Paul Hipp (born July 16, 1963) is an American actor, singer, songwriter and film maker, He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He left Pennsylvania for New York City immediately after high school. He started his career playing for tips on the streets of Greenwhich Village while studying acting with Mira Rostova and at HB Studios with William Hickey.
Paul soon found employment on stage at various clubs in the village and in film, making his stage debut in Abel Ferrara's "China Girl" for which he also wrote the end credit theme song "Midnight For You". Paul would go on to collaborate on several film and music projects with Ferarra including “Bad Lieutenant” in which Paul plays Jesus Christ and provides the end credit theme along with Ferarra, "Body Snatchers" for which he composed and performed the song "I Want You Back", and The Funeral which he starred in along with Christopher Walken, Isabella Rosselini, Benicio Del Torro and Vincent Gallo.
Hipp costarred in the off-Broadway show "A Minor Incident" with legendary songwriter Carole King who was making her stage debut as an actress. The two collaborated on songs for her Capitol Records release "City Streets". The song "I Can't Stop Thinking About You" features Paul on backing vocals as well as guitar. It was on stage with Carole King at London's Royal Albert Hall that Paul was spotted by the producers of a new West End musical "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story".
Buddy opened to rave reviews on 12 October 1989 at The Victoria Palace Theater with Paul in the title role for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Musical. The following year he opened in Buddy at Broadway's Shubert Theater in New York; he was nominated for a Tony Award and won The Theater World Award for Best Broadway Debut.
After Buddy Hipp appeared in the films "Fathers And Sons" with Jeff Goldblum and as Jesus Christ opposite Harvey Keitel in Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant" (he also provides the end credit theme song "Bad Lieutenant" along with Ferrara).
Hipp moved to from New York City to LA for a short time and appeared as Gene Vincent opposite Donal Logue as Eddie Cochran in the play "Be-Bop-A-Lula" at Hollywood's famed Theater/Theater before returning to the London stage for the 25th anniversary revival of Hair at the Old Vic, in the role of Berger.
After living in London Hipp returned to New York and in 1995 again teamed up with Abel Ferrara for the film "The Funeral" costarring Christopher Walken, Isabella Rossellini, Benicio Del Toro and Vincent Gallo. Later that year director Larry Clark tapped Hipp to play Richard Johnson in his film "Another Day In Paradise" along with James Woods and Melanie Griffith.
Subsequent feature film roles include John Woo's "Face Off", "Waking The Dead" with Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly, "More Dogs Than Bones" in which Hipp and Joe Mantegna play a pair of bungling hit men and Joe Odom in Clint Eastwood's "Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil" opposite Kevin Spacey and John Cusack. TV roles included guest star appearances on many shows and several TV pilots including the short lived ABC series remake "Fantasy Island" starring Malcolm McDowell as Rourke.
In 2000 Hipp made his feature film directorial debut with "Death Of A Dog" starring Julie Kessler and Edie Falco and Executive Produced by Abel Ferrara. Hipp scored the film and wrote several songs for the soundtrack.
From 2001-2002 Hipp was a series regular on the NBC comedy "Three Sisters". He appeared in the 2002 series finale and 2003 series premier of "ER".
In 2005 Paul played the Bert/Bertha Hagenbach on the second season of the HBO series Carnivale.
In 2006 Paul was invited by Arianna Huffington to blog for her new venture called The Huffington Post. Hipp's parody of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” that had Dick Cheney singing about his hunting mishap and “I’m the Decider” based on The Beatles “I Am The Walrus” became viral sensations and were picked up by major news outlets all over the country including Randy Rhodes Air America broadcasts. While continuing the occasional parody Paul started writing and performing original “blogs” – instant topical songs sung live in the kitchen to a laptop computer in simple fashion with acoustic guitar ala Woody Guthrie, for The Huffington Post.
In 2007 Paul wrote and produced several songs for Hilary Duff, which she performs on screen in the feature film “War, Inc.” starring John Cusack, Ben Kingsley and Marisa Tomei.
In 2007 Paul appeared in the feature films "Dirt Nap", along with writer/director DB Sweeney, John C. McGinley and Ed Harris and in director Ernst Gossner's "South Of Pico." He also co-starred in the Showtime pilot "Manchild" along with Kevin Smith, John Corbett and James Purefoy. He was a guest star on TV shows including "Scrubs", CSI:New York", "CSI:Miami", "The Closer", "Without a Trace" and "Ugly Betty".
Hipp has built a large and loyal following through his musical blogs on The Huffington Post and in 2008 released his debut CD "Blog Of War".
Paul Hipp is currently in post production on his next feature film directorial effort "Burn Out" which features appearances by John Cusack, Nick Nolte, Larry Clark, Laird Hamilton, Malcolm McLaren and should be done in 2009.
Partial Filmography
China Girl (1987) as Nino
Sticky Fingers (1988) as Michael
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) as Doctor
Bad Channels (1992) as Dan O'Dare
Bad Lieutenant (1992) as Jesus
Fathers & Sons (1992) as Doogy
The Last Shot (1993) as Peter Tullis
The Funeral (1996) as Ghouly
Another Day in Paradise (1997) as Richard Johnson
Face/Off (1997) as Fitch
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) as Joe Odom
Waking the Dead (2000) as Danny Pierce
Carnivàle (2005) as Bert/Bertha
Three Sisters (2001-2002) as Elliot
Teenage Caveman (2002) (TV) as Shaman
ER (2002) as Craig Turner
Two Tickets to Paradise (2006) as Jason Klein
South of Pico (2007) as Comma
References
External links
Official site: http://www.paulhipp.com/
Paul Hipp at the Internet Movie Database
Paul Hipp at the Internet Broadway Database
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