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Paul Shenar

1936 - 1989

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Albert Paul Shenar (February 12, 1936 − October 11, 1989) was an American actor and theater director, known for portraying the evil rat Jenner in Don Bluth's film, The Secret of NIMH (1982) and Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa in Scarface (1983). A veteran Broadway and Shakespearean actor, he was one of the twenty-seven founding members of the American Conservatory Theater. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Shenar has received more than 2,114,311 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paul Shenar is the 2,729th most popular actor (up from 3,002nd in 2019), the 4,252nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,696th in 2019) and the 1,239th most popular American Actor.

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  • 17

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  • 2.97

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  • 2.67

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Paul Shenar ranks 2,729 out of 13,578. Before him are John Williams, Toby Jones, Gary Coleman, Pat Benatar, Liselotte Pulver, and Lolita Torres. After him are Tania Mallet, Claudio Brook, Beatrice Straight, Georges Marchal, Roy Rogers, and Chris Hardwick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Paul Shenar ranks 252. Before him are Frank Serpico, Stanislav Govorukhin, Toralf Engan, Carla Fracci, W. D. Hamilton, and Edvard Radzinsky. After him are Saburō Kawabuchi, Walter Lewin, Ante Žanetić, Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, Kazuo Koike, and Michel Aumont. Among people deceased in 1989, Paul Shenar ranks 136. Before him are George C. Homans, Imre Németh, Alex Thépot, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Diana Vreeland, and Sourou-Migan Apithy. After him are Arsenie Boca, Uichiro Hatta, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Edoardo Amaldi, José López Rega, and Merab Kostava.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Shenar ranks 4,252 out of 20,380. Before him are Sarah Goodridge (1788), John Paine (1870), Walter Short (1880), Carl Wilson (1946), Gregory Jarvis (1944), and Samuel Little (1940). After him are Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Jordan Rudess (1956), Beatrice Straight (1914), James Gunn (1966), Eric Carmen (1949), and Roy Rogers (1911).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Paul Shenar ranks 1,239. Before him are Paul Wesley (1982), Stanley Kamel (1943), Edward Furlong (1977), Linda Fiorentino (1958), Gary Coleman (1968), and Pat Benatar (1953). After him are Beatrice Straight (1914), Roy Rogers (1911), Chris Hardwick (1971), Connie Booth (1944), Wallace Beery (1885), and Roseanne Barr (1952).

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Television and Movie Roles

Scarface
Alejandro Sosa
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
Dec 9o 19838.165 / 10
The Big Blue
Dr. Laurence
Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men. As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful insurance investigator from America, and he finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea.
May 10o 19887.462 / 10
Raw Deal
Paulo Rocca
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
Jun 6o 19865.811 / 10