[bwteim]

"his name was not Jerry Rivers: his given name was indeed Gerald, and his surname alternated between the family name, Rivera, and his mother's "continentalized" spelling of it"

http://www.snopes.com/media/celebrity/geraldo.asp

[timsbella]

Thanks for that. I stand corrected. Love the schtick about his mom altering the name - guess we know where he inherited his grand sense of interpretation.