Andre Alexsen

Andre Alexsen was born and raised in Hollywood, California under the Hollywood sign. His grandmother Mileva Petrovich escaped the Nazi occupation in WWII where most of her family were killed or separated. She moved her family to Hollywood, where Andre was born and raised. She told Andre that Hollywood movies, MGM, and other major studio films helped her mentally escape the cruelties of War. As a child Andre remembers playing in the Hollywood hills with his German Shepherd "Buddy" and watching classic movies and TV shows as he played make believe cops, cowboys, fireman, and soldiers. His family moved to a ranch home in Tarzana, CA in the San Fernando Valley across the street from actor Stephen Boyd from Ben-Hur (1959) fame.

After graduation, Andre started working at The 20th Century Fox during the time M*A*S*H (1972), The Love Boat (1977) and Hart to Hart (1979) were all filming.

Steven was a big influence on Andre as an actor, and down the block lived actor and World full contact karate champ Robert Wall aka Ohara in Enter the Dragon (1973) with Bruce Lee. It was Bob who got Andre interested and started in Martial Arts and then moving on to Krav Maga where he trained with Israeli Commandos. Andre attended Portola Junior High and then went on to Taft High in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley, CA where he played football, started surfing, and got into racing muscle cars.

He met a great friend named Pat Beckwith of the movie Big Wednesday (1978) at Taft, who got him into his first Mattel skateboard commercial as an actor/stunt skateboard rider.