Paul Bateson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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radiographer who had a bit part in ''The Exorcist''; later convicted of murder
Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1940
Place of Birth: Lansdale, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Paul Bateson
- Paul Bateson (born August 24, 1940) is an American former radiographer and convicted murderer.
- He appeared as a radiological technologist in a scene from the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, which was inspired when the film's director, William Friedkin, watched him perform a cerebral angiography the previous year.
- The scene, with a considerable amount of blood onscreen, was, for many viewers, the film's most disturbing scene; medical professionals have praised it for its realism.In 1979, Bateson was convicted of the murder of film industry journalist Addison Verrill and sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison; in 2003 he was released on parole, which ended after five years.
- Prior to Bateson's trial, police and prosecutors implicated him in a series of unsolved slayings of gay men in Manhattan, killings he had reportedly boasted about while in jail, bringing it up at his sentencing.
- However, no additional charges ever were brought against him.
- The experience inspired Friedkin to make the 1980 film Cruising which, while based on a novel written a decade earlier, incorporated in its storyline the city's leather subculture, with which Bateson had identified. In 2012, Friedkin recalled having visited the jailed Bateson prior to his trial, and having a conversation which suggested that either Bateson had committed the additional murders or merely that he was considering confessing to them for a lighter sentence.
- However, there is no other record of incriminating evidence mentioned by Friedkin in that interview.
- Despite this, Bateson is often inaccurately described as a serial killer.As of 2019, it is not known if Bateson is still alive or, if he is, where he is living.
- Friedkin said in a 2018 interview that he had heard Bateson was living somewhere in upstate New York.
- A Social Security record shows that a "Paul F.
- Bateson" with the same birthdate and a Social Security number issued in Pennsylvania, died on September 15, 2012.
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