On television he was featured in several miniseries, among them “Richest Man in the World: The Story of Aristotle Onassis,” “Mussolini: The Untold Story” and a 1974 special of “King Lear,” in which he played Edmund. Julia also was Jane Fonda’s sinister ex-husband in “The Morning After,” the smooth-talking waiter in “One From the Heart” and the lovelorn goatherd in “Tempest.” Although the Latin influence was evident in “Moon Over Parador,” “Tequila Sunrise” and “Havana,” Julia was given the starring role of Cottard in a film version of Albert Camus’ “The Plague” that went straight to video. “As Don Quixote says in the play, ‘Maddest of all is to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.’ ” Julia’s other offstage efforts included the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors, which works to develop theater in Spanish.Īfter “Spider Woman,” the actor was able to partially cast off the hesitancy some producers and directors displayed in casting a Latino in a non-Latino role. “When I found out in 1977 that we have the technology to end hunger on the planet, I had to get involved,” he told the Washington Post in 1992. Julia said his interest in the underfed needy began in Puerto Rico when his successful father-a restaurateur who reportedly introduced pizza to the island-and mother would take stray children into their home. The project’s goal is to eradicate hunger by the year 2000, and Julia insisted that statements in its behalf be inserted into the programs that accompanied his stage performances. Foremost among them for the past 15 years had been the Hunger Project, a charity that grew out of his experiences with est.
“I thought,” Julia said in a 1991 interview, “ ‘My God, you can actually make a living.’ ” Instead Bean invited Julia, at 6 feet, 2 inches an imposing presence, to New York, where he saw his first Broadway plays. I told him that once I graduated I wanted to make acting my career and I was going to Europe.”
“I was in college appearing in a variety show and Orson was in Puerto Rico on vacation,” Julia said. (Julia’s first stage exposure-as the devil in a first-grade play-had been the start of his intrigue with acting.)
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Julia credited Bean, a stage actor later more closely associated with TV game shows, with sparking his interest in the American theater. He doesn’t mind falling flat on his face doing something dangerous.” He’s larger than life all the time when he’s on the stage. Papp, who died in 1991, once said of Julia: “He was always outrageous in his acting choices. They ranged from comedian Orson Bean to Joseph Papp, the innovative producer-director of the New York Shakespeare pageants with which Julia had a 16-year association, to Werner Erhard, founder of the mind-bending, self-improvement group est. Julia’s friends were as diverse as his characters. Many found it funnier than its predecessor. In that picture Morticia bears a son, Pubert, who emerges complete with Gomez’s mustache. The 1991 film produced a sequel-"Addams Family Values"-in 1993. Their motto was “We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.” His wife was the beautifully ominous Morticia (Anjelica Huston in the film) and with butler Lurch and befuddled brother Fester they existed in a cartoon-celluloid world first created by Charles Addams in the New Yorker magazine. “The Addams Family” was about a macabre but tightly knit clan headed by Gomez, the evil-eyed husband and father with the murderous mentality.
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The last was the major breakthrough in a film career that began with minor parts in “The Organization Man” and “Panic in Needle Park,” both in 1971.Īnd then there was Gomez Addams, a role that Julia brought to film after John Astin played the part in a highly successful two-year TV series of the mid-1960s.
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