Paul Calderon
Date of birth: 1952-01-25
Place of birth: Puerto Rico
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Paul Calderone
Biography
He was born in Puerto Rico 1959. Calderon moved to New York with his family at the age of six, where he grew up on the streets of the Lower East Side and Spanish Harlem. Following some time in college, he enlisted in the United States Army and served overseas as an infantryman. Returning to the States, Calderon set his sights on an acting career. Starting out on the New York stage, he won an Obie Award for his performance in Blade to the Heat at the Public Theatre. His most notable Broadway role was opposite Robert De Niro in Cuba and His Teddy Bear. Calderon also appeared off-Broadway in such plays as Requiem For A Heavyweight and Divine Horsemen, and played Achilles in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of Troilus and Cressida in Central Park. He is a founding member of the Touchstone Theatre, the American Folk Theatre and the Labyrinth Theatre Company. Calderon was originally slated to portray the role of Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson was subsequently given the role. Correction Samuel Jackson told Tarantino he had messed up by not casting him in Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino agreed and told him he was writing a script and had a character that he had written specifically with Jackson in mind. Calderon had a better initial reading than Jackson and Tarantino gave serious consideration to casting him as Jules Winnfield. Calderon portrays Paul the bartender in dialogue scene between Butch Coolidge and Marsellus Wallace. Calderon also co-wrote Abel Ferrara's 1992 crime drama Bad Lieutenant, starring Harvey Keitel. Calderon acted in The Last Castle and the critically acclaimed independent feature Girlfight. His more than three dozen film credits also include Out of Sight, Cop Land, Four Rooms, Pulp Fiction, Bad Lieutenant, The Firm, The Addiction, Q & A, Sea of Love, Clockers and King of New York. In addition, he has made numerous guest appearances on television series, including recurring roles on Dream Street, Law & Order and Miami Vice. In 2010, Calderon is set to star as The Businessman in Sanzhar Sultanov's crime drama - The Story.
Movie Credits
Four Rooms
1995-12-09
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to pla
The Last Castle
2001-10-19
A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away
Pulp Fiction
1994-09-10
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up bo
Montana
1998-01-16
A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitt
Bad Lieutenant
1992-11-20
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious dru
Sea of Love
1989-09-15
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and
King of New York
1990-07-18
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the
Kill the Poor
2003-05-09
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenem
Sweet Nothing
1995-06-08
Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesita
La Soga
2009-09-12
A cop works against his country's corrupt government in order to find justice on a case.
Pistol Whipped
2008-03-04
Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling p
Girlfight
2000-05-01
Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for fema
Burning Daylight
2010-11-14
Based on three short stories by American writer Jack London, Burning Daylight follows the lives of t
Welcome to New York
2014-08-07
Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls
Q & A
1990-04-27
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a fo
Bait
2000-09-15
Landing in jail for a petty theft crime, Alvin finds himself sharing a cell with John Jaster, the in
Doubletake
1985-11-24
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is
The Sentinel
2006-04-19
Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently fra
Gun
2010-07-30
The Detroit Police launches a full-scale war against gun runners with the cooperation of the Feds an
The Keys
1992-04-12
Brothers, shipped off by their divorced New York mom to live with their businessman dad in the Flori
Community Plot
1984-12-31
This satiric comedy takes place in a building on New York's multi-ethnic Lower East Side. Four neigh
Tenement
1985-09-20
A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment buildin
Oxygen
1999-11-12
When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in.
Condition Red
1995-12-08
Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.
The Hungry Ghosts
2009-01-22
A New York City-set drama of interlocking stories which occur over a 36-hour period.
One Tough Cop
1998-10-09
A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.
Staging Anna
2024-09-06
A Theatre Company prepares for season previews under a manipulative Director, whose fanatical tactic
Dark Angel
1996-09-10
Homicide detective Walter D'Arcangelo is the only link to a serial killer who preys on adulterous wo
21 Grams
2003-09-06
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp
The Addiction
1995-10-06
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her th
3 A.M.
2001-07-01
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of t
Hand Gun
1994-10-01
Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack man
Band of the Hand
1986-04-11
An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
The Strike
2016-04-14
When a trio of struggling and increasingly desperate thirty-something actors - Alberto, Molly and Ri
Cop Land
1997-08-15
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful t
The Chair
1988-10-08
A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the gh
Clockers
1995-09-15
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manag
Out of Sight
1998-06-26
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen
Biodegradable
2013-11-14
In the future, nations have been replaced by Projects that are managed like corporations. Neighborho
The Firm
1993-06-30
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approa
Bolaetrapo
2013-10-15
CrissCross
1992-05-08
A 12-year-old boy comes of age in 1969 Key West against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, whe
All Revved Up
1998-04-19
A lovely school teacher finds herself the victim of a scam artist - a garage owner who delights in r
Penn & Teller Get Killed
1989-09-22
The "bad boys of magic" go over the edge in this mind-blowing, role-switching comedy murder mystery
Down This Road
2010-04-20
12-year-old Rodney embarks on a journey across New York to reclaim the love of his struggling, waywa
Once in the Life
2000-10-27
Two estranged half-brothers, Billy and Torch, reconnect during a brief jail stay. 20/20 Mike concoct
West End
2014-11-20
Vic Trevi is an undercover FBI agent positioned to betray the people he calls family. Vic needs to f
The Atlantis Conspiracy
2001-01-01
Lauren Marcus (Amanda Donohoe) reluctantly moves back to New York City and is forced to decide wheth
A Kiss of Chaos
2009-06-27
A Latino thriller wherein an emotionally conflicted artist's life is dragged into a vortex of Chaos
Sticky Fingers
1988-05-06
Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-
Prick
A Podcaster lands the interview of a lifetime.
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021-01-02
Who has ever compared Reservoir Dogs? What are “Open Road” and “New World Disorder”? Why is Harvey K