Sal Lopez started his acting career after landing a key role in the hit play Zoot Suit.  In the eighties Stanley Kubrick put out an open call around the world to cast his picture Full Metal Jacket after seeing hundreds of tapes Sal was picked to play the role of T.H.E. Rock.  Sal was cast as Edward James Olmos’s Dad in the landmark film American Me. Sal produced and starred in the independent film Luminarias, John Sayles saw that movie and cast Sal in his film Silver City.  Sal also co-produced the new film Cruising Moe.  Most recent films: Spiked, The Old Ways, Centurion X11, El Chicano, The Hyperions, The Devil Has A Name, Other films include Batman vs Superman, The Astronaut Farmer by The Polish Brothers, The End Of Violence directed by Vim Venders, Cold Heaven directed by Nicholas Roeg, Mr. Jones by Mike Figgis, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, American Son, The Banger Sisters, Fly Paper, Paparazzi, Selena, Price Of Glory, Born In East L.A., Return Of The Dead, El Padrino,  Zoot Suit, Sueño etc. Recent independents; Velvet Buzzsaw, Culture Shock, The Green Ghost, Monday Nights At 7, Time In Between, Water and Power, Cry Now, Road To Juarez, Evergreen Christmas, Go For Sisters.

Films for Television: Sal took on the role of  Ahumado in Larry McMurtry’s Comanche Moon the prequel to Lonesome Dove. River Of Rage, El Diablo, Missing Pieces, Hunter (Justice Files), Journey, The Fire Next Time, The Earth Did Not Swallow Him, Breaking Free, Night man, Jury Of One, Intruders (They are Among Us), The Glitter Dome, Sleeping With The Devil, The Rockford Files

Television: Too Old To Die Young, Chance, Westworld, Queen Of The South, My Dead EX, Lopez, Code Black, Switched At Birth, Agent X, The Bridge, Major Crimes, Last Man Standing, Castle, Entourage, Nip/Tuck, Life, CSI Miami, The Shield, ER, Life, 24, NYPD Blue, Touch By An Angel, Promised Land, Lyons Den, Melrose Place, Young And The Restless, Port Charles, Dangerous Minds, Tremors, Resurrection Blvd, American Family, Magnificent 7, Matlock, Wise guy,  Hillstreet Blues, and others.

Sal is a founding member of The Latino Theater Company work with the Company, His one man show: This Is A Man’s World, Premeditation, August 29th,  La Victima, Luminarias, Dementia, Solitude, Habitat, Wild In Wichita, Mexican Trilogy-Faith, Hope, Charity,  and the lead in La Virgen Dios Inantzin, performed every year at The Cathedral Of Our Lady Of The Angels. Other plays include, You Should Have Stayed Home You Morons for Radar L.A., Blade To The Heat, Bandito, Zootsuit, for the Mark Taper Forum, Selena (musical), at the Ricardo Montalban Theater, La Posada Magica, for Southcoast Rep,  A Midsummer Nights Dream, for East L.A. Classical Theater, Corridos Tales Of Passion And Revolution, La Virgen Del Tepeyac, for Teatro Campesino, and Lorca Child Of The Moon, Young Lady From Tacna, Wanted Experience Operators, for The Bilingual Foundation Of The Arts. Linda Ronstadt Canciones de Mi Padre Minskoff Theater on Broadway.

Video Games: Grand Theft Auto, L.A. Noir, Red Dead Redemption, Dark Void, Call Of Juarez: The Cartel, Grim Fandango