Paul Lambert (August 1, 1922 – April 27, 1997) was an American character actor who appeared in movies and on television.

Among his major films were Spartacus (his movie debut),[1] Planet of the Apes (in a brief role as a simian minister), and All the President's Men, in which he played the national editor of The Washington Post.

He acted on 300 shows and appeared fourteen times on CBS's Playhouse 90 anthology series, more than any other actor.

Lambert was a frequent guest star on 1960s television (including roles Gunsmoke, and in Gene Barry's TV Western Bat Masterson, in 1959 as unscrupulous financier Charles Hamilton in the episode "Flume to the Mother Load", and in 1960 as the crooked Augustus Ulbrecht in "The Rage of Princess Ann") and was able to maintain a successful career into the 1990s.

[3] Lambert died at the age of 74 at St. John's Medical Center in Santa Monica, California, where he resided.