Paul Winfield

Known for: Acting

Born: 1939-05-22 – 2004-03-07 (aged 64)

From: Los Angeles, California, USA

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 (115)

MOVIE★ 7.0
A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6
2003
as Shadi(voice)
MOVIE★ 10.0
Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8
2003
as Shadi(voice)
MOVIE★ 9.0
Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10
2003
as Shadi(voice)
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4
2003
as Shadi(voice)
MOVIE★ 8.5
The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2
2003
as Shadi(voice)
MOVIE★ 7.3
Sounder
2003
as The Teacher
MOVIE★ 4.2
Second to Die
2002
as Detective Grady
TV★ 7.2
Crossing Jordan
2001
as Phillip Sanders
MOVIE★ 3.4
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
as Edgar Jones
MOVIE★ 4.2
Knockout
2000
as Ron Regent
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Unfinished Journey
1999
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE
March to Freedom
1999
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 7.0
Strange Justice
1999
as Thurgood Marshall
MOVIE★ 5.4
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
1999
as Harold Williams
TV★ 8.2
Batman Beyond
1999
as Sam Young (voice)
TV★ 7.8
City Confidential
1998
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.1
Assignment Berlin
1998
as Al Spector
MOVIE★ 5.8
Relax... It's Just Sex
1998
as Auntie Mahalia
TV★ 6.5
Built to Last
1997
as Russell Watkins
MOVIE★ 5.0
Strategic Command
1997
as Rowan
MOVIE★ 6.4
Mars Attacks!
1996
as General Casey
MOVIE★ 4.9
The Legend of Gator Face
1996
as Bob
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Assassination File
1996
as Senator Alan Laskey
MOVIE★ 5.6
Original Gangstas
1996
as Reverend Dorsey
MOVIE
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
1996
as Horace
MOVIE★ 3.6
Dead of Night
1996
as Vernon
MOVIE★ 6.1
White Dwarf
1995
as Dr. Akada
MOVIE★ 6.0
Tyson
1995
as Don King
TV★ 6.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Father (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.5
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
1995
as Papa Joe
MOVIE★ 5.5
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
1995
as The Old Man
MOVIE★ 9.0
In the Flesh
1995
as William Stone
TV★ 8.3
Spider-Man
1994
as Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
TV★ 6.6
Scarlett
1994
as Big Sam
TV★ 8.1
Gargoyles
1994
as Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
TV★ 7.2
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Sam
TV★ 7.5
Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)
TV★ 7.7
The Magic School Bus
1994
as Mr. Ruhle (voice)
MOVIE★ 2.7
The Killing Jar
1994
as Judge
MOVIE★ 5.6
Breathing Lessons
1994
as Daniel Otis
TV★ 8.0
Babylon 5
1994
as Gen. Richard Franklin
MOVIE★ 5.9
Dennis the Menace
1993
as Chief of Police
MOVIE★ 6.5
Cliffhanger
1993
as Walter Wright
MOVIE★ 5.4
Irresistible Force
1993
as Commander Toole
TV★ 7.0
Alex Haley's Queen
1993
as Cap'n Jack
TV★ 7.5
Picket Fences
1992
as Judge Harold Nance
TV★ 8.6
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
as Earl Cooper (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Wish That Changed Christmas
1991
as Mr. Smith (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.5
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1990
as Doctor Dantley
MOVIE★ 6.2
