Background
Sorenson was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Sorenson was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
He moved to Hollywood, California, in 1945 and enrolled in the Pasadena Playhouse, from which he graduated two years later.
He was frequently cast in westerns or as a police officer Sorenson served with the United States military during the Korean War. He returned to California after the war and resumed acting.
A talent agent signed Sorenson after watching him perform in a theater production of Born Yesterday.
He was cast in his first television role as the deputy-turned-bandit Billy Stiles in the 1954-1955 syndicated Stories of the Century, a western series starring and narrated by Jim Davis. He appeared in recurring television roles in The Brady Bunch, Barnaby Jones and Fred MacMurray"s My Three Sons.
His television career, which spanned from the 1950s to the 1980s also included work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, My Favorite Martian, The Rockford Files and The Mod Squadron Sorensen was often cast in such westerns as Jefferson Drum, The Rifleman, Rin Tin Tin, Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel, The High Chaparral, Cheyenne, Cimarron City, Johnny Ringo, Wagon Train, The Virginian, and The Big Valley.
Sorensen"s film credits included Hang "em High and Escape to Witch Mountain.
Sorensen retired from acting during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Paul Sorensen died on July 17, 2008, in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, San Diego County, California, at the age of eighty-two.
One of Sorensen"s best known characters was a recurring role as Andy Bradley, a member of an oil cartel, on Dallas.