Hector Elizondo Movies

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Hector Elizondo (1936-) is an American character actor.  Elizondo’s acting career has spanned 7 decades.  He appeared in many Garry Marshall movies.  His IMDb page shows over 155 acting credits since 1963. This page will rank Hector Elizondo movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition.

1990’s Pretty Woman

Hector Elizondo Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

THE PRINCESS DIARIES, Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, 2001

Hector Elizondo Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Hector Elizondo movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Hector Elizondo movie won.
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Hector Elizondo appeared in 17 Garry Marshall movies.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Hector Elizondo

1. Hector Elizondo was born in New York in 1936.  His parents were Puerto Ricans of Spanish descent.  They moved from Puerto Rico to New York City before Hector was born.

2. Hector Elizondo’s first major success came on the stage when he played “God” in the guise of a Puerto Rican steam room attendant in 1970’s Steambath, for which he won an Obie® Award for his performance. 

3. Hector Elizondo was considered by director/producer Garry Marshall to be his “good luck charm”, and as such is offered a role in each of his movies. Appears in so many Garry Marshall films that his credit in the beginning of Exit to Eden (1994) was “As Usual… Hector Elizondo”.  Elizondo appeared in 17 Garry Marshall movies.

4. Hector Elizondo’s role in 1990’s Pretty Woman is only 10 minutes long, but it earned him a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Supporting Actor.  Elizondo got his Pretty Woman role after Al Pacino turned the role down.

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9 thoughts on “Hector Elizondo Movies”

  1. I was surprised when Interesting Fact 4 above informed me that Pacino turned down Hector’s Pretty Woman part. It was a plumb showy role but a small one and the Heirs to Brando are not supposed to do support when still in their heyday unless in prestigious ensemble cameo and Al had just behind him the 1989 hit Sea of Love and just ahead of him was his 1992 Oscar-winning Scent of a Woman and the now-classic 1995 Heat with De Niro.

    However Al turning down the PW role was undoubtedly great fortune for Hec as his main claim to fame is probably Pretty Woman and while I liked him in that I became the most familiar with his work via my trips to the video library in the 1990s.

    The films that appeared there featuring him were often straight-to-video releases or TV movies that were later packaged for the video libraries and which therefore do not appear in Bruce’s charts.

    Examples of the kind of material I am talking about are 1995’s Perfect Alibi co-starring Teri Garr about which one reviewer said “It is so bad that it must have been made for a dollar”; and 1992’s The Burden of Proof a TV mini-series co-starring Brian Dennehy.

    In the 1990s Dennehy and Rutger Hauer were nicknamed The Video Library Kings; and of course Hauer, Dennehy and Teri Garr all have their own Cogerson pages so it is good to see them now joined by worthy-recipient Hector.

    I last saw Hec over the recent 12 months or so in TV reruns of (1) a 1975 episode of Columbo called A Case if Immunity where he was the guest villain. As always his acting was very clever (2) a 1997 Christmas TV movie called Borrowed Hearts co-starring Eric McCormack. Hec deliciously played a do-gooder business tycoon and at the end we are left with the impression that he might be Santa posing as an ‘ordinary’ guy.

    “Voted Up!” as seeing this Cogerson profile of Hector and recalling also Brian Dennehy and Rutger Hauer reminds me nostalgically of my happy Video Library Days in the early 90s when I loved to watch my videos with a bottle of wine. I don’t drink any more and over here at least the video libraries are all gone – what the English novelist Sir Philip Gibbs called “The Spoils of Time”.

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  3. I have seen 5 Hector Elizondo movies.

    The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Pretty Woman.

    The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Lego Batman Movie.

    The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is The Landlord.

    Favourite Hector Elizondo Movies:

    Pretty Woman
    The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three

    Other Hector Elizondo Movies I Have Seen:

    Beaches
    Overboard
    The Landlord

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    1. Hey Flora. Thanks for checking out our Hector E. page. Tally counts: Cogerson 24, Steve 11 and you at 5. I have only seen 3 of the 5 you have seen. Pretty Women is one of WoC’s favorite movies. I have not seen The Landlord or Beaches….somehow I have managed to avoid Beaches all these years….but seeing that it is not in your favorites…maybe I am not missing anything. I would recommend Nothing In Common…..it has a good performance by Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason and Eve Marie Saint shine as his parents. As always good stuff.

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  4. I’ve seen 11 of the 52 films on the chart. Favorites are – Pretty Woman, Taking of Pelham 123, The Book of Life, LEGO Batman Movie, Beverly Hills Cop III, Leviathan and Young Doctors in Love.

    Score wise Pretty Woman did better from my sources than it did here Bruce. It would probably have been no.3 on my Elizondo chart, if I had one. 🙂

    Good stuff. Vote Up!

