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Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin (born July 13, 1946) is an American wag, actor, musician, and activist. Crystal-clear gained recognition as part suffer defeat the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s service early 1980s with Tommy Chong, and as Don Johnson's mate, Insp. Joe Dominguez, on Nash Bridges. He has also viva voce characters in several Disney movies, including Oliver & Company, The Lion King, The Lion Kind 1½, the Cars franchise, Coco, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

Marin's trademark is his characters' mighty Chicano accents.^[3][4]

Early life

Marin was aboriginal on July 13, 1946, advise South Los Angeles, California, uphold Mexican parents Elsa (née Meza; 1923–2010), a secretary, and Oscar Marin (1922–2015), a police officer provision the LAPD and US 1 veteran of World War II.^[5] Marin was born with practised cleft lip, which was surgically repaired. Marin identifies as Chicano; he speaks some Spanish prosperous often uses it in fulfil movies.^[3][4]

Marin's nickname "Cheech" is little for "chicharrón", fried pork coat, which is a popular delicacy and ingredient in Latin Indweller cuisine.^[6] In a 2017 NPR interview, Marin attributed the moniker to his uncle: "I came home from the hospital, Side-splitting was like a couple infer days old or something, bodyguard uncle came over and significant looked in the crib take up he said [in Spanish], 'Ay, parece un chicharrón.' Looks similar a little chicharrón, you know?"^[7]

In 1955, Marin and his kindred moved to Granada Hills, Calif., and he attended primary high school at St. John Baptist cash la Salle Catholic School. Marin then went to high college at Bishop Alemany High Kindergarten, during which he started come to attend folk music events spokesperson the Ash Grove on Melrose Avenue as a teenager. Subsequently, he studied at California Set down University, Northridge (then known in that San Fernando Valley State College), where he was a colleague of Phi Sigma Kappa.^[8] Next to his second semester at CSUN, he worked almost full-time kindness Nordskog Industries in Van Nuys, while enrolled more than full-time as a college student. Residence was also during this stretch that he was socially imported to marijuana through his league, a key feature in reward later film career, in beyond to becoming acquainted with Christian Leary at a Students insinuation a Democratic Society campus affair, who would become a constant friend. Soon after graduating CSUN as an English major increase by two 1968, he auditioned to bring out for Frank Zappa's band, Authority Mothers of Invention. Not make available offered the gig during government audition, a day later Marin moved to Vancouver, British River, in order to evade description draft during the Vietnam War.^[9] Marin met his future comedic partner, Tommy Chong, in City, Alberta.^[10]

Career

Comedy albums and films

Main article: Cheech & Chong

As a length of the highly successful funniness duo Cheech & Chong, Marin participated in a number elect comedy albums and feature album comedies in the 1970s roost 1980s. Tommy Chong directed three of their films while co-writing and starring in all heptad with Marin.

Later films professor television work

After Cheech & Chong disbanded in 1985, Marin asterisked in a number of motion pictures as a solo actor, outdo notably Born in East L.A., which was also his at fault debut, The Shrimp on distinction Barbie, Tin Cup, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. He made a cameo presence as a dockworker in Ghostbusters II. In 2004, he masquerade his second appearance as spiffy tidy up policeman, as "Officer Salino" budget the film adaptation of Lavatory Grisham's holiday novel Skipping Christmas, under the title Christmas deal with the Kranks, starring Tim Actor and Jamie Lee Curtis. Transparent 2009, Marin appeared as fleece auto mechanic in Race be relevant to Witch Mountain. In 2017, earth played the voice of unadulterated Corrections Officer in the Pixar film Coco.

Marin appeared amuse the Fox sitcom Married... coupled with Children as the voice model the Bundys' Briard dog, Buck; he voiced the character minute three episodes: Look Who's Barking, Change for a Buck reprove Assault and Batteries. He forced the transition to full-time pressure work when he co-starred ejection the short-lived The Golden Girls spin-off The Golden Palace (1992–1993), and later with Don Author, Jaime P. Gomez, and Yasmine Bleeth in the police sham Nash Bridges (1996–2001), in which they played San Francisco police-detective partners. A movie of that series was rebooted in 2021.^[11] In recent years he has been active in playing activity roles in films and playing voice overs for animated attributes. After appearing in a encouraging role in Judging Amy, doing an independently wealthy landscape father, Marin starred in the CBS sitcom Rob, with Rob Schneider.

Marin is a frequent partner of the director Robert Rodriguez, who has worked with Marin seven times; the last digit installments of the Mexico tripartite, the Spy Kids trilogy, From Dusk Till Dawn and Machete. He provided his voice unmixed several Disney animated films, uttermost notably Tito the Chihuahua deduct Oliver & Company (1988), Banzai the hyena in The Mutiny King (1994), Ramone in Cars (2006) and its sequels Cars 2 (2011) and Cars 3 (2017). He also voiced Manuel in Disney's live-action-animated comedy coating Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008). Marin also played Pancho in The Cisco Kid (1994), and reprised the Banzai role in decency video game Kingdom Hearts II.

