# Albert Paulsen

Albert Paulsen (born Albert Paulson; 13 December 1925 in Guayaquil, Ecuador – 25 April 2004 in Los Angeles, California) was an Ecuadorian-American actor who appeared in many American television series beginning in the 1960s, playing characters primarily of European origin. A life member of The Actors Studio, Paulsen won an Emmy Award in 1964 for the Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre presentation One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, an historical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Mr. Paulsen was a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre studying under Sanford Meisner. Paulsen died of natural causes in Los Angeles, aged 78.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1962 | All Fall Down | Captain Ramirez | |
| 1962 | The Manchurian Candidate | Zilkov | |
| 1966 | The Three Sisters | Kulygin. Fyodor Illich | |
| 1967 | Mr. Gunn | Nick Fusco | |
| 1968 | How to Steal the World | Dr. Kurt Erikson | |
| 1969 | Che! | Capt. Vasquez | |
| 1971 | Mrs. Pollifax-Spy | Perdido | |
| 1973 | The Laughing Policeman | Henry Camerero | |
| 1976 | The Next Man | Hamid | |
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Mr. Sokolow | |
| 1985 | Dikiy veter | Maj. Ted Kegan | Alternate title: "Wild Wind" |
| 1988 | Ransom | General von Brock / Bruno Hasse | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1951 | Lux Video Theatre | German Man Number Two | Season 2 Episode 8: "Cafe Ami" |
| 1954 | The Philco Television Playhouse | | Season 6 Episode 13: "The Broken Fist" |
| 1954 | Armstrong Circle Theatre | Juan | Season 4 Episode 38: "The Use of Dignity" |
| 1954 | Goodyear Television Playhouse | | Season 4 Episode 4: "Thunder of Silence" |
| 1957 | Studio One | Al | Season 9 Episode 31: "Babe in the Woods" |
| 1958 | The Investigator | | Season 1 Episode 3: "Episode #1.3" |
| 1959–1960 | Camera Three | Guillermo | 2 episodes |
| 1960 | Buick-Electra Playhouse | Albert | Season 1 Episode 3: "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" |
| 1961 | Frontier Circus | Rodales | Season 1 Episode 6: "Karina" |
| 1962 | The Defenders | Mr. Sazeran | Season 1 Episode 21: "The Locked Room" |
| 1962 | The United States Steel Hour | Ramirez | Season 9 Episode 15: "Two Black Kings" |
| 1962 | The Untouchables | Max Zenner | Season 4 Episode 5: "The Pea" |
| 1962–1963 | G.E. True | Vik / Josef Gabchik | 3 episodes |
| 1962–1966 | Combat! | Carl Dorfmann / Gen. Von Strelitz / Dorfmann / Col. Bruener | 4 episodes |
| 1963 | The Gallant Men | General Kile | Season 1 Episode 20: "Operation Secret" |
| 1963 | General Hospital | Gen. Gastineau | |
| 1963 | The Lloyd Bridges Show | Paul Kolar | Season 1 Episode 30: "Freedom Is for Those Who Want It" |
| 1963 | 77 Sunset Strip | Rudolph Gerhardt / Toller Vengrin | 2 episodes |
| 1963–1965 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Lieutenant Volkovoi / Avatin | 3 episodes |
| 1964 | Channing | Professer Leon Fyfe | Season 1 Episode 25: "Christmas Day Is Breaking Wan" |
| 1964 | Selena | Designer | TV Short |
| 1964–1968 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Major Vicek / Dr. Kurt Erikson | 3 episodes |
| 1965 | The Farmer's Daughter | Oscar Hummingbird | Season 2 Episode 18: "The Oscar Hummingbird Story" |
| 1965 | Memorandum for a Spy | Avatin | TV Movie |
| 1965 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Sif Barani | Season 2 Episode 26: "The Safe House" |
| 1965 | I Spy | Ramon | Season 1 Episode 6: "The Loser" |
| 1965 | 12 O'Clock High | Col. Hans Dieter / Arn Borg | 2 episodes |
| 1965 | Burke's Law | James Gunnar Ketterback | Season 3 Episode 11: "Whatever Happened to Adriana and Why Won't She Stay Dead?" |
| 1966 | The Trials of O'Brien | Lopert | Season 1 Episode 16: "The 10-Foot, 6-Inch Pole" |
| 1966 | The F.B.I. | Nagry | Season 1 Episode 18: "The Sacrifice" |
| 1966 | Seaway | Robert Ballantyre | Season 1 Episode 20: "Dead Reckoning" |
| 1966 | Jericho | Major Bruschke | Season 1 Episode 2: "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, and Pow!" |
| 1966–1968 | The Rat Patrol | Colonel Von Helbing / Major von Brugge | 2 episodes |
| 1966–1970 | Mission: Impossible | Joseph Baresh / Eric Stavak / Genereal Ernesto Neyron / Eric Bergman / Albert Zembra | 5 episodes |
| 1967 | Run for Your Life | Emile Marnet | Season 2 Episode 30: "The Word Would Be Goodbye" |
| 1968 | N.Y.P.D. | Morado | Season 1 Episode 17: "The Patriots" |
| 1968 | The Flying Nun | Pedro Alvarez | Season 1 Episode 24: "Cyrano de Bertrille" |
| 1968 | Call to Danger | Andre Kellman | TV Movie |
| 1968 | Premiere | Andre Kellman / Linde | 2 episodes |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game | Humberto Benitez | Season 1 Episode 15: "The Revolutionary" |
| 1969–1980 | Hawaii Five-O | Charley Bombay / Josef Sarpa / Edmonds / Adrian Cassell | 4 episodes |
| 1970 | The Silent Force | Mr. Allyn | Season 1 Episode 13: "The Octopus" |
| 1971 | The High Chaparral | Eduardo Nervo | Season 4 Episode 14: "The New Lion of Sonora" |
| 1971 | A World Apart | Dr. Neil Stevens | 2 episodes |
| 1973 | Young Dr. Kildare | Frank Gela | Episode: "The Don" |
| 1973 | Search | Henri Danzig | Season 1 Episode 12: "Let Us Prey" |
| 1973 | Carola | Col. Kroll | TV Movie |
| 1973 | Griff | Omar | Season 1 Episode 5: "Marked for Murder" |
| 1974 | Police Story | Reggie | Season 1 Episode 14: "Cop in the Middle" |
| 1974 | Hawkins | Teddy Osterman | Season 1 Episode 6: "Murder on the Thirteenth Floor" |
| 1974 | The Missiles of October | Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin | TV Movie |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Kurt | Season 1 Episode 13: "Profit and Loss, Part 2: Loss" |
| 1975 | Medical Center | Count Scarpi | Season 6 Episode 18: "Crown of Thorns" |
| 1975 | Movin' On | Ernest | Season 1 Episode 18: "Ammo" |
| 1975 | The Odd Couple | Boris Kalnikov | Season 5 Episode 19: "The Roy Clark Show" |
| 1975 | Search for the Gods | Tarkanian | TV Movie |
| 1975 | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Dr. James Verhyden | Season 1 Episode 20: "The Sentry" |
| 1975 | One of Our Own | Dr. Janos Varga | TV Movie |
| 1975 | Starsky and Hutch | Tom Lockly | Season 1 Episode 15: "Shootout" |
| 1975–1976 | Doctors' Hospital | Janos Varga | 9 episodes (Recurring role) |
| 1976 | Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style | The Man | TV Movie |
| 1976 | Joe Forrester | | Season 1 Episode 18: "The Invaders" |
| 1976 | Switch | Gassman | Season 2 Episode 6: "Quicker Than the Eye" |
| 1977 | Charlie's Angels | Rabitch | Season 1 Episode 15: "Angels on a String" |
| 1977 | Kojak | Shelley Briscoe | Season 4 Episode 21: "Monkey on a String" |
| 1977 | McNamara's Band | General Zimhoff | TV Movie |
| 1978 | The Gypsy Warriors | SS Colonel Schlager | TV Movie |
| 1978 | Columbo | Vincent Pauley | Season 7 Episode 5: "The Conspirators" |
| 1978 | Wonder Woman | Crichton | Season 3 Episode 1: "My Teenage Idol Is Missing" |
| 1979 | Trapper John, M.D. | The Sheik | Season 1 Episode 10: "The Surrogate" |
| 1979 | The Girl Who Saved the World | Anthony Korf | TV Movie |
| 1979 | Stop Susan Williams | Anthony Korf | 4 episodes |
| 1980 | Galactica 1980 | General Yodel | 2 episodes |
| 1981 | Side Show | Scholl | TV Movie |
| 1981–1982 | Quincy M.E. | Steigler / Klavick | 2 episodes |
| 1983 | Ryan's Four | | Season 1 Episode 0: "Ryan's Four" |
| 1983 | Manimal | Russian Agent | Season 1 Episode 3: "Night of the Scorpion" |
| 1984 | Automan | Frank Ladrone | Season 1 Episode 9: "Murder MTV" |
| 1985 | Knight Rider | Mr. C | Season 3 Episode 17: "The Nineteenth Hole" |
| 1985 | Airwolf | Shrankov | Season 3 Episode 5: "Crossover" |
| 1986 | Scarecrow and Mrs. King | Serge Krutiov | Season 3 Episode 22: "All the World's a Stage" |
| 1986 | The Wizard | | Season 1 Episode 1: "El Dorado" |