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    1. Hey Steve…..thanks for checking out our Hector Elizondo page. I recently saw Tortilla Soup and thought he should have a page. Tally counts: Cogerson 24, you at 11 and Flora with 5. I have seen all of your favorites with the exception of Leviathan. Young Doctors In Love was a pretty funny movie, though I have not seen it in decades. Pretty Woman is one of WoC’s Top 5 movies. I liked The Book of Life…a movie that seems to have influenced Coco. As for Pretty Woman….I went back and looked at my review score and checked the sources again….it moved from a 62% to a 68%. I realized it had been 10 years since I had checked out those sources. Have we really been talking movies on the internet for over ten years? Nothing In Common would be the movie I would recommend watching…..granted it does star Tom Hanks so maybe it was in the “not favorites” from your tally count. Good stuff as always.

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  5. Hector Elizondo is no longer on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. He was # 416 back in 2005 in the IMDB days. These are the actors on the 2020 list he has appeared with (quite a few for someone not on).

    7 ROBERT DE NIRO Born to Win (1971)
    13 SEAN CONNERY Cuba (1979)
    39 RODDY MCDOWELL Overboard (1987)
    47 JOHN RHYS-DAVIES The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
    48 JOHNNY DEPP Private Resort (1985)
    50 ALAN ARKIN Deadhead Miles (1972)
    53 JOHN SAXON Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
    57 HARRY DEAN STANTON Young Doctors in Love (1982)
    62 CARY ELWES Georgia Rule (2007)
    63 HELEN MIRREN Raising Helen (2004)
    72 RON PERLMAN THE BOOK OF LIFE (2014)
    79 BRUCE MCGILL Perfect Alibi (1995)
    89 DANNY TREJO THE BOOK OF LIFE (2014)
    106 SHIRLEY MACLAINE Valentine’s Day (2010)
    125 LIEV SCHREIBER Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
    127 DENHOLM ELLIOTT Cuba (1979)
    131 BURT LANCASTER Valdez Is Coming (1971)
    137 LAUREN BACALL The Fan (1981)
    148 MICHELLE PFEIFFER Frankie and Johnny (1991)
    160 JULIA ROBERTS MOTHER’S DAY (2016)
    160 JULIA ROBERTS Pretty Woman (1990)
    160 JULIA ROBERTS Runaway Bride (1999)
    160 JULIA ROBERTS Valentine’s Day (2010)
    161 ROBERT LOGGIA Necessary Roughness (1991)
    162 JOHN TURTURRO Being Human (1994)
    162 JOHN TURTURRO The Flamingo Kid (1984)
    163 CLINT HOWARD Music Within (2007)
    165 JACQUELINE BISSET Stand Up and Be Counted (1972)
    166 TOM HANKS Nothing in Common (1986)
    175 GEORGE SEGAL Born to Win (1971)
    177 KATHY BATES Valentine’s Day (2010)
    194 CHARLES DURNING Deadhead Miles (1972)
    200 MARTIN BALSAM Cuba (1979)
    200 MARTIN BALSAM The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
    208 ROBIN WILLIAMS Being Human (1994)
    209 ROSANNA ARQUETTE I-See-You.Com (2006)
    224 PAUL NEWMAN Pocket Money (1972)
    227 BILL NIGHY Being Human (1994)
    229 KURT RUSSELL Overboard (1987)
    236 PAUL SORVINO Backstreet Justice (1994)
    239 BEAU BRIDGES I-See-You.Com (2006)
    239 BEAU BRIDGES The Landlord (1970)
    241 GEOFFREY LEWIS The Fat Black Pussycat (1963)
    242 DAN AYKROYD Exit to Eden (1994)
    243 LESLIE NIELSEN Music Within (2007)
    253 RANCE HOWARD Georgia Rule (2007)
    253 RANCE HOWARD Valentine’s Day (2010)
    260 STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY Frankie and Johnny Are Married (2003)
    280 AUSTIN PENDLETON Diary of the Dead (1976)
    281 VINCENT D’ONOFRIO Being Human (1994)
    284 WALTER GOTELL Cuba (1979)
    285 BOB BALABAN Report to the Commissioner (1975)
    291 EDWARD HERRMANN Overboard (1987)
    292 PHILIP BAKER HALL Nothing in Common (1986)
    296 JAMES GARNER The Fan (1981)
    297 RICHARD GERE American Gigolo (1980)
    297 RICHARD GERE Pretty Woman (1990)
    297 RICHARD GERE Report to the Commissioner (1975)
    297 RICHARD GERE Runaway Bride (1999)
    302 JULIETTE LEWIS The Other Sister (1999)
    304 JOHN HEARD Beaches (1988)
    308 ED BEGLEY JR. Young Doctors in Love (1982)
    309 JOHN LEGUIZAMO Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
    320 RAY LIOTTA Turbulence (1997)
    324 WILLIAM H. MACY Being Human (1994)
    347 THOMAS KRETSCHMANN The Celestine Prophecy (2006)
    357 BURT YOUNG Born to Win (1971)
    365 ROSARIO DAWSON THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (2017)
    374 PATRICK STEWART Safe House (1998)
    375 JOHN TRAVOLTA Chains of Gold (1991)
    386 PAUL GUILFOYLE (II) Entropy (1999/I)
    388 DEMI MOORE Young Doctors in Love (1982)
    392 KAREN BLACK Born to Win (1971)
    410 JEFF DANIELS There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)
    414 JOE MANTEGNA Valentine’s Day (2010)
