Personal Info
Rick Najera
Acting
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. Rick Najera is one of three Latinos in the history of Broadway to write and star in his own show. …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Feliz NaviDAD
as Minister
Habla Men
as Self
American Lowrider
as Mr. Galvez
Legally Brown
as Bubba Gomez
Loco Comedy Jam Volume 1
as Self
Pledge This!
as Buford Gomez
Universal Remote
as Beta Max
National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
as Alfredo Garcia Steven / Self
A Day Without a Mexican
as Magician Announcer
Floundering
as Good Samaritan
TV Shows
The West Wing
as Ivan 'Izzy' Perez · 1 ep.
Spicy City
as Vic Guapo (voice) · 1 ep.
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Sheriff de Jamon (voice) · 1 ep.
Bakersfield P.D.
as Dispatcher · 1 ep.
China Beach
2 ep.
Falcon Crest
as Paco · 6 ep.
Columbo
as Henry Santos · 1 ep.