Vaughn Archibald "Val" Paul[4][5] (April 10, 1886[6] – March 23, 1962) was an American actor and director of the silent era.
Born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah,[6][7] Paul was the son of Jenny and John J.
[4][8][9] In September 1907, Paul married fellow Salt Lake City resident Anna Louise Wey; they divorced in the summer of 1913.
[10][11] The following winter he exchanged vows with aspiring actress/writer May Foster Habeney[12][13][14] (aka Mary Palmer Bredell, née Nields[15]), with whom—in their sole joint screen appearance—he co-starred later that year in the 101 Bison two-reeler, The Brand of His Tribe.
[19] Publicity of a more sobering sort was generated in 1935 at a "picnic" held in San Bernardino's Griffith Park, when Mrs. Paul's brother, Daniel Nields (with premeditation and in the presence of his 84-year-old prospective mother-in-law), fatally shot his girl friend, Hollywood stenographer Frances Conklin, for "teas[ing] me [for] loving my sister too much.