Paul Logan Stone (born October 15, 1973) is an American actor, model, martial artist, stuntman, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles in low budget action films such as Syfy's '' Mega Piranha''. Logan is also known for his portrayal of Glen Reiber on the

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''.

Education

Logan completed a degree in biochemistry at

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and followed this with courses of

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at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic.

Career

After a few small parts on a few early films and television episodes, Logan gained better screen time with the movie ''Killers'' in 1997. Logan would also appear in the Triple-B genre film, '' L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach''. A year later he made appearances in the

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''. In 2000, Logan appeared in the

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''. In 2001, he appeared in the ''

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'' spin-off, ''

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''. In that same year Logan was cast as Glen Reiber in ''

''. In 2003, Logan made a guest appearance in an episode of the

television

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''. He followed this up with a series of action films such as '' The Eliminator'', '' Curse of the Komodo'' and ''Way of the Vampire'' where he portrayed

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. In 2008, Logan appeared in '' The Terminators''. A year later, Logan's athletic background came in handy for the martial art-styled action film, ''Ballistica'', with a leading role as a top-notch CIA agent trained in the title art of Ballistica (hand-to-hand combat with firearms). In that same year, he appeared alongside

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in the disaster film '' Megafault''. Logan's third film with

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saw him in a leading role as the US commando sent to

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to stop mutating killer-fish in the SyFy original '' Mega Piranha''. The film garnered 2.2 million viewers on the network, making it the channel's most-watched film of the year so far. Most recently, Logan would write, produce and star in the 2016 action horror film, ''The Horde''. In 2018, Logan starred in the movie ''Running Out Of Time'' as the character Trent on

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and

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Filmography

Film

Television

Music Video

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Logan, Paul Living people 1973 births American male film actors American male soap opera actors Male actors from New Jersey State University of New York at Purchase alumni