- His family moved to New York when he was four. He worked in the mail room of a Disney office in New York, and joined a bilingual theater company, El Nuevo Circulo Dramatico.
- Graduated in 1958 from Haaren High School in Hell's Kitchen, New York City (now the campus of John Jay College). From there he worked in the mailroom at a Disney office in New York and then joined a bilingual theater company, El Nuevo Circulo Dramatico.
- He is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
- Survived by his nephews and nieces: Franklin, Luperson, Jaime, Rafael, Arioto, Ibelka, Mercedes, and Elsa, aunts, and cousins.
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