Richard Paul

Known for ActingBorn 1940-06-06Died 1998-12-25Los Angeles, California, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Richard Paul (June 6, 1940 – December 25, 1998) was an American actor who was born in Los Angeles, California. He was able to imitate most American and many foreign dialects. He had a tenor voice and trained with Lee Sweetland. Richard had a B.A. in public affairs from Claremont Men's College and an M.A. in psychology from California State University, Los Angeles. He was near completion of his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, but gave up his career as a therapist to become a full-time performer. Richard Paul was nicknamed "Pige Paul" by Slim Pickens while filming an episode of The Love Boat (1977) after local pigeons anointed a new suit jacket. In 1980 he guest starred in the ABC comedy 'One In A Million" which only aired for one season Richard was also a frequent panelist on Match Game in the 1980s. From 1977 to 1979 he portrayed Mayor Teddy Burnside in Carter Country, and later played the recurring character of Cabot Cove Mayor, Sam Booth, in Murder, She Wrote. He was cast as Dr. Bob Halyers in the "Clean Up Radio Everywhere" episode ofWKRP in Cincinnati (1978) because of his resemblance to Rev. Jerry Falwell. Paul played Falwell himself twice: once in Fall From Grace, a Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker TV movie made in 1990, and then in The People vs. Larry Flynt in 1996. Paul was in the cult classic film Eating Raoul (1982), written and directed byPaul Bartel. Also in 1982, he co-starred on the short-lived sitcom Herbie, the Love Bug. He also appeared in Bartel's short film, The Secret Cinema, a paranoid-delusional, fantasy masterpiece of self-referential cinema, which was part of theAmazing Stories series on television. Paul also appeared in Not for Publication, written and directed by Bartel. He volunteered with Actors and Others for Animals. He was on the Mental Health Advisory Board of Los Angeles County. He volunteered at childhood immunization clinics for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. He read books into tapes by special request at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles. He married Patty Oestereich in 1968 in Pasadena, California. They were married for 30 years until his death on Christmas day in 1998 at home in Studio City, California, due to cancer at age 58.Read more

Movies & web series

Kraft Salutes Disneyland's 25th Anniversary

Emergency!

Married... with Children

WKRP in Cincinnati

Full House

Murder, She Wrote

Happy Days

Amazing Stories

One in a Million

Quincy, M.E.

Beverly Hills, 90210

The People vs. Larry Flynt

Hail to the Chief

Herman's Head

227

The Drew Carey Show

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Fall From Grace

Eating Raoul

The Love Boat

Carter Country

The Independent

Herbie, the Love Bug

Uphill All the Way

The Mike Douglas Show

Beanstalk

Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight

Pass the Ammo

Not for Publication

Exorcist II: The Heretic

The Man Who Wasn't There

Mind Games

The Princess Academy

The Glass Cage

At Ease