{{Short description|American film and television actor (1939–2019)}}
{{Infobox person |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_place = United States |death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|9|22|1939|6|16}} |occupation = Film and television actor |years_active = 1966–1988 |spouse = Kathy Kroll | website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20100514000745/http://www.leepaulusa.com/|leepaulusa.com}} | height = 6'6" }}
'''Paul Lee Kroll''' (June 16, 1939<ref name="a" /> – September 22, 2019), also known as '''Lee Paul''', 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 best known for playing the bodyguard of Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) in the 1973 film ''The Sting'', alongside actor Charles Dierkop who played 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 college in Marietta, Ohio, and served in the United States Air Force.<ref name="a" /> He guest-starred in numerous television programs including ''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'', ''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'', ''Police Woman'', ''Matlock'', ''Falcon Crest'', ''Cannon'', ''Happy Days'', ''Mannix'', ''Adam-12'' and ''Mission: Impossible''.<ref name="a" />
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 an expatriate to Sweden for Swedish-American Day, and was a petroleum engineer.<ref name="b" />
Paul died on September 22, 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 == *''Mission Impossible'' (1971-1972) - Gristin, Schmidt *''Ben'' (1972) - Careu *''The Sting'' (1973) - Lonnegan's bodyguard *''The Rookies'' (1973) - Tim Duvall *''Kung Fu'' (1973) - Gilchrist *''Hawaii Five-O'' (1969, S1Ep23 "Not That Much Different" *''Hawaii Five-O'' (1972, S4E18) - Mitch Keller *’’Cannon’’ (1973, S3E3) - Menacing Loan Shark *''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 *''Police Woman'' (1975 - 1977) *''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> *''The Van Dyke Show'' (1988) - Al
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== External links == *{{IMDb name|0666901}} *{{TCMDb name|148839%7C0}} *[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/lee_paul/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Paul, Lee}} Category:1939 births Category:2019 deaths Category:American male film actors Category:American male television actors Category:20th-century American male actors Category:American people of Swedish descent Category:Petroleum engineers Category:American expatriates in Sweden