- Paul Shenar
Infobox Person
name=Paul Shenar
caption=Paul Shenar asAlejandro Sosa in "Scarface" (1983)
birth_date=birth date|1936|2|12|mf=y
birth_place=Milwaukee, Wisconsin , U.S.
death_date=death date and age|1989|10|11|1936|2|12|mf=y
death_place=West Hollywood, California U.S.Paul Shenar (
February 12 ,1936 -October 11 ,1989 ) was an Americanactor .Shenar's birth name was "Albert Paul Shenar". Born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Turkish and Jewish heritage,Fact|date=August 2008 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 portrayedOrson Welles in the TV movie "The Night That Panicked America " (1975) (TV) and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in "" (1978) (TV). He is probably best known for playing the murderousBolivia ndrug lord Alejandro Sosa inBrian 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 inWest Hollywood, California in 1989.External links
*imdb name|id=0791502|name=Paul Shenar
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