Paul Freeman (born January 18, 1943) is a British actor. January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The word British has several different uses. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Paul Freeman was born in Hertfordshire, England. He began his career in advertising and teaching and like many British actors he landed small roles in the theater appearing in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet. He then went on to play starring roles in the National Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company and later co-founded his own theater group, the Joint Stock Theater Company, in 1974 together with director Max Stafford-Clark. Hertfordshire (pronounced Hartfordshire and abbreviated as Herts) is an inland county, officially part of the East of England Government region. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... A Midsummer Nights Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written in the mid- 1590s. ... The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and one of his most well-known and oft-quoted plays. ... The Royal Shakespeare Company is a theatre company located in Stratford-upon-Avon, London, and Newcastle. ...

In 1978 he made his British television debut in the acclaimed mini-series Life of Shakespeare (1978) and Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981). In 1980 he began his movie career when he appeared in The Long Good Friday alongside Bob Hoskins and The Dogs of War (1981) in which he met Maggie Scott who went on to become his wife. Events January January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. ... The Long Good Friday (1980) is a British film starring Bob Hoskins. ... Robert William Bob Hoskins (born October 26, 1942) is a British actor who specialises in playing Cockney rough diamonds and/or gangsters and in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). ... The Dogs of War is a 1974 novel by Frederick Forsyth and a 1981 film, based on the novel, directed by John Irvin. ...

In the same year, 1981, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas chose Freeman to play the main villain, Rene Belloq, in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first of three movies depicting the exploits of archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones. The movie was a smash hit and Freeman was expected to play in the sequel as well, however Spielberg decided to alter the story and thus Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom would be produced without Freeman. 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio), is a Jewish-American film director whose films range from science fiction to historical drama to horror. ... George Lucas George Walton Lucas, Jr. ... Raiders of the Lost Ark is a feature film released by Paramount Pictures in 1981. ... Indiana Jones wax figure at Madame Tussauds Indiana Jones is a fictional character, a bullwhip-toting archaeologist with an overdeveloped fear of snakes, played by Harrison Ford in a series of films by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. ... Spielberg can be The surname of the famous Hollywood director Steven Spielberg Spielberg fortress in the Czech Republic. ... Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, first released in the USA on May 23, 1984, was a prequel to the hugely successful action movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. ...

The movie was a springboard for Freemen in Hollywood and he continued playing villains both in Hollywood and in his native Britain using his uncanny talent for foreign dialects. In 1988 he played Professor Moriarty in Without a Clue starring Michael Caine as an untalented Sherlock Holmes and in 1995 played Ivan Ooze in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie. For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to... The word Britain is used to refer to the United Kingdom (UK) the island of Great Britain, which consists of the countries of England, Scotland, and Wales sometimes the Roman province called Britain or Britannia The word British generally means belonging to or associated with Britain in one of the... Professor Moriarty, illustration by Sidney Paget which accompanied the original publication of The Final Problem Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character who is the best known antagonist of the detective Sherlock Holmes. ... Michael Caine Michael Caine (born March 14, 1933) is a British film actor. ... Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by British author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ivan Ooze is a fictional villain from the film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995). ...

Freeman continues working for television as well as in movies. He guest starred in hit shows such as ER, Falcon Crest and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He also played in several mini-series such as Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989) and The Final Cut (1995). Current cast of ER ER is a popular NBC serial drama primarily set in a teaching hospitals emergency room, the fictional County General Hospital (based loosely off Cook County General, a real hospital) on Division Street in Chicago, Illinois. ... Falcon Crest was an American primetime television soap opera created by producer Earl Hamner Jr. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Final Cut may mean: The Final Cut, an album by Pink Floyd The Final Cut, an industrial music group The Final Cut, a recent movie See also: Final Cut Pro, digital video editing software This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise...

External links

• Paul Freeman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293550/) at the Internet Movie Database