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He was born in New York, New York and is the son of Eugene R. Perá, a renowned painter and originator of Spin Art, and Lisa Perá, a Russian-born actress. They moved to Los Angeles in 1963 so Lisa could pursue a Hollywood acting career, but the marriage suffered and they were shortly divorced. Lisa struggled as a single mother, working nights at the famous 1960s Hollywood night club, The Fog Cutter, while Radames stayed home alone. Their situation took an unexpected turn when Radames was discovered by director Daniel Mann for the role as Anthony Quinn's and Irene Pappas' dying son in A Dream of Kings (1969). Lisa was up for the part of Quinn's mistress eventually played by the late Inger Stevens. Radames met the Director at a dinner party during pre-production on that film and was cast in the role of Stavros. Soon after that Radames got an agent and went on to play many serious roles in television and films. Radames was considered a young Character Actor and he was often cast to play the more unusual roles and ethnicities requiring a variety of looks and accents (Cuban, German-Jewish, Chinese-American, Italian, Russian) and handicaps (mute, schizophrenic, polio, plague, etc.) Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... Template:C20YearInnTopic 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Daniel Mann, also known as Daniel Chugerman (August 8, 1912–November 21, 1991), was an American film and television director. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

Perhaps his most famous role came in 1972, as the young Kwai Chang Caine in the television series Kung Fu. He also portrayed John Jr. on the television series Little House on the Prairie and Alex in The Six Million Dollar Man. Between 1969 and 1985 he guest-starred in numerous feature films and television shows including, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Marcus Welby, M.D., Hawaii Five-O, and The Waltons. His last feature film role was as Sgt. Stepan Gorsky in John Milius' "Red Dawn" (1984). Master Po (left) and Kwai Chang Caine (right) in a flashback from the episode Dark Angel, written by Herman Miller Kung Fu (1972-1975) was an award-winning American television series which starred David Carradine. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Little House on the Prairie Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Little House on the Prairie Little House on the Prairie (1935) is a childrens book by Laura Ingalls Wilder. ... Part of The Bionic series The Six Million Dollar Man was an American television series about a cyborg working for a U.S. secret service called OSI. The show was based on the novel Cyborg from Martin Caidin, and aired on the ABC network from 1973 to 1978. ... Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer was the title used for two television series about the fictional private detective Mike Hammer, the creation of American crime author Mickey Spillane. ... Marcus Welby, M.D. was a popular medical drama that aired on ABC from late September 1969 to May 1976. ... (help·info) Hawaii Five-O ran for twelve seasons on CBS television network. ... Was also a rock band from the Isle Of Wight, see The Waltons (IOW) The Waltons was an American television series about a family living at Waltons Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the state of Virginia. ...

In 1972, just before landing his role of Grasshopper in "Kung Fu" he bagan making his own Super8 films, first at the Barnsdall Junior Arts Center in Hollywood, and then on his own. It turned out that acting was not his true calling, directing was, but what better training could an aspiring film maker have than in the thick of the industry itself. This is the sole reason he remained in the acting business as long as he did.

However, growing up in the Hollywood entertainment industry can be a mixed bag, so in 1978, at the age of 18, Radames packed two suitcases and moved to New York City to study acting and directing with renown teacher Stella Adler. He remained at her Conservatory for the next three years. Returning to Hollywood in the fall of 1981 he was greeted with the harsh reality that Hollywood not only has a short-term memory, but no longer a "child actor" now, the business had no use for his services. Struggling to break into adult roles proved very difficult and he found that contrary to logic, his extensive resumee was more of a handicap than an asset. It took him a few long hard years to realize this was an actuality, and not something he was responsible for: that the industry was essentially "done" with him. This is the same invisible wall that 99.9% of all child actors experience, and at the time, there was no guidebook for it. (More recently, thanks to the work he and his colleagues did for several years within the Screen Actors Guild's Young Performers Committee, there are now a number of guidelines, legal protections and support-systems available to the transitioning young actor of today.)

By the mid 1980s, Radames felt that continuing to pursue this line of work was unhealthy for him on several levels and he forged out on his own in the workaday world. Gaining skills in other interests hehad since childhood, he began working around video and electronics and eventually formed his own company, All Systems Go! in 1988, with the sole purpose of designing and installing home theaters and residential sound systems. This quickly took off for him and he remained in this line of work for the next 18 years (as of 2006).

Also in 2006, he was at the core of MetaCinema, attempting to launch this internet service to provide unlimited High Definition (HDTV) creative content over broadband connections. Working closely with the team that made a breakthrough in proprietary data-compression algorithms, they launched MetaCinema at the 2006 NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Convention in Las Vegas in April of that year. The rest is, as they say, entertainment history.

External links

• Radames Pera at The Internet Movie Database
• tv.com