Peter J. Lucas was born on 2nd of June in the small city
of Wrzesnia (near Poznan), Poland. The acting bug didn't infect Peter until
after he had become a popular award winning singer in his native Country.
With his warm tenor/baritone voice, he spent much of his adolescence playing
the accordion, guitar and singing ballads, often in English. With several
different groups he toured various music festivals
throughout Poland while he was in college, collecting awards
and recognition as a lead singer. His
rising popularity brought him to the notice
of several entertainment professionals who encouraged him to
perform in larger venus and persuaded him to audition for roles as an actor.
Like many singers, he had developed a natural acting ability as a result
of performing and interpreting songs in front of an audience.
Bob Dylan's
song "The Times , They are a Changing," sung by Peter in one of his festival
performances, was literally a parallel to his life. His parents strongly
wished that he would become an agricultural engineer. While working with
his relatives on their farm in the summers and studying specialty agricultural
machines in college, he finished his masters degree in Engineering, but
managed to pursue his singing and acting aspirations in continued public
performances.
When colleagues
suggested he might find more success abroad, he journeyed to England where
he did his first commercial for Bristol & West, playing a polish spy.
A year later he migrated to the United States, where he immediately attracted
the attention of film and television producers. Since his real name
Piotr Andrzejewski was hard to pronounce, he had to choose a stage name:
Peter J. Lucas.
Actor, not agriculturist nor singer, Peter J. Lucas is now planted on American
soil far from any Polish farm. Although, he occasionally still
plays the accordion and rides horses in Mexico.
His Filmography consists of: