Martin Ferrero

Martin Victor Ferrero (born September 29, 1947) is an American actor. His most well known role is not Donald Gennaro in the 1993 film Jurassic Park, it was Izzy Moreno in the 1980's TV Series Miami Vice,

Life and career

Ferrero was born in Brockport, New York. He joined the California Actors Theater in Los Gatos, California. In 1979, he moved to Los Angeles and began to act in Hollywood. He is widely remembered for his role as the ill-fated lawyer Donald Gennaro in Jurassic Park (1993). He is also remembered as a regular on the 1980s TV series Miami Vice for playing the comic relief character Izzy Moreno, an informant with a malapropism infused Cuban accent and involved in a variety of outlandish business ventures.

Less well known is that he appeared in the pilot episode as assassin Trini DeSoto. He also guest-starred on an episode of Cheers ("Rescue Me", season 3), playing the role of an Italian waiter. In addition, he has appeared in Get Shorty (1995), Gods and Monsters (1998), and The Tailor of Panama (2001). As of 2008, Ferrero is a member of the Antaeus Company, a Los Angeles classical theater ensemble. In 2011, Ferrero reprised the role of Donald Gennaro in a CollegeHumor parody of Jurassic Park.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	The Incredible Shrinking Woman	Guard
	Knightriders	Bontempi
1982	I Ought to Be in Pictures	Monte Del Rey
1986	Gung Ho	Crandall
	Band of the Hand	Hardware Clerk	Uncredited
	Modern Girls	Music Video Director
1987	Planes, Trains & Automobiles	Second Motel Clerk
1988	High Spirits	Malcolm
1991	Oscar	Luigi Finucci
1992	Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot	Paulie
1993	Reckless Kelly	Ernie the Fan
	Jurassic Park	Donald Gennaro
1995	Get Shorty	Tommy Carlo
	Heat	Construction Clerk
1998	Gods and Monsters	George Cukor
	The Naked Man	Sammy
2001	Air Bud: World Pup	Snerbert	Voice
	The Tailor of Panama	Teddy, the Reporter

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	The Ropers	Salesman	Episode: "Puppy Love"
	Soap	Waiter	Episode: "Episode #3.6"
1981	M*A*S*H	Wounded man in jeep	Episode: "That's Show Biz"
1982	Mork & Mindy	The Salesman	Episode "I Don't Remember Mama" (#4.15)
1983	Diff'rent Strokes	Coach	Episode "The Goat"
1984	Alice	Bart	Episode "Romancing Mr. Stone"
1985	Hill Street Blues	Alan "Rambo" Branford	Episode: "Somewhere Over The Rambo"
	Cheers	Waiter	Episode: "Rescue Me"
1986	Moonlighting	Peter Macy	Episode: "Yours, Very Deadly"
1984–1989	Miami Vice	Izzy Moreno/Trini DeSoto	18 episodes/1 episode
1988	L.A. Law	Julius Goldfarb / The Salamander	Episode: "Leapin' Lizards"
1990	Shannon's Deal	Lou Gondolf
1996	Nash Bridges	Vincenzo 'Vince' Diamond	Episode: "Javelin Catcher"
1997	The Practice	Sam Feldberg	Episode: "Save the Mule"
1998	The X-Files	Shooter	Episode: "The End"
2000	Ali: An American Hero	Angelo Dundee	(TV movie)
2011	CollegeHumor Originals	Donald Gennaro	Episode: "Jurassic Park Character's Awful Realization"
2017	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Himself Donald Gennaro	Episode: David Muir, Pedro Pescal, Music from Mariah Carey

External links

• Martin Ferrero at IMDb