Appeared with the Tapia Theatre, San Juan in "Bye, Bye Birdie," "The Four Poster," "The Happy Time," "Macbeth," and "Othello"

Moved to New York

New York stage debut off-Broadway in a Spanish-language production of "La Vida Es Sueno/Life Is a Dream"

Debut with Joseph Papp's NY Shakespeare Festival as MacDuff in a Spanish-language version of "Macbeth"

Broadway debut in "The Cuban Thing" (closed after one performance)

Hired by Joseph Papp to work as a house manager

Earliest TV work included a supporting role in "McCloud: Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?", A TV-movie which served as the pilot for the police drama series, "McCloud", starring Dennis Weaver

Feature film acting debut "Panic in Needle Park"

Appeared for a time on the long-running PBS children's series, "Sesame Street"

Breakthrough acting role, playing Proteus in a modernized, musical version of Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona", which opened in New York's Central Park at the Delacorte Theater and later moved to Broadway; during this latter time he also doubled the role of court fop Osric in a production of "Hamlet" back at the Delacorte; Broadway production garnered Julia his first of four nomination for a Tony as Best Actor in a Musical Play

Played a leading role on Broadway in the short-lived musical, "Via Galactica"; play lasted one performance

Played Hamlet with the New York Shakespeare Festival

Played the role of Edmund in support of James Earl Jones in a TV presentation of "King Lear", made as part of the ongoing PBS series, "Theater in America"

Starred on Broadway in a revival of "Where's Charley?", A musicalized revamp of the venerable stage farce, "Charley's Aunt"; received second Tony nomination

First received top billing on TV in the leading role of the much-publicized TV docudrama, "Death Scream", featuring an all-star cast in guest roles as 15 people who witnessed an actual murder of a woman and did nothing to help her; Julia played one of the police detectives on the case

Returned to feature films after five years to play a small role in the action comedy, "The Gumball Rally"

Starred on Broadway in a revival of the landmark Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical drama, "The Threepenny Opera"; received third Tony nomination for his work as MacHeath

First major role in a feature film, "Eyes of Laura Mars"

Played Petruchio (opposite Meryl Streep as Kate) in a production of "The Taming of the Shrew" staged by the NY Shakespeare Festival

Played Othello in a production staged by the NY Shakespeare Festival

Starred on Broadway opposite Blythe Danner and Roy Scheider in a production of Harold Pinter's play, "Betrayal"

Starred on Broadway in the musical, "Nine", a revamp of the landmark Federico Fellini film, "8 1/2"; received fourth and final Tony nomination as Best Actor in a Musical Play

Acted first male leads in feature films with his roles in "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and in "Compromising Positions"

First TV miniseries, "Mussolini: The Untold Story", an NBC drama starring George C. Scott in the title role; Julia played an Italian count

Played Sergius in a production of George Bernard Shaw's play, "Arms and the Man", staged in NYC at the Circle in the Square

First received top billing in features with "The Penitent" and "Trading Hearts"

Played the title role in the ABC biographical miniseries, "The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Aristotle Onassis"

Played Macbeth in a stage production directed by actor Richard Jordan

Played male leading role of Gomez opposite Anjelica Huston in one of his most popular feature films, "The Addams Family"

Played Othello again in a production by the NY Shakespeare Festival, with Christopher Walkin co-starring as Iago

Last starring role on Broadway, as Don Quixote in a revival of the musical drama, "Man of La Mancha"

Narrated the ten-part PBS documentary series, "Americas", about the history of Latin America and the Caribbean

Last feature film released during lifetime, "Addams Family Values", in which he reprised the role of Gomez Addams

Last TV work aired during his lifetime, "The Burning Season", an HBO movie about environmental activist Chico Mendes

Last TV work, "Down Came a Blackbird", scheduled to be aired on Showtime

Last film, "Street Fighter"; released planned for December 1994

Received a posthumous Emmy for his work in "The Burning Season"