Paul McCrane

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Paul David McCrane (born January 19, 1961 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), and attended Holy Ghost Preparatory School. He is a Grammy Award nominated American movie, television and theatre actor, as well as an occasional television director. Some of his roles include Emil Antonowsky in RoboCop, Montgomery McNeil in Fame , Astronaut Pete Conrad in From the Earth to the Moon, cancer-absorbing mutant Leonard Betts in The X-Files and Robert Romano on ER. More recently, he has starred in 24, season 5 and 6 as Graem Bauer.

McCrane has been known to take roles where his characters experience horrible pain and injury or violent death: Deputy Bill Briggs in The Blob had his spine broken and was pulled between two shelves of a bookcase before being slowly melted by the blob; Emil Antonowsky in RoboCop had toxic waste spilled on him and he was run over; Robert Romano in ER had his arm chopped off by the anti-torque rotor of a helicopter and was later crushed to death by another chopper; and Leonard Betts from The X-Files was decapitated in an ambulance crash, only to regrow his head and soon get blown up in a car later in the episode. In the 5th episode of 24 Day 6, after his character is reunited with his brother (federal agent Jack Bauer), Jack suddenly punches him, binds his hands, and proceeds to place a plastic bag over his head. After Jack interrogates him by torturing him with a neurological inflammatory, he confesses to being behind the deaths of David Palmer, Tony Almeda, and Michelle Dessler and admits that this wasn't the first time he tried to kill Jack. The episode ends with their father secretly injecting a fatal dosage into McCrane's character and apparently ends up killing him.

Following his acting departure from ER, McCrane has directed several episodes of the show, and has also directed episodes of Without A Trace, The West Wing and Law & Order: SVU.

He married Dana Kellin, a jewelry designer, in 1998; they have two children, William Thomas and Noa Catherine.

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• Paul McCrane at the Internet Movie Database