Paul Orndorff

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Age

Movies

Born: October 29, 1949
From: Brandon, Florida, USA

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.

Works

77 films

SMW Volunteer Slam 1992

1992

Andre the Giant

20187.3

The Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '80s

20057.8

WCW Bash at the Beach 1994

19946.3

WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology

20067.9

WWE Survivor Series 1987

19878.4

WWE Grudge Match

1986

WrestleMania II

19866.4

WWE: The History Of The WWE Championship

200610.0

WCW Bash at the Beach 1995

19952.7

Wrestling's Bloopers, Bleeps, & Bodyslams

198510.0

WCW Starrcade 1993

19939.0

WCW BattleBowl

19936.0

WrestleMania

19856.6

The Wrestling Classic

19856.0

Legends of Mid-South Wrestling

20139.3

WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden

20139.2

WCW The Great American Bash 1990

19907.7

WWE The Big Event

19868.0

WCW Clash of the Champions XXVIII

1994

WCW Slamboree 1993

199310.0

WCW Clash of The Champions XXIX

1994

WCW SuperBrawl III

1993

Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports

1987

WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event

20097.5

Wrestling's Most Embarrassing Moments

198710.0

WWE Houston Wrestling: October '86

1986

Rowdy Roddy Piper's Greatest Hits

19857.0

Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports

1985

WCW Clash of the Champions XXIV

1993

Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1

2007

Andre the Giant

19857.0

WCW Halloween Havoc 1994

19947.0

Best of the WWF Volume 3

1985

Most Unusual Matches

19859.0

WCW Fall Brawl 2000

2000

WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: April '85

1985

WCW SuperBrawl IV

19945.0

WCW Clash of The Champions XXII

199310.0

The Best of the WWF: volume 4

1985

WCW Clash of The Champions XXVI

1994

Best of the WWF Volume 2

1985

WCW Beach Blast 1993

199310.0

WCW Clash of the Champions XXV

1993

The Best of the WWF: volume 14

1987

TWA Summer Sizzler

1990

WCW Fall Brawl 1993

1993

The Best of the WWF: volume 12

1987

WCW World War 3 1995

1995

WCW Clash of The Champions XXIII

1993

WCW Fall Brawl 1994

1994

WWE War to Settle the Score

198510.0

350 Days

20195.1

WCW Halloween Havoc 1993

19937.0

WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI

19955.0

WWF Hulkamania 2

1987

WWE Houston Wrestling: December '87

1987

WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: July '84

1984

WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: June '87

1987

WWE The Brawl to End it All

198410.0

The Best of the WWF: volume 5

1986

WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: March '87

1987

WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '87

1987

WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: December '85

1985

SMW Fire on The Mountain 1992

1992

WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: January '87

1987

WWE Houston Wrestling: November '87

1987

WWE Hall of Fame 2005

20058.5

WCW Slamboree 1995

1995

TWA Spring Spectacular

1990

WWE Unreleased: 1986-1995

201710.0

Wrestling's Living Legend Bruno Sammartino

1986

WWE Houston Wrestling: November '86

1986

WWE St. Louis Wrestling: September '84

1984

NWA Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush

1990

WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: December '84

1984

UWF Beach Brawl

19919.0