Paul Ben Victor :: Soul of a Musician, Heart of an Actor
Channel: Rich Redmond
Date: 2021-01-05

Paul Ben-Victor has built a career on the small and big screen appearing in over 60 films and TV series. A director's favorite, Paul has worked with some of the biggest names in film including Tony Scott, Steven Zallian, and Clint Eastwood. Paul Can be seen next opposite Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Harvey Keitel in Martin Scorsese's feature "The Irishman". This marks Paul's second time working with the Academy-Award winning director since having starred in the critically-acclaimed series "Vinyl" for HBO.
 
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Other recent film credits include "Get Hard" with Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell, "Grudge Match" with Robert DeNiro, and most recently "Monster" with Jeffrey Wright and Jennifer Hudson as well as "Crooked Somebody" alongside Ed Harris.
 
In television, Paul has played a number of standout roles in some of the most highly-acclaimed series, including appearing opposite Matthew McConaughey in HBO's Emmy-award winning and Golden Globe-nominated series "True Detective" as well as series regular turn in HBO's "The Wire", called "the greatest series of all-time" by Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone magazines. Other TV credits include "Entourage" (HBO); "John From Cincinnati" (HBO); "NYPD Blue" (ABC).
 
Paul also received critical acclaim for his portrayal of iconic comedian "Moe Howard" in the ABC biopic "The Three Stooges".
 
Paul starred in recurring roles in "The Mick" (Fox), "Preacher" (AMC), and "Santa Clarita Diet" (Netflix) and on "Goliath" opposite Billy Bob Thornton for Amazon.
 
Some Things That Came Up: 
 
-Paul started out playing drums as well
 
-Went to Manhattan School of Music
 
-Big Tower of Power fan, Davd Garibaldi and Steve Gadd
 
-Jon Stewart loving drums
 
-Being on set with Deniro and Pacino
 
-Sebastian Maniscalco
 
-NYPD Blue was the turning point for his acting career
 
-Memorizing big chunks of dialogue
 
-Jim teaches Paul the "cork" technique
 
-The Brando cue card method
 
-Saturday Night Live cue cards
 
-Danny Trejo story
 
-Entourage and acting with Jeremy Piven and Martin Landau
 
-Three Stooges filming with Michael Chiklis
 
-Working on single stroke rolls
 
-Paul’s indulgences
 
IMDB:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070115/bio
Twitter: www.twitter.com/paul_benvictor
Instagram: www.instagram.com/paulbenvictor
 
 
The Rich Redmond Show is about all things music, motivation and success. Candid conversations with musicians, actors, comedians, authors and thought leaders about their lives and the stories that shaped them. Rich Redmond is the longtime drummer with Jason Aldean and many other veteran musicians and artists. Rich is also an actor, speaker, author, producer and educator. Rich has been heard on thousands of songs, over 25 of which have been #1 hits!
 
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