Del Toro surfaced in small television roles during the late 1980s, playing mostly thugs and drug dealers on programs such as Miami Vice and the NBC miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story.
Del Toro krajem osamdesetih pojavljivao u manjim ulogama na televiziji, igrajući uglavnom nasilnike i dilere droge u serijama kao što su Poroci Miamija i NBC-jeva miniserija, Drug Wars: The Camarena Story.