Paul Shenar (February 12, 1936 - October 11, 1989) was an American actor.
Shenar's birth name was Albert Paul Shenar. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Turkish, Greek and Jewish heritage, Shenar gained attention playing larger-than-life entertainment legends on 1970s television. Shenar had three brothers. He also served in the U.S Airforce, probably due to family pressure. He portrayed Orson Welles in the TV movie The Night That Panicked America (1975) (TV) and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women (1978) (TV). He is probably best known for playing the murderous Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa in Brian DePalma's 1983 version of Scarface.
A founding member, actor, director and teacher of the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in San Francisco, he played more than forty roles there, including "Hamlet," "Oedipus Rex" and "Tiny Alice." Known for his unsympathetic portrayals, he voiced the evil rat Jenner in the animated feature The Secret of NIMH (1982).
Shenar died of AIDS-related complications in West Hollywood, California in 1989.
External links
Paul Shenar at the Internet Movie Database
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