Originally, I am from New York City and attended a Conservatory at NYU – The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.  I studied Acting and in my 2^nd year, luckily, I got a lead role in a New York Art film – “Dal Segno” directed by Harry Mastrogeorge, a friend of John Cassavetes.  It won an award. My performance led to another movie “Encounter,” which was another art film, with a European Director. Next, I spent a year and a half working for the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park with Joe Papp.  I did four plays with them, including working with James Earl Jones.  In the following summers, I worked for 6 different Equity Summer Stock Companies all in New England as the Equity Juvenile lead. 

As time went on music came calling and I got a recording contract with MGM records with my band, Every Mother’s Son.  We had a hit record.  After 2 years with that band, I moved to Los Angeles and Hollywood. I played music with lots of people who became famous, including Keith Carradine who won an Academy Award for best song of the year “I’m Easy”.But the best and most fun job in music was “The Captain & Tennille” – 35,000 people a night in stadiums across America.    This part of my career arc continued until 1980, when   I went back to school and studied photography, and found jobs in studios and shooting stills for movies and advertising. 

And then there is this, I am currently enjoying resurgence of a movie I starred in during 1970 and it has become a Cult Classic throughout Europe and the U.S. and getting rave revues in Art Houses.  It is produced and directed by a woman, one of the first women directors and it’s released by GrindHouse Pictures.  You can find the info about it and read the reviews yourself.  But I’m in it and star in it and it has the only ending of it’s kind in all of moviedom.    “Hollywood …90028”.    You won’t believe the ending, One shot and only One take. 

During a 15+ year period, my background has included studio and location shoots for film and still photography with both people and products.

• First assistant working with Photographer Tom Kelly in his West Hollywood studio. Tom was well known as an advertising photographer and happens to be the copyright owner of the Marilyn Monroe Red Velvet glamour photo shot by his studio. He shot tons of fashion and high-end CEO and Executive portraits. He was also the main photographer for many food manufacturers such as General Mills.
• Worked for Gary Bernstein in Culver City whose main client was Elizabeth Taylor among many, many other major movie stars. Gary had the entire contract with Elizabeth Taylor’s Passion Perfume account and was the only photographer she would allow to shoot for Passion.  He is the author of several books on Glamour Photography.

• Joined forces with John Bilecki, who was a director and a photographer / cinematographer, producing and directing Award-winning car and motorcycle ads for film and television commercials. I was his assistant and studio manager. I was also a shooter in his studio working on fashion for magazines and Executive and CEO business portraits including actor headshots.