Paul Winfield

Born: 1939-05-22 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Died: 2004-03-07

Known For: Acting

Biography

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

2003

Sounder as The Teacher
A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6 as Shadi(voice)
The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4 as Shadi(voice)
Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8 as Shadi(voice)
The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2 as Shadi(voice)
Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10 as Shadi(voice)

2002

Second to Die as Detective Grady

2001

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

2000

Knockout as Ron Regent

1999

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

1998

Relax... It's Just Sex as Auntie Mahalia
City Confidential as Self - Narrator (voice)
Assignment Berlin as Al Spector

1997

Strategic Command as Rowan
Built to Last as Russell Watkins

1996

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

1995

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Father (voice)
Tyson as Don King
In the Flesh as William Stone
White Dwarf as Dr. Akada
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale as The Old Man
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King as Papa Joe

1994

Babylon 5 as Gen. Richard Franklin
Spider-Man as Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
Touched by an Angel as Sam
Gargoyles as Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
The Magic School Bus as Mr. Ruhle (voice)
Baseball as Various (voice)
Scarlett as Big Sam
Breathing Lessons as Daniel Otis
The Killing Jar as Judge

1993

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

1992

Batman: The Animated Series as Earl Cooper (voice)
Picket Fences as Judge Harold Nance

1991

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

1990

Presumed Innocent as Judge Larren Lyttle
83 Hours 'Til Dawn as Doctor Dantley
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Jim Watson

1989

The Simpsons as Lucius Sweet (voice)
Family Matters as Jimmy Baines
The Women of Brewster Place as Sam Michael
The Women of Brewster Place as Sam Michael

1988

The Serpent and the Rainbow as Lucien Celine

1987

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

1986

L.A. Law as Derron Holloway
Under Siege as Andrew Simon
Blue City as Chief Luther Reynolds

1985

227 as Julian C. Barlow

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Starkey
The Terminator as Traxler
Mike's Murder as Phillip
Go Tell It on the Mountain as Gabriel Grimes

1983

On the Run as Harry
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

1982

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

1981

The Fall Guy as Bert Perkins
The Sophisticated Gents as Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
Carbon Copy as Bob Garvey
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera as Himself

1980

Angel City as Cy
Only the Ball Was White as Narrator

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
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich as Butler

1976

High Velocity

1975

Hustle as Louis Belgrave

1974

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

1973

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

1972

Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan
Trouble Man as Chalky Price

1971

Nichols as Eddie Joe
Brother John as Henry Birkardt

1970

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
R.P.M. as Steve Dempsey

1969

The Lost Man as Orville Turner

1968

The Name of the Game as Barada
Julia as Paul Cameron
The New Cinema as Self - Interviewer / Narrator