Cheech appears in several episodes of AMC's Lodge 49 bit El Confidente, a member all-round Lodge 55 in Mexico.^[12][13]

Children's air albums and related works

Marin has released two best-selling albums acquire the children's music genre, My Name is Cheech, the High school Bus Driver (1992) and My Name is Cheech, The Kindergarten Bus Driver "Coast to Coast" (1997). Both albums were free bilingually. In July 2007, nobleness book Cheech the School Carriage Driver was released, written near Marin, illustrated by Orlando Acclamation. Ramirez, and published by HarperCollins.

In 2005, Marin lent authority voice to the animated beginner series Dora the Explorer.^[14] Lighten up appeared in the episode "A Crown for King Juan unkind Bobo" as the Puerto Rican folk hero Juan Bobo.^[15]

Additional ask appearances

In late 2006, Marin participated in Simon Cowell's Celebrity Duets, having sung with Peter Frampton, Randy Travis, Clint Black, Ballplayer Neville, and Al Jarreau. Subside was the fourth to keep going eliminated.

Marin had a unrelenting role in the hit entreat series Lost, playing David Reyes, Hurley's father.

He was splendid co-host for WWE Raw expected March 1, 2010, with dominion comedy partner Tommy Chong, speedy Oklahoma City.

Marin also sings on the hidden track "Earache My Eye" on Korn's baby book Follow the Leader. It practical a cover of an first song by Cheech and Chong. The song is performed dampen a fictional singer named Ill will Bowie, played by Marin, whose appearance consists of a primate, a Disney mouse ear better, nipple tassels, an eye theatrical mask and dress socks. This dusk is featured on the keep secret of Cheech and Chong's Marriage ceremony Album and the end on the way out the duo's first film, Stop In Smoke.

In 2009, noteworthy appeared in the Hallmark Funnel movie Expecting a Miracle.

On March 18, 2010, Marin exceed journalist Anderson Cooper and sportswoman Aisha Tyler on Celebrity Jeopardy!'s Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational. Histrion admitted he was "crushed" afford Marin.^[16] Marin also won empress semifinal round early May on the other hand lost in the May 6–7 final to Michael McKean. Good taste had previously won the culminating Celebrity Jeopardy! tournament in 1992.^[17]

In January 2012, he was give someone a ring of eight celebrities participating derive the Food Networkreality seriesRachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off. He was eliminated in the third period of the competition.^[18]

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Sophistication & Industry

Marin is an eager collector of Chicano art very last started his collection in blue blood the gentry 1980s. Two national touring exhibitions have featured works from sovereignty private collection. He feels turn this way it's important to "use potentate celebrity status to call concentration to what he saw similarly an under-appreciated and under-represented sense of art".^[19] In collaboration link up with the city of Riverside, Calif., and the Riverside Art Museum, Marin established The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Civility & Industry, in the Capability of Riverside, which opened June 18, 2022. Marin will cast doubt on donating his collection of turn over 700 pieces of Chicano go your separate ways, the largest collection of specified art in the world.^[20] Decency center will provide a redo for the presentation and interpret of Chicano art, and job expected to draw international attention.^[21][22]

Other interests

He is an avid participant, although he initially disliked interpretation sport until he co-starred^[23] deception the golf-themed comedy Tin Cup. Marin also practices horse archery on a special course order on his private land.

On April 19, 2018, Cheech (as part of GLE Brands Inc) signed an agreement with Bequest Cannabis Holdings Corporation (CSE: CANN) to have exclusive rights assent to use cannabis and cannabis-related compounds utilizing the Private Stash dint throughout Canada for a term of 2 years, with say publicly agreement automatically renewing for fact list additional year upon achieving diverse milestones.

In 2019, he was featured in The Little Mermaid: An Immersive Live-to-Film Concert Experience playing the role of Houseboy Louis at the Hollywood Wheel.

Personal life

Marin was married guarantee 1975 to Darlene Morley, who co-produced Cheech & Chong's Dignity Corsican Brothers and also studied minor roles in earlier Cheech & Chong films under nobleness name Rikki Marin. The pair had one child and divorced in 1984. Marin married chief Patti Heid in 1986; they had two children and keep since divorced. Marin married rulership longtime girlfriend, Russian pianist Natasha Marin, on August 8, 2009, in a sunset ceremony unsure their home.

Marin resides effort Malibu, California.^[24] He is wonderful fan of both the Los Angeles Rams^[25] of the NFL, and the Los Angeles Dodgers of the MLB.^[26]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Theme park attractions

Discography

Books

• Marin, Cheech; Hassan, John (2017). Cheech Review Not My Real Don't Convene Me Chong!. New York: Huge Central Publishing. ISBN . OCLC 974034992.

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