Vietnam War veteran awarded the National Defense Medal and Vietnam
Service Medal, and won the George Washington Honor Medal, from the
Freedom Foundation. Attended Newport Harbor High School, San Diego City
College, Cypress Junior College, Chapman College, and LA Valley
College. Paul won the LA Diamond Belt, Welterweight Division, the
Southern Pacific AAU Boxing Championship in 1972. Won two Golden
Globes.
He was one of the people that George Lucas had in mind to play Han Solo in the first Star Wars movie.
Spent six months in the Philippines in addition to a tour of duty in Vietnam.
Signed sixty of the Franklin Mint 32 Ford Deuce Coupes for the first time ever, during a private signing with Rocky Whitehead & Brenda Whitehead in Hollywood, California on 1 April 2002.
At age twenty one, he went to New York to study acting. He studied at the
The Actors Studio with Milton Katselas and Herbert Berghof, and at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.