Paul Freeman (born January 18, 1943) is a British film and television actor.
Freeman was born in Hertfordshire, England. He began his career in advertising and teaching and like many British actors he landed small roles in the theater appearing in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet. He then went on to play starring roles in the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company and later co-founded his own theater group, the Joint Stock Theatre Company, in 1974 together with director Max Stafford-Clark.
In 1978, he made his British television debut in the acclaimed mini-series Life of Shakespeare (1978) and Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981). Freeman also acted in the ATV docudrama Death of a Princess, a controversial film about the execution of a Saudi Arabian woman. In 1980 he began his movie career when he appeared in The Long Good Friday alongside Bob Hoskins and The Dogs of War (1981) in which he met Maggie Scott who went on to become his wife.
In the same year, 1981, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas chose Freeman to play the main villain, René Belloq, in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first of four movies depicting the exploits of archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones.
The movie was a springboard for Freeman in Hollywood and he continued playing villains both in Hollywood and in his native Britain using his uncanny talent for foreign accents. In 1988 he played Professor Moriarty in Without a Clue starring Michael Caine as an untalented Sherlock Holmes and in 1995, Ivan Ooze in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie.
Freeman continues working for television as well as in movies. He guest starred in hit shows such as Monarch of the Glen, ER, Falcon Crest and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He also played in several mini-series such as Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989) and The Final Cut (1995). In 2004, Freeman played Angus, Bobby Jones' caddie, in Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius. During 2006 and 2007, he starred in the BBC legal drama New Street Law, as the main protagonist alongside John Hannah. Also in 2007, he played Rev. Philip Shooter of Sandford in Hot Fuzz alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. He is also featured in a 2008 Travelers Insurance television commercial.
Amongst his television work Freeman appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders entiled "Down Among the Dead Men," he also appeared in the television crime drama Waking The Dead in the episode "Straw Dog."
External links
Paul Freeman at the Internet Movie Database
Paul Freeman stars in 'A Girl and a Gun'
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Indiana Jones franchise
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) · Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) · Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) · Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Television
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992–1996) (list of episodes)
Video games
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982) · Temple of Doom (1985) · Revenge of the Ancients (1987) · The Last Crusade (1990) · The Fate of Atlantis (1992) · The Iron Phoenix (canceled) · The Pinball Adventure (1993) · Greatest Adventures (1994) · Desktop Adventures (1996) · The Infernal Machine (1999) · The Emperor's Tomb (2003) · Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (2008) · "Indiana Jones" (2009)
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Role-playing games · Comics · Other literature · Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea attraction · Disneyland Paris attraction · Stunt show · Lego Indiana Jones · Soundtracks (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
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George Lucas · Steven Spielberg · Frank Marshall · Kathleen Kennedy · Robert Watts · Rick McCallum · Philip Kaufman · Lawrence Kasdan · Willard Huyck · Gloria Katz · Menno Meyjes · Jeffrey Boam · Frank Darabont · Jeff Nathanson · David Koepp · Douglas Slocombe · Janusz Kamiński · Vic Armstrong · Michael Kahn · John Williams · Ben Burtt · Drew Struzan · Dan Bradley · Jim Steranko · Deborah Nadoolman Landis · Norman Reynolds · Guy Hendrix Dyas · Richard Edlund · Dennis Muren
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