Martha Velez

Acting

Martha Velez

Born 1945-08-25 · New York City, New York, USA

Martha Velez is an American singer and actress of Puerto Rican descent. She released a string of albums during the 1960s and 1970s, collaborating with artists like Eric Clapton and Bob Marley. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Velez appeared in several American TV shows and films.

Acting credits

One Eight Seven poster
6.7

When a Brooklyn high school student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, Garfield feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but the same student stabs Trevor soon after. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as his old one—including three Indigenous Latino American males and one European-American male claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.

One Eight Seven

1997

Father Hood poster
5.8

Deadbeat dad kidnaps his kids from the bus to an abusive foster home and they go on a run. The cops are after them, they bicker constantly and his idea of a way out is grim, yet this dangerous ride might just turn them into a family.

Father Hood

1993

Safe poster
6.9

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Safe

1995

Star Maps poster
5.5

Carlos wants to be an actor. But his father, Pepe, wants him to work in the family business, that is, male prostitution. Carlos decides that he will be one of his father's boys until he can get his foot in the door in Hollywood.

Star Maps

1997

Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs poster
5.0

A made-for-TV propaganda short created during the height of 'the war on drugs' to expose drug usage amongst teenagers. Only two men who are aware of such a dire situation, Burt Reynolds and Judd Nelson, can lay their insight on the epidemic that's preying upon the youth of America.

Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs

1986

Side Out poster
5.3

A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.

Side Out

1990

Live! From Death Row poster
6.7

Convicted killer Laurence Dvorak grants an exclusive last interview to TV newswoman Alana Powers shortly before his scheduled execution. Urbane and unrepentant, he seems almost mild at first. But Dvorak's real intention is revealed when he takes Powers, her crew and two guards hostage, and demands that the television network broadcast an execution - live.

Live! From Death Row

1992

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp poster
6.0

Based on the story "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp", directed by Tim Burton and starring Robert Carradine.

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

1986

Nails poster
4.9

The wife of a wild Los Angeles police detective becomes a hostage of the heroin ring he and his partner have exposed.

Nails

1992