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Paul Genge

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Paul Morgan Genge (29 March 1913, in Brooklyn, New York – 13 May 1988, in Los Angeles, California) was an actor from the 1950s through to the late 1970s.[1] Genge is most famous for his role as the shotgun toting gray-haired mob hitman 'Mike' in the 1968 film Bullitt (his character is the passenger in the black 1968 Dodge Charger during the famous car chase that goes out of control and causes his death and the driver's). Other film roles include that of a payoff man in The Outfit (1973), a California Highway Patrol officer in 1967's Hot Rods to Hell, Whitey, a communist suspect in The FBI Story (1959) and Lieutenant Hagerman in Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest (1959). He also appeared on many television shows from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.[2] He played in four episodes of Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr; in three of the roles he played a law-enforcement officer, such as San Francisco Inspector Wade in "The Case of the Poison Pen Pal" in 1962. In his final appearance in 1966 he played Bud in "The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise." In that episode he and his comrade, in attempting to hijack goods from a truck driven by Paul Drake, are killed when their car loses control and rolls down the cliff, somewhat similar to the chase scene in Bullitt.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1958 I Want to Live! Police Inspector Uncredited
1958 The Walter Winchell File "The Window" - LT Buchanan
1959 The Beat Generation Police Capt. Wilson Uncredited
1959 North By Northwest Lieutenant Hagerman Uncredited
1959 The FBI Story Whitey, a Suspect
1960 Because They're Young Coach Al Pekarek Uncredited
1960 The Crowded Sky Samuel N. Poole
1964 The Americanization of Emily Officer Uncredited
1965 Young Dillinger Police Detective Uncredited
1965 The Sandpiper Architect Uncredited
1967 Hot Rods to Hell Policeman
1968 Blackbeard's Ghost Casino Manager Uncredited
1968 The Green Berets Gen. Thomas Uncredited
1968 Bullitt Mike, shotgun killer
1973 The Outfit Pay-Off Man

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