Paul Bearer

Paul Bearer was the ring name and gimmick of William Alvin Moody, an American professional wrestling manager who lived from 10 April 1954 to 5 March 2013. Born in Mobile, Alabama, he began in wrestling as a teenage ringside photographer, served four years in the United States Air Force, and in 1979 started managing in the southeastern independent promotions as Percival Percy Pringle III. He trained as a mortician, and the World Wrestling Federation, later WWE, used his real-life funeral industry background to create the Paul Bearer character after he joined the company on 22 December 1990. As Bearer he managed The Undertaker, carried an urn said to restore the Undertaker's strength, and was written as the storyline father of Kane, the Undertaker's storyline half-brother.