Paul Winfield

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Known Credits 83

Gender Male

Birthday 1939-05-22

Day of Death 2004-03-07 (64 years old)

Place of Birth Los Angeles, California, USA

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Paul Edward Winfield
Paul E. Winfield

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Paul Winfield

Biography

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.

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Acting

2003

as The Teacher

2002

as Detective Grady

2001		Crossing Jordan (1 episode) as Dr. Phillip Sanders
2001		Vegas, City of Dreams as Edgar Jones

2000

as Ron Regent

1999		March to Freedom as Narrator
1999		Strange Justice as Thurgood Marshall
1999		Catfish in Black Bean Sauce as Harold Williams

1998		Assignment Berlin as Al Spector
1998		Relax... It's Just Sex as Auntie Mahalia

1997		Built to Last (8 episodes)
1997		Strategic Command as Rowan

1996		Mars Attacks! as General Casey
1996		The Legend of Gator Face as Bob
1996		Original Gangstas as Reverend Dorsey
1996		Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden as Horace
1996		Dead of Night as Vernon

1995		White Dwarf as Dr. Akada
1995		Tyson as Don King
1995		In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King as Papa Joe
1995		Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale as The Old Man

1994		Spider-Man (3 episodes)
1994		Scarlett (4 episodes)
1994		Baseball (9 episodes) as Voice
1994		The Killing Jar as Judge
1994		Breathing Lessons as Daniel Otis
1994		Babylon 5 (1 episode) as Gen. Richard Franklin

1993		Dennis the Menace as Chief of Police
1993		Cliffhanger as Walter Wright
1993		Irresistible Force as Commander Toole
1993		Alex Haley's Queen (3 episodes) as Cap'n Jack

1992

(1 episode) as Earl Cooper (voice)

1991

as Mr. Smith (voice)

1990		83 Hours 'Til Dawn as Doctor Dantley
1990		Presumed Innocent as Judge Larren Lyttle

1989

(2 episodes) as (voices)

1988

as Lucien Celine

1987		Big Shots as Johnnie Red
1987		Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode) as Captain Dathon
1987		The Charmings (21 episodes) as The Mirror
1987		Death Before Dishonor as Ambassador
1987		The Mighty Pawns as Mr. Wright
1987		Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story as George Hairston

1986		Blue City as Chief Luther Reynolds
1986		Under Siege as Andrew Simon

1985

(116 episodes) as Julian C. Barlow

1984		The Terminator as Lieutenant Ed Traxler
1984		Murder, She Wrote (1 episode) as Starkey
1984		Mike's Murder as Phillip Green
1984		Go Tell It on the Mountain as Gabriel Grimes

1983

1982		The Blue and the Gray (3 episodes) as Jonathan Henry
1982		White Dog as Keys
1982		Sister, Sister as Eddie Craven
1982		Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as Captain Clark Terrell
1982		Dreams Don't Die as Charlie Banks

1981		The Sophisticated Gents (3 episodes) as Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
1981		Carbon Copy as Bob Garvey

1980		Angel City as Cy
1980		Only the Ball Was White as Narrator

1979		Roots: The Next Generations (7 episodes) as Dr. Horace Huguley
1979		Backstairs at the White House (4 episodes) as Emmett Rogers Sr.

1978		King (3 episodes) as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
1978		A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich as Butler

1977		Damnation Alley as Keegan
1977		The Greatest as Draft Lawyer
1977		Twilight's Last Gleaming as Willis Powell
1977		Green Eyes as Lloyd Dubeck

1976

1975

as Louis Belgrave

1974		Huckleberry Finn as Jim
1974		Conrack as Mad Billy
1974		It's Good to Be Alive as Roy Campanella

1973		Gordon's War as Gordon Hudson
1973		The Horror at 37,000 Feet as Dr. Enkalla

1972		Trouble Man as Chalky Price
1972		Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan

1971

as Henry Birkardt

1970

as Steve Dempsey

1969

as Orville Turner

1968		Julia (86 episodes) as Paul Cameron
1968		The New Cinema as Himself / Narrator

1967

as African Servant

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