O'Sullivan, Paul

PERSONAL

Education: Graduated from George Brown College's Theatre Arts Program, c. mid-1980s; studied improvisation at Second City, Toronto, Canada.

Career:

Actor. Skippy's Ranger (a sketch comedy troupe), member; appeared with and directed shows for Second City, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Humbler College School of Comedy, former resident director and teacher of improvisation and sketch writing.

Awards, Honors:

Gemini Award nomination, best writing in a comedy or variety program or series, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 1999, for SketchCom; Canadian Comedy Award nomination (with others), television—writing—episode or special, 2000, for Comedy Now!; Gemini Award nomination, best ensemble performance in a comedy program or series, 2004, for The Joe Blow Show.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Graham, High Spirits, TriStar, 1988.

Bernard Louffier, It Takes Two (also known as Me and My Shadow), Warner Bros., 1995.

Video operator, Memory Run (also known as Synapse), Imperial Entertainment Corp., 1996.

Roebuck's friend, Jerry and Tom, Miramax, 1998.

A. D., Dirty Work (also known as Sale boulot), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1998.

Ben Scattergood, The Spreading Ground, Smooth Pictures, 2000.

Bartender, Luck, Odeon Films, 2003.

Television Appearances; Series:

One Minute to Air, CBC, 1996.

The Newsroom, CBC, 1997.

(With Skippy's Rangers), SketchCom, CBC, 1998.

Himself, Improv Heaven & Hell (also known as The Devil's Advocates' "Improv Heaven & Hell"), 1999.

Voice of Harold Shrinks, George Shrinks (animated), PBS, 2000-2003.

Armond, The Joe Blow Show, The Comedy Network, 2003.

Voice of the Director, Grossology, YTV and Discovery Kids, 2006-2007.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Ed, Christmas in My Hometown (also known as A Holiday for Love), CBS, 1996.

Simon Says, Club Land, Showtime, 2001.

The Music Man, ABC, 2003.

Richie, Burnt Toast, 2005.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Stock agent, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (movie), CBC and Lifetime, 1998.

Roy, An American in Canada (also known as Frostbite), CBC, 2002.

Television Appearances; Specials:

(With Skippy's Rangers) Themselves (Pretty Funny Sketch Troupe), The 2000 Canadian Comedy Awards, Comedy Network, 2000.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Paul Blondell, "Forward into the Past," Forever Knight, syndicated, 1994.

John Huey, "The Last Rights," Side Effects, CBC, 1994.

Parking attendant, "The Promise," Due South (also known as Direction: Sud), CTV and CBS, 1996.

Langham, "True Blue," Once a Thief (also known as John Woo's "Once a Thief"), syndicated, 1998.

Buttons' lawyer, "Buttons Goes to Court," Puppets Who Kill, Comedy Central, 2002.

Cardinal, "Kissing a Nun," The Sean Cullen Show, CBC, 2003.

Also appeared as Sparky Hoover, "Big Guy Little Guy," The Red Green Show (also known as The New Red Green Show), CBC; Comics!, CBC.

Television Work; Pilots:

Worked as co-creator, The Second Coming, CBC.

Stage Appearances:

Appeared as Franz Liebkind, The Producers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Stage Work:

Old Wine: New Bottles: Looking Back Twenty-Five Years, Second City, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1998.

Also directed Generation X-Files, Second City, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

WRITINGS

Television Pilots:

Cowrote The Second Coming, CBC.

Television Episodes:

Comedy Now!, 1997.

Also wrote for The Joe Blow Show.