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- Height1.77 m
- From ages 7 to 11 was popular model for John Robert Powers Agency. Radio and Broadway actor until army draft. Radio shows included: "Mr. District Attorney", "Let's Pretend", "Gangbusters", "My Best Girls, " "Superman", "Suspense", many soap operas, and as George Bigelow on "The Aldrich Family" and as Jerry on "The Sea Hound." Discharged from US Army in 1946 as Tech. Sargeant. As well as actor became writer of published adventure pulp fiction. Wrote scripts for radio and TV including "Suspense" (radio) "When a Girl Marries"(radio) "Rendezvous" (TV) and was on writing staff of "The Verdict Is Yours. Adapted and directed for records most of Newberry and Caldecot Award winning books. Wrote published children's book "Bedtime Stories From the Bible."Original Christmas story "The Night the Animals Talked" was adapted for an anual TV special with music by Cahn & Stein. Adapted, directed and voiced English tracks for hundreds of foreign films from all over world including: "Fistful of Dollars", "The Nest", "Mothra, "That Man From Rio", "Cinema Paradiso", some of the Godzilla films, "Flight of the Eagle" and "La Famiglia". Wrote, directed and voiced many TV series including "Speed Racer", "Marine Boy, " "Ultraman" and "The Space Monsters". Wrote the lyrics for the Speed Racer theme. Adapted many scripts for "Astroboy" also "Gigantor" series. Dialog director for "Galaxy Rangers" series and "Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders". Adaptor and director of Canadian mini-series "Jalna". Has been the voice on hundreds of TV and radio commercials.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpousesNoel Smith(June 3, 1978 - July 15, 2010) (his death)Marion Russell (divorced, 2 children)
- ChildrenPeter Fernandez IIIElizabeth McAlisterApril FernandezRussell Fernandez
- ParentsPedro (Peter Sr.) FernandezEdna Fernandez
- RelativesJacqueline Fernandez-Hayes(Sibling)Edward Fernandez (named after their mother)(Sibling)
- When the David Letterman show was on NBC the gag writers thought it would amusing to revoice an entire previously aired hour and broadcast it with no explanation. Peter Fernandez dubbed David Letterman's voice.
- While writing English dialog for Astroboy (1963), Fernandez was paid $100 per episode.
- As a child, he modeled for the John Robert Power Agency.
- His favourite of the cartoons he worked on was Courage le chien froussard (1999), where he served as voice director.
- Son of Pedro and Edna Fernandez of New York City.
- [In 2008 interview]: The most fun in writing scripts was thinking of the villain names like Light Fingers Clepto.
- About the popularity of Mahha GoGoGo (1967): "There was the family relationship. You knew about Speed's family, you knew them well. They were all involved in each race. And we all play with cars as little kids, we love cars. The Mach 5 was a hot car, and there were all sorts of cars throughout all episodes. I still think the Mach 5 is ahead of its time."
- [on Speed Racer (2008)] The Wachowskis are great guys. They told me they used to rush home after school to watch the show. The only thing I didn't like was that it focused so much on the cars and not on the character of Speed.
- [on Speed Racer: The Next Generation (2008)] I play the adult Spritle. In the original, Corinne Orr did his voice. I get to tease her that now I'm doing the character.
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