Rick Najera
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
California born Rick Najera started his artistic career as an actor. He is an award-winning actor-writer-director-producer with credits in film, television, theatre and Broadway. Early in his career, he was inspired and mentored by Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg, Keenen Ivory Wayans and comedian Cheech Marin. Realizing there were few roles for him to play, he took matters into his own hands and started writing his way into Hollywood, and landed his first big writing gig on In Living Color...
Known For
Columbo
Henry Santos
The West Wing
Ivan 'Izzy' Perez
Falcon Crest
Paco
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Pig Farmer (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Prince Pepito / Thug #1 (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Sheriff de Jamon (voice)
China Beach
Bakersfield P.D.
Dispatcher
Filmography
Feliz NaviDAD
2020
as Minister
Habla Men
2014
as Self
American Lowrider
2013
as Mr. Galvez
Legally Brown
2011
as Bubba Gomez
Loco Comedy Jam Volume 1
2008
as Self
Universal Remote
2007
as Beta Max
Pledge This!
2007
as Buford Gomez
National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
2006
as Alfredo Garcia Steven / Self
A Day Without a Mexican
2004
as Magician Announcer
The West Wing
1999
as Ivan 'Izzy' Perez
Spicy City
1997
as Vic Guapo (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as The Pig Farmer (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Prince Pepito / Thug #1 (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Sheriff de Jamon (voice)
Floundering
1994
as Good Samaritan
Bakersfield P.D.
1993
as Dispatcher
Red Surf
1989
as Calavera
China Beach
1988
Falcon Crest
1981
as Paco
Columbo
1971
as Henry Santos