From alt.obituaries. Some may remember him from "Memory" and "The
Survivors."
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>Subject: Albert Paulsen, 78: Actor Often Portrayed Villains
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:45:02 -0400
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Los Angeles Times
Only photo I could find:
http://www.fandom.tv/SunCompass/images/paulsen.jpg
Albert Paulsen, an Emmy-winning television, film and
Broadway character actor best remembered for playing
charismatic gangsters and sinister villains, has died. He
was 78.
Paulsen died Sunday in Los Angeles of natural causes.
The versatile actor, who frequently worked at such small
theaters as the Odyssey in West L.A., earned his Emmy for
supporting actor in 1964 for the previous year's "One Day in
the Life of Ivan Denisovich." Jason Robards had the starring
role in the production that aired on "Bob Hope Presents the
Chrysler Theatre."
Paulsen, much in demand for television spy and detective
series in the 1960s, was working on an episode of "The Man
From U.N.C.L.E." when the award was announced. When series
star Robert Vaughn realized that Paulsen had not formally
been presented with the Emmy, he obtained the statuette and
handed it to Paulsen in a special ceremony on the
"U.N.C.L.E." set.
The busy character actor had flown to Los Angeles to work on
the "U.N.C.L.E." script after appearing on Broadway with
Geraldine Page in Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters." He
also acted in a motion picture version of that play.
An avid reader, Paulsen so revered novelist Vladimir Nabokov
that he created a one-man show, "Nabokov," which premiered
at the Odyssey Theatre in 1982 before touring the country. A
Times reviewer called it "a rewarding and unusual one-man
show" and wrote: "The performance is gentle, infectious,
touched occasionally with a certain absent-minded charm that
brings to life for 70 minutes one of the century's great
writers."
Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, of Norwegian descent, Paulsen
grew up studying in German boarding schools and attended
college in Ecuador -- which proved to be good preparation
for playing myriad character roles with variously accented
English.
After immigrating to the United States and serving in World
War II, he used the G.I. Bill to study acting at the
Neighborhood Playhouse under Sanford Meisner and at the
Actors Studio with Lee Stras- berg.
Paulsen made his motion picture debut in John
Frankenheimer's 1962 "The Manchurian Candidate."
The actor also had key character roles in such films as "The
Next Man" with Sean Connery in 1976 and "Eyewitness" with
William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver in 1981.
On television, Paulsen had guest roles on such popular
series as "Combat," "77 Sunset Strip," "The Untouchables,"
"The F.B.I.," "I Spy," "The Rockford Files," "Hawaii Five-O"
and "Mission: Impossible."
He is survived by a brother, Juan.
Services will be private.
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