Paul Winfield

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-05-22 (65 years old)

Deathday

2004-03-07

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Paul Winfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1982

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

as Captain Clark Terrell

1984

The Terminator

as Traxler

1989

1975

Hustle

as Louis Belgrave

1990

Presumed Innocent

as Judge Larren Lyttle

1972

Trouble Man

as Chalky Price

1984

Mike's Murder

as Phillip

1988

1977

1993

Cliffhanger

as Walter Wright

1973

1972

Sounder

as Nathan Lee Morgan

1973

Gordon's War

as Gordon Hudson

1987

1982

White Dog

as Keys

1995

Tyson

as Don King

1981

Carbon Copy

as Bob Garvey

1986

Blue City

as Chief Luther Reynolds

1998

Relax... It's Just Sex

as Auntie Mahalia

1990

83 Hours 'Til Dawn

as Doctor Dantley

1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Willis Powell

1987

Big Shots

as Johnnie Red

1971

Brother John

as Henry Birkardt

2000

Knockout

as Ron Regent

1999

The Unfinished Journey

as Narrator (voice)

1974

It's Good to Be Alive

as Roy Campanella

1970

R.P.M.

as Steve Dempsey

1969

The Lost Man

as Orville Turner

1994

Breathing Lessons

as Daniel Otis

1991

1985

2002

Second to Die

as Detective Grady

1982

Dreams Don't Die

as Charlie Banks

1983

On the Run

as Harry

1998

Assignment Berlin

as Al Spector

1993

Irresistible Force

as Commander Toole

1967

1974

Conrack

as Mad Billy

1996

Original Gangstas

as Reverend Dorsey

1977

The Greatest

as Draft Lawyer

1986

Under Siege

as Andrew Simon

1996

The Assassination File

as Senator Alan Laskey

1977

Green Eyes

as Lloyd Dubeck

1980

1968

The New Cinema

as Self - Interviewer / Narrator

1995

In the Flesh

as William Stone

1999

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

as Harold Williams

1996

Dead of Night

as Vernon

1994

1987

The Mighty Pawns

as Mr. Wright

1982

Sister, Sister

as Eddie Craven

1999

Strange Justice

as Thurgood Marshall

1997

2003

Sounder

as The Teacher

1995

White Dwarf

as Dr. Akada

1993

Dennis the Menace

as Chief of Police

1999

March to Freedom

as Narrator

2001

Vegas, City of Dreams

as Edgar Jones

1996

Mars Attacks!

as General Casey

1967

The Perils of Pauline

as African Servant

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