PF: Yes, as I understand, it laid buried in the Warner Brothers vault for years and I kept telling people, try to resurrect it, it’s a great series. Son of Pedro and Edna Fernandez of New York City. 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. I always worked with a little blonde girl whose mother wanted to be an actress. So they didn’t write any dialog at all until they finished shooting a film.

Let’s see… shortly after SPEED RACER. In addition to SPEED RACER, his long list of voice credits includes GODZILLA VS THE SEA MONSTER, ASTROBOY, ULTRAMAN, THE SPACE GIANTS, SON OF GODZILLA, GIGANTOR, STAR BLAZERS, the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns… and even a “clean version” of George Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD!In this interview we tried to touch on all aspects of his life and work to give readers a better understanding of the remarkable career he has had. Once you start right on the signal, you at least are starting correctly. M, B and P. So I’d try to come up with combinations that had those labials in them. Peter Fernandez dubbed David Letterman's voice. Some took place in the Alaskan wilderness. I knew nothing about those places, but the stories got published.

The amusing thing is that the people wanting to hear the original dialog seldom heard it, because in Europe they voiced it later and Italy always shot silently, nothing to go by except what they had dubbed into Italian. That’s the way you rehearsed in those days. I was on EVERYTHING, billboards, everything! Peter Fernandez (January 29, 1927 – July 15, 2010) was an American child model, film actor, voice actor, director and author. PF: All I know is I was contacted by a young man who was in charge of a film company called Seven Arts and he wanted it done with a real boy doing Marine Boy’s voice, but limited me to four in the cast and I said I can’t do that.

Born in New York City, Fernandez was a child model for the John Robert Power Agency.

Despite a career extending from the 1930s, he is probably best known for his roles in the 1967 anime Speed Racer. He was a heavy-set guy. Labials for instance are the real key and there are only three letters in the entire alphabet where we close our lips and they are interchangeable from language to language. I think that added a great value to the series.PF: I know a lot of people were saying, “we’re waiting for the DVD”. Anyway, as dubbing came along I got involved in that and I got called in as an actor, but realized that the writers of the scripts were getting paid good money. I went down with my lip-sync scripts and we held auditions endlessly to find a cast. Almost every project I’ve worked on, I’ve enjoyed. I look back on those days and I loved radio, I still do. It’s tough on an actor for an hour, but it is very concentrated and I did COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG that way. So, to open up the market, basically for the south, it had to be cleaned up so, I had to redo whenever I came across a line. So, she called a friend, the mother of a boy named Billy Redfield, who became William Redfield in a lot of plays and movies and he did show up. No one knew where the original actors were.

His radio appearances included roles on PF: Well, ULTRAMAN was really a live-action cartoon I think. While writing English dialog for Astroboy (1963), Fernandez was paid $100 per episode. When it is projected on the screen, the actor memorizes the line so he or she can look at the screen and dub it. The translation scripts from Japan were very poor at the time, so I had to invent most of the dialog. That’s very difficult. That’s also why Leone could pipe in Morricone’s soundtrack on ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST while filming to capture the mood he wanted the actors to be in for particular scenes on that movie. I just didn’t feel any danger for Speed.

Radio and Broadway actor until army draft. Because it just went on until you almost didn’t care what happened or you didn’t know what happened.

Later on, the film is reassembled and mixed with the original music and sound effects. That’s how SPEED RACER got started.PF: They tried to copy the dialog from Japan, translate it, but at that time these translations were very crude, which was fine with me, as long as I knew what was going on. Unfortunately there is no radio around, except for doing commercials, which I do some. Fernandez co-wrote the scripts, was the voice director, and translated the English language version of the theme song. Shove my body against him. A distributor got in touch with the editors, who got in touch with me. Peter Fernandez was an American voice actor. It is my favorite medium. The directors didn’t have to do much, the writers do all the work! I wrote for it the way I did for any feature. He was drafted into the United States Army at age 18, late in World War II. But you moved on and on. The directors got paid even more. Writers got five percent of the budget, directors got ten percent. His radio appearances included roles on Mr. District Attorney, Let's Pretend, Gangbusters, My Best Girls, Superman, and Suspense, as well as soap operas.