Paul Shenar
Highest Rated: 93% The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Lowest Rated: 31% Raw Deal (1986)
Birthday: Feb 12, 1936
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
It is a testament to the acting style of Paul Shenar that early in his career he was chosen to play two of the largest personalities in show business history. In 1975 he portrayed filmmaking legend Orson Welles in the made for TV drama "The Night That Panicked America," a retelling of the events surrounding the director's infamous 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds." Three years later Shenar would take on the role of famed theater producer Flo Ziegfeld in another made-for-TV movie. He grew up in Milwaukee, where his immersion in local theater productions led to the calling of acting. After a stint in the Air Force, Shenar, along with other fellow thespians, was integral in founding the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where he became a performer and teacher for the remainder of his career. He branched into television in the 1970s, playing bit parts in the decade's biggest hits until landing the two huge roles as Welles and Ziegfeld. His feature-film career began to take off simultaneously with his TV success, and he gravitated to more villainous performances. He was the voice of the conspiratorial rat Jenner in the animated adventure "The Secret of NIHM," played opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the crime drama "Raw Deal," and was most famously the Bolivian cocaine kingpin, Alejandro "Don't fuck me, Tony!" Sosa in Brian DePalma's crime thriller "Scarface" in 1983. Shenar contracted the AIDS virus and died at the age of 53.
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Paul Shenar
Filmography
Movies
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62% |
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The Big Blue | Dr. Laurence (Character) | $2.9M | 1988 |
72% |
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The Bedroom Window | Collin Wentworth (Character) | $8.8M | 1987 |
69% |
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Best Seller | David Madlock (Character) | $2.9M | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Dream Lover | Ben Gardner (Character) | $210.7K | 1986 |
31% |
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Raw Deal | Paulo Rocca (Character) | $14.8M | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brass | Schuyler Ross (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Streets of Justice | J. Elliott Sloan (Character) | - | 1985 |
79% |
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Scarface | Alejandro Sosa (Character) | $656.2K | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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Deadly Force | Joshua Adams (Character) | - | 1983 |
93% |
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The Secret of NIMH | Jenner (Voice) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lulu | Ludwig Schon (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Courage and the Passion | Nick Silcox (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suddenly, Love | Jack Graham (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women | Florenz Ziegfeld (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mask of Alexander Cross | Alexander Cross (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hostage Heart | James Cardone (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Code Name: Minus One | Charles Edward Royce (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gemini Man | Charles Edward Royce (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Keegans | Rudi Portinari (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Night That Panicked America | Orson Welles (Character) | - | 1975 |
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The Execution of Private Slovik | Crawford (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alone With Terror | Lt. Joe Moroni (Character) | - | 1973 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
100% | 80% | Wonder Woman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bionic Woman | Dr. Alan Cory (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petrocelli | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Arthur Harris (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Johnny Sands (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Columbo | Sgt. Young (Guest Star) | 1974 |