Background
Papajohn grew up in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.
Actor baseball player stunt performer
Papajohn grew up in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.
He graduated from Vestavia Hills High School in 1983 and went on to play for two years at Gulf Coast Community College in Panama City, Florida.
He was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 1985 Major League Draft. Instead of signing a contract, he accepted a baseball scholarship to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Nicknamed Poppy, Papajohn was an outfielder for Skip Bertman"s Louisiana State University Tigers.
Papajohn got his start in acting while he was a student at Louisiana State University.
Already an athlete, he was hired to be a stunt performer in the film which was being filmed on the campus of Louisiana State University and featured football action sequences filmed during Louisiana State University football games in Tiger Stadium. From there he moved on to being a stunt performer in films such as Money Talks and Starship Troopers and acting in films like,, where he plays New York Yankees slugger Sam Tuttle, and Spider-Manitoba and, in which he plays Dennis Carradine, the thief that was thought to have killed Uncle Ben.
Papajohn also makes a cameo appearance as a different character in the film series" reboot, The Amazing Spider-Manitoba He has also starred in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,,, and in 2009.
He was a member of the 1986 Securities and Exchange Commission Baseball Tournament All-Tournament Team and he, along with teammates Mark Guthrie, Joey Belle, Jeff Reboulet, Jeff Yurtin, Jack Voigt and Barry Manuel, among others, helped Louisiana State University make its first College World Series appearance in 1986.