Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor. He portrayed Gaff in Blade Runner, Blade Runner Black Out 2022 and Blade Runner 2049. He was born in East Los Angeles, California to a Southern Baptist Mexican immigrant with 1/4 Hungarian Jewish ancestry (the family name was...

He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in Miami Vice (1984–1989), American Me (1992) (which he also directed), William Adama in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982) and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the voice of Mito in the 2005 English dub of ...

Apr 6, 2021 · Blade Runner star Edward James Olmos says he ad-libbed the movie's most iconic line and was surprised Ridley Scott didn't end up cutting it. Olmos starred in the cult classic 1982 sci-fi movie as Gaff, a fellow Blade Runner in the same …

Edward James Olmos. Actor: Battlestar Galactica. Born February 24, 1947, in East Los Angeles, at The First Japanese Hospital to Pedro Olmos and Eleanor Huizar. Raised on Cheesebrough's Lane, he attended Greenwood Elementary and Montebello Junior High. He then graduated from Montebello High School in 1964.

Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. [7] [8] Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, it is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Mar 14, 2017 · Edward James Olmos confirmed in a new interview that he will return as Gaff from the original sci-fi classic in Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049.

Jun 25, 1982 · Blade Runner: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos. A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Dec 21, 2024 · Olmos next appeared in the television tearjerker 300 Miles for Stephanie (1981) with pop singer Tony Orlando, the thriller film Wolfen (1981) with Albert Finney, and Ridley Scott’s acclaimed futuristic neo-noir Blade Runner (1982) as Detective Gaff.

Katherine Haber suggested Edward James Olmos for the role. Olmos wore blue contact lenses for the role, created by Dr. Morton Greenspoon . Ridley Scott allowed Olmos to create a background story for Gaff, deciding that the character was primarily of Mexican-Japanese heritage, with his American lineage going back at least five generations. [10]

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