Philip Michael Thomas

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Philip Michael Thomas as Detective Rico Tubbs, Edward James Olmos as Martin Castillo, and Don Johnson as Detective Sonny Crockett in a police station scene from Miami Vice.

Philip Michael Thomas

American actor

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Miami Vice
…and Ricardo (“Rico”) Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), as they work undercover to bust drug cartels, sex traffickers, arms dealers, and other criminal players in South Florida’s underbelly. Notoriously mythologized in TV history as a show about “MTV cops,” Miami Vice came to represent the excesses of the 1980s. Yet…
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…and Ricardo (“Rico”) Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), as they work undercover to bust drug cartels, sex traffickers, arms dealers, and other criminal players in South Florida’s underbelly. Notoriously mythologized in TV history as a show about “MTV cops,” Miami Vice came to represent the excesses of the 1980s. Yet…
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