Actor
Paul Winfield
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 l ...

Known For
Acting
2003 -- Sounder | The Teacher
2002 -- Second to Die | Detective Grady
2001 -- Vegas, City of Dreams | Edgar Jones
2000 -- Knockout | Ron Regent
1999 -- The Unfinished Journey | Narrator (voice)
1999 -- March to Freedom | Narrator
1999 -- Strange Justice | Thurgood Marshall
1999 -- Catfish in Black Bean Sauce | Harold Williams
1998 -- Assignment Berlin | Al Spector
1998 -- Relax... It's Just Sex | Auntie Mahalia
1997 -- Strategic Command | Rowan
1996 -- Mars Attacks! | General Casey
1996 -- The Legend of Gator Face | Bob
1996 -- The Assassination File | Senator Alan Laskey
1996 -- Original Gangstas | Reverend Dorsey
1996 -- Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden | Horace
1996 -- Dead of Night | Vernon
1995 -- White Dwarf | Dr. Akada
1995 -- Tyson | Don King
1995 -- In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King | Papa Joe
1995 -- Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale | The Old Man
1995 -- In the Flesh | William Stone
1994 -- The Killing Jar | Judge
1994 -- Breathing Lessons | Daniel Otis
1993 -- Dennis the Menace | Chief of Police
1993 -- Cliffhanger | Walter Wright
1993 -- Irresistible Force | Commander Toole
1991 -- The Wish That Changed Christmas | Mr. Smith (voice)
1990 -- 83 Hours 'Til Dawn | Doctor Dantley
1990 -- Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn | Jim Watson
1990 -- Presumed Innocent | Judge Larren Lyttle
1989 -- The Women of Brewster Place | Sam Michael
1988 -- The Serpent and the Rainbow | Lucien Celine
1987 -- Big Shots | Johnnie Red
1987 -- Death Before Dishonor | Ambassador
1987 -- The Mighty Pawns | Mr. Wright
1987 -- Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story | George Hairston
1986 -- Blue City | Chief Luther Reynolds
1986 -- Under Siege | Andrew Simon
1985 -- Go Tell It on the Mountain | Gabriel Grimes
1984 -- The Terminator | Traxler
1984 -- Mike's Murder | Phillip
1983 -- On the Run | Harry
1983 -- For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers |
1982 -- White Dog | Keys
1982 -- Sister, Sister | Eddie Craven
1982 -- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Captain Clark Terrell
1982 -- Dreams Don't Die | Charlie Banks
1981 -- Carbon Copy | Bob Garvey
1980 -- Angel City | Cy
1980 -- Only the Ball Was White | Narrator
1977 -- A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich | Butler
1977 -- Damnation Alley | Keegan
1977 -- The Greatest | Draft Lawyer
1977 -- Twilight's Last Gleaming | Willis Powell
1977 -- Green Eyes | Lloyd Dubeck
1976 -- High Velocity |
1975 -- Hustle | Louis Belgrave
1974 -- Huckleberry Finn | Jim
1974 -- Conrack | Mad Billy
1974 -- It's Good to Be Alive | Roy Campanella
1973 -- Gordon's War | Gordon Hudson
1973 -- The Horror at 37,000 Feet | Dr. Enkalla
1972 -- Trouble Man | Chalky Price
1972 -- Sounder | Nathan Lee Morgan
1971 -- Brother John | Henry Birkardt
1970 -- R.P.M. | Steve Dempsey
1970 -- King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage)
1969 -- The Lost Man | Orville Turner
1968 -- The New Cinema | Self - Interviewer / Narrator
1967 -- Who's Minding the Mint? | Garbage Man
1967 -- The Perils of Pauline | African Servant
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