Biography
Paul Trinka was an American film and television actor. He began his screen career in 1959 with a role in the film Operation Dames and appeared in guest roles on series including Ben Casey, My Three Sons and Adventures in Paradise.
Trinka played the recurring role of seaman Patterson in the science fiction series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968). He also appeared as Kirk in the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, and had roles in Fate Is the Hunter (1964), Land of the Giants (1968) and other programmes.
He trained at Los Angeles City College after military service and performed in theatre in New York and Los Angeles. Trinka died on 28 December 1973 in Beverly Hills, California, aged 41.
