| Paul McCrane | ||
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| Character James Lee Pawl | ||
| Date of birth 19 January 1961 | ||
| Place of birth Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||
| IMDb profile |
Paul McCrane is an actor and director who played James Lee Pawl in the Law & Order third season episode "Jurisdiction". He also directed the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit seventh season episode "Fault".
His roles include Emil Antonowsky in RoboCop (with Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Miguel Ferrer, and Ray Wise), Montgomery MacNeil in Fame, Astronaut Pete Conrad in From the Earth to the Moon, cancer-absorbing mutant Leonard Betts in The X-Files and Dr. Robert Romano on ER (with Eriq La Salle, Gloria Reuben, Maura Tierney and Hallee Hirsh). More recently, he has guest-starred in 24, season 5 and 6 as Graem Bauer. He has also appeared on Ugly Betty.
One of McCrane's fellow cast members on ER, Eriq La Salle, also directed an episode from Special Victims Unit eighth season episode "Burned".