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{{Short description|American film and television actor}}
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{{Infobox person
|name = Lee Paul
|name = Lee Paul
|birth_name = Paul Lee Kroll<ref name="b">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101478684/evening-standard/|title=The cowboy from Brooklyn|work=[[Evening Standard]]|location=[[London, Greater London]], [[England]]|date=August 18, 1959|access-date=May 10, 2022|page=7|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
|birth_date = {{birth date|1939|6|16}}
|birth_date = {{birth date|1939|6|16}}
|birth_place = [[United States]]
|birth_place = [[United States]]
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|occupation = Film and television actor
|occupation = Film and television actor
|years_active = 1966–1988
|years_active = 1966–1988
|spouse = Kathy Kroll
| website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20100514000745/http://www.leepaulusa.com/|leepaulusa.com}}
}}
}}


'''Lee Paul''' (June 16, 1939 – September 22, 2019) was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for playing as the [[bodyguard]] of "Doyle Lonnegan" ([[Robert Shaw (actor)|Robert Shaw]]) in the 1973 film ''[[The Sting]]'', alongside actor [[Charles Dierkop]] who played the role of "Floyd".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Robert_Redford/FoWvHF6c4gEC?hl=en|title=Robert Redford: The Biography|page=527|first=Michael|last=Callan|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|date=May 2012|isbn=9780307475961|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
'''Paul Lee Kroll''', also known as '''Lee Paul''', (June 16, 1939<ref name="a" /> – September 22, 2019) was an American film and television actor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-25-vw-665-story.html|title=Chatsworth Actor Finds Steady Work, Dividends as Film Heavy: But Veteran of 100 Roles Seeks to Change Hat to White|first=Dewayne|last=Johnson|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=December 25, 1986|access-date=May 10, 2022}}</ref> He was perhaps best known for playing as the [[bodyguard]] of Doyle Lonnegan ([[Robert Shaw (actor)|Robert Shaw]]) in the 1973 film ''[[The Sting]]'', alongside actor [[Charles Dierkop]] who played the role of Floyd.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FoWvHF6c4gEC|title=Robert Redford: The Biography|page=527|first=Michael|last=Callan|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|date=May 2012|isbn=9780307475961|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>


Paul was born in the [[United States]], where he was raised in [[Brooklyn, New York]].<ref name="a">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW0HEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT330|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019|page=316|first=Harris|last=Lentz|publisher=McFarland|date=November 6, 2020|isbn=9781476679785|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> He attended at a college in [[Marietta, Ohio]], in which he then served in the [[United States Air Force]].<ref name="a" /> Paul guest-starred in numerous television programs, including, ''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'',<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Booking_Hawaii_Five_O/_FruSwC9UjwC?hl=en|title=Booking Hawaii Five-O: An Episode Guide and Critical History of the 1968-1980 Television Detective Series|page=49|first=Karen|last=Rhodes|publisher=McFarland|date=December 20, 2011|isbn=9780786486663|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> ''[[Quincy, M.E.]]'', ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]'', ''[[Fantasy Island]]'', ''[[Tenspeed and Brown Shoe]]'', ''[[The Rookies]]'', ''[[The Fall Guy]]'', ''[[Simon & Simon]]'', ''[[Emergency!]]'',<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Emergency/cixPyu5pCaUC?hl=en|title=Emergency!: Behind the Scene|page=209|last1=Yokley|first1=Richard|last2=Sutherland|first2=Rozane|date=May 2007|publisher=Jones and Bartlett Learning|isbn=9780763748968|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> ''[[Ironside (1967 TV series)|Ironside]]'', ''[[Police Woman (TV series)|Police Woman]]'', ''[[Matlock (TV series)|Matlock]]'', ''[[Falcon Crest]]'', ''[[Cannon (TV series)|Cannon]]'', ''[[Happy Days]]'', ''[[Mannix]]'', ''[[Adam-12]]'' and ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]''.<ref name="a" />
Paul was born in the [[United States]], where he was raised in [[Brooklyn, New York]].<ref name="a">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW0HEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT330|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019|page=316|first=Harris|last=Lentz|publisher=McFarland|date=November 6, 2020|isbn=9781476679785|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> He attended at a college in [[Marietta, Ohio]], in which he then served in the [[United States Air Force]].<ref name="a" /> Paul guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'',<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_FruSwC9UjwC|title=Booking Hawaii Five-O: An Episode Guide and Critical History of the 1968-1980 Television Detective Series|page=49|first=Karen|last=Rhodes|publisher=McFarland|date=December 20, 2011|isbn=9780786486663|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> ''[[Quincy, M.E.]]'', ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]'', ''[[Fantasy Island]]'', ''[[Tenspeed and Brown Shoe]]'', ''[[The Rookies]]'', ''[[The Fall Guy]]'', ''[[Simon & Simon]]'', ''[[Emergency!]]'',<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cixPyu5pCaUC|title=Emergency!: Behind the Scene|page=209|last1=Yokley|first1=Richard|last2=Sutherland|first2=Rozane|date=May 2007|publisher=Jones and Bartlett Learning|isbn=9780763748968|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> ''[[Ironside (1967 TV series)|Ironside]]'', ''[[Police Woman (TV series)|Police Woman]]'', ''[[Matlock (1986 TV series)|Matlock]]'', ''[[Falcon Crest]]'', ''[[Cannon (TV series)|Cannon]]'', ''[[Happy Days]]'', ''[[Mannix]]'', ''[[Adam-12]]'' and ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]''.<ref name="a" />


