In 1967, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF), Joseph Papp, attended a performance at Delacorte Theater, where Julia was reading patriotic Puerto Rican poetry. [1][10] His mother was a mezzo-soprano who sang in a church choir before marrying Julia's father, who was an electrical engineer graduated from Tri-State University. [51] Julia performed this role eight times per week. [33] He also acted in Via Galactica's limited presentation on Broadway and, on television, played Dr. Greg Robinson, Jerry's brother, in the "Oh, Brother" episode of The Bob Newhart Show. [11] The building was originally a gas station and body shop,[clarification needed] before being remodeled after a similar restaurant in Madrid, Spain, called "Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas", which is intended to mimic the structure of a gypsum cave. [51] In 1994, Julia played Chico Mendes in The Burning Season for HBO, for which he received solid reviews. [25] Initially, Julia received allowance from his parents, but after contracting Jeff Hunter as manager, he was able to perform in a staging of Bye Bye Birdie, declining further donations. [3] In 1979, Julia starred in the original Broadway production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal alongside Roy Scheider and Blythe Danner. [73] On March 24, 1992, Julia received the Courage of Conscience Award. In early 1994, while he was filming The Burning Season in Mexico, Julia contracted food poisoning after consuming sushi. [74] In 1994, the government of El Salvador recognized his activism for human rights, granting him the role of overseer in their general elections in representation of Freedom House. Between 1971 and 1972, Julia earned roles in The Organization, The Panic in Needle Park, and a film adaptation of Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me.[32]. [55] On October 16, 1994, Julia and Poloway attended the Metropolitan Opera in New York,[56] and afterwards, Julia began feeling intense abdominal pain and was taken by ambulance to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, Long Island. Julia then moved to Manhattan in 1964, finding work in off-Broadway shows, such as "King Lear" (1973), "Othello" (1979), and "The Three-penny Opera" (1982). [64] In order to promote other Latin American performers, Julia actively lent his support to the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA) and co-founded Visiones Luminosas, an initiative to promote screenwriters. Julia had battled stomach cancer for three years and had undergone surgery, when in early 1994, during the filming of The Burning Season in Mexico, he contracted food poisoning after consuming sushi. Julia concluded his secondary education at Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, where he would organize plays of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. While performing as Dracula, Julia also played Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew. [54] Julia was airlifted to a hospital in Los Angeles so he could receive medical attention, recovered and returned to Mexico to finish the film. He was reviewing the script for his intended role in Desperado from his hospital bed, but his condition worsened. [17] Seeking to please his parents, he continued his university education spending a year at Fordham University[6], before returning to Puerto Rico, where he attended the University of Puerto Rico, becoming a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. [29], In September 1968, after auditioning four times for the role, Julia debuted in his first Broadway play, performing as Chan in a staging of The Cuban Thing. Subsequent memorial ceremonies were held at Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York and in Los Angeles, where several actors and personalities, including Rubén Blades and Edward James Olmos, expressed their grief. In 1992, Julia played the title role in a revival of Man of La Mancha with Sheena Easton, a Broadway musical adaptation of the Miguel de Cervantes novel, Don Quixote. His first work was in a production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Life Is a Dream, where he played Astolfo. Julia had been set to reprise his role as M. Bison in the video game version of the Street Fighter film, having already met with the production staff. [34] In 1976, Julia played Mack the Knife in The Threepenny Opera, interpreting the dialogue with a marked British accent. For his performance, Julia received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award and won the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures award for best actor along with co-lead actor William Hurt. After joining a musical group named the "Lamplighters", despite receiving opposition from his parents, he was recruited by Lillian Hurst to perform alongside her, eventually receiving work at a hotel named El Convento. [69] Among the targets of Julia's charity work were initiatives directed towards youth. [11] [13] The family was Catholic. That same year Julia married Poloway in the Catskill Mountains. A state funeral was held in San Juan on October 27, 1994, with Julia being escorted to the building of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, where a funeral ceremony was held. The burial ceremony was also attended by thousands, with La Borinqueña being sung by Lucecita Benítez prior to the procession.
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