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)
- Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10 as Shadi(voice)
- Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8 as Shadi(voice)
- The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2 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)
- Strange Justice as Thurgood Marshall
- Catfish in Black Bean Sauce as Harold Williams
- March to Freedom as Narrator
- The Unfinished Journey as Narrator (voice)
1998
- Assignment Berlin as Al Spector
- Relax... It's Just Sex as Auntie Mahalia
- City Confidential as Self - Narrator (voice)
1997
- Strategic Command as Rowan
- Built to Last
1996
- Original Gangstas as Reverend Dorsey
- Mars Attacks! as General Casey
- The Legend of Gator Face as Bob
- The Assassination File as Senator Alan Laskey
- Dead of Night as Vernon
- Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden as Horace
1995
- Tyson as Don King
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Father (voice)
- White Dwarf as Dr. Akada
- Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale as The Old Man
- In the Flesh as William Stone
- In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King as Papa Joe
1994
- Babylon 5 as Gen. Richard Franklin
- Touched by an Angel as Sam
- Spider-Man as Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
- Gargoyles as Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
- The Magic School Bus as Mr. Ruhle (voice)
- Baseball as Various (voice)
- The Killing Jar as Judge
- Scarlett as Big Sam
- Breathing Lessons as Daniel Otis
1993
- Dennis the Menace as Chief of Police
- Irresistible Force as Commander Toole
- Cliffhanger as Walter Wright
- Alex Haley's Queen as Cap'n Jack
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
- Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Jim Watson
- 83 Hours 'Til Dawn as Doctor Dantley
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
- Death Before Dishonor as Ambassador
- Big Shots as Johnnie Red
- Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story as George Hairston
- The Charmings as The Mirror
- The Mighty Pawns as Mr. Wright
1986
- Blue City as Chief Luther Reynolds
- Under Siege as Andrew Simon
1985
- 227 as Julian C. Barlow
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Starkey
- The Terminator as Traxler
- Go Tell It on the Mountain as Gabriel Grimes
- Mike's Murder as Phillip
1983
1982
- White Dog as Keys
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as Captain Clark Terrell
- Sister, Sister as Eddie Craven
- The Blue and the Gray as Jonathan Henry
- Dreams Don't Die as Charlie Banks
1981
- The Fall Guy as Bert Perkins
- Carbon Copy as Bob Garvey
- The Sophisticated Gents as Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
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
- The Greatest as Draft Lawyer
- Green Eyes as Lloyd Dubeck
- Damnation Alley as Keegan
- Twilight's Last Gleaming as Willis Powell
- A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich as Butler
1976
1975
- Hustle as Louis Belgrave
1974
- Huckleberry Finn as Jim
- Conrack as Mad Billy
- It's Good to Be Alive as Roy Campanella
1973
- Gordon's War as Gordon Hudson
- The Horror at 37,000 Feet as Dr. Enkalla
1972
- Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan
- Trouble Man as Chalky Price
1971
- Brother John as Henry Birkardt
- Nichols as Eddie Joe
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
1967
- Who's Minding the Mint? as Garbage Man
- The Perils of Pauline as African Servant
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Klaus
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as 1st M.P.
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1957
- Perry Mason as Mitch