Paul Gleason was born on May 4, 1944 in Jersey City, New
Jersey.
Sometimes Paul Gleason is credited as Paul Xavier Gleason.
Starting out with a bang Paul Gleason was on the hit day
time soap series ALL MY CHILDREN playing DR. David Thornton,
after ALL MY CHILDREN Gleason kept on going doing movies and
other popular TV series like ANOTHER LIFE, LOST ON EARTH,
and ONE WEST WAIKIKI. Gleason was also part of the cast for
the hit series SUPERIOR COURT playing an attorney.
Paul Gleason went to school and played football at Florida
State University, at the same time that Gleason attended the
University so did Burt Reynolds and Robert Urich.
In 1988 Paul Gleason took a uncredited role in a movie that
was a big hit he played a Blind Boy Grunt in SHE'S HAVING
A BABY.
It seems that Paul Gleason has been handed role were he has
to play a guy with alot of attitude, coming off with rather
grumpy, in THE BREAKFAST CLUB he played the very grumpy and
mean principle in charge of a group of misfits for Saturday
detention. In 1983 he was a FBI agent with a bad attitude
in TRADING PLACES, and following the law as the Deputy Police
Chief with a chip on his shoulder in DIE HARD in 1988.
Stage actress Joanna Hall was married to Paul Gleason, Joanna
is Monty Hall's daughter,and is a great film, TV and stage
actress, together they have 1 child.
Tough New York cop John McClane played by Bruce Willis in
the 1988 movie DIE HARD, worked first hand with Paul Gleason
playing Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson, a role that
Gleason was able to throw around his big bad attitude in New
York.
A major hit in the mid 80 was THE BREAKFAST CLUB, Paul Gleason
was Principal Richard Vernon trying to making the students
day worse then it already was, giving a group of misfits a
writing assignment. Saturday detention would never be the
same, he had a jock Emilio Esetvez , a nerd Anthoney Michael
Hall , Judd Nelson was the stoner who taught the group not
to worry just go with the flow, then there was Ally Sheedy
she played a girl that was a bit odd and gross, until the
end when Molly Ringwald taught her some bathroom basics for
women.
Paul Gleason's other notable credits include...
