
Paul Ben-Victor
Biography
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Paul Ben-Victor (born July 24, 1965) is an American actor. Ben-Victor was born Paul Friedman, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Leah Kornfeld, a playwright, and Victor Friedman. Ben-Victor debuted on the small screen in 1987 in the made-for-TV movie Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife and on an episode of Cagney & Lacey. Fifteen years after beginning his television career with bit parts, Ben-Victor found himself cast in important roles on HBO dramas The Wire and Entourage, as well as making a 2006 appearance as Coach Lou on My Name is Earl. He portrayed Moe Howard in the 2000 made-for-TV film The Three Stooges. Ben-Victor has been featured on many television cop dramas like Monk and CSI, and also had a recurring role as two-bit con man Steve Richards on three episodes of NYPD Blue from 1994 to 1997. Ben-Victor has co-written stage plays with his mother. At least two of their plays have been staged in the Manhattan area, including "Club Soda" and "The Good Steno". Ben-Victor had a starring role in the Sci-Fi channel television show, The Invisible Man, alongside Vincent Ventresca. The two later guest starred together on the hit TV show Las Vegas. They were reunited again on an episode of the new USA Network series In Plain Sight (Episode 1.2, "Hoosier Daddy"), on which Ben-Victor has a supporting role. Appeared on "Everybody Hates Chris" as Mr. Thurman In 2008, Ben-Victor held a supporting role in the feature film, Clear Lake, WI, starring Michael Madsen. In August 2008, Ben-Victor co-starred in Coma, a web series on Crackle.
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Acting History
2027
The Chosen: Crucifixion as Kind Herod
2025Rosario as Marty
2025Another Day in America as Sam Ackerman
2025Flight Risk as Coleridge (voice)
2024Creature Commandos as Bulldozer / General King / Large Son (voice)
2024Nobody Wants This as Ilan Roklov
2024Everybody Still Hates Chris as (voice)
2024Murder at Hollow Creek as Jeff Rhodes
2023Bookie as Nick Quatrani
2023The Collective as Miro Lindell
2023On Our Way as Mr. Adler
2023Plane as Terry Hampton
2023Paul T. Goldman as Mob Boss
2022Emancipation as Major G. Halstead
2022Collide as Clyde
2022The Lincoln Lawyer as Sylvester 'Sly' Funaro, Sr.
2022Pam & Tommy as Richard Alden
2022Last Looks as Conady
2021Monster as Anthony Petrocelli
2020My Brothers' Crossing as Officer Byrd
2020Blood and Money as Bill
2020Gravesend
2020The Banker as Donald Silverthorne
2020FBI: Most Wanted as Jackie 'The Fox' Bianchi
2019Adventure Force 5 as Executive Victor
2019Feast of the Seven Fishes as Johnny
2019The Irishman as Jake Gottlieb
2019The Chosen as Herod Antipas
2018The Super as Mr. Johnson
2018The Amityville Murders as Ronald DeFeo Sr.
2018A Crooked Somebody as Detective Zimmer
2018FBI as Mark Krawley
2018The Resident as Edmund Carver
2017Will & Grace as Mario
2017His Lover as Scotty Davidson Jr.