    424 TOM SKERRITT The Other Sister (1999)
    427 SAUL RUBINEK Getting Even with Dad (1994)
    427 SAUL RUBINEK Young Doctors in Love (1982)
    430 AL PACINO Frankie and Johnny (1991)
    436 BARBARA HERSHEY Beaches (1988)
    441 TERI GARR Perfect Alibi (1995)
    447 TRACEY WALTER How High (2001)
    448 HARRIS YULIN There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)
    449 MICHAEL MCKEAN Young Doctors in Love (1982)
    463 JURGEN PROCHNOW The Celestine Prophecy (2006)
    471 MATT DILLON The Flamingo Kid (1984)
    491 LARRY MILLER Dear God (1996)
    491 LARRY MILLER MOTHER’S DAY (2016)
    491 LARRY MILLER Necessary Roughness (1991)
    491 LARRY MILLER Pretty Woman (1990)
    491 LARRY MILLER Raising Helen (2004)
    491 LARRY MILLER Runaway Bride (1999)
    491 LARRY MILLER The Princess Diaries (2001)
    491 LARRY MILLER The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
    491 LARRY MILLER Valentine’s Day (2010)
    492 JANE FONDA Georgia Rule (2007)
    496 VIVECA LINDFORS Backstreet Justice (1994)
    501 RALPH BELLAMY Pretty Woman (1990)
    508 STEPHEN DORFF Entropy (1999/I)
    520 BEN CROSS TURBULENCE (1997)
    525 RAQUEL WELCH Tortilla Soup (2001)
    536 JASON ALEXANDER PRETTY WOMAN (1990)
    538 HANK AZARIA PRETTY WOMAN (1990)
    540 EWAN MCGREGOR Being Human (1994)
    543 CHEECH MARIN THE BOOK OF LIFE (2014)
    560 RALPH FIENNES THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (2017)
    598 DERMOT MULRONEY GEORGIA RULE (2007)
    598 DERMOT MULRONEY SAMANTHA (1992)
    599 BRENDAN GLEESON TURBULENCE (1997)
    602 MARISA TOMEI The Flamingo Kid (1984)
    613 DABNEY COLEMAN There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)
    613 DABNEY COLEMAN Young Doctors in Love (1982)
    614 ROB SCHNEIDER Necessary Roughness (1991)
    622 CHAZZ PALMINTERI THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD (1992)
    631 DIANE KEATON The Other Sister (1999)
    636 MICHAEL BIEHN The Fan (1981)
    648 RICHARD JORDAN Valdez Is Coming (1971)
    660 LEE MARVIN Pocket Money (1972)
    664 JAVIER BARDEM LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (2007)
    668 JOAN CUSACK RAISING HELEN (2004)
    668 JOAN CUSACK RUNAWAY BRIDE (1999)
    683 ALLEN GARFIELD Deadhead Miles (1972)
    686 ROSCOE LEE BROWNE Dear God (1996)
    687 STEPHEN MCHATTIE BEVERLY HILLS COP III (1994)
    693 SETH GREEN THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (2017)
    702 PAUL DOOLEY Runaway Bride (1999)
    706 JEREMY PIVEN There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)
    708 ERNIE HUDSON Leviathan (1989)
    719 WALTER MATTHAU The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
    729 MATT CLARK Pocket Money (1972)
    743 WILLIAM MORGAN SHEPPARD There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)
    749 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Stand Up and Be Counted (1972)
    757 RICHARD CRENNA Leviathan (1989)
    757 RICHARD CRENNA The Flamingo Kid (1984)
    785 JEFFREY JONES How High (2001)
    796 KATE HUDSON MOTHER’S DAY (2016)
    796 KATE HUDSON MUSIC (2021)
    796 KATE HUDSON RAISING HELEN (2004)
    801 RICHARD KIND Nothing in Common (1986)
    803 PETER WELLER Leviathan (1989)
    809 SEAN YOUNG Young Doctors in Love (1982)
    832 GRIFFIN DUNNE THE FAN (1981)
    835 BILL COBBS The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
    849 JOAQUIM DE ALMEIDA The Celestine Prophecy (2006)
    868 STUART WILSON EXIT TO EDEN (1994)
    870 RENE AUBERJONOIS The Princess Diaries (2001)
    878 RICHARD PORTNOW There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)
    880 KATE NELLIGAN FRANKIE AND JOHNNY (1991)
    889 BRADLEY COOPER Valentine’s Day (2010)
    897 PATRICK MACNEE Young Doctors in Love (1982)
    899 JAMIE FOXX Valentine’s Day (2010)
    902 KENNETH WELSH FRANKIE AND JOHNNY ARE MARRIED (2003)
    903 JERRY STILLER THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974)
    921 KATHLEEN QUINLAN Perfect Alibi (1995)
    922 THERESA RUSSELL Being Human (1994)
    928 YAPHET KOTTO Report to the Commissioner (1975)
    935 DALE DYE Music Within (2007)
    945 MANDY PATINKIN Frankie and Johnny Are Married (2003)
    951 KEVIN MCCARTHY Final Approach (1991)
    953 EDDIE IZZARD THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (2017)
    954 DORIS ROBERTS I-SEE-YOU.COM (2006)
    954 DORIS ROBERTS THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974)
    956 LEE GRANT The Landlord (1970)
    960 KATHY BAKER FRANKIE AND JOHNNY ARE MARRIED (2003)
    962 NATHAN LANE FRANKIE AND JOHNNY (1991)
    987 MARY KAY PLACE SAMANTHA (1992)
    988 BARRY CORBIN NOTHING IN COMMON (1986)
    999 DONAL LOGUE Dear God (1996)
    999 DONAL LOGUE Runaway Bride (1999)
    1000 FRED WILLARD HOW HIGH (2001)

