Thomas Rosales Jr. was born on February 3, 1948 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He is known for his work on Speed (1994), Running Scared (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007). He is married to Joyce Johnston. They have two children. He was previously married to Charlene Jones.
Thomas Rosales Jr.
Movies
Speed
When a young Los Angeles police department, Special Weapons and Tactics (S.W.A.T.) officer called Jack Traven angers retired Atlanta police department bomb squad member Howard Payne, by foiling his attempt at taking hostages stuck in an elevator with a bomb, Payne in retaliation arms a bus with a bomb that…
Traffic
An intertwined drama about the United States’ war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his heroin-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin’s wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss’s motives.
Commando
A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst…
Fun Facts
The actor / stuntman has appeared in countless action films. He is usualy a thug, a prisoner or plays a character that gets killed off.
Also played a regular on Happy Days (1974) as a dancing teenager in Arnold's Drive-In, especially in the first season.
Has made six movies with Sven-Ole Thorsen (Raw Deal (1986), The Running Man (1987), Nowhere to Run (1993), Last Action Hero (1993), A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994), and Foolish (1999)).
He was the stunt double for Marco Lopez on the long-running medical drama Emergency! (1972). He also was a stand-in for Tim Donnelly on the show.
Has been in five films with Arnold Schwarzenegger: Commando (1985), Raw Deal (1986), The Running Man (1987), Kindergarten Cop (1990) and Last Action Hero (1993).
The only other actor besides Charlton Heston to have appeared in one of the original Ape films and the updated Tim Burton one. Heston was in the original "Planet of the Apes"" and Rosales was in ""Battle for the Planet of the Apes"" (as a uncredited stuntman) and the new ""Planet of the Apes"" (also as a stuntman) and in ""Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"" as a character billed