Paul Gleason
Paul Xavier Gleason ( born May 4, 1939 in Jersey City, New Jersey, † 27 May, 2006 Burbank, California ) was an American actor.
Biography
Gleason reached on regional notoriety as a football player from Florida State University. After graduating in 1966 he was taken by the Cleveland Indians baseball team under contract. Nevertheless, he turned away from professional sports and shifted as some of his teammates from Florida State University, Burt Reynolds and Robert Urich, entirely on the acting. This was triggered Elia Kazan drama fever in the blood, which he had seen with his friend, the writer Jack Kerouac in 1961 at the cinema. Thereupon Gleason applied at Lee Strasberg's prestigious Actors Studio and learned there the profession of the actor.
In over 40 years spanning film and television career, Gleason appeared in over 60 feature films and in more than 70 television productions. Often he embodied this representative of law and order, although sometimes. Well as broken or corrupt characters
Among his best known films include the ajar to Mark Twain comedy Trading Places with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, Bruce Willis ' action classic Die Hard, high school comedy Breakfast Club, the Adventure Doc Savage - The Man of Bronze and the Star Wars spinoff Ewoks - battle for Endor.
A wide television audience, he was primarily known for his role as " David Thornton ", which he embodied 1976-1978 in the soap opera All My Children. In addition, he has guest starred in numerous television shows such as The A-Team, Seinfeld, Riptide and Friends.
In addition, he has participated in numerous theater productions, including on Broadway and brought out a book of her own poems.
The passionate golfer Gleason was married twice.
On 27 May 2006 he died in Burbank, California, to a potentially caused by asbestos lung cancer.