Albert Paulsen

Albert Paulsen (born Albert Paulson Andrade; December 13, 1925, Guayaquil, Ecuador – April 25, 2004, Los Angeles, California) was an Ecuadorian-American actor who appeared in many American television series beginning in the 1960s, playing characters primarily of European origin.

The son of Alfredo Paulson Moulis and Zoila María Andrade Flor, he had two siblings, brothers Alfredo Paulson Andrade and Juan Paulson Andrade (the latter of whom survived Paulsen). He studied for three years at the German School in Quito and, in 1933, returned to Guayaquil, where he attended the Cristóbal Colón and San José schools.

After emigrating to the United States, he changed his surname from Paulson to Paulsen at some point. He became a life member of The Actors Studio, Paulsen won an Emmy Award in 1964 for the Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre presentation One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, an historical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Paulsen was a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre studying under Sanford Meisner. Paulsen died of natural causes in Los Angeles, aged 78.