- Played Water Polo and was on the swim team in high school and college.
- Still is a avid Photographer. Enjoyed developing black and white photos in high school and was a photographer for the college newspaper. He took Rosalynn Carter photograph as she campaign for President Carter re-election.
- Played Tenor and Baritone Sax with jazz emphasis from junior high to college as a music major.
- Favorite actors are Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Paul Newman, Juliette Binoche, Toshiro Munfune, Laurence Olivier, Spencer Tracy, Leo McKern, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe, Pete Postlethwaite, Maurice Roeves.
- Enjoyed going to an independent movie theater in his home town as a teenager to watch foreign movies.
- Studied Theatre at Cal. State Dominguez Hills and later studied under John Ruskin who graduated at the New York Neighborhood Playhouse and studied under Stanford Meisner as a teacher of the Meisner technique.
- Worked on Terminator 2 set hospital scene where Director James Cameron decided not to use him as a LA uniform police officer.
- Friends with actor Ben Wilson.
- Won the Diamond Award for Best Acting in a Dangerous Scene.
- Father was Mexican / Mother was White.
- Received his scuba diving card in Santa Barbara, Ca since 1985 and has been a avid diver ever since. Diving at locations of Grand Cayman, St. Thomas V.I., Cancun and Dominica Island.
- His 5th grade teacher made an 8mm film on a children book called "The Fence". He was picked for the Mexican family since there were only two Mexican-Americans in the class.
- One of his favorite movies is "The Cotton Club" because of the tap dancing scenes and is a tap dancer himself.
- During researching his family history, he discovered that both his father and mother sides are of Sephardic ancestry.
- Is a huge aficionado of Big Band music and saw Count Basie and Buddy Rich with Sammy Davis Jr. in concert several times.
- Father was a merchant seaman who worked in the engine room as a boiler tender.
- Studied at the British School of Motor Racing at the defunct Riverside Racing track to learn how to drive Formula Ford racing cars.
- Studied acting at Santa Barbara City College and California State University Dominguez Hills Theatre Department.
- He doesn't like to watch his acting in movies. It makes him too critical of his performance.
- Is very fascinated about clown make-up and styles. He always wanted to go to Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey School of Clowning.
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