, but this film celebrates Read More

Dexter: Season 03

Actors: Michael C. Hall, Jimmy Smits, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Lauren Vélez

The Jane Austen Book Club

Actors: Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy

Synopsis: Robin Swicord's adaptation of the novel The Jane Austen Book Club concerns a group of women and a man who meet regularly to discuss the works of the popular author, but soon discover their lives are playing out much like one of the author's fictional worlds. Among the members of the club are Read More

Cane [TV Series]

Crew: Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Hector Elizondo, Nestor Carbonell, Rita Moreno, Polly Walker

Synopsis: Best described as Dallas with a Latino flavor, the CBS drama series Cane dealt with a wealthy and powerful Cuban-American family, the Duques, who ran a luctrative rum-and-sugar business in South Florida. Sensing that he wasn't long for this world, patriarch Pancho Duque (Hector Elizondo) began Read More

Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas!

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Rosie Perez, Sixto Ramos, Carmen Serrano, Chema Soto, Bobbito Garcia

Synopsis: Actress Rosie Perez makes her directorial debut with this documentary about her heritage, Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas! (I'm Puerto Rican, Just So You Know!), which she co-directed with acclaimed documentarian Liz Garbus (The Farm: Angola, USA). Starting with the focal point of New York Read More

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Ian McDiarmid, Jimmy Smits, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor

Synopsis: George Lucas draws the Star Wars film series to a close with this dark sci-fi adventure which sets the stage for the events of the first film and brings the saga full circle. After a fierce battle in which Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) join Republic forces to help free Read More

Lackawanna Blues

Actors: S. Epatha Merkerson, Julie Benz, Robert A. Bradley, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Kathleen Chalfant

Synopsis: A young boy grows up among a makeshift family of oddballs and dreamers in this adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's acclaimed one-man show. Ruben Junior (Marcus Carl Franklin) is a young boy who was born in the late '40s into a family that started crumbling not long after he was born. Ruben Read More

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, Samuel L. Jackson

Synopsis: The second prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy takes place ten years after the events depicted in Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. Now 20, young Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is an apprentice to respected Jedi knight Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). Unusually powerful in Read More

Adventures in Wild California

Synopsis: Narrated by actor Jimmy Smits, Adventures in Wild California: IMAX takes viewers flying across the landscape and along the coastline of the Golden State. Originally created for the larger-than-life IMAX movie theaters, and released to video and DVD in 2001 by Image Entertainment, the program runs Read More

America: A Tribute to Heroes

Actors: U2

Synopsis: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Tom Petty, Al Pacino, and many more entertainment industry luminaries teamed up on September 21, 2001, for this live telethon raising funds for the families of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The focus Read More

Bless the Child

Actors: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Holliston Coleman, Rufus Sewell, Angela Bettis, Christina Ricci

Synopsis: In this supernatural horror story, Jenna (Angela Bettis), an unstable young woman, gives birth to a girl named Cody who proves to be autistic; unable to care for her properly, she turns Cody over to her sister, psychiatric nurse Maggie O'Connell (Kim Basinger). Maggie raises Cody as her own, but Read More

Price of Glory

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Jon Seda, Clifton Collins, Jr., Maria Del Mar, Sal Lopez

Synopsis: Jimmy Smits returned to the big screen after a career-reviving stint on the TV series NYPD Blue with this emotional drama about the difficult relationship between a father and his sons. Smits plays Arturo Ortega, a man with lifelong dreams of being a contender in professional boxing. While Arturo Read More

The Million Dollar Hotel

Actors: Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits, Peter Stormare

Synopsis: Legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders returns to the screen with this loosely structured murder mystery. The Million Dollar Hotel unites Wender's obsession with cool music, lost souls, and American trash culture. Set in 2001, the film opens with Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies) taking a flying leap off the roof Read More

Hispanic Hollywood

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Dolores Del Rio, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, José Ferrer

Synopsis: This video documentary looks at the history of Hispanic or Latino stars and pictures in Hollywood, focusing on the last half of the 20th century. Stars such as Jimmy Smits, Antonio Banderas, Sonia Braga, and others discuss their experiences as Hispanic actors. They reflect on prejudices and Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 06

Synopsis: The big news attending NYPD Blue's sixth season was the imminent departure of series star Jimmy Smits, who played Det. Bobby Simone, the new husband of Det. Diane Russell (Kim Delaney). While the particulars of Simone's exit were kept secret from the public, it became obvious from the season Read More

Murder in Mind

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Mary-Louise Parker, Nigel Hawthorne

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, a wife suspected of murdering her husband agrees to undergo hypnosis so as to discover the awful truth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Happily Ever After Fairy Tales: Mother Goose

Synopsis: A unique animated rendition of classic nursery rhyme favorites with a rocking, upbeat musical score, Happily Ever After Fairy Tales for Every Child refreshes interest in the old rhymes for children as well as adults. In "Mother Goose," favorite titles like Humpty Dumpty and Little Miss Muppet are Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 05

Synopsis: As expected, the opening episode of NYPD Blue's fifth season resolved the cliffhanger established at the end of season four, with 15th precinct detective Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) returning to active duty after being cleared of all charges relating to the murder of late, unlamented mobster Jimmy Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 04

Synopsis: The fourth season of NYPD Blue saw the introduction of two important new cast members: Andrea Thompson as Detective Jill Kirkendall, fearless crime-fighter, single mother, and potential threat to the burgeoning romance between Det. Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Det. Diane Russell (Kim Delaney); Read More

Marshal Law

Actors: Jimmy Smits, James LeGros, Kristy Swanson, Scott Plank, Vonte Sweet

Synopsis: A former U.S. Marshall takes extreme measures to save his family from a band of psychopaths after an earthquake destroys the apartment complex in which they live. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Solomon & Sheba

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Halle Berry

NYPD Blue: Season 03

Synopsis: Like all good Steven Bochco projects, NYPD Blue continued to grow, evolve, and push the envelope throughout its third season. The year was a mixed one for the 15th precinct's most mercurial detective, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz). Though he had found a measure of domestic tranquility with his new Read More

Happily Ever After Fairy Tales: Cinderella

Synopsis: Cinderella is told so often it is hard to make it new. But Happily Ever After manages to reinvent the classic fairy tale with a Hispanic cast. Cinderella's savior comes in the form of Madrina, the good fairy who helps the young girl find her way to the Royal Ball and the prince's heart. Cinderella Read More

My Family

Actors: Elpidia Carrillo, Jenny Gago, Esai Morales, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Jimmy Smits, Jacob Vargas, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Featuring Jennifer Lopez in her first major big-screen role, Gregory Nava's My Family traces three generations of the Sanchez's, a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. Beginning in the 1930s, the film outlines the struggles faced by Jose (Jacob Vargas) and Maria (Lopez) as a Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 02

Synopsis: The second season of NYPD Blue was transitional in every sense of the word, with a number of major cast changes and the deepening of characterizations within the people who remained. The big news during the 1994-1995 season was the defection of David Caruso as Detective John Kelly, the sensitive Read More

The Cisco Kid

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Cheech Marin, Bruce Payne, Sadie Frost, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: Cisco and his pal Pancho return in this made-for-cable nostalgic and comical reworking of the once popular western adventure series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Tommyknockers

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, Joanna Cassidy

Synopsis: Adapted for TV, this is a Stephen King story in which an aspiring writer and an alcoholic poet (with a metal plate in his head, no less) literally stumble over a long-buried spaceship while walking in the woods. It starts glowing green when uncovered and soon everyone in town has green eyes, their Read More

Gross Misconduct

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Naomi Watts, Sarah Chadwick, Adrian Wright, Alan Fletcher

Synopsis: A teacher's life is nearly destroyed when his deranged student cries rape in this Australian drama. The new philosophy professor at an all-girls' academy, Professor Justin Thorne (Jimmy Smits) has it all: a great job, a solid wife (Sarah Chadwick) and family, and the adulation of his Read More

The Broken Cord

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Michael Spears

Synopsis: Sight unseen, anthropologist David Moore (Jimmy Smits) adopts a Native American child named Adam. As Adam grows older (he is played as a boy by Michael Spears, and as a teenager by Fredrick Leader-Charge), Moore becomes painfully aware that the boy is developmentally delayed and emotionally Read More

Fires Within

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Jimmy Smits, Vincent D'Onofrio, Luis Avalos

Synopsis: A Cuban woman who escapes to America finds herself in political, financial, and romantic jeopardy in this taut drama. Cuban refugee Isabel (Greta Scacchi) flees her country and makes her way to Miami after her husband, Nestor (Jimmy Smits), a political activist, is sentenced to a long stay in a Read More

Switch

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams, Lorraine Bracco, Perry King, Tony Roberts

Synopsis: Ellen Barkin stars in this mystical comedy about a detestable male chauvinist temporarily reincarnated into the body of a woman. Steve Brooks (Perry King) foolishly accepts an invite for an evening of debauchery from three former girlfriends, and thinks he's got it made when he shows up to find Read More

Remember Pearl Harbor

Synopsis: This program chronicles the events of December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor and the event that brought America into World War II. The events of that day are chronicled here, effectively and dramatically bringing across the horror and heroism Read More

Vital Signs

Actors: Adrian Pasdar, Diane Lane, Jimmy Smits, Norma Aleandro, Jack Gwaltney

Synopsis: Marisa Silver helmed this tightly directed hospital drama reminiscent of David Swift's 1962 The Interns. Jimmy Smits plays Dr. David Redding, who guides seven student doctors through their third year of residency at Los Angeles Central's medical school. The cast includes Laura San Giacomo as Read More

Saturday Night Live: Jimmy Smits

Actors: Jimmy Smits, World Party

Synopsis: This 1990 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Jimmy Smits and features musical guest World Party. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Conky's Breakdown

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: Pee-wee's efforts to fix the malfunctioning Conky the computer just make things worse. Enter the handsome repairman (an up-and-coming Jimmy Smits) who fortunately has "the right tools and knows how to use them." When flirtatious Miss Yvonne hears this declaration, her lovestruck reaction is Read More

The Old Gringo

Actors: Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras, Jenny Gago, Jim Metzler

Synopsis: In this historical drama based on Carlos Fuentes' novel, Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) is a naive woman who, hoping to broaden her horizons, accepts a job as a governess in Mexico in 1913. However, Harriet unknowingly finds herself thrown into the middle of the Mexican revolution, where she Read More

Glitz

Actors: John Diehl, Markie Post, Jimmy Smits

Synopsis: Glitz was a disappointment for fans of the Elmore Leonard novel on which it was based. Jimmy Smits stars as a savvy Miami police detective Vincent Mora, who is wounded in a shoot-out. Convalescing in Puerto Rico, Mora falls in love with a beautiful woman who later dies under suspicious Read More

The Believers

Actors: Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Robert Loggia, Jimmy Smits, Harley Cross

Synopsis: A police psychologist and his school-age son become embroiled in the machinations of a mysterious cult religion in this thriller from director John Schlesinger. After his wife is electrocuted in a freak accident, Dr. Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) and his son, Chris (Harley Cross), move back to Read More

The Highwayman

Synopsis: In this adventure, an undercover cop must protect an endangered, unemployed Vietnam vet who has become a hitman's target. The story is also titled The Highwayman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dangerous Affection

Synopsis: In this thriller, a pregnant woman and her son, who witnessed a murder, are stalked by the murderer. Chaos ensues as she tries to escape. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stamp of a Killer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV crime drama a cop pursues a homicidal maniac. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Running Scared

Actors: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Darlanne Fluegel, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Distinguished by a sharp, witty dialogue between its two cop protagonists, Ray and Danny (Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal), this entertaining crime drama is well worth a visit. Ray and Danny are nearly blown away by super bad guy Julio (Jimmy Smits), and their boss is peeved at them as usual. So Read More

Rockabye

Synopsis: In this drama, a desperate young woman gets help from a hard-working, aggressive reporter when law enforcement agencies remain indifferent to the abduction of her son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L.A. Law [TV Series]

Synopsis: Though the series proper debuted on Friday, October 3, 1986, L.A. Law was heralded by a two-hour TV movie, which aired Monday, September 15. The Steven Bochco production gets off to a good start, with no fewer than three cases resolved within the first installment. We first meet law-firm partner Read More

Miami Vice: Pilot

Synopsis: When NBC head honcho Brandon Tartikoff demanded a flashy weekly series with "MTV Cops," executive producer Michael Mann responded with Miami Vice. The stars were Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Tubbs, members of Miami's Organized Crime Bureau. In the Miami Vice Read More

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