[citation needed] Father Harvey Yorke was the U.S. Air Force liaison for Hollywood feature film productions.
He sustained that passion by starring in numerous plays all the way through high school in Novato, California, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.
Before he graduated high school, Yorke was performing as an improvisational actor in San Francisco with The Committee Workshop on Broadway in North Beach.
He stayed with the company until 1974 when, while still in college, he joined the cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at the Little Fox Theater down the street at Pacific and Montgomery.
In August 1979, Yorke's 'audition' for the role of Alan Yates in Cannibal Holocaust consisted of two questions, "Are you willing to go to South America for a month?"
Three days later, Yorke flew to Bogota, Colombia, then to the tiny town of Leticia on the Amazon River, without knowing the name of the movie, what it was about, or any of the cast or crew.