2017Santa Clarita Diet as Victor
2017The Mick as Jerry Berlin
2016Camera Store as Mr. Bibideaux
2016Blowtorch as Blackie
2016Goliath as Cleft Chin
2016Lethal Weapon as Frank Truno
2016Bull as Ryan Vance
2016Goliath as Cleft Chin
2016Love Is All You Need? as Principal Henry Birdsell
2016Vinyl as Maury Gold
2015Chicago Med as Mr. McGregor
2015Any Day as William
2015Get Hard as Gayle Burns
2015Allegiance as Special Agent Faber
2014Friends and Romans as Dennis Socio
2014By the Gun as Vincent Tortano
2014True Detective as Major Leroy Salter
2013Grudge Match as Lou Camare
2013Don Jon as Priest
2013Empire State as Tommy
2013Black Marigolds as Doctor Taylor
2012FDR: American Badass! as Mussolini
2012Mighty Fine as Bobby
2012Should've Been Romeo as Joey
2012The Carrier as Vlade
2011Video Girl as Jermaine Stanford
2011Person of Interest as Detective Cameron
2011Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury as Kip Tippington
2010Venus & Vegas as Carlo
2010Hawaii Five-0 as Agent Devin Campbell
2010A Reuben by Any Other Name as Max
2009American Bully as Principal Wheeler
2009Castle as Dino Scarpella
2009Clear Lake, WI as Sheriff Joe Dietzer
2008Childrens Hospital as Spiros
2008The Mentalist as Noah Landau
2008In Plain Sight as Stan McQueen
2007Randy & the Mob as Franco
2007On the Doll as Jimmy Sours
2007John from Cincinnati
2007Drive as The Truck Driver
2006Shark as Ricky Rago
2005Everybody Hates Chris
2005My Name Is Earl as Coach Lou
2005Close to Home as Paul Bosco
2004Entourage as Alan Gray
2003Las Vegas as Michael
2003Beyond Hell's Kitchen: Making 'Daredevil'
2003Daredevil as Jose Quesada
2002Fastlane as Marty
2002Monk as Al Nicoletto
2002The Wire as Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos
2002The Shield as Detective Paul Reyes
2001The Cure for Boredom as Rudy
2001Alias as Carter
2001Crossing Jordan as Theo
2000Curb Your Enthusiasm as Ticket Scalper
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Joey
2000The Invisible Man as Robert Albert Hobbes
2000Strong Medicine as Frank
2000Very Mean Men as Jimmy D.
2000The Invisible Man as Robert Albert Hobbes
2000The Three Stooges as Moe Howard
2000Drowning Mona as Deputy Tony Carlucci
2000Gun Shy as Howard
1999Kiss Toledo Goodbye as Vince
1999Crazy in Alabama as D.A. Mackie
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Peter Abrams
1999Heist as Abbie
1999The Corruptor as Schabacker
1998A Civil Action as Bobby Pasqueriella
1998L.A. Doctors
1998Point Blank as Howard
1998Tempting Fate as Police officer
1998Standoff as Agent Hank McGill
1997Brooklyn South as Steve Richards
1997The 6th Man as Bernie
1997The Practice as Benny Small
1997Metro as Clarence Teal
1997Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave as Det. Meyer
1996Early Edition as Elliott Rosenfield
1996Maximum Risk as Agent Pellman
1996The First Man as Dulles
1996Firestorm as Duran
1995Bushwhacked as Dana's father (uncredited)
1995Red Scorpion 2 as Vince D'Angelo
1995Terrified as Sol Lipsteiger
1995Houseguest as Pauly Gasperini
1995The Fifteen Minute Hamlet as Franciso, Ghost, Gravedigger, Osric & Fortinbras
1994Dream Lover as Clown
1994Web of Deception as Detective Fracinetti
1994State of Emergency as Trevor Jacobs
1993Tombstone as Florentino
1993The Last Outlaw as Posseman Grubb
1993The X-Files as Dr. Aaron Monte
1993True Romance as Luca
1993The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. as Joey Tataglia
1993Extreme Justice as Councilman Joe Taylor
1993Trouble Bound as Zand
1992Cool World as Valet
1992Sunset Heat as New Yorker
1992Eyes of the Beholder as Dr. Medaris
1992Soulmates as Driver
1991Body Parts as Ray Kolberg
1991Dark Justice
1991The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage
1990The Rookie as Little Felix
1990After the Shock as Dr. Steven Brattesani
1990Streets as Officer #2
1989Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989Wired as Tom Perino
1988Freddy's Nightmares as Paul
1988Assault of the Killer Bimbos as Customer
1988Pass the Ammo as Eddie Depaul
1987Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
1986L.A. Law as Sgt. Costellano
1986L.A. Law as Bowles' Atty. Peters
—Killing Castro as Sam Giancana
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