WHAT ACTOR UNDER FIRE MEANS TO ME!!!!

Actor Under Fire

On May 11th 1970 I boarded a World Airways charter for San Francisco and completed my tour of duty in Viet Nam. Whenever I told my stories about Viet Nam I would always get “You need to write about that.” Well it only took 38 years but better late than never. I am from a long line of New York Catholics. My family is populated with cops, fireman and priests. My father was a World War 2 veteran in Patten’s 3rd Army. He landed on Omaha Beach and fought through Europe until the end of the war. Growing up in America in the “baby boom” era gave my generation a witness to history that has influenced our lives to this day. The deaths of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were events that live in my memory to this day. But nothing affected the lives of the “Baby Boomers” like the war in Viet Nam. The war came into every living room in America and stole the greatest treasure our country had to offer, the lives of our young men and women.

“ACTOR UNDER FIRE” is the story of my enlistment in the Air Force, being to the Viet Nam War and then once there, being cast to star in Neil Simon’s ‘STAR SPANGLED GIRL”. I traveled to over 20 base camps, to hospitals, to villages and to the front lines for over a month to bring the show to the men and women in uniform. I tell the story of the effect the tour had on me as well as the stories of the soldiers, their problems, disasters, funny things said and done and great tragedy.

When I got out of the service. I got married and have along with my wife Laura raised two wonderful children Kate and Bryan. I have worked as an actor for most of my professional life, appearing in Movies, Television, on Broadway and in some of the finest regional theatre’s in America. If my show transports you back to the Viet Nam era and gives you a different idea about the men and women who served our country. I will consider “Actor Under Fire” a success