Paul Ben-Victor

Acting

Born July 24, 1965, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.

Filmography

• 2027The Chosen: Crucifixion — Kind Herod
• 2026Killing Castro — Sam Giancana
• Lanterns — Antaan, Antaan (voice)
• M.I.A. — Boris Federov
• Man on Fire — CIA Director Moncrief
• 2025Another Day in America — Sam Ackerman
• 2025Flight Risk — Coleridge (voice)
• 2025Rosario — Marty
• Creature Commandos — Bulldozer / General King / Large Son (voice)
• Everybody Still Hates Chris — (voice)
• 2024Murder at Hollow Creek — Jeff Rhodes
• Nobody Wants This — Ilan Roklov
• Bookie — Nick Quatrani
• 2023On Our Way — Mr. Adler
• Paul T. Goldman — Mob Boss
• 2023Plane — Terry Hampton
• 2023The Collective — Miro Lindell
• 2022Collide — Clyde
• 2022Emancipation — Major G. Halstead
• 2022Last Looks — Conady
• Pam & Tommy — Richard Alden
• The Lincoln Lawyer — Sly Funaro Sr.
• 2021Monster — Anthony Petrocelli
• 2020Blood and Money — Bill
• FBI: Most Wanted — Jackie 'The Fox' Bianchi
• Gravesend
• 2020My Brothers' Crossing — Officer Byrd
• 2020The Banker — Donald Silverthorne
• 2019Adventure Force 5 — Executive Victor
• 2019Feast of the Seven Fishes — Johnny
• The Chosen — Herod Antipas
• 2019The Irishman — Jake Gottlieb
• 2018A Crooked Somebody — Detective Zimmer
• FBI — Mark Krawley
• 2018The Amityville Murders — Ronald DeFeo Sr.
• The Resident — Edmund Carver
• 2018The Super — Mr. Johnson
• 2017His Lover — Scotty Davidson Jr.
• Santa Clarita Diet — Victor
• The Mick — Jerry Berlin
• Will & Grace — Mario
• 2016Blowtorch — Blackie
• Bull — Ryan Vance
• 2016Camera Store — Mr. Bibideaux
• 2016Goliath — Cleft Chin
• Goliath — Cleft Chin
• Lethal Weapon — Frank Truno
• 2016Love Is All You Need? — Principal Henry Birdsell
• Preacher — Viktor
• Vinyl — Maury Gold
• Allegiance — Special Agent Faber
• 2015Any Day — William
• Chicago Med — Mr. McGregor
• 2015Get Hard — Gayle Burns
• 2014By the Gun — Vincent Tortano
• 2014Friends and Romans — Dennis Socio
• True Detective — Major Leroy Salter
• 2013Black Marigolds — Doctor Taylor
• 2013Don Jon — Priest
• 2013Empire State — Tommy
• 2013Grudge Match — Lou Camare
• 2012FDR: American Badass! — Mussolini
• 2012Mighty Fine — Bobby
• 2012Should've Been Romeo — Joey, Screenplay, Producer, Story
• 2012The Carrier — Vlade
• Vegas — Barry Silver
• Person of Interest — Detective Cameron
• 2011Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury — Kip Tippington
• 2011Video Girl — Jermaine Stanford
• 2010A Reuben by Any Other Name — Max
• Hawaii Five-0 — Agent Devin Campbell
• 2010Venus & Vegas — Carlo
• 2009American Bully — Principal Wheeler
• Castle — Dino Scarpella
• 2009Clear Lake, WI — Sheriff Joe Dietzer
• Childrens Hospital — Spiros
• In Plain Sight — Stan McQueen
• 2008Player 5150 — Jimmy
• The Mentalist — Noah Landau
• Drive — The Truck Driver
• John from Cincinnati — Palaka
• 2007On the Doll — Jimmy Sours
• 2007Randy & the Mob — Franco
• Shark — Ricky Rago
• Close to Home — Paul Bosco
• Everybody Hates Chris
• My Name Is Earl — Coach Lou
• Entourage — Alan Gray
• 2003Daredevil — Quesada
• Las Vegas — Michael
• Fastlane — Marty
• Monk — Al Nicoletto
• The Shield — Detective Paul Reyes
• The Wire — Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos
• Alias — Carter
• 2001Choosing Matthias — Chase
• Crossing Jordan — Theo
• 2001The Cure for Boredom — Rudy
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Joey
• Curb Your Enthusiasm — Ticket Scalper
• 2000Drowning Mona — Deputy Tony Carlucci
• 2000Gun Shy — Howard
• Strong Medicine — Frank
• 2000The Invisible Man — Robert Albert Hobbes
• The Invisible Man — Роберт Альберт Хоббс
• 2000The Three Stooges — Moe Howard
• 2000Very Mean Men — Jimmy D.
• 1999Crazy in Alabama — D.A. Mackie
• 1999Kiss Toledo Goodbye — Vince
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Peter Abrams
• 1999The Corruptor — Schabacker
• 1998A Civil Action — Bobby Pasqueriella
• 1998Heist — Abbie
• L.A. Doctors
• 1998Point Blank — Howard
• Rude Awakening — Carl
• 1998Standoff — Agent Hank McGill
• 1998Tempting Fate — Police officer
• Brooklyn South — Steve Richards
• 1997Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave — Det. Meyer
• 1997Metro — Clarence Teal
• 1997The 6th Man — Bernie
• The Practice — Benny Small
• Early Edition — Elliott Rosenfield
• 1996Firestorm — Duran
• 1996Maximum Risk — Agent Pellman
• 1996The First Man — Dulles
• 1995Bushwhacked — Dana's father (uncredited)
• 1995Houseguest — Pauly Gasperini
• 1995Red Scorpion 2 — Vince D'Angelo
• 1995Terrified — Sol Lipsteiger
• 1995The Fifteen Minute Hamlet — Franciso, Ghost, Gravedigger, Osric & Fortinbras
• 1994Dream Lover — Clown
• 1994State of Emergency — Trevor Jacobs
• 1994Web of Deception — Detective Fracinetti
• 1993Extreme Justice — Councilman Joe Taylor
• The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. — Joey Tataglia
• 1993The Last Outlaw — Posseman Grubb
• The X-Files — Dr. Aaron Monte
• 1993Tombstone — Florentino
• 1993Trouble Bound — Zand
• 1993True Romance — Luca
• 1992Cool World — Valet
• 1992Eyes of the Beholder — Dr. Medaris
• 1992Soulmates — Driver
• 1992Sunset Heat — New Yorker
• 1991Body Parts — Ray Kolberg
• Dark Justice
• The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage
• 1990After the Shock — Dr. Steven Brattesani
• 1990Streets — Officer #2
• 1990The Rookie — Little Felix
• Doogie Howser, M.D. — Karl
• 1989Wired — Tom Perino
• 1988Assault of the Killer Bimbos — Customer
• Freddy's Nightmares — Paul
• 1988Pass the Ammo — Eddie Depaul
• 1987Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
• L.A. Law — Sergeant Costellano, Bowles' Atty. Peters
• 3 Days Rising — Detective Detective
• 8-Ball — acting
• Empire City — Cmssr. Lance Davies
• The Bookie & the Bruiser — Generale Francesco Viscuzo
• The Boys from Brazil — Sidney Beynon
• Vinyl (2016)