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Paul Winfield

Known For: Acting
Born: May 22, 1939
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: March 7, 2004

Paul Winfield

Paul Edward Winfield (born May 22, 1939) 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.

Filmography

A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6

2003 · Shadi(voice)

Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8

2003 · Shadi(voice)

Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10

2003 · Shadi(voice)

The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4

2003 · Shadi(voice)

The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2

2003 · Shadi(voice)

Sounder

2003 · The Teacher

Second to Die

2002 · Detective Grady

Crossing Jordan

2001 · Phillip Sanders

Vegas, City of Dreams

2001 · Edgar Jones

Knockout

2000 · Ron Regent

The Unfinished Journey

1999 · Narrator (voice)

March to Freedom

1999 · Narrator

Strange Justice

1999 · Thurgood Marshall

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

1999 · Harold Williams

Batman Beyond

1999 · Sam Young (voice)

City Confidential

1998 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Assignment Berlin

1998 · Al Spector

Relax... It's Just Sex

1998 · Auntie Mahalia

Built to Last

1997 · Russell Watkins

Strategic Command

1997 · Rowan

Mars Attacks!

1996 · General Casey

The Legend of Gator Face

1996 · Bob

The Assassination File

1996 · Senator Alan Laskey

Original Gangstas

1996 · Reverend Dorsey

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

1996 · Horace

Dead of Night

1996 · Vernon

White Dwarf

1995 · Dr. Akada

Tyson

1995 · Don King

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

1995 · Father (voice)

In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King

1995 · Papa Joe

Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale

1995 · The Old Man

In the Flesh

1995 · William Stone

Spider-Man

1994 · Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)

Scarlett

1994 · Big Sam

Gargoyles

1994 · Jeffrey Robbins (voice)

Touched by an Angel

1994 · Sam

Baseball

1994 · Various (voice)

The Magic School Bus

1994 · Mr. Ruhle (voice)

The Killing Jar

1994 · Judge

Breathing Lessons

1994 · Daniel Otis

Babylon 5

1994 · Gen. Richard Franklin

Dennis the Menace

1993 · Chief of Police

Cliffhanger

1993 · Walter Wright

Irresistible Force

1993 · Commander Toole

Alex Haley's Queen

1993 · Cap'n Jack

Picket Fences

1992 · Judge Harold Nance

Batman: The Animated Series

1992 · Earl Cooper (voice)

The Wish That Changed Christmas

1991 · Mr. Smith (voice)

83 Hours 'Til Dawn

1990 · Doctor Dantley

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

1990 · Jim Watson

Presumed Innocent

1990 · Judge Larren Lyttle

The Simpsons

1989 · Lucius Sweet (voice)

Family Matters

1989 · Jimmy Baines

The Women of Brewster Place

1989 · Sam Michael

The Women of Brewster Place

1989 · Sam Michael

The Serpent and the Rainbow

1988 · Lucien Celine

Big Shots

1987 · Johnnie Red

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987 · Captain Dathon

The Charmings

1987 · The Mirror

Death Before Dishonor

1987 · Ambassador

The Mighty Pawns

1987 · Mr. Wright

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

1987 · George Hairston

L.A. Law

1986 · Derron Holloway

Blue City

1986 · Chief Luther Reynolds

Under Siege

1986 · Andrew Simon

227

1985 · Julian C. Barlow

The Terminator

1984 · Traxler

Murder, She Wrote

1984 · Starkey

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1984 · Gabriel Grimes

Mike's Murder

1984 · Phillip

On the Run

1983 · Harry

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

1983

The Blue and the Gray

1982 · Jonathan Henry

White Dog

1982 · Keys

Sister, Sister

1982 · Eddie Craven

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

1982 · Captain Clark Terrell

Dreams Don't Die

1982 · Charlie Banks

American Playhouse

1982 · Sampson, Gabriel

The Fall Guy

1981 · Bert Perkins

The Sophisticated Gents

1981 · Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins

Carbon Copy

1981 · Bob Garvey

Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera

1981 · Himself

Angel City

1980 · Cy

Only the Ball Was White

1980 · Narrator

Roots: The Next Generations

1979 · Dr. Horace Huguley

Backstairs at the White House

1979 · Emmett Rogers Sr.

King

1978 · Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

1977 · Butler

Damnation Alley

1977 · Keegan

The Greatest

1977 · Draft Lawyer

Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977 · Willis Powell

Green Eyes

1977 · Lloyd Dubeck

High Velocity

1976

Hustle

1975 · Louis Belgrave

Huckleberry Finn

1974 · Jim

Conrack

1974 · Mad Billy

It's Good to Be Alive

1974 · Roy Campanella

Gordon's War

1973 · Gordon Hudson

The Horror at 37,000 Feet

1973 · Dr. Enkalla

Trouble Man

1972 · Chalky Price

Sounder

1972 · Nathan Lee Morgan

Nichols

1971 · Eddie Joe

Brother John

1971 · Henry Birkardt

R.P.M.

1970 · Steve Dempsey

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970 · Self (archive footage)

The Lost Man

1969 · Orville Turner

The Name of the Game

1968 · Barada

Julia

1968 · Paul Cameron

The New Cinema

1968 · Self - Interviewer / Narrator

Who's Minding the Mint?

1967 · Garbage Man

The Perils of Pauline

1967 · African Servant

Mission: Impossible

1966 · Klaus

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964 · 1st M.P.

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 · Self

Perry Mason

1957 · Mitch

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