# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-contreras
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:53:41.515Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-contreras"
name: "Luis Contreras"
slug: "luis-contreras"
description: "Luis Contreras was an American character actor. The son of actor Roberto Contreras, his film debut was in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Contreras often played the parts of bums, gang members, police officers, prison inmates, and criminals. One of the typical roles that he played as a gang member or criminal was that of Jesus in Walking the Edge."
tagline: "Euro-Indigenous Latino American character actor (1950-2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Cropped_Photo_of_Luis_Contreras.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-09-18"
deathDate: "2004-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.12
  momentum:             1.368821292775665
  historical:           5.973977333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176520/"
    handle:    "nm0176520"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Contreras_(dramatan)"
    title: "Luis Contreras (dramatan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "لويس كونتريرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "لويس كونتريرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3_%DA%A9%DB%86%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8E%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "لویس کۆنترێراس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Contreras_(Schauspieler)"
    title: "Luis Contreras (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Contreras_(actor)"
    title: "Luis Contreras (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1876380"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/85870"
    title: "Luis Contreras"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump