Paul Winfield
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 22 May 1939 · Los Angeles, California, USA
- Died
- 7 March 2004
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.
Known for
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- 2003A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6 as Shadi(voice)
- 2003Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8 as Shadi(voice)
- 2003Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10 as Shadi(voice)
- 2003The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4 as Shadi(voice)
- 2003The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2 as Shadi(voice)
- 2003Sounder as The Teacher
- 2002Second to Die as Detective Grady
- 2001Vegas, City of Dreams as Edgar Jones
- 2000Knockout as Ron Regent
- 1999The Unfinished Journey as Narrator (voice)
- 1999March to Freedom as Narrator
- 1999Strange Justice as Thurgood Marshall
- 1999Catfish in Black Bean Sauce as Harold Williams
- 1998Assignment Berlin as Al Spector
- 1998Relax... It's Just Sex as Auntie Mahalia
- 1997Strategic Command as Rowan
- 1996Mars Attacks! as General Casey
- 1996The Legend of Gator Face as Bob
- 1996The Assassination File as Senator Alan Laskey
- 1996Original Gangstas as Reverend Dorsey
- 1996Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden as Horace
- 1996Dead of Night as Vernon
- 1995White Dwarf as Dr. Akada
- 1995Tyson as Don King
- 1995In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King as Papa Joe
- 1995Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale as The Old Man
- 1995In the Flesh as William Stone
- 1994The Killing Jar as Judge
- 1994Breathing Lessons as Daniel Otis
- 1993Dennis the Menace as Chief of Police
- 1993Cliffhanger as Walter Wright
- 1993Irresistible Force as Commander Toole
- 1991The Wish That Changed Christmas as Mr. Smith (voice)
- 199083 Hours 'Til Dawn as Doctor Dantley
- 1990Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Jim Watson
- 1990Presumed Innocent as Judge Larren Lyttle
- 1989The Women of Brewster Place as Sam Michael
- 1988The Serpent and the Rainbow as Lucien Celine
- 1987Big Shots as Johnnie Red
- 1987Death Before Dishonor as Ambassador
- 1987The Mighty Pawns as Mr. Wright
- 1987Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story as George Hairston
- 1986Blue City as Chief Luther Reynolds
- 1986Under Siege as Andrew Simon
- 1984The Terminator as Traxler
- 1984Go Tell It on the Mountain as Gabriel Grimes
- 1984Mike's Murder as Phillip
- 1983On the Run as Harry
- 1983For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
- 1982White Dog as Keys
- 1982Sister, Sister as Eddie Craven
- 1982Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as Captain Clark Terrell
- 1982Dreams Don't Die as Charlie Banks
- 1981Carbon Copy as Bob Garvey
- 1981Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera as Himself
- 1980Angel City as Cy
- 1980Only the Ball Was White as Narrator
- 1977A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich as Butler
- 1977Damnation Alley as Keegan
- 1977The Greatest as Draft Lawyer
- 1977Twilight's Last Gleaming as Willis Powell
- 1977Green Eyes as Lloyd Dubeck
- 1976High Velocity as Watson
- 1975Hustle as Louis Belgrave
- 1974Huckleberry Finn as Jim
- 1974Conrack as Mad Billy
- 1974It's Good to Be Alive as Roy Campanella
- 1973Gordon's War as Gordon Hudson
- 1973The Horror at 37,000 Feet as Dr. Enkalla
- 1972Trouble Man as Chalky Price
- 1972Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan
- 1971Brother John as Henry Birkardt
- 1970R.P.M. as Steve Dempsey
- 1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
- 1969The Lost Man as Orville Turner
- 1968The New Cinema as Self - Interviewer / Narrator
- 1967Who's Minding the Mint? as Garbage Man
- 1967The Perils of Pauline as African Servant