Biography
Attractive, dark-featured character actor with a voice like thunder, and eyes like a wolf, who was featured in less than sympathetic roles throughout his career. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Albert Paul Shenar attended the University of Wisconsin.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Big Blue
1988
as Dr. Laurence
Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, ...

Best Seller
1987
as David Madlock
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians ...

Man on Fire
1987
as Ettore
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swank...

The Bedroom Window
1987
as Collin
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that sa...

Dark Mansions
1986
as Phillip Drake
A woman hired to write the history of a wealthy family stays at the family's estate in Oregon. She discovers that she strongly resembles a long-dead a...

Raw Deal
1986
as Paulo Rocca
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief H...

Dream Lover
1986
as Ben Gardner
After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in ...

Streets of Justice
1985
as J. Elliott Sloan
After bikers kill the wife and son of an auto worker (John Laughlin) and then get off with a light sentence in the court system, he decides to seek hi...

Brass
1985
as Schuyler Ross
The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.

Scarface
1983
as Alejandro Sosa
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciousl...

Deadly Force
1983
as Joshua Adams
Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now...

Richard II
1982
as Bolingbroke

The Secret of NIMH
1982
as Jenner (voice)
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, es...

The End of August
1981
as Arobin
In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves h...

Suddenly, Love
1978
as Jack Graham
Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a long-stan...

The Courage and the Passion
1978
as Nick Silcox
The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978
as Florenz Ziegfeld
The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.

Lulu
1978
as Ludwig Schon
This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the ...

The Hostage Heart
1977
as James Cardone
When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the operating room and dr...

The Keegans
1976
as Rudi Portinari
A professional football player is accused of murdering the man who attacked his sister. His brother, an investigate reporter, sets out to prove his br...

The Night That Panicked America
1975
as Orson Welles
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.

The Execution of Private Slovik
1974
as Crawford
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.

Cyrano de Begerac
1974
as De Guiche
Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.