About Paul Freeman

Paul Freeman (born 18 January 1943) is a British film and television actor.

Freeman was created in Hertfordshire, England. He began his profession in marketing and teaching, and like many British actors he landed smaller roles inside theatre, appearing in productions of the Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet. He then went on to play starring roles inside the National Theatre plus the Royal Shakespeare Business, and later co-founded his own theatre group, the Joint Stock Theatre Business, in 1974 together with director Max Stafford-Clark.

In 1978, he created his British tv debut within the acclaimed serial Living of Shakespeare (1978) and Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Many years (1981). Freeman also acted in the ATV docudrama Death of a Princess, a controversial film concerning the execution of Masha'il bint Fahd al Saud of Saudi Arabia. In 1980 he started his feature movie job when he made an appearance inside Extended Very good Friday along with Bob Hoskins along with the Dogs of War (1981) where he met Maggie Scott who went on to grow to be his wife.

From the exact same year, 1981, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas chose Freeman to perform René Belloq, the rakish arch rival to Dr. Indiana Jones in Raiders on the Shed Ark, the film was a springboard for Freeman in Hollywood and he continued playing villains both in Hollywood, as well as in his native Britain making use of his uncanny talent for foreign accents, that is evident in his portrayal in the South African created French archaeologist in Raiders with the Missing Ark.

In 1988 he wagered Professor Moriarty in With out a Clue starring Michael Caine as an untalented Sherlock Holmes as well as in 1995, Ivan Ooze in Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers: The Movie.

Freeman continues doing work for television in addition to in films. He guest starred in hit shows for example Monarch with the Glen, ER, Falcon Crest plus the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He also trialled in various mini-series just like Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989) and also the Final Cut (1995). In 2004, Freeman played Angus, Bobby Jones' caddie, in Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius. During 2006 and 2007, he starred inside the BBC legal drama New Street Law, because primary protagonist along with John Hannah. Also in 2007, he performed Rev. Philip Shooter of Sandford in Hot Fuzz along with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. He is also featured in various 2007-2009 Travelers Insurance policy tv commercials.

Amongst his tv perform Freeman appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders entitled "Down Among the Lifeless Men," he also looked within the television crime drama Waking The Dead within the episode "Straw Dog", and wagered Adam Kingsley within the BBC Telly adaptation of Minette Walters' The Dark Room.

He lately received acclaim as George Aaranow from the 2008 London revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross.