Born Marcelino Sánchez on December 5, 1957, in Cayey, Puerto Rico, he died of AIDS-related cancer in his Hollywood home on November 21, 1986. Sanchez began acting in the late 1970s. His third film role was that of Rembrandt, a young, naïve gang member with a flair for spray painting in Les guerriers de la nuit (1979). After these films, Sánchez went on to appear in roles on Chips (1977), 48 heures (1982), Capitaine Furillo (1981), and, most notably, in the Bloodhound Gang segment of 3-2-1 Contact (1980).
