1. Horacio Paul Picerni was an American actor in film and television, perhaps best known today in the role of Federal Agent Lee Hobson, second-in-command to Robert Stack's Eliot Ness, in the ABC hit television series, The Untouchables.
14 Facts About Paul Picerni
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Paul Picerni joined the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and served as a B-24 Liberator bombardier in the China-Burma-India Theater.
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Paul Picerni flew twenty-five combat missions with the 493rd Bomb Squadron of the 7th Bomb Group and received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Paul Picerni was part of a mission that attacked and destroyed the actual bridge made famous in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai.
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In 1954, Paul Picerni was cast as the outlaw Rube Burrow in the syndicated western television series Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis.
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Paul Picerni appeared in two episodes, "Gun Hand" and "Badge to Kill" of the syndicated western series 26 Men.
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Paul Picerni appeared in the episode "Gypsy Boy" of Tales of the Texas Rangers.
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In 1958, Paul Picerni played a milkman on the ABC sitcom, The Donna Reed Show.
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Paul Picerni portrayed a police detective in the episode "The Quemoy Story" of Behind Closed Doors.
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Paul Picerni made three guest appearances on Perry Mason during its nine-year run on CBS.
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In 1967, Paul appeared with his daughter Gina Picerni in the episode "The Chameleon" of My Three Sons.
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Paul Picerni made a featured appearance as a POW who tries to betray the other prisoners by selling damning information to the Nazis, in the "One in Every Crowd" episode of Hogan's Heroes.
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Paul Picerni died from a heart attack in Palmdale, California, on January 12,2011, at the age of 88.
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Paul Picerni is interred at the Roman Catholic San Fernando Mission Cemetery.