Paul Winfield
Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004) was an American television, film, and stage actor. He was known for his portrayal of a Louisiana sharecropper who struggles to support his family during the Great Depression in the landmark film Sounder which earned him an Academy Award nomination. Winfield also portrayed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the television miniseries King, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Winfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- May 22, 1939 In Los Angeles, California, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 77
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Perils of Pauline 1967-08-02
- Latest Project:
- Movie Sounder 2003-01-19
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Sounder | The Teacher | 2003-01-19 |
| Movie | Second to Die | Detective Grady | 2002-04-23 |
| Movie | Vegas, City of Dreams | Edgar Jones | 2001-04-01 |
| Movie | Knockout | Ron Regent | 2000-02-04 |
| Movie | Catfish in Black Bean Sauce | Harold Williams | 1999-04-14 |
| Movie | Strange Justice | Thurgood Marshall | 1999-08-29 |
| Movie | Relax... It's Just Sex | Auntie Mahalia | 1998-06-28 |
| Movie | Assignment Berlin | Al Spector | 1998-09-30 |
| Movie | Strategic Command | Rowan | 1997-01-06 |
| Series | Built to Last | 1997-09-24 | |
| Movie | Dead of Night | Vernon | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Original Gangstas | Reverend Dorsey | 1996-05-10 |
| Movie | Mars Attacks! | General Casey | 1996-12-13 |
| Movie | The Assassination File | Senator Alan Laskey | 1996-06-22 |
| Movie | The Legend of Gator Face | Bob | 1996-08-08 |
| Movie | Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale | The Old Man | 1995-02-25 |
| Movie | In the Flesh | William Stone | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King | Papa Joe | 1995-03-01 |
| Movie | Tyson | Don King | 1995-04-29 |
| Movie | Breathing Lessons | Daniel Otis | 1994-02-06 |
| Movie | The Killing Jar | Judge | 1994-08-31 |
| Series | Scarlett | 1994-11-13 | |
| Series | Baseball | Various (voice) | 1994-09-18 |
| Series | Alex Haley's Queen | Cap'n Jack | 1993-02-14 |
| Movie | Irresistible Force | Commander Toole | 1993-05-07 |
| Movie | Dennis the Menace | Chief of Police | 1993-06-09 |
| Movie | Cliffhanger | Walter Wright | 1993-05-28 |
| Movie | The Wish That Changed Christmas | Mr. Smith (voice) | 1991-12-20 |
| Movie | Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn | Jim Watson | 1990-10-21 |
| Movie | Presumed Innocent | Judge Larren Lyttle | 1990-07-27 |
| Movie | 83 Hours 'Til Dawn | Doctor Dantley | 1990-11-04 |
| Movie | The Women of Brewster Place | Sam Michael | 1989-03-19 |
| Movie | The Serpent and the Rainbow | Lucien Celine | 1988-02-05 |
| Movie | The Mighty Pawns | Mr. Wright | 1987-02-14 |
| Movie | Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story | George Hairston | 1987-02-03 |
| Series | The Charmings | The Mirror | 1987-03-20 |
| Movie | Death Before Dishonor | Ambassador | 1987-02-20 |
| Movie | Big Shots | Johnnie Red | 1987-10-02 |
| Movie | Under Siege | Andrew Simon | 1986-02-09 |
| Movie | Blue City | Chief Luther Reynolds | 1986-05-02 |
| Movie | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Gabriel Grimes | 1985-01-14 |
| Series | 227 | Julian C. Barlow | 1985-09-14 |
| Movie | Mike's Murder | Phillip | 1984-03-09 |
| Movie | The Terminator | Traxler | 1984-10-26 |
| Movie | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | 1983-03-22 | |
| Movie | On the Run | Harry | 1983-09-02 |
| Movie | Dreams Don't Die | Charlie Banks | 1982-05-21 |
| Movie | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Captain Clark Terrell | 1982-06-04 |
| Movie | White Dog | Keys | 1982-07-07 |
| Series | The Blue and the Gray | Jonathan Henry | 1982-11-14 |
| Movie | Carbon Copy | Bob Garvey | 1981-08-06 |
| Movie | Angel City | Cy | 1980-11-12 |
| Series | Backstairs at the White House | Emmett Rogers Sr. | 1979-01-29 |
| Series | Roots: The Next Generations | Dr. Horace Huguley | 1979-02-18 |
| Series | King | Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | 1978-02-12 |
| Movie | The Greatest | Draft Lawyer | 1977-05-17 |
| Movie | Green Eyes | Lloyd Dubeck | 1977-01-03 |
| Movie | Twilight's Last Gleaming | Willis Powell | 1977-02-09 |
| Movie | A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich | Butler | 1977-12-14 |
| Movie | Damnation Alley | Keegan | 1977-09-10 |
| Movie | High Velocity | 1976-09-01 | |
| Movie | Hustle | Louis Belgrave | 1975-12-25 |
| Movie | It's Good to Be Alive | Roy Campanella | 1974-02-22 |
| Movie | Huckleberry Finn | Jim | 1974-05-24 |
| Movie | Conrack | Mad Billy | 1974-03-27 |
| Movie | The Horror at 37,000 Feet | Dr. Enkalla | 1973-02-13 |
| Movie | Gordon's War | Gordon Hudson | 1973-08-09 |
| Movie | Sounder | Nathan Lee Morgan | 1972-09-24 |
| Movie | Trouble Man | Chalky Price | 1972-11-01 |
| Movie | Brother John | Henry Birkardt | 1971-08-15 |
| Movie | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 |
| Movie | R.P.M. | Steve Dempsey | 1970-09-16 |
| Movie | The Lost Man | Orville Turner | 1969-07-11 |
| Series | Julia | Paul Cameron | 1968-09-17 |
| Movie | The New Cinema | Self - Interviewer / Narrator | 1968-01-01 |
| Movie | The Perils of Pauline | African Servant | 1967-08-02 |
| Movie | Who's Minding the Mint? | Garbage Man | 1967-09-26 |