Lazaro Pérez (name is pronounced Lah-za-ro Per-ez);was born on December 17, 1945, in Havana, Cuba. He is an actor, known for All Good Things (2010), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) and The Confession (1999). He is the son of Emilio (a shoe shiner) and Josefina (Gazquez) Perez; married Dianne Reutter, 1970 (divorced, 1978).
His Stage debut was in The Jungle of Cities, Theatre Company of Boston,Boston, MA, in 1964. His Broadway debut was in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, Belasco Theatre, 1969.
His Television debut was The Name of the Game, NBC, 1969. His film debut was in Catso, Fortune and Men’s Eyes (also known as Aux yeux du sort et des humains), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1970.
Lazaro Perez appeared as Father LaFrano, whose parishioner Gus Albierro confessed that condemned murderer Frank Hackman was in Daytona, not Miami when he allegedly killed Metro-Dade Detective Frankel (later proven false) in the episode “Forgive Us Our Debts” of the series Miami Vice.
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Stage Appearances.
The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York City, 1976
Tito, G. R. Point, Playhouse Theatre, New York City, 1978
Juan Riber, Animals, Princess Theatre, New York City, 1981
The Life of Galileo, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, 1981
Double, The Man and the Fly, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, New York City, 1982
Carlo, Balm in Gilead, Circle Repertory Company, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL, then Minetta Lane Theatre, New York City, 1984-85
Dark Rapture, Kalita Humphreys Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Dallas, TX, 1994
Pops, Barefoot Boy with Shoes On, Primary Stages, New York City, 1999
Also appeared in Dirty Hands, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Marat/Sade, and Picnic on the Battlefield, all Theatre Company of Boston; Room Service and A Streetcar Named Desire, both Pittsburgh Public Theatre; Pericles, Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT; Alive, And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, Cabal of Hypocrites, Romeo and Juliet, Twelve Angry Men, and The Wonderful Years, all off-Broadway productions.
Major Tours.
The Architect and Emperor of Assyria, European cities, 1977
Double, The Man and the Fly, Spanish cities, 1983
Film Appearances.
Jose, Gumball Rally, Warner Bros., 1977
Dancing Danny, Night Flowers (also known as Night Angels),1979
Enrique the guard, Desperately Seeking Susan, Orion, 1985
Bill, Slaves of New York, 1989
Uncle Reinaldo, Signs of Life (also known as One for Sorrow, Two for Joy), 1989
Ramon, The January Man, 1989
Raul, Fires Within (also known as Little Havana), 1991
Pablo, The Mambo Kings, 1992
Eddie Alvarez, The Girl in the Watermelon, 1994
Armando “Papi” Perez, The Perez Family, 1995
Pedro and Phil, Sue, Alta Films, 1997
Homeless man, Once We Were Strangers, Stella Films, 1998
Wishful Thinking, 1999
Television Appearances
Movies
Jax, Short Walk to Daylight (also known as The Night the EarthShook), ABC, 1972
Eric Malabar, Wishful Thinking, 1999
Specials
Chico, Brotherly Love: The Trevor Farrell Story, HBO, 1994
Also appeared in Liberty, PBS.
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Television appearance.
Peter Novarro, “Nag, Nag, Nag,” The Partridge Family, ABC, 1972
Bellman, Hometown, 1985
Nazarrio, “Manhood,” Law and Order, 1993
Walter, The Cosby Mysteries, NBC, 1994
New York Undercover, Fox, 1994
Fredo, Matt Waters, CBS, 1996
Luis Polanco, “Matrimony,” Law and Order, 1997
Interpreter, “Oh Come All Ye Faithful,” Sex and the City, 1998
Also appeared in All My Children, ABC; Baretta, ABC; TheEqualizer, CBS; Feeling Good, ABC; The Guiding Light, CBS;Ironside, NBC; Joe Forrester, NBC; Miami Vice, NBC; One Life to Live, ABC; Sarge, NBC; and The Streets of San Francisco, ABC.
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