Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1938-02-04 (81 years old)
Deathday
2019-06-28
Place of Birth
Pelion, South Carolina, USA
Also known As
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Paul Benjamin (born 1938) is an American actor. Benjamin was born in Pelion, South Carolina. He made his film debut in 1969 as a bartender in Midnight Cowboy. After a small role in Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes, he did extensive television work in the 1970s. A few notable exceptions were a major role in Barry Shear's Across 110th Street, and smaller parts in Gordon Parks' biopic Leadbelly, Arthur Marks' Friday Foster, and Don Siegel's prison film Escape from Alcatraz. He gave exceptional performances in the TV adaptations of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and Gideon's Trumpet. He later starred in the HBO movie The Man Who Broke 1,000 C...
1989
as ML
2003
as Henry Styles
1979
as English
1971
as Jimmy
1976
as Wes Ledbetter
1974
2005
as Otis
1975
as Swan Stebeney
1979
as Freeman
1973
as Lt. Valentine
1987
as Big Sam
1980
as Artis
1978
as John LeFlore
1973
as Jacob
2007
as Sam
2000
as Teddy Branson
1997
as Whispers
1992
as Henry Brown
1983
as Lester
1969
as Bartender
1997
as James Carrier
1982
as Leon
1975
as Sgt. Elwood Horne
1972
as Jim Harris
1999
as Clerk
2005
as Cody
2001
as Minister
1976
as Ramsey
1971
as Fixer
1975
as Senator David Lee Hart
1987
as Cooper
1987
as Harry Harrison
1989
as Rashad
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