PAUL MCCRANE

'Paul David McCrane' (born January 19, 1961) is a Grammy Award-nominated American movie, television and theatre actor, as well as an occasional television director. His roles include Emil Antonowsky in ''RoboCop'', Montgomery MacNeil in ''Fame'', Astronaut Pete Conrad in ''From the Earth to the Moon'', cancer-absorbing mutant Leonard Betts in ''The X-Files'' and Dr. Robert Romano on ''ER''. More recently, he has guest-starred in ''24'', season 5 and 6 as Graem Bauer.

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Biography

Career

Personal life

References

External links

Biography

Career

McCrane has been known to take roles where his characters experience horrible pain and injury or violent death:

★ Emil Antonowsky in ''RoboCop'' had toxic waste spilled on him and he was run over

★ Lt.Neil Cole In ''Eye For An Eye'' shot in the cheast with a dart gun by Jay Mohr when he try's to save Sally Field from the vigilant
fake cops then ran over by a black limo

★ Robert Romano (1997-2003) in ''ER'' had his arm chopped off by the anti-torque rotor of a helicopter and was later crushed to death by another chopper

★ Leonard Betts from ''The X-Files'' was decapitated in an ambulance crash, only to regrow his head and soon get blown up in a car later in the episode.

★ In the 5th episode of ''24'' Day 6, after his character is reunited with his brother (federal agent Jack Bauer), Jack suddenly punches him, binds his hands, and proceeds to place a plastic bag over his head. After Jack interrogates him by torturing him with a neurological inflammatory, he confesses to being behind the deaths of David Palmer, Tony Almeda, and Michelle Dessler and admits that this wasn't the first time he tried to kill Jack. The episode ends with their father secretly injecting a fatal dosage into McCrane's character.
The notable exceptions to this pattern were McCrane's role as Montgomery MacNeil in ''Fame'', a sensitive aspiring actor coming to terms with his homosexuality, and his role as the historical Apollo Astronaut Pete Conrad in the HBO Mini-Series ''From the Earth to the Moon''. However, Conrad was subject to a number of constant discomforts. Following his acting departure from ''ER'', McCrane has directed several episodes of the show, and has also directed episodes of ''Without A Trace'', ''The West Wing'' and ''.

Personal life

McCrane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Eileen C. Manyak, a nurse, and James J. McCrane, Jr., an actor and writer.^[1] He has a sister, Barbara.^[2] He married Dana Kellin, a jewelry designer, in 1998; they have two children, William Thomas and Noa Catherine.

References

1. http://www.filmreference.com/film/21/Paul-McCrane.html
2. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804501476/bio

Paul also has a brother and is originally from Bucks County, PA.

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