Paul Orndorff
Acting
Biography
Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr., nicknamed "Mr. Wonderful", was an American professional wrestler and college football player, best known for his appearances with WWE and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). After seven years working around the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), Orndorff became a star in the 1980s WWE wrestling boom, and featured with manager Bobby Heenan and champion Hulk Hogan extensively, including in the main events of the first WrestleMania and Survivor Series. With an untreated neck injury, he left WWE for WCW in early 1988, where he won the WCW World Television Championship and the WCW World Tag Team Championship with Paul Roma (as a team called Pretty Wonderful). Arm atrophy from a nagging injury led him to retire in 2000 and he was treated for cancer in 2011. After retiring, he trained aspiring wrestlers. Orndorff was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 and the National Wrestling Alliance Hall of Fame in 2009.
Movies
WWE: The History Of The WWE Championship
2006
WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden
2013
WCW The Great American Bash 1990
1990
WCW Beach Blast 1993
1993
WCW Starrcade 1993
1993
WCW BattleBowl
1993
WWE The Big Event
1986
Andre the Giant
2018
Best of the WWF Volume 2
1985
WrestleMania 2 (Duplicated)
1986
WrestleMania
1985
WrestleMania II
1986
WCW Halloween Havoc 1993
1993
The Greatest Stars of the 80's
2005
WWE The Brawl to End it All
1984
WCW SuperBrawl IV
1994
Most Unusual Matches
1985
WWE War to Settle the Score
1985
Legends of Mid-South Wrestling
2013
Andre the Giant
1985
TV Shows
WWF Wrestling Challenge
1986
Saturday Night's Main Event
1985
Saturday Night's Main Event
1985
Mid-South Wrestling
1981
WWE Old School
1973
WWE Old School
1973
WWE Old School
1973
WWE Old School
1973
Mr. McMahon
2024
WWE Table For 3
2015
Clash of the Champions
1988
Clash of the Champions
1988
Tuesday Night Titans
1984
Tuesday Night Titans
1984
Hogan Knows Best
2005
WWE Hall of Fame
2005