Urquidez has played a number of roles in various martial arts movies. The first was "" (1981), starring Joe Lewis and Bong Soo Han. Later, he made two movies with Jackie Chan, "Wheels on Meals" (1984) and "Dragons Forever" (1988), wherein he fights against the characters played by Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. Urquidez is depicted as a relentlessly tough opponent who is defeated in the climactic fight scenes of both movies. His final fight with Chan in "Wheels on Meals" is considered to be among the finest fights of Chan's career, including by Chan himself.