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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Paul Gleason (1944 - ) Actor, playwright, director Born: May 4, 1944, Jersey City, NJ Education: Florida State University; Yale University; Actors Studio The solidly-built Gleason has been most frequently cast as a government agent, cop, or white collar bad guy so dedicated to duty you'd think he'd never been hugged by his mother. One of his breakthrough roles was as Beeks in DE MENDIGO A MILLONARIO (1983). Gleason portrayed the humorless industrial spy charged with stealing the orange futures who ends up the love toy of a male gorilla. In what is perhaps his best-known role, he was the dean of students of THE EL CLUB DE LOS CINCO (1985), made a fool of by not only the high school students in detention but also the school's custodian. Gleason did not set out to be an actor growing up in Hudson County, NJ. Excelling in sports, he won a football scholarship to college. After graduation, Gleason played in minor league baseball for both the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox farm teams. He drifted into acting in the mid-1960s, settling in NYC to study with Lee Strasberg at the famed Actors Studio. He became involved in the growing off-Broadway theater scene as a writer, director and actor, working with such prestigious companies as Cafe LaMama and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Gleason made his Broadway debut supporting Maureen Stapleton in Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady (1971). He went on to appear in both the L.A. and NYC revival of The Front Page (1972) with John Lithgow and Richard Thomas and won praise for his McMurphy in the off-Broadway revival of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1973). Gleason segued into TV work with numerous guest appearances (Love American Style, Adam-12, Mission: Impossible, etc.) before landing the role of David Thornton in the daytime drama All My Children (ABC, 1975-78). Dr. Thornton was a quintessential Gleason character—hot headed, but principled. He made his TV miniseries debut with Robert Duvall and Lee Remick in IKE (ABC, 1979). He continued to appear in TV-movies, generally as a cop como BUSQUEDA MORTAL (Showtime, 1991), the short-lived series One West Waikiki (CBS, 1994) or as academic leaders como REVENGE OF THE NERDS IV: NERD IN LOVE (Fox, 1994). Gleason had supporting roles in such films as ARTHUR (1981) and THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER (1981) and TENDER MERCIES (1982) before his villainous turn in DE MENDIGO A MILLONARIO (1983). Similar white collar adversaries and bad guy roles followed in EL PENDEX ESTA DE LA NUCA (1987) and DURO DE MATAR (1988). In the '90s, he has continued to play supporting roles in films like PELIGRO EN MIAMI (1990), BOILING POINT (1993), and DIGITAL MAN (1995).
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