Tito Larriva

Tito Larriva

Birth : 1953-01-01, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

History

Humberto "Tito" Larriva is a Mexican/American song writer, singer, musician, and actor. Larriva was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, and El Paso, Texas. As a child he played the violin in the school orchestra and sang in the church and school choirs where he met his wife Janet Carroll. In 1972 Larriva snuck into Yale University for a full term without being noticed. After being kicked out of the Ivy League university, he moved to Mexico City and in 1975 moved to Los Angeles, California. He now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and daughter and continues to work in the music and film industries.

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Tito Larriva

Movies

Machete
Culebra Cruzado
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
Tito & Tarantula: Live At The Continental Club
Writer
Tito & Tarantula: Live At The Continental Club
Tito & Tarantula: Live at Crossroads - Rockpalast 2008
Writer
Crossroads - Bonn, Harmonie - 24. October 2008 Tito Larriva: vocals, guitar Steven Hufsteter: guitar, backing vocals Caroline "Lucy Laloca" Rippy: bass, backing vocals Alfredo Ortis: drums, backing vocals
Tito & Tarantula: Live at Crossroads - Rockpalast 2008
Crossroads - Bonn, Harmonie - 24. October 2008 Tito Larriva: vocals, guitar Steven Hufsteter: guitar, backing vocals Caroline "Lucy Laloca" Rippy: bass, backing vocals Alfredo Ortis: drums, backing vocals
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Cab Driver
Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
The Million Dollar Hotel
Jesu
The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
Just a Little Harmless Sex
Chuey
A young married couple faces a serious break-up when the husband is caught committing adultery with a prostitute.
Trojan War
Tattoo Man
Brad is about to hook up with the girl of his dreams, but runs into a problem, no condom. So Brad sets out into the night to find one, running into many obstacles along the way, while not knowing his best friend, Leah is in love with him.
She's So Lovely
Lead Singer
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his incarceration.
Dream with the Fishes
Music
A suicidal man who can't kill himself agrees to finance his terminally ill neighbor's bucket list of fantasies if, at the end, the neighbor will kill him.
Scorpion Spring
Bartender
On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...
From Dusk Till Dawn
Titty Twister Guitarist & Vocalist
Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive 'from dusk till dawn' at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a Hell of a strip joint.
Desperado
Tavo
Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his best friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, the Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves a trail of blood of his own.
Boys on the Side
Indigo Girls' Band
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.
Somebody to Love
Tito
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.
Ring of the Musketeers
Club Owner
Modern day "Musketeers" attempt to become protectors of the inocent. While the biking trio rescue kindnapped children, guard witnesses, and chase mafia types, they also seek the missing fourth musketeer, who wears the famous musketeers' ring.
Eyes of an Angel
Cissy
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a courier for, father and daughter leave the dog and flee cross-country to Los Angeles with both canine and mobsters in pursuit.
Session Man
Mouse
When personal and creative differences threaten to destroy a musical supergroup during the recording of an album, studio guitar player McQueen is brought in to smooth out the tracks. Soon he is reconsidering the direction of his life as he dreams of the elusive brass ring.
Born in East L.A.
Oscar
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
True Stories
Ramon
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
Repo Man
Original Music Composer
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
The Pee-wee Herman Show
Hammy
An adult-oriented version of what would eventually become an award-winning children's classic. This version of the show features Pee-wee's playhouse and many of the characters of the later series, but with adult and sexual overtones and jokes including "mirror shoes" and others.