Three Amigos Three Amigos Three Amigos is a 1986 American western comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, and Randy Newman. Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short star as the title characters, three silent film stars who are mistaken for real heroes by the suffering people of a small Mexican village and must find a way to live up to their reputation. In 1916, the bandit El Guapo and his gang are collecting protection money from the Mexican village of Santo Poco. Carmen, daughter of the village leader, searches for someone who can come to the
Martin Short members of that production's cast were Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, and Andrea Martin; Paul Shaffer was the musical director. He was subsequently cast in several television shows and plays, including the drama "Fortune and Men's Eyes" (1972). He worked solely in Canada through 1979. In 1979, Short starred in the US sitcom "The Associates" about a group of young novice lawyers working at a Wall Street law firm. In 1980, he joined the cast of "I'm a Big Girl Now", a sitcom starring Diana Canova and Danny Thomas. Canova was offered the sitcom because of her