José Pérez

José Pérez is a Puerto Rican actor whose career on Broadway, off-Broadway, television and film spanned fifty three years. Born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, he grew up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and began acting at nine, when a counselor from the East Side Boys' Club invited him to audition and he won the role of Jerome in the Broadway production of South Pacific, which he played for two years. Stage work in The Time of the Cuckoo and Me, Candido! followed, and 1950s live television anthologies, and he later trained at the Herbert Berghof Studio and in Lee Strasberg's acting class. His film credits include The Young Savages (1961), Born to Win (1971), Short Eyes (1977) and Stick (1985). He is best known as the attendant, or God, in Steambath (1973) and its later Showtime series, a part that brought an ACE Award nomination, and as Mike Torres on New York Undercover from 1994 to 1996.