---
name: "Paul Trinka"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-trinka"
fi1m_id: "paul-trinka"
imdb_id: "nm0872975"
tmdb_id: 4597
wikidata_id: "Q109712206"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 January 1932"
died: "28 December 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:55:03.407218+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Paul Trinka

## Identity

Paul Trinka

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-trinka
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-trinka
- **IMDb ID:** nm0872975
- **TMDB ID:** 4597
- **Wikidata ID:** Q109712206
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Trinka, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109712206, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0872975/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4597

Actor. Born 26 January 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Died 28 December 1973.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 January 1932, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- **Died:** 28 December 1973
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Trinka, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109712206, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0872975/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4597

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!* (1965), Fi1m 75, as Kirk — [page](https://film.one/film/faster-pussycat-kill-kill.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Land of the Giants* (1968), series, as Giant Guard, Officer
- *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!* (1965), as Kirk — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/faster-pussycat-kill-kill.md)
- *Fate Is the Hunter* (1964), as WWII Navigator (uncredited)
- *Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.* (1964), series, as Buck Johnson
- *Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea* (1964), series, as Patterson, Malloy (uncredited), Patterson (uncredited)
- *Dr. Kildare* (1961), series, as Groom
- *Hawaiian Eye* (1959), series, as Lennie

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