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Paul

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17 July 1952

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Rochester, New York, USA

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Paul Pape (born July 17, 1952) is an American actor. He has appeared in over 20 films since 1977, including the role of Double J in the 1977 hit Saturday Night Fever. He also stars in the video game in the Need for Speed franchise Need for Speed: Undercover as Lt. Jack M. Keller police Lt. of the Tri-City Police Department. Ha also did sounds for Bolt.

Actor/Producer Paul Pape is the President and CEO of Red Wall Productions. The company first optioned the rights to a single book, Larry Pointer`s "In Search of Butch Cassidy" and still owns the rights to that book as well as the film rights to three other books: Jon Chandler`s "The Spanish Peaks" (winner of the Western Writers of America Best First Novel Award), "Song of Sorrow" by Patrick Mendoza and "Murder at the Brown Palace" by Denver Post columnist Dick Krek. With two fully realized scripts (written by Paul) and six other projects in various stages of development, Red Wall is actively pursuing American history and/or family entertainment themes as their stories of choice. Along with his partner, producer Lincoln Lageson, the two have committed themselves to developing projects that will appeal to a wide audience. A thirty-year veteran of the entertainment business, Paul began his career as an actor in New York. As a member of the successful repertory company, the Collonades Theater Lab, he served his apprenticeship alongside future notables Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Jeff Goldblum, Michael O`Keefe and Peter Scolari. After going Off-Broadway to appear in "The Cherry Orchard" with Kim Hunter, Paul got his break when he was cast to co-star opposite John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever". In the early 1980s, he began doing voice-over work, a field that would bring him considerable success. With over 4000 voice-over credits to-date, Paul`s voice has been heard in almost every media imaginable; commercials, narrations, promos & trailers, television series, feature films, mini-series, movies of the week and video games. Lately, he`s been returning to on-camera work more and more, as he did recently when he appeared opposite Tom Berenger in "The Detective", a mini-series from Hallmark. In addition,he showed up briefly in "Liberty Street", also from Hallmark. He can be seen co-starring in the short film "Three Rounds", which was an accepted entry into the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. In 2005, he co-starred in "The Stranger", a short film that Red Wall Productions co-produced. Early in 2006, Red Wall produced "Interrogation", a short film that has gone on to garner 14 festival nominations and 4 awards to-date; for Editing, Overall Excellence, Out of Frame Best Short Film and Narrative Story. Paul himself has been nominated in the writing and supporting actor categories. One was the highlights was seeing the film accepted into the prestigious Palm Springs International Short Film Festival in August, 2007. In September, 2007, shooting began on a documentary of "In Search of Butch Cassidy". Pre-production is underway for another short, "The Testimony of Silas Soule", which will lens in late 2008. A life long fan of the literature, films and history of the American West, Paul has traveled extensively throughout the region. An avid photographer and author for the last 20 years, he has chronicled these travels in depth. During this time he has also served as a staff writer and photographer for Trail Dust Magazine and his images and articles have appeared on book covers and in publications nationwide. Paul is married to two-time Emmy Winning Sound Editor Suzanne Angel-Pape. They are raising a daughter, Isabella, and make their home in Los Angeles.

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