Paul died in September 2019, at the age of 80.<ref name="a" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digital.copcomm.com/i/1186820-fall-2019/109?|title=SAG-AFTRA Fall 2019|page=109|work=[[SAG-AFTRA]]|access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref>
Paul was married to dancer Kathy Kroll.<ref name="BPR Book">{{cite book |last1=Paul |first1=Lee |title=Bitch, Pitch, and Get Rich: (Success at the Tip of Your Tongue) |date=2011 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=9781450293211 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbn9fIZdHlgC&dq=%22lee+paul%22+%22kathy+kroll%22&pg=PR7|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> He was a emigrant to Sweden for Swedish-American Day.<ref name="b" /> Paul worked as a [[Petroleum engineering|petroleum engineer]].<ref name="b" /> He died in September 2019, at the age of 80.<ref name="a" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digital.copcomm.com/i/1186820-fall-2019/109?|title=SAG-AFTRA Fall 2019|page=109|work=[[SAG-AFTRA]]|access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref>


== Partial filmography ==
== Partial filmography ==
*''[[Mission Impossible]]'' (1971-1972) - Gristin, Schmidt
*''[[Ben (film)|Ben]]'' (1972) - Careu
*''[[Ben (film)|Ben]]'' (1972) - Careu
*''[[The Sting]]'' (1973) - Lonnegan's bodyguard
*''[[The Sting]]'' (1973) - Lonnegan's bodyguard
*''[[The Rookies]]'' (1973) - Tim Duvall
*''[[Kung Fu (1972 TV series)|Kung Fu]]'' (1973) - Gilchrist
*''[[Scream of the Wolf]]'' (1974) - Student
*''[[Scream of the Wolf]]'' (1974) - Student
*’’[[Get Christie Love]]’’ (1974) - Pilot Episode, Max Loomis
*''[[Happy Days]]'' (1974) - Mory
*''[[The Island at the Top of the World]]'' (1974) - Chief of Boat Archers
*''[[The Island at the Top of the World]]'' (1974) - Chief of Boat Archers
*''[[Police Woman (TV series)|Police Woman]]'' (1975 - 1977)
*''[[Deadly Friend]]'' (1986) - Sergeant Charlie Volchek<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Wes_Craven/5u-i03aazJwC?hl=en|title=Wes Craven: The Art of Horror|page=121|first=John|last=Muir|publisher=McFarland|date=February 24, 2004|isbn=9780786419234|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
*''[[Emergency!]]'' (1975) - Pete
*''[[The Fall Guy]]'' (1985) - Henchman
*''[[Deadly Friend]]'' (1986) - Sergeant Charlie Volchek<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5u-i03aazJwC|title=Wes Craven: The Art of Horror|page=121|first=John|last=Muir|publisher=McFarland|date=February 24, 2004|isbn=9780786419234|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
*''Survival Game'' (1987) - McClean
*''Survival Game'' (1987) - McClean
*''[[The Van Dyke Show]]'' (1988) - Al


== References ==
== References ==
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[[Category:American male television actors]]
[[Category:American male television actors]]
[[Category:20th-century American male actors]]
[[Category:20th-century American male actors]]
[[Category:American emigrants to Sweden]]
[[Category:Petroleum engineers]]

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Lee Paul
Born
Paul Lee Kroll[1]

(1939-06-16)June 16, 1939
DiedSeptember 22, 2019(2019-09-22) (aged 80)
Occupation(s)Film and television actor
Years active1966–1988
SpouseKathy Kroll
Websiteleepaulusa.com

Paul Lee Kroll, also known as Lee Paul, (June 16, 1939[2] – September 22, 2019) was an American film and television actor.[3] He was perhaps best known for playing as the bodyguard of Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) in the 1973 film The Sting, alongside actor Charles Dierkop who played the role of Floyd.[4]

Paul was born in the United States, where he was raised in Brooklyn, New York.[2] He attended at a college in Marietta, Ohio, in which he then served in the United States Air Force.[2] Paul guest-starred in numerous television programs including Hawaii Five-O,[5] Quincy, M.E., Wonder Woman, Fantasy Island, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, The Rookies, The Fall Guy, Simon & Simon, Emergency!,[6] Ironside, Police Woman, Matlock, Falcon Crest, Cannon, Happy Days, Mannix, Adam-12 and Mission: Impossible.[2]

Paul was married to dancer Kathy Kroll.[7] He was a emigrant to Sweden for Swedish-American Day.[1] Paul worked as a petroleum engineer.[1] He died in September 2019, at the age of 80.[2][8]

Partial filmography

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "The cowboy from Brooklyn". Evening Standard. London, Greater London, England. August 18, 1959. p. 7. Retrieved May 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ a b c d e Lentz, Harris (November 6, 2020). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019. McFarland. p. 316. ISBN 9781476679785 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Johnson, Dewayne (December 25, 1986). "Chatsworth Actor Finds Steady Work, Dividends as Film Heavy: But Veteran of 100 Roles Seeks to Change Hat to White". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  4. ^ Callan, Michael (May 2012). Robert Redford: The Biography. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 527. ISBN 9780307475961 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Rhodes, Karen (December 20, 2011). Booking Hawaii Five-O: An Episode Guide and Critical History of the 1968-1980 Television Detective Series. McFarland. p. 49. ISBN 9780786486663 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Yokley, Richard; Sutherland, Rozane (May 2007). Emergency!: Behind the Scene. Jones and Bartlett Learning. p. 209. ISBN 9780763748968 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Paul, Lee (2011). Bitch, Pitch, and Get Rich: (Success at the Tip of Your Tongue). iUniverse. ISBN 9781450293211 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "SAG-AFTRA Fall 2019". SAG-AFTRA. p. 109. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
  9. ^ Muir, John (February 24, 2004). Wes Craven: The Art of Horror. McFarland. p. 121. ISBN 9780786419234 – via Google Books.
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