I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada.

In recent years he has been active in playing supporting roles in films and performing voice overs for animated features.

Joe Dominguez on Nash Bridges. Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin (born July 13 1946) is a Mexican American comedian actor and writer who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s with Tommy Chong and early 1980s and as Don Johnson's partner Insp. Marin's trademark is his characters' strong Mexican-accent; this is part of a comic persona rather than a natural accent since Marin was born and raised in the United States.