Paul Mantee
ActingAlso Known As
Paul Marianetti
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.
Movies
(35 total)
Apollo 13
as Reporter
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
as Doctor
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
as Commander Christopher Draper
Breakout
as Cable
Day of the Animals
as Roy Moore
The Manitou
as Dr. McEvoy
The Great Santini
as Col. Virgil Hedgepath
Helter Skelter
as Sgt. O'Neal
Lurking Fear
as Father Poole
The Greatest
as Carrara
Wolf Lake
as Sweeney
Framed
as Frank
That Man Bolt
as Mickey
Blood on the Arrow
as Segura
An American Dream
as Shago Martin
Illusions
as Professor McRoe
W.C. Fields and Me
as Edward
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
as Corassa
Memorial Day
as General Willard
TV Shows
(83 total)
Seinfeld
as Health Inspector
The A-Team
as Chris Thomas
Batman
as Cornell
Murder, She Wrote
as Leo David Fender / Ronald Olson / Jack Landis
Mission: Impossible
as Byron Miller
Mission: Impossible
as Bill Fisher
Dallas
as General Cochran
The Time Tunnel
as Ambahai
Remington Steele
as Albert Hastings
CHiPs
as Eddie
Kojak
as Hank Yankowski
Quincy, M.E.
as Fake Carl Hopwood
Quincy, M.E.
as Perkins
The Streets of San Francisco
as Renfro
T. J. Hooker
as Roy Harris