Paul Mantee
- Acting
- January 9, 1931 · San Francisco, California, USA
- November 7, 2013
Biography
Mantee was born Paul Marianetti in San Francisco, California. A journalism major at San Mateo Junior College, Mantee enlisted in the U.S. Navy for four years during the Korean War that made him decide on acting as a career. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. His stage name was changed from an Italian-sounding name to the name of Humphrey Bogart's character in The Petrified Forest. He made a great number of guest appearances in well-known television shows and starred in a handful of films, including a cult classic, Robinson Crusoe on Mars. A restored version of the film was released in 2007 by The Criterion Collection. Mantee authored two novels, In Search of the Perfect Ravioli (Ballantine Books, 1991) and a semi-autobiographical Bruno of Hollywood (Ballantine Books, 1994). Mantee, a longtime Malibu resident, died November 7, 2013 at a rehabilitation center in Canoga Park, California. He was survived by his wife, Suzy Davis Mantee.
Known for
Filmography
- Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! · Self
- Memorial Day · General Willard
- Apollo 13 · Reporter
- Cagney & Lacey: The Return · Corassa
- Lurking Fear · Father Poole
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story · Doctor
- Illusions · Professor McRoe
- Seinfeld · Health Inspector
- L.A. Law · Judge Mitchell Katlin
- Promises to Keep · Mike
- First Strike
- Crazy like a Fox · Bailey
- Murder, She Wrote · Leo David Fender / Ronald Olson / Jack Landis
- Hunter · Commander Clayton
- Masquerade · Agent Watkins
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King
- The A-Team · Chris Thomas
- This Girl for Hire · Finnegan
- Remington Steele · Albert Hastings
- Capitol
- Cagney & Lacey · Al Corassa, Lt. Sandusky
- T. J. Hooker · Roy Harris
- Simon & Simon
- The Fall Guy
- Death Ray 2000 · James DiGiorgio
- Foul Play
- Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story · Ordway
- Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story · Ordway
- Fugitive Family · Walther
- Wolf Lake · Sweeney
- The Great Santini · Col. Virgil Hedgepath
- When Hell Was in Session · Capt. Brown
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century · Karl
- 240-Robert
- Vega$ · Roy
- The Manitou · Dr. McEvoy
- Dallas · General Cochran
- Logan's Run · Barton
- CHiPs · Eddie
- Man from Atlantis IV: The Disappearances · FBI Agent Fuller
- The Greatest · Carrara
- Day of the Animals · Roy Moore
- Hunter · Lawrence
- The Fantastic Journey · Morgan
- Quincy, M.E. · Fake Carl Hopwood, Perkins
- Alice
- Helter Skelter · Sgt. O'Neal
- W.C. Fields and Me · Edward
- Medical Story · Robert Fowler
- Framed · Frank
- Breakout · Cable
- Bronk
- S.W.A.T.
- The Healers
- In Tandem · Man in Windbreaker
- Big Rose · Troy
- The Six Million Dollar Man · Terry
- That Man Bolt · Mickey
- Cry Rape · Jim Hadley
- Kojak · Hank Yankowski
- The Magician · Joe Taggart
- Police Story
- Call to Danger · Adams
- Barnaby Jones · Wallace Brooks
- The Streets of San Francisco · Renfro
- Search
- O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
- Cannon
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? · Jiggs
- The Outcasts
- The Name of the Game · Father Minetti
- A Man Called Dagger · Dick Dagger
- Mannix · Marcos, Frank Viola
- Cimarron Strip
- Ironside · Prof. Bradford Link
- Rango
- The Invaders · Deputy Vern Hammond
- Lionpower from MGM · Self
- Mission: Impossible · Byron Miller, Bill Fisher
- Jericho