Mantee was born Paul Marianetti in San Francisco, California. A journalism major at San Mateo Junior College, Mantee enlisted in the U.S. Navy for four years during the Korean War that made him decide on acting as a career. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. His stage name was changed from an Italian-sounding name to the name of Humphrey Bogart's character in The Petrified Forest. He made a great number of guest appearances in well-known television shows and starred in a handful of films, including a cult classic, Robinson Crusoe on Mars. A restored version of the film was released in 2007 by The Criterion Collection. Mantee authored two novels, In Search of the Perfect Ravioli (Ballantine Books, 1991) and a semi-autobiographical Bruno of Hollywood (Ballantine Books, 1994). Mantee, a longtime Malibu resident, died November 7, 2013 at a rehabilitation center in Canoga Park, California. He was survived by his wife, Suzy Davis Mantee.

Фільмографія

• 1999Memorial Day — General Willard
• 1995Аполлон-13 — Reporter
• 1994Cagney & Lacey: The Return — Corassa
• 1994Lurking Fear — Father Poole
• 1993Дракон: історія Брюса Лі — Doctor
• 1992Illusions — Professor McRoe
• Сайнфелд — Health Inspector
• L.A. Law — Judge Mitchell Katlin
• 1985First Strike
• 1985Promises to Keep — Mike
• Crazy like a Fox — Bailey
• Hunter — Commander Clayton
• Вона написала вбивство — Leo David Fender / Ronald Olson / Jack Landis
• Masquerade — Agent Watkins
• Scarecrow and Mrs. King
• 1983This Girl for Hire — Finnegan
• Команда А — Chris Thomas
• Capitol
• Remington Steele — Albert Hastings
• T. J. Hooker — Roy Harris
• Кеґні та Лейсі — Al Corassa, Lt. Sandusky, Detective Thomas, Det. Al Corassa
• 1981Death Ray 2000 — James DiGiorgio
• Foul Play
• Simon & Simon
• The Fall Guy
• 1980Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story — Ordway
• Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story — Ordway
• 1980Fugitive Family — Walther
• 1980Wolf Lake — Sweeney
• 240-Robert
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — Karl
• 1979The Great Santini — Col. Virgil Hedgepath
• 1979When Hell Was in Session — Capt. Brown
• 1978The Manitou — Dr. McEvoy
• Vega$ — Roy
• Даллас — General Cochran
• CHiPs — Eddie
• 1977Day of the Animals — Roy Moore
• Hunter — Lawrence
• Logan's Run — Barton
• 1977Man from Atlantis IV: The Disappearances — FBI Agent Fuller
• The Fantastic Journey — Morgan
• 1977The Greatest — Carrara
• Alice
• 1976Helter Skelter — Sgt. O'Neal
• Quincy, M.E. — Fake Carl Hopwood, Perkins
• 1976W.C. Fields and Me — Edward
• 1975Breakout — Cable
• Bronk
• 1975Framed — Frank
• Medical Story — Robert Fowler
• S.W.A.T.
• 1974Big Rose — Troy
• 1974In Tandem — Man in Windbreaker
• 1974The Healers
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Terry
• Barnaby Jones — Wallace Brooks
• 1973Call to Danger — Adams
• 1973Cry Rape — Jim Hadley
• Police Story
• 1973That Man Bolt — Mickey
• The Magician — Joe Taggart
• Коджак — Hank Yankowski
• Search
• The Streets of San Francisco — Renfro
• Cannon
• O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
• 1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They? — Jiggs
• 1968A Man Called Dagger — Dick Dagger
• The Name of the Game — Father Minetti
• The Outcasts
• Cimarron Strip
• Ironside — Prof. Bradford Link
• Mannix — Marcos, Frank Viola, Paul, Tommy Gantt, Dave Winters
• Rango
• The Invaders — Deputy Vern Hammond
• 1966An American Dream — Shago Martin
• Felony Squad
• Jericho
• Mission: Impossible — Byron Miller, Bill Fisher
• The Time Tunnel — Ambahai
• Бетмен — Cornell
• Laredo
• The F.B.I. — Frank Macklin, Vic, Gerald Spain, Norman Whitehead
• 1964Blood on the Arrow — Segura
• Daniel Boone — Atawa
• 1964Robinson Crusoe on Mars — Commander Christopher Draper
• Mr. Novak — Hal Williams
• The Fugitive — Jack Burmas, Deputy Bob Howe
• The Lieutenant
• Сем Бенедікт
• Ben Casey
• Dr. Kildare — Neurosurgeon
• Adventures in Paradise — Ori
• Hawaiian Eye
• 77 Sunset Strip — Nick Malatesta
• Steve Canyon — Sgt. Taliman
• The Rifleman
• Cheyenne — Johnny Crow, Jimmy
• Dragnet — Morris Copley

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 2021Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! — Self
• 1967Lionpower from MGM — Self - Dick Dagger (archive footage) (uncredited)