Mantee was born Paul Marianetti in San Francisco, California. A journalism major at San Mateo Junior College, Mantee enlisted in the U.S. Navy for four years during the Korean War that made him decide on acting as a career. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
His stage name was changed from an Italian-sounding name to the name of Humphrey Bogart's character in The Petrified Forest. He made a great number of guest appearances in well-known television shows and starred in a handful of films, including a cult classic, Robinson Crusoe on Mars. A restored version of the film was released in 2007 by The Criterion Collection. Mantee authored two novels, In Search of the Perfect Ravioli (Ballantine Books, 1991) and a semi-autobiographical Bruno of Hollywood (Ballantine Books, 1994).
Mantee, a longtime Malibu resident, died November 7, 2013 at a rehabilitation center in Canoga Park, California. He was survived by his wife, Suzy Davis Mantee.
as General Willard
as Reporter
as Corassa
as Father Poole
as Doctor
as Professor McRoe
as Health Inspector(1 ep)
as Judge Mitchell Katlin(1 ep)
as Mike
as Bailey(1 ep)
as Leo David Fender / Ronald Olson / Jack Landis(1 ep)
as Commander Clayton(7 eps)
as Agent Watkins(1 ep)
as Chris Thomas(1 ep)
as Finnegan
as Albert Hastings(1 ep)
as Lt. Sandusky(1 ep)
as Al Corassa(1 ep)
as Detective Thomas(1 ep)
as Det. Al Corassa(1 ep)
as Roy Harris(1 ep)
as James DiGiorgio
as Ordway
as Ordway(2 eps)
as Walther
as Sweeney
as Col. Virgil Hedgepath
as Capt. Brown
as Karl(1 ep)
as Roy(1 ep)
as Dr. McEvoy
as General Cochran(1 ep)
as Barton(1 ep)
as Eddie(1 ep)
as FBI Agent Fuller
as Carrara
as Roy Moore
as Lawrence(1 ep)
as Morgan(1 ep)
as Fake Carl Hopwood(1 ep)
as Perkins(1 ep)
as Sgt. O'Neal
as Edward
as Robert Fowler(1 ep)
as Frank
as Cable
as Man in Windbreaker
as Troy
as Terry(1 ep)
as Mickey
as Jim Hadley
as Hank Yankowski(1 ep)
as Joe Taggart(1 ep)
as Adams
as Wallace Brooks(1 ep)
as Renfro(1 ep)
as Jiggs
as Father Minetti(1 ep)
as Dick Dagger
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as Frank Viola(1 ep)
as Paul(2 eps)
as Tommy Gantt(1 ep)
as Dave Winters(1 ep)
as Prof. Bradford Link(1 ep)
as Deputy Vern Hammond(1 ep)
as Self - Dick Dagger (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Byron Miller(1 ep)
as Bill Fisher(1 ep)
as Ambahai(1 ep)
as Shago Martin
as Cornell(2 eps)
as Frank Macklin(1 ep)
as Vic(1 ep)
as Gerald Spain(1 ep)
as Norman Whitehead(1 ep)
as Segura
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as Commander Christopher Draper
as Hal Williams(1 ep)
as Jack Burmas(1 ep)
as Deputy Bob Howe(1 ep)
as Neurosurgeon(1 ep)
as Ori(1 ep)
as Nick Malatesta(1 ep)
as Sgt. Taliman(1 ep)
as Johnny Crow(1 ep)
as Jimmy(1 ep)
as Morris Copley(1 ep)