Meaning: Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth. Classified under: Nouns denoting animals. Hypernyms (porpoise is a kind of...): dolphin (any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of porpoise): harbor porpoise; herring hog; Phocaena phocaena (the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific)
12 Angry Men (1957). The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
Olmos also portrayed Jose Menendez, the slain father of Kyle and Erik Menendez in the CBS miniseries Menendez: A Murder in Beverly Hills, and starred in Showtime's Twelve Angry Men, which featured an all-star cast including George C. Scott and Jack Lemmon.