Paul Sand

Paul Sand (born March 5, 1932) is an American actor and comedian.

Background Sand was born Pablo Sanchez in Santa Monica, California, in 1932, the son of Ernest Rivera Sanchez, an aerospace tool designer, and Sonia Borodiansky (aka Sonia Stone), a writer. He is of Russian Jewish and Mexican American ancestry.

Career At the age of 11, he started at Viola Spolin's Children's Theatre Company. From here, he attended Los Angeles State College before moving to Paris when he was 18. In Paris, Sand met Marcel Marceau, who was so impressed by his talents that he asked Sand to join his touring mime troupe.

In 1960, along with Alan Arkin and others, Sand was a cast member of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe in Chicago, which had just been established the previous year. In 1966, he co-starred with Linda Lavin and Jo Anne Worley in the off-Broadway production The Mad Show, inspired by Mad Magazine.

In 1971, Sand received a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his work on Broadway in Paul Sills' Story Theatre and two Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Performances on Broadway in Story Theatre and Metamorphosis. One of Sand's fellow cast members in Story Theatre was actress Valerie Harper, who, in 1970, had been signed to play Rhoda Morgenstern on the CBS-TV situation comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show. During that show's first season, Sand was cast as Robert C. Brand, a tax auditor, who falls in love with Mary Richards (Moore) in the 11th episode "1040 or Fight". MTM Enterprises produced Friends and Lovers, in which Sand portrayed Robert Dreyfuss, a double bass player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra who falls in love easily but has little success with women. It premiered in the fall of 1974. Despite some favorable reviews and decent ratings, it was considered a disappointment and was cancelled in January 1975 after fifteen episodes had been filmed.

Sand also appeared in such motion pictures as The Hot Rock with Zero Mostel, The Second Coming of Suzanne alongside Sondra Locke, and The Main Event starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.

In the fall of 1986, Sand, joined the cast of the NBC sitcom Gimme a Break! starring Nell Carter, then approaching its sixth year on prime-time television.

Filmography Film

A Great Big Thing (1968) - Morrie Viva Max! (1969) - Moreno The Hot Rock (1972) - Greenberg Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972) - Benny Napkins The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974) - Lee Simon The Great Bank Hoax (1978) - Richard Smedley The Main Event (1979) - David Wholly Moses! (1980) - Angel Of The Lord Can't Stop the Music (1980) - Steve Waits Teen Wolf Too (1987) - Coach Finstock The Last Fling (1987) ABC Monday Night Movie - Jack Frozen Assets (1992) - McTaggert Layin' Low (1996) - Augie Camp Stories (1997) - Moishe Brittle Glory (1997) The Volunteers (1997) - Goldberg Zoo (1999) - Harold Ratsess Chuck & Buck (2000) - Barry Adam & Steve (2005) - Norm Queer Eye for the Homeless Guy (2005, Short) - Harry the Homeless Guy Sweet Land (2005) - Old Frandsen Queen of the Lot (2010) - Ernesto / Dependency Buster Simple Being (2014) - Teacher Loren & Rose (2022) - Phil

Television

Shower of Stars (1955) - Himself - dancer (uncredited) That Was the Week That Was (1964) Mr. Broadway (1964) - Photographer Occasional Wife (1966) - Harvey Bewitched (1966) - Bill Whalen The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) - Robert C. Brand The Governor & J.J. (1970) - Lionel Newton The Carol Burnett Show (1972–1974) - Himself / Himself - Guest Paul Sand in Friends & Lovers (1974–1975) - Robert Dreyfuss also, producer Once Upon a Brothers Grimm (1977) - Wilhelm Grimm Wonder Woman (1978) - Del Franklin Fantasy Island (1978) - Duke Manducci Supertrain (1979) Taxi (1981) - Craig Eagen Laverne & Shirley (1981) - David Gloria (1982) - Boffo the Clown Alice (1983) - Alan The Love Boat (1983) - Wally Denton St. Elsewhere (1983–1984) - Dr. Michael Ridley Domestic Life (1984) - Dr. Carl Pate Cagney & Lacey (1985) - Robert Wolitzer Murder, She Wrote (1985) - Horace Lynchfield Trapper John, M.D. (1985) - Philip Devonshire Who's the Boss? (1985–1987) - Packard / Wally It's a Living (1986) - Brian Phipps Magnum, P.I. (1986) - Denny Prine Gimme a Break! (1986–1987) - Marty The Twilight Zone (1987) - Bluestone (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz") thirtysomething (1987) - Andy Aronson / Jim / Rex Empty Nest (1989-1991) - Avery / Poko Quantum Leap (1989) - Charlie True Colors (1990–1991) - Leonard Davis Baby Talk (1991) - Paul Night Court (1991) - Prof. Jarvis Crowley Eerie, Indiana (1992) - Charles Furnell / Simon Holmes Danger Theatre (1993) - Jimmy Jakes (segment "Move My Lips") L.A. Law (1994) - Headmaster Ted Waldron The X Files (1994) - Gird Thomas Dr Quinn, femme médecin(1995)- Le grand-père du bébé sauvé (Famille Bishop) The Secret World of Alex Mack (1997) - Charles 'Chappy' Furnell Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1997) - Dr. Rafkin Dharma & Greg (1998) - Salazar Maggie Winters (1998) - Brad Sliders (1999) - Dr. Malcolm White ("Map of the Mind" episode 5/12) E! True Hollywood Story (2001, documentary) - Himself Curb Your Enthusiasm (2002) - Guy Bernier Joan of Arcadia (2003–2005) - Rabbi Polonski Palm Royale (2024) - Axel Rosenhips