Paul Mantee
Born: 1931-01-09 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 2013-11-07
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1999
- Memorial Day as General Willard
1995
- Apollo 13 as Reporter
1994
- Lurking Fear as Father Poole
- Cagney & Lacey: The Return as Corassa
1993
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story as Doctor
1992
- Illusions as Professor McRoe
1989
- Seinfeld as Health Inspector
1986
- L.A. Law as Judge Mitchell Katlin
1985
- Promises to Keep as Mike
- First Strike
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Leo David Fender / Ronald Olson / Jack Landis
- Hunter as Commander Clayton
- Crazy like a Fox as Bailey
1983
- The A-Team as Chris Thomas
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King
- Masquerade as Agent Watkins
1982
- T. J. Hooker as Roy Harris
- Cagney & Lacey
- Remington Steele as Albert Hastings
- Capitol
1981
- Simon & Simon
- The Fall Guy
- Foul Play
- Death Ray 2000 as James DiGiorgio
1980
- Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story as Ordway
- Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story as Ordway
- Fugitive Family as Walther
- Wolf Lake as Sweeney
1979
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Karl
- 240-Robert
- The Great Santini as Col. Virgil Hedgepath
- When Hell Was in Session as Capt. Brown
1978
- Dallas as General Cochran
- Vega$
- The Manitou as Dr. McEvoy
1977
- CHiPs as Eddie
- Logan's Run as Barton
- Hunter as Lawrence
- The Fantastic Journey as Morgan
- The Greatest as Carrara
- Day of the Animals as Roy Moore
- Man from Atlantis IV: The Disappearances as FBI Agent Fuller
1976
- Quincy, M.E.
- Alice
- W.C. Fields and Me as Edward
- Helter Skelter as Sgt. O'Neal
1975
- Bronk
- S.W.A.T.
- Medical Story as Robert Fowler
- Breakout as Cable
- Framed as Frank
1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Terry
- The Healers
- Big Rose as Troy
- In Tandem as Man in Windbreaker
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Wallace Brooks
- Kojak as Hank Yankowski
- Police Story
- The Magician as Joe Taggart
- That Man Bolt as Mickey
- Cry Rape as Jim Hadley
- Call to Danger as Adams
1969
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Jiggs
1968
- The Name of the Game as Father Minetti
- The Outcasts
- A Man Called Dagger as Dick Dagger
1967
- Mannix
- Ironside
- The Invaders as Deputy Vern Hammond
- Cimarron Strip
- Rango
- Lionpower from MGM as Self - Dick Dagger (archive footage) (uncredited)
1966
- Batman as Cornell
- Mission: Impossible as Byron Miller
- The Time Tunnel as Ambahai
- Felony Squad
- Jericho
- An American Dream as Shago Martin
1965
- The F.B.I. as Frank Macklin
- Laredo
1964
- Daniel Boone as Atawa
- Blood on the Arrow as Segura
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars as Commander Christopher Draper
1963
- The Fugitive as Jack Burmas
- Mr. Novak as Hal Williams
- The Lieutenant
1962
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Neurosurgeon
- Ben Casey
1959
1958
- The Rifleman
- 77 Sunset Strip as Nick Malatesta
- Steve Canyon as Sgt. Taliman
1955
- Cheyenne as Johnny Crow
1951
- Dragnet as Morris Copley