Paul Freeman (born January 18, 1943) played René Emile Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark and returned to the franchise ten years later to portray Frederick Selous in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Among his other work, Freeman appeared in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie as Ivan Ooze and in the 2007 comedy Hot Fuzz, directed by Edgar Wright.

Filmography

• 2026Gorky Resort — Driver
• 2025The Thursday Murder Club — John
• 2024Whispers of Freedom — Erich Honecker
• 2023Paris Christmas Waltz — Henry
• The Man Who Fell to Earth — Gregory Papel
• 2022The Man from Rome — Father Ferro
• 2018Viking Destiny — Tarburn
• Absentia — Warren Byrne
• 2017Tokyo Trial — William D. Patrick
• 2016High Strung — Kramrovsky
• 2016The Gatehouse — Evelyn Eldritch
• Tokyo Trial — William. D. Patrick
• 2014Bad Day at the Office — Narrator
• 2014The First Line — Callum
• Da Vinci's Demons — The Architect
• 2013Getaway — The Man
• 2013Lucan — John Pearson
• Lucan — John Pearson
• The Bible
• 2012A Fantastic Fear of Everything — Dr. Friedkin
• 2012Hard Boiled Sweets — 'Shrewd' Eddie
• The Hollow Crown — Thomas Erpingham
• 2010Centurion — Governor Julius Agricola
• 2009Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen — Sir Arthur Newsholme
• 2009The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler — Monsignor Godlewski
• Lark Rise to Candleford
• 2007Hot Fuzz — Rev. Philip Shooter
• The Whistleblowers
• New Street Law — Laurence Scammel QC
• 2006Number 13 — Mr. Harrington, Cathedral Archivist
• 2006The Feast of the Goat — Agustín Cabral
• 2004Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius — Angus
• 2004George and the Dragon — Sir Robert
• 2004When I'm Sixty-Four — Ray
• 2002And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... — le client anglais
• 2002Fields of Gold — Sir James Ferneyhough
• 2002Hacker — Prezes
• 2002Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War — Jenkins
• Spooks — Levi Cohen
• 2001Morlang — Julius Morlang
• Waking the Dead — Dr. Charles Hoyle
• Monarch of the Glen — Andrew Booth
• 2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life — Selous
• 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom — Frederick Selous
• 1999The Dark Room — Adam Kingsley
• The Dark Room — Adam Kingsley
• 1999The Devil's Arithmetic — Rabbi
• 1998Only Love — Dallesandro
• 1997Double Team — Goldsmythe
• Midsomer Murders — Sir John Waverley
• 1996Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs — Armitage
• Samson and Delilah — Manoach
• 1996Squillo — Marco
• 1995Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie — Ivan Ooze
• The Final Cut — Tom Makepeace
• 1995The Horseman on the Roof — Laurent de Théus
• ER — Charles Corday
• 1994Grushko — Bosenko
• 1994Lie Down with Lions — Dubois
• Viper — Dr. Samuels
• Full Stretch
• 1993Pretty Princess — conte Otto von Dix
• 1992A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia — Dumont
• Between the Lines
• 1992Double Edge — Ferese
• 1992Iron Eagle III — Kleiss
• 1992Just Like a Woman — Miles Millichamp
• 1991Eminent Domain — Ben
• In Suspicious Circumstances — Sir Patrick Hastings
• Under Cover — Col. Kalganin
• 1990May Wine — Tom
• 1990Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception — Carl Meyerhoff
• 1990The Last Island — Sean
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Col. Carbury
• 1989Magic Moments — Brian Swann
• 1989Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story — Josef
• Twist of Fate — SS-Oberführer Mittendorf
• 1988A World Apart — Kruger
• 1988Prisoner of Rio — Ronald Biggs
• 1988Without a Clue — Prof. James Moriarty
• 1987A Hobo's Christmas — Producer
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries — Julius Sorensen
• Yesterday's Dreams — Martin
• 1986Shanghai Surprise — Walter Faraday
• Sins — Mueller
• Worlds Beyond — Richard Wentworth
• A.D. — Cornelius
• 1984Flight to Berlin — Nicholas
• Mitch — Harry Warren
• 1984Sakharov — Pavel Leontiev
• 1983Enemies of the State — Július Tomin
• 1983Love Lies — Nick
• 1982An Unsuitable Job for a Woman — James Callendar
• Cagney & Lacey
• Gavilan — Mr. Snow
• Q.E.D. — Professor Vincent Rep
• 1982The Sender — Dr Joseph Denman
• 1982The Workshop — Max
• 1982Who Dares Wins — Sir Richard
• 1982Willie's Last Stand — Willie
• Falcon Crest — Gustav Riebmann
• 1981No Visible Scar — Doctor
• 1981Raiders of the Lost Ark — Dr. René Belloq
• Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
• 1980A Walk in the Forest — Alexander Kutsov
• 1980Death of a Princess — Christopher Ryder
• 1980The Dogs of War — Derek
• 1980The Long Good Friday — Colin
• Scorpion Tales — Oliver Benthall
• Will Shakespeare — Dick Burbage
• The XYY Man — Ray Lynch
• 1976Whose Child Am I? — Paul Martin
• The Sweeney — Detective
• Playhouse — Max
• Crown Court
• The Protectors — Mechanic
• Van der Valk — Michael Tromp
• A Ghost Story for Christmas — Mr. Harrington
• Jason King
• Play for Today — Willie
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Keith
• BBC Play of the Month — Kravchenko

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2024The Unofficial Science of Indiana Jones — Self
• 2007Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz — Self
• 2003Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy — self
• 1995Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie - Secrets Revealed — Self