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Paul Shenar (February 12, 1936 − October 11, 1989) was an American actor. Shenar became involved in theater at an early age, partaking in the local Milwaukee playhouse productions. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the United States Air Force. Following his military career he began acting again. Shenar gained attention playing larger-than-life entertainment legends on 1970s television. 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 also portrayed the... MORE

Paul Shenar (February 12, 1936 − October 11, 1989) was an American actor. Shenar became involved in theater at an early age, partaking in the local Milwaukee playhouse productions. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the United States Air Force. Following his military career he began acting again. Shenar gained attention playing larger-than-life entertainment legends on 1970s television. 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 also portrayed the murderous Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa in Brian De Palma'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 continued to act during the 1980s. He did a stage version of Macbeth in Los Angeles and appeared in movies like Best Seller, The Bedroom Window, The Big Blue, and Raw Deal, plus the TV movie Rage LESS