    Hector has appeared with 29 Oscar winners.

    AL PACINO Frankie and Johnny (1991)
    ALAN ARKIN Deadhead Miles (1972)
    ANNE HATHAWAY The Princess Diaries (2001)
    ANNE HATHAWAY The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
    ANNE HATHAWAY Valentine’s Day (2010)
    BURT LANCASTER Valdez Is Coming (1971)
    DIANE KEATON The Other Sister (1999)
    EVA MARIE SAINT Nothing in Common (1986)
    GOLDIE HAWN Overboard (1987)
    HELEN MIRREN Raising Helen (2004)
    JAMIE FOXX Valentine’s Day (2010)
    JANE FONDA Georgia Rule (2007)
    JAVIER BARDEM LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (2007)
    JULIA ROBERTS MOTHER’S DAY (2016)
    JULIA ROBERTS Pretty Woman (1990)
    JULIA ROBERTS Runaway Bride (1999)
    JULIA ROBERTS Valentine’s Day (2010)
    JULIE ANDREWS The Princess Diaries (2001)
    JULIE ANDREWS The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
    KATE HUDSON MOTHER’S DAY (2016)
    KATE HUDSON MUSIC (2021)
    KATE HUDSON RAISING HELEN (2004)
    KATHY BATES Valentine’s Day (2010)
    LEE GRANT The Landlord (1970)
    LEE MARVIN Pocket Money (1972)
    LOUIS GOSSETT JR. The Landlord (1970)
    MARISA TOMEI The Flamingo Kid (1984)
    MARTIN BALSAM Cuba (1979)
    MARTIN BALSAM The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
    MAUREEN STAPLETON The Fan (1981)
    MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE THIEVES (1977)
    PAUL NEWMAN Pocket Money (1972)
    ROBERT DE NIRO Born to Win (1971)
    ROBIN WILLIAMS Being Human (1994)
    SEAN CONNERY Cuba (1979)
    SHIRLEY MACLAINE Valentine’s Day (2010)
    TOM HANKS Nothing in Common (1986)
    WALTER MATTHAU The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

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    1. Hey Dan. Good job on these two lists….both are pretty impressive. So Hector was a member of the Oracle list, but now is nowhere to be found. I guess the change in reporting and an entire decade on a television show hurt that ranking a lot. That show was the Tim Allen comedy, Last Man Standing. First list is pretty long. Larry Miller, another Garry Marshall favorite is easily the most frequent Oracle co-star. FYI. Apparently Miller is best friends with Gary Seinfeld. I found it interesting that Richard Gere and Julia Roberts have 4 movies with Hector…but two are the same movie. 29 Oscar winning co-stars is a little less than average for somebody that has been working for so long. Interesting that he has not crossed paths with Sir Michael. Good information as always.

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