Cheech Marin - biography

“We did six records, then six movies.  Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!”

“You go to the movies for four reasons.  To laugh, cry, get scared, get a hard-on.  If you can do all four - hey, it’s the ultimate pizza combo, man!”

“I was a wise-ass at school.  Pretty much equal parts - wise and ass.”

“How did I meet Chong?  I put an ad in the paper: ‘Learn the joys of rubber clothing.  Negroes and excessively hairy men need not apply.’ And suddenly he was there.  Like a movie.  Like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”

“I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.”

“Our first gig was a battle of the bands.  We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!”

“The reason we’re so dangerous is because we’re totally harmless.”

Cheech Marin has appeared in the following films:
Up in Smoke (1978)
Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie (1980)
Nice Dreams (1981)
Yellowbeard (1983)
Still Smokin (1983)
Cannonball Run II (1984)
Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers (1984)
After Hours (1985)
Echo Park (1986)
Born in East L.A. (1987)
Oliver & Company (1988)
Rude Awakening (1989)
The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990)
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
The Lion King (1994)
Charlie’s Ghost Story (1995)
Desperado (1995)
The Magic of the Golden Bear: Goldy III (1995)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Tin Cup (1996)
The Great White Hype (1996)
It’s Tough to Be a Bug (1998)
Paulie (1998)
The Venice Project (1999)
Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
Luminarias (2000)
Spy Kids (2001)
Pinocchio (2002)
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
Underclassman (2005)
Cars (2006)
Grindhouse (2007)
Planet Terror (2007)
Uncle P (2007)
The Perfect Game (2009)
Machete (2010)
Pure Country 2: The Gift (2010)
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011)


Cheech Marin contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Up in Smoke (1978)
Nice Dreams (1981)
Things Are Tough All Over (1982)
Still Smokin (1983)
Born in East L.A. (1987)


Cheech Marin directed the following films:
Born in East L.A. (1987)