Michael Papajohn (born November 7, 1964) is an American character
actor, stuntman and former college baseball player for the LSU Tigers
baseball team. He played Dennis Carradine in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man
trilogy.Papajohn was born and raised Vestavia Hills, a suburb of
Birmingham, Alabama, to a Greek American family. He graduated from
Vestavia Hills High School in 1983 and went on to play for two years
at Gulf Coast Community College in Panama City, Florida. He was
drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 1985 Major League Baseball Draft.
Instead of signing a contract, he accepted a baseball scholarship to
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Nicknamed Poppy,
Papajohn was an outfielder for Skip Bertman's LSU Tigers. He was a
member of the 1986 SEC Baseball Tournament All-Tournament Team and he,
along with teammates Mark Guthrie, Joey Belle, Jeff Reboulet, Jeff
Yurtin, Jack Voigt and Barry Manuel, among others, helped LSU make its
first College World Series appearance in 1986. Papajohn helped lay the
foundation for success at LSU, as future LSU teams would go on to win
six national championship from 1991-2000, 2009.Papajohn got his start
in acting while he was a student at Louisiana State University.
Already an athlete, he was hired to be a stunt performer in the film
Everybody's All-American which was being filmed on the campus of LSU
and featured football action sequences filmed during LSU football
games in Tiger Stadium. From there he moved on to being a stunt
performer in films such as Money Talks and Starship Troopers and
acting in films like Predator 2, For Love of the Game, where he plays
New York Yankees slugger Sam Tuttle, and Spider-Man and Spider-Man 3,
in which he plays Dennis Carradine, the thief that was thought to have
killed Uncle Ben; Papajohn also makes a cameo appearance as a
different character in the film series' reboot, The Amazing
Spider-Man. He has also starred in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Terminator Salvation, Land of the
Lost, G-Force in 2009,The Assault and Jeepers Creepers 3 in 2017.
actor, stuntman and former college baseball player for the LSU Tigers
baseball team. He played Dennis Carradine in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man
trilogy.Papajohn was born and raised Vestavia Hills, a suburb of
Birmingham, Alabama, to a Greek American family. He graduated from
Vestavia Hills High School in 1983 and went on to play for two years
at Gulf Coast Community College in Panama City, Florida. He was
drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 1985 Major League Baseball Draft.
Instead of signing a contract, he accepted a baseball scholarship to
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Nicknamed Poppy,
Papajohn was an outfielder for Skip Bertman's LSU Tigers. He was a
member of the 1986 SEC Baseball Tournament All-Tournament Team and he,
along with teammates Mark Guthrie, Joey Belle, Jeff Reboulet, Jeff
Yurtin, Jack Voigt and Barry Manuel, among others, helped LSU make its
first College World Series appearance in 1986. Papajohn helped lay the
foundation for success at LSU, as future LSU teams would go on to win
six national championship from 1991-2000, 2009.Papajohn got his start
in acting while he was a student at Louisiana State University.
Already an athlete, he was hired to be a stunt performer in the film
Everybody's All-American which was being filmed on the campus of LSU
and featured football action sequences filmed during LSU football
games in Tiger Stadium. From there he moved on to being a stunt
performer in films such as Money Talks and Starship Troopers and
acting in films like Predator 2, For Love of the Game, where he plays
New York Yankees slugger Sam Tuttle, and Spider-Man and Spider-Man 3,
in which he plays Dennis Carradine, the thief that was thought to have
killed Uncle Ben; Papajohn also makes a cameo appearance as a
different character in the film series' reboot, The Amazing
Spider-Man. He has also starred in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Terminator Salvation, Land of the
Lost, G-Force in 2009,The Assault and Jeepers Creepers 3 in 2017.
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