44 Facts About Randolph Mantooth

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Randolph Mantooth was born on Randy DeRoy Mantooth, September 19,1945 and is an American actor who has worked in television, documentaries, theater, and film for more than 50 years.

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Randolph Mantooth has spoken regularly at Firefighter and EMS conferences and symposia across the United States while maintaining an active acting career.

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Randolph Mantooth is a spokesperson for both the International Association of Firefighters [IAFF] and the International Association of Fire Chiefs [IAFC] for firefighter health and safety, and honored over the years with numerous awards and recognition.

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Randolph Mantooth serves as an associate artist at Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theatre.

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Randolph Mantooth's performances includes Mark Kaufman's Evil Little Thoughts, Black Elk Speaks, Carey Crim's Morning after Grace, Lanford Wilson's Rain Dance, and innumerable works by Native American playwrights including William S Yellow Robe, Jr.

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Randolph Mantooth is of Seminole, Cherokee, Potawatomi, Scottish, and German descent.

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Randolph Mantooth attended San Marcos High School and participated in school plays.

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Randolph Mantooth was discovered in New York City by Universal Studios' talent agent Eleanor Kilgallen while playing the lead in the play Philadelphia, Here I Come.

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Randolph Mantooth was featured as a guest performer on episodic television.

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Randolph Mantooth appeared on several programs including Sierra, Cos, The Love Boat, Battlestar Galactica and Vega$.

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Randolph Mantooth mentioned that unless you take the written course you are not a paramedic and that "if anyone has a heart attack, I'll call 911 with the best of them".

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Randolph Mantooth's character appeared on a crossover episode of Adam-12 called "Lost and Found".

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Randolph Mantooth let the words work for her, rather than emoting; that's all anybody needed.

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Randolph Mantooth worked alongside influential men who made a difference.

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Masimo Corporation funded a video, narrated by Randolph Mantooth, regarding the dangers of carbon monoxide to educate firefighters.

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Randolph Mantooth serves as a spokesperson for the International Association of Firefighters on Health and Safety.

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Randolph Mantooth has been honored over the years with numerous awards and recognition, most recently the James O Page Award of Excellence from the International Association of Fire Chiefs, EMS section.

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Randolph Mantooth is a lifetime member of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians and a lifetime member of the Washington DC-based Advocates for EMS.

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Randolph Mantooth "accepts the accolades with gracious deference to those he considers our true heroes".

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Randolph Mantooth serves as honorary chairman and spokesperson for the non-profit County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association.

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Randolph Mantooth served as a moderator in a project done in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Fire Museum, called Pioneers of Paramedicine, which was an effort to document and record the history of the paramedicine program.

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Randolph Mantooth appeared in the miniseries adaptations of Taylor Caldwell's 1968 novel Testimony of Two Men and John Jakes' novel The Seekers.

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Randolph Mantooth moved back to New York where he explored a new direction in his career with daytime soap operas, earning him four Soap Opera Digest Award nominations.

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Randolph Mantooth left Loving for personal reasons in 1990, before returning to the show in 1993, this time in the role of Alex Masters.

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Randolph Mantooth appeared on General Hospital, One Life to Live and As the World Turns, where he played both good guys and villains.

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In 2003, Randolph Mantooth joined the cast of As the World Turns as a temporary replacement for Benjamin Hendrickson in the role of Hal Munson.

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When Hendrickson left the series in 2004, Randolph Mantooth returned to the series as Munson, in a recurring position until Hendrickson returned to the program in 2005.

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In 2007, Randolph Mantooth landed the recurring role of Kirk Harmon on One Life to Live.

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Besides his work on daytime in the 1990s, Randolph Mantooth starred in television movies such as White Cobra Express and portrayed Bing Tupper in both the movie Before the Storm and the series Under Cover.

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Randolph Mantooth starred in a CBS Schoolbreak Special as Mr Leland in "Please, God, I'm Only Seventeen".

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Randolph Mantooth made guest appearances on series such as China Beach, MacGyver, Baywatch, Diagnosis: Murder, JAG, Promised Land and Walker, Texas Ranger during the 1990s.

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In 2000, Randolph Mantooth played Ken Crandall in the television movie Bitter Suite, and in 2007, he played Dutch Fallon in the television movie Fire Serpent.

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Randolph Mantooth starred on series such as ER, Criminal Minds, Ghost Whisperer, and most recently as Charlie Horse in Sons of Anarchy in 2011.

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Randolph Mantooth is marketing a screenplay that focuses on Indian gambling, called The Bone Game.

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Randolph Mantooth has frequently returned to his theatre roots in such productions as Arsenic and Old Lace at the Alhambra Dinner Theatre in 1983, and The Man With The Dirty Mind with Don Knotts and Rue McClanahan.

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In 1984, Randolph Mantooth worked with David Carradine and Will Sampson, along with other Native actors, in a production of Black Elk Speaks for the American Indian Theatre Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Randolph Mantooth continued to do theatre with roles in a variety of plays including Edith Villareal's Crazy from the Heart at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1986, and Mark Kaufman's Evil Little Thoughts at the Denver Center Theatre in 1991, Randolph Mantooth, along with James Van Der Beek performed Lanford Wilson's Rain Dance off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre.

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Randolph Mantooth performed with Donne Coteau in Footprints in Blood for the American Indian Theatre Company at the Old Lady of Brady Theatre in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Randolph Mantooth portrayed Dr Charles Western in Gary Leon Hill's Back to the Blankets at the Denver Center Theatre in 1991.

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Randolph Mantooth performed in two additional plays: The Paper Crown and The Inuit.

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Randolph Mantooth is an Associate Artist of The Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Michigan, founded by Jeff Daniels, since 2003.

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Randolph Mantooth completed a three-month run of Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts in 2012 at the theater.

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Randolph Mantooth performed in Carey Crim's Morning after Grace at the Purple Rose Theatre in the Fall 2016.

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Randolph Mantooth is noted in the song, "What Do You Want From Life," by The Tubes.