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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-05-22 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

2003

Sounder as The Teacher

2002

Second to Die as Detective Grady

2001

Vegas, City of Dreams as Edgar Jones
Crossing Jordan as Phillip Sanders

2000

Knockout as Ron Regent

1999

The Unfinished Journey as Narrator (voice)
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce as Harold Williams
Strange Justice as Thurgood Marshall
March to Freedom as Narrator
Batman Beyond as Sam Young (voice)

1998

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

1997

1996

Original Gangstas as Reverend Dorsey
The Assassination File as Senator Alan Laskey
Dead of Night as Vernon
Mars Attacks! as General Casey

1995

Tyson as Don King
In the Flesh as William Stone
White Dwarf as Dr. Akada

1994

Breathing Lessons as Daniel Otis
Spider-Man as Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
Babylon 5 as Gen. Richard Franklin
Gargoyles as Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
Baseball as Various (voice)
Baseball as (voice)

1993

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

1992

Batman: The Animated Series as Earl Cooper (voice)

1991

The Wish That Changed Christmas as Mr. Smith (voice)

1990

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

1989

The Simpsons as Lucius Sweet (voice)

1988

1987

Death Before Dishonor as Ambassador
Big Shots as Johnnie Red
The Mighty Pawns as Mr. Wright
The Charmings as The Mirror

1986

Blue City as Chief Luther Reynolds
Under Siege as Andrew Simon

1985

Go Tell It on the Mountain as Gabriel Grimes
227 as Julian C. Barlow

1984

The Terminator as Traxler
Mike's Murder as Phillip

1983

On the Run as Harry

1982

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

1981

Carbon Copy as Bob Garvey
The Sophisticated Gents as Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
The Fall Guy as Bert Perkins

1980

1979

Roots: The Next Generations as Dr. Horace Huguley
Backstairs at the White House as Emmett Rogers Sr.

1978

King as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

1977

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

1976

1975

Hustle as Louis Belgrave

1974

It's Good to Be Alive as Roy Campanella
Conrack as Mad Billy

1973

Gordon's War as Gordon Hudson

1972

Trouble Man as Chalky Price
Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan

1971

Brother John as Henry Birkardt
Nichols as Eddie Joe

1970

R.P.M. as Steve Dempsey

1969

The Lost Man as Orville Turner

1968

The New Cinema as Self - Interviewer / Narrator
Julia as Paul Cameron

1967

The Perils of Pauline as African Servant

1966

1961

1957

Perry Mason as Mitch