The critically acclaimed duo starred in and co-wrote eight feature films, including “Up in Smoke,” “Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie,” “Nice Dreams,” “Things Are Tough All Over,” “Cheech and Chong: Still Smoking” and “The Corsican Brothers.” They also made guest appearances in “Yellowbeard” and Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours.” In 2005, Cheech and Chong reunited for the first time in more than a decade when they were honored at the Aspen Comedy Festival.

Marin wrote, directed and starred in “Born in East L.A.,” which won the Glauber Rocha International Critics Award and Grand Coral Prize for Best Picture, as well as Best Screenplay at the Havana Film Festival. He has appeared in more than 20 films, including “Tin Cup,” “Desperado,” “From Dusk Till Dawn” and “Once Upon a Time in Mexico.”  On the small screen, Marin starred in “The Golden Palace” and “Nash Bridges.” He later appeared in a recurring role on “Judging Amy.”

In 2005, Marin directed the Broadway production of “Latinologues,” a collection of
monologues revealing the Latino experience in America. Marin’s appeal extends to children; he lent his voice to animated characters in “Oliver & Company,” “The Lion King” and “Cars.” He appeared in the trilogy “Spy Kids” and has created three bilingual children’s albums. In 2007, his children’s book “Cheech the School Bus
Driver” was released, followed by a 2008 sequel in Spanish and English, “Captain Cheech.” A third-generation Mexican American, Marin was recognized for his work on behalf of Latinos by the Imagen Foundation with its 2000 Creative Achievement Award, and by the National Council of La Raza and Kraft Foods with the 1999 ALMA Community Service Award. In 2007, he received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts for his contributions to the creative arts from Otis College of Art and Design, and received the inaugural Legacy Award for Arts Advocacy from the Smithsonian Latino Center. He serves on the boards of the Smithsonian Latino Center and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

Since the mid-1980s, he has amassed a renowned private collection of Chicano art. Much of it formed the core of his nationally traveling exhibition “Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge” and is the basis of his currently touring exhibitions, “Papel Chicano: Works on Paper from the Collection of Cheech Marin” and “The Chicano Collection/La Colección Chicana: Fine Art Prints by Modern Multiples.” Selections from his stellar collection can be seen now through November 2, 2008, at LACMA with his “Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A.” exhibition.

Cheech Marin Official Site