Paul McCrane
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| Paul McCrane | |
| Birthplace | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Date of birth | January 19, 1961 |
| Role on 24 | Graem Bauer |
Paul McCrane played Graem Bauer on 24. He is best known for his role as Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano on ER, and also starred in films like Fame, Robocop (with Peter Weller, Kurtwood Smith, Ray Wise, Jesse D. Goins, and Edward Edwards) and The Shawshank Redemption (with Jude Ciccolella, Mark Rolston, Bob Gunton and Gil Bellows).
McCrane has been known to take roles where his characters experience horrible pain and injury or violent death:
Emil Antonowsky in RoboCop was horribly disfigured by toxic waste before being run over by a car. In the 1988 remake of The Blob, his character (Deputy Briggs) is dissolved by the infamous creature. Robert Romano (1997-2003) in ER had his arm severed by the anti-torque rotor of a helicopter and was later crushed to death by another chopper 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. He was finally killed by Skully when she shocked him on his head by a defibrillator. 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 air embolism into McCrane's character. The notable exceptions to this pattern were McCrane's role as Montgomery MacNeil in Fame, a sensitive aspiring actor coming to terms with his homosexuality, and his role as Apollo astronaut Pete Conrad in the HBO Mini-Series From the Earth to the Moon. However, Conrad was subject to a number of constant discomforts. 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.
