David Paul (March 8, 1957 – March 6, 2020) was an American actor. He and his twin brother
Peter were born in
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since the ...
. The death of David was confirmed by his twin brother Peter. David died just two days before his 63rd birthday.
Acting credits
Paul and his twin brother
Peter Paul were together known as "The Barbarian Brothers".
They appeared in an episode of ''
Knight Rider'' entitled "Knight of the Drones".
David and Peter had a small part in the
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of '' Midnight Express'' (1978), and wrote the gangster film remake '' Sc ...
movie ''
Natural Born Killers'' in which they are in a bodybuilding public gym milieu being interviewed by
Robert Downey Jr.'s character, but the scene ended up on the cutting room floor. Their part can be found on the director's cut of the film, in which director Stone says of the excised Barbarian Brothers scene "they're overacting, and it's my fault."
Filmography
References
Male actors from Hartford, Connecticut
American television hosts
American television producers
American bodybuilders
Identical twin male actors
1957 births
2020 deaths
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