Paul Orndorff
Actor
- Born
- October 29, 1949 (age 76) · Brandon, Florida, USA
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.
Known for
Andre the Giant
April 10, 2018
WrestleMania
March 31, 1985
WrestleMania II
April 7, 1986
WWE Survivor Series 1987
November 26, 1987
The Wrestling Classic
November 7, 1985
350 Days
April 2, 2019
Andre the Giant
June 15, 1985
WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden
August 13, 2013
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
October 17, 2006
WWE The Big Event
August 28, 1986
The Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '80s
June 14, 2005
WCW The Great American Bash 1990
July 7, 1990
Acting77
- 2019350 Days as Self
- 2018Andre the Giant as Self (archive footage)
- 2017WWE Unreleased: 1986-1995
- 2013Legends of Mid-South Wrestling as Himself
- 2013WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden as Himself
- 2009WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event as Himself
- 2007Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1 as Paul Orndorff
- 2006WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology as 'Mr. Wonderful' Paul Orndorff
- 2006WWE: The History Of The WWE Championship
- 2005