Portrait of Paul Winfield

Paul Winfield

Acting

Biography

Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004) was an American 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.

Born: May 22, 1939

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Filmography

2003
Sounder

as The Teacher

2002
Second to Die

as Detective Grady

2001
Crossing Jordan

as Phillip Sanders

2001
Vegas, City of Dreams

as Edgar Jones

2000
Knockout

as Ron Regent

1999
The Unfinished Journey

as Narrator (voice)

1999
March to Freedom

as Narrator

1999
Strange Justice

as Thurgood Marshall

1999
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

as Harold Williams

1999
Batman Beyond

as Sam Young (voice)

1998
City Confidential

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1998
Assignment Berlin

as Al Spector

1998
Relax... It's Just Sex

as Auntie Mahalia

1997
1996
Mars Attacks!

as General Casey

1996
The Assassination File

as Senator Alan Laskey

1996
Original Gangstas

as Reverend Dorsey

1996
Dead of Night

as Vernon

1995
White Dwarf

as Dr. Akada

1995
Tyson

as Don King

1995
In the Flesh

as William Stone

1994
Spider-Man

as Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)

1994
Scarlett

as Big Sam

1994
Gargoyles

as Jeffrey Robbins (voice)

1994
Baseball

as Various (voice)

1994
Baseball

as (voice)

1994
The Magic School Bus

as Mr. Ruhle (voice)

1994
1994
Breathing Lessons

as Daniel Otis

1994
Babylon 5

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

as Cap'n Jack

1992
Picket Fences

as Judge Harold Nance

1992
Batman: The Animated Series

as Earl Cooper (voice)

1991
1990
83 Hours 'Til Dawn

as Doctor Dantley

1990
Presumed Innocent

as Judge Larren Lyttle

1989
The Simpsons

as Lucius Sweet (voice)

1989
1989
1988
1987
Big Shots

as Johnnie Red

1987
1987
The Charmings

as The Mirror

1987
1987
The Mighty Pawns

as Mr. Wright

1986
Blue City

as Chief Luther Reynolds

1986
Under Siege

as Andrew Simon

1985
227

as Julian C. Barlow

1984
The Terminator

as Traxler

1984
1984
1984
Mike's Murder

as Phillip

1983
On the Run

as Harry

1982
The Blue and the Gray

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 Fall Guy

as Bert Perkins

1981
The Sophisticated Gents

as Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins

1981
Carbon Copy

as Bob Garvey

1980
1979
Roots: The Next Generations

as Dr. Horace Huguley

1979
Backstairs at the White House

as Emmett Rogers Sr.

1978
King

as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

1977
1977
The Greatest

as Draft Lawyer

1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Willis Powell

1977
Green Eyes

as Lloyd Dubeck

1975
Hustle

as Louis Belgrave

1974
Conrack

as Mad Billy

1974
It's Good to Be Alive

as Roy Campanella

1973
Gordon's War

as Gordon Hudson

1973
1972
Trouble Man

as Chalky Price

1972
Sounder

as Nathan Lee Morgan

1971
Nichols

as Eddie Joe

1971
Brother John

as Henry Birkardt

1970
R.P.M.

as Steve Dempsey

1969
The Lost Man

as Orville Turner

1968
Julia

as Paul Cameron

1968
The New Cinema

as Self - Interviewer / Narrator

1967
1967
The Perils of Pauline

as African Servant

1957
Perry Mason

as Mitch