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Paul Dawson
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Acting
Gender
Male
Career Highlights
8
Movies
2
TV Shows
Also Known As
Paul 'Pinto' Dawson
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Paul Dawson
Acting
Biography
Paul Dawson is an actor and DJ perhaps best known for playing the secretly suicidal former prostitute James, one of the principal characters in Shortbus, a 2006 American comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell.
Movies
8
TV Shows
2
Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'
as
James / Himself
2007
Shortbus
as
James
2006
Baby Blue
as
(uncredited)
2002
Boys to Men
as
Hustler
2001
The Mountain King
as
Hustler
2000
Urbania
as
The Bloodied Man
2000
The Big Kahuna
as
Bellboy
1999
The Blur of Insanity
as
Tar
1999
