Paul Sand

Paul Sand (* 5. March 1935 as Paul Stone Sanchez in Santa Monica , California ) is an American actor .

Life

Sand attended Viola Spolin's improvisational theater school when he was eleven . He graduated from Los Angeles State College and joined the Chicago theater group The Second City in 1960 . With the revue From the Second City he had his Broadway debut in 1961 on the side of Alan Arkin and Barbara Harris . He was also on stage off-Broadway , including in the revue The Mad Show based on the magazine of the same name . In the early 1970s he won three important theater awards; the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor for Story Theater and two Drama Desk Awards .

Since the mid-1960s, he was also seen in film and television. He played in several Hollywood productions , including on the side of Peter Ustinov in Viva Max! , alongside Robert Redford in Four Weird Birds and with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in What, You Don't Want? . In a career spanning five decades, he has appeared in guest roles on numerous television series, including In Love with a Witch , Fantasy Island , Magnum , The X-Files - The FBI's Scary Cases and Sliders - The Gateway to a Foreign Dimension . In 1974 he had his own sitcom on CBS , Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers . The series about the failed relationships of a concert cellist with Penny Marshall and Michael Pataki in other leading roles was discontinued after the first season with a total of 15 episodes. Between 2003 and 2005, Sand played the recurring role of Rabbi Polonski in the series The Heavenly Joan .

In 2016, Sand founded the Santa Monica Public Theater .

Filmography (selection)

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• 1966: In Love with a Witch (Bewitched)
• 1978: Fantasy Island
• 1978: Wonder Woman
• 1981: Taxi
• 1983: Love Boat (The Love Boat)
• 1985: Cagney & Lacey
• 1985: Murder is her hobby (Murder, She Wrote)
• 1986: Magnum (Magnum, pi)
• 1989: Back to the Past (Quantum Leap)
• 1991: Harry's Miraculous Night Court
• 1994: The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases
• 1994: LA Law - Star Lawyers, Tricks, Litigation (LA Law)
• 1997: Sabrina - Totally Bewitched! (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch)
• 1998: Dharma & Greg
• 1999: Sliders - The gateway to a foreign dimension (Sliders)
• 2003–2005: The Heavenly Joan (Joan of Arcadia)

Movie

• 1969: Viva Max!
• 1972: Four Weird Birds (The Hot Rock)
• 1979: What, you don't want to? (The Main Event)
• 1980: Oh, Moses! (Wholly Moses!)
• 1987: Teenwolf II (Teen Wolf Too)

Awards

• 1971: Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor for Paul Sills' Story Theater
• 1971: Drama Desk Award for Best Performance for Paul Sills' Story Theater
• 1971: Drama Desk Award in the Best Performance category for Ovid's Metamorphoses

Web links

• Paul Sand in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Paul Sand in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Paul Sand in the All Movie Guide (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Second City (English)
2. ↑ The New York Times (English)
3. ↑ Internet Off-Broadway Database (English)
4. ↑ Internet Broadway Database (English)
5. ↑ Broadwayworld.com (English)