Cheech Marin

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Acting credits
			Role
2010	Machete	Movie		64
2009	Race to Witch Mountain	Movie	Eddie	63
2008	Beverly Hills Chihuahua	Movie		62
2003	Once Upon a Time in Mexico	Movie		57
2003	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	Movie		57
2002	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Movie		56
2001	Spy Kids	Movie		55
1998	Paulie	Movie		52
1996	From Dusk till Dawn	Movie		50
1995	Desperado	Movie		49
1989	Ghostbusters II	Movie		43
1985	After Hours	Movie		39

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Right when I was born. I was born and my uncle looked in the crib and I was this curled-up little baby and he says, "Oh, he looks like a little chicharron." The chicharron is a deep-fried pig skin, you know? And I looked like this little curlycue, like a curly fry. And he said, "Oh, he looks like a little chicharron." So that became my family name, Chicharron. And that got shortened to Cheech…
Cheech Marin, CC BY-SA 4.0
It is very much like Chicano art..It is sophisticated and primitive simultaneously. The scenes would play out and ... the comedy would be absorbed rather than having it jammed down [your throat].
Cheech Marin, CC BY-SA 4.0
It is a very physically and mentally torturous process. It goes 18-20 hours a day, and if you’re stoned during that whole period, you’re not going to make a good movie, because you just won’t have the stamina to physically and mentally do that. And it’s every day. So we didn’t get stoned making the record, never stoned on stage. But we were very disciplined artists about what we were doing. It didn’t magically happen. Well, it did magically happen, but not without effort.
Cheech Marin, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Personal details

Nationalities: United States
Languages: English
Years active: 1971–
Education: Bishop Alemany High School, California State University, Northridge, San Fernando High School