With only one television credit on his resume, Rudy was cast in the hit TV western The High Chaparral as Wind, the half-breed Indian boy. Thirty-five years later his career is still going strong.

 

Recurring roles on TV include Resurrection Blvd. and Hunter. Rudy has had starring roles in made-for-TV movies such as The Blue Knight, Helter Skelter, Baby Jessica, and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie to name a few. Guest appearances on episodic TV range from The George Lopez Show, NYPD Blue, and JAG to Murder She Wrote, McGyver, Hillstreet Blues, and Hawaii 5-O with many in between.

 

Rudy has also performed in many feature films. He has had featured roles in Beverly Hills Cop II with Eddie Murphy, and The Enforcer with Clint Eastwood, co-staring roles in Colors directed by Dennis Hopper and staring Sean Penn, and The Driver with Ryan O'Neal, and staring roles in Quicksilver with Kevin Bacon, Defiance with Jan-Michael Vincent, and Art Carney, Torchlight with Steve Railsback and Ian McShane and Road Dogz, with Jacob Vargas and directed by the up and coming young director Alfredo Ramos. He has just completed filming a lead role in the independent comedy film, Mr. Sadman, directed by Patrick Epino.

 

As a member of the Los Angeles Actors Theatre Rudy performed the role of "Cupcakes" in the award winning hit show Shorteyes by Miguel Pinero. Other stage performances have taken place in such notable theaters as The Mark Taper Forum, John Anson Ford, The Met, Matrix, The Los Angeles Theatre Center, Nosotros, South Coast Rep, New Mexico Rep and The Ojai Playwrights Conference.

 

The album Hard Knocks and Bad Times showcases Rudy's musical talents.