Danny Trejo

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Danny Trejo (2017)

Danny Trejo [ ˈtɾexo ] (born May 16, 1944 in Los Angeles , California as Dan Trejo ) is an American actor of Mexican descent and predominantly the actor of villains and antiheroes . As an actor, he has appeared in over 350 productions. The genres in which he moves are predominantly comedy, action and horror film.

Life

Danny Trejo was born the son of construction worker Dan Trejo and his wife Alice Rivera in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Danny Trejo spent most of his youth behind bars because of various robbery and drug offenses , over a period of eleven years he was imprisoned several times in different prisons. During an extended stay in the San Quentin State Prison , he discovered his talent for boxing . He won the prison's lightweight and welterweight championships. However, his hopes for a professional career were dashed by his long prison sentences.

After a rehabilitation program for drug addicts had been completed, he continued to work in support of this program and held several speeches about his past. During one of these speeches, he met an employee of a film studio who later asked him for his support on the film Express to Hell . Actually, he should only work as an extra for the film. However, since one of the screenwriters , Edward Bunker , knew him from his time in San Quentin and knew of his boxing talent, he was hired as a boxing coach for the lead actor Eric Roberts . Then Andrej Konchalovsky , the director , became aware of Trejo and offered him a bigger role as Roberts' boxing opponent in this film.

This gave Trejo a taste for it and he left his criminal life behind for good to gain a foothold in the film business. Since then he has played with some of Hollywood's most famous greats. His scarred face, mustache and tattoos have become his trademark. His work as an actor includes more than 350 film and television productions, including mostly B-movies .

Danny Trejo is married and has three children. He is a cousin of the director Robert Rodriguez , who also regularly uses him as an actor in his films. For Rodriguez, Trejo played the Machete Cortez in all four Spy-Kids films as well as in the films Machete and Machete Kills that resulted from the character . He had his first leading role in Machete .

Filmography (selection)

films and series

Music videos

Danny Trejo training on Muscle Beach in Los Angeles
  • 1993: Prince Ital Joe Feat. Marky Mark: Happy People
  • 1995: Toto: I will remember
  • 2007: Mobb Deep & Lil Jon: Real Gangstaz
  • 2008: Rehab: Bartender Song
  • 2008: Jonas Brothers : Burnin 'Up
  • 2008: Tech N9ne : Like Yeah
  • 2013: Travis Barker feat. Yelawolf: Whistl Dixie
  • 2013: Dustin Tavella: Everybody Knows (Douchebag)
  • 2014: Train: Angel In Blue Jeans
  • 2015: Slayer: Repentless
  • 2016: Slayer: Pride in Prejudice
  • 2018: David Guetta & Sia: Flames

Other media

  • 1993: Ground Zero Texas (video game, voice)
  • 2002: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (video game, voice: Umberto Robina)
  • 2004: Def Jam: Fight for New York (video game)
  • 2006: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (computer game, voice: Umberto Robina)
  • 2010: Fallout: New Vegas (computer game, voice: Raul Tejada)
  • 2012: Danny Trejo's Vengeance: Woz with a Coz (video game, voice)
  • In the game Call of Duty: Black Ops Trejo appeared with the Escalation - DLC as a playable character in survival mode.
  • In The Fight: Lights Out game , he takes on the role of trainer during the tutorials.
  • In Hitman: Absolution , he plays Sanchez, a test subject who now has a colossal body.
  • 2019: Commercial for "Salitos"

German dubbing voices

Over the years, Trejo has been dubbed by several speakers for the German versions of his films . Most frequently in recent years Thomas Wolff and Jan Spitzer have been Trejo's German voice.

Web links

Commons : Danny Trejo  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film starts: Danny Trejo. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Danny Trejo on movies.yahoo.com (English) ( Memento from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Biography for Danny Trejo at imdb.com, accessed July 27, 2010
  4. ^ Escalation DLC ( memento from October 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on bestofgamers.com
  5. ^ Danny Trejo in the German dubbing index
  6. ↑ Thomas Wolff in the German dubbing index
  7. ↑ Jan Spitzer in the German synchronous file
personal data
SURNAME Trejo, Danny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trejo, Dan (maiden name); The Mayor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States