Paul Freeman

Biography: Paul Freeman

A noted character actor in England, Paul Freeman spent his early performing years on the stage, moving into film with the abysmal Whose Child Am I?, which still turns up on cable once in a while. TV appearances (including The Life of Shakespeare in which he played Burbage) followed. In 1979 he was drafted to play Colin, the best friend of fictional British crime boss Harold Shand (played by Bob Hoskins) in the controversial and troubled The Long Good Friday. Equally as controversial was Death of a Princess, a docudrama about the 1977 execution of a Saudi Arabian princess for adultery, in which Freeman portrayed journalist Anthony Thomas. The Dogs of War took Freeman to Africa, co-starring with Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger, and it was during this shoot that he met his wife, Maggie Scott, who was cast in the key role of Gabrielle. Tunisia was one of the next stops for Freeman, who stepped into one of the defining roles of his career at this point -- that of crooked archaeologist Rene Belloq, chief rival to Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Freeman returned briefly to television, as the villainous Gustav Riebman in Falcon Crest, then returned to feature work with The Sender,The Final Option, and others, salting these with Sakharov for HBO and the miniseries A.D., which led to him being cast in the title role of the aborted Pontius Pilate project, based on the Paul Maier novel. Over the years, he has essayed a remarkable number of roles, from parts in the universally panned Shanghai Surprise (which sank George Harrison's Handmade Films company) to the role of Moriarty in Without a Clue and even, buried under pounds of makeup, the evil Ivan Ooze in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie. On occasion he has even managed to turn up in controversial projects, such as 1990's barely-seen Prisoner of Rio, in which he played Ronald Biggs, a fugitive British train robber living handsomely in Brazil. By late 1997, early 1998, he was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Paul Freeman is not to be confused with a producer by the same name. ~ Steven E. McDonald, All Movie Guide less

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The Feast of the Goat (2006)
Cast: Isabella Rossellini Eileen Atkins Tomas Milian Andrés Vicente Gómez Steven Bauer
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller Ensemble Film
Length: 125min
With his English-language political hriller The Feast of the Goat, action helmer Luis Llosa cinematizes Mario Vargas Llosa's sweeping, epic novel about the myriad of events leading up to the assassination of a real-life tyrannical despot. The story...
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The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman Louise Fletcher Donna Deitch Kirsten Dunst Mimi Rogers
Tags: Period Film Drama Science Fiction Coming-of-Age
Length: 100min
Kirsten Dunst stars in this drama as a Jewish teenager who doesn't care much about her family's religious heritage until she's transported back in time to Poland in 1941, where she learns a valuable lesson about the struggles of her family -- and her...
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Morlang (2001)
Cast: Susan Lynch Tjebbo Penning Diana Kent Paul Freeman Eric van der Donk
Tags: Psychological Drama Marriage Drama Drama
Length: 95min
Everything seems to be going right for Julius Morlang (Paul Freeman, best-known as the villainous Rene Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark). He lives with his beautiful young girlfriend, Ann (Susan Lynch of From Hell), in a lovely cliffside home on the...
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Iron Eagle III: Aces (1992)
Cast: Louis Gossett, Jr. Horst Buchholz Fred Dalton Thompson John Glen Sonny Chiba
Tags: Action Thriller Action Adventure
Length: 98min
Chappy Sinclair enlists the aid of a team of wild air show pilots after he discovers that a Peruvian drug lord has set up shop in a small village. The fly boys make off with a fleet of World War II vintage aircraft in an effort to drive the drug...
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Double Team (1997)
Cast: Tsui Hark Mickey Rourke Jean-Claude Van Damme Peter Pau Paul Freeman
Tags: Action Thriller Buddy Film Action
Length: 93min
Like John Woo and Ringo Lam before him, noted Hong Kong action director Tsui Hark made his American filmmaking debut with a thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. For this film, Hark also had the privilege of guiding basketball star Dennis Rodman...
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Only Love (1998)
Cast: Rob Morrow Jeroen Krabbé Mathilda May Marisa Tomei John Erman
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance
Length: 130min
In this two-part made-for-TV romantic drama, a neurosurgeon finds difficulty in dealing with the fact that his latest critically ill patient is the woman whom he once wanted to marry. He is married to another woman, but he still has feelings for his...
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Eminent Domain (1991)
Cast: Donald Sutherland John Irvin Anne Archer Jodhi May Allan Starski
Tags: Drama Thriller
Length: 102min
Polish bureaucrat Jozef Burski (Donald Sutherland) all but loses his reason for living when he is "downsized" by his government. Reduced to non-person status, Burski reaches out to his friends for moral support, but they turn their backs on him. Worse...
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Piccolo Grande Amore (1993)
Cast: David Warner Susannah York Carlo Vanzina Luigi Kuveiller Paul Freeman
Length: 111min
In this romantic fantasy, Liechtenhaus is one of those seldom-heard-of tiny European principalities. It is being ruled by Prince Max (David Warner), but the little country is nearly bankrupt. In fact, if he can't get an infusion of cash quickly, he...
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Just Like a Woman (1992)
Cast: Alan Hume Julie Walters Adrian Pasdar Christopher Monger Ian Redford
Tags: Romantic Comedy Farce Comedy
Length: 106min
Just Like a Woman is a contemporary cross-dressing farce played as if it were a romantic comedy. But still, in the deep recesses of the celluloid, the narrator from Ed Wood's Glen Or Glenda can be heard intoning, "Remember, transvestites are not...
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The Last Island (1990)
Cast: Marleen Gorris Kenneth Colley Mark Hembrow Paul Freeman Patricia Hayes
Length: 115min
In this somewhat allegorical drama, five men, two women and a dog are the sole survivors of an airplane crash into the desert. The men are as mixed a lot as one could hope to find; the women (one young, one mature) are as level-headed a pair as one...
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