Danny Trejo: The actor who went from prisoner to film star - BBC
WEBJul 9, 2020 · Growing up in California, Trejo was using hard drugs as a teenager and went on to spend years in and out of prison in the 1960s on various charges including armed robbery.
Danny Trejo - Wikipedia
WEBThroughout the 1960s, Trejo's life consisted predominantly of intermittent jail stints in the California prison system. [24][25] The accounts of his prison chronology, though, are notably conflicting; by one account, his final term in …
What Danny Trejo's Life In Prison Was Really Like - Nicki Swift
WEBJan 15, 2023 · Danny Trejo has a long, complicated relationship with the criminal justice system. He was first incarcerated in 1959, when he was around 15, he told Prison Legal News in 2011.
Danny Trejo’s Incredible Rise From Prison Riots To Hollywood …
WEBOct 13, 2021 · Things rapidly escalated from there, with Trejo becoming addicted and joining Gilbert on robberies and drug deals to satisfy their habits. He landed in juvenile hall within a year, and was 18 when his activities first landed him in jail — at which point Trejo also became addicted to cocaine.
How Danny Trejo Went From Prison Inmate To Action Star
WEBOct 12, 2018 · In the chaos, Trejo hit a prison official in the head with a rock, a crime that got him tossed into solitary confinement. (Trejo claims he hit the officer by mistake...he was aiming for someone...
How Danny Trejo’s criminal past helped him succeed as an actor
WEBJul 11, 2021 · Danny Trejo was dealing drugs at 13 and soon wound up in the US prison system. Years later, out of jail and sober, his rough look earned him a chance at acting, he reveals in a new memoir.
Danny Trejo: The actor who went from prisoner to film star
WEBGrowing up in California, Trejo was using hard drugs as a teenager and went on to spend years in and out of prison in the 1960s on various charges including armed robbery.
How Danny Trejo Built a Decades-Long Film Career After Prison
WEBSep 23, 2020 · Trejo spent eleven years in and out of the prison system, doing his first stint in jail in 1962 for drug dealing and robbery. His final stay began in 1965, after he sold four ounces of heroin...
Danny Trejo On Acting, Addiction And Playing 'The Mean Chicano Dude' - NPR
WEBJul 17, 2020 · Before Danny Trejo became an actor, he was an inmate in and out of California jails, including San Quentin and Folsom Prison, for more than a decade on charges related to drugs and robbery.
Danny Trejo on Prison Moment That Changed His Life - The Hollywood Reporter
WEBAug 24, 2016 · An admitted hell-raiser in his youth, Trejo says while he was incarcerated, he and a group of others were accused of starting a massive prison riot. Guards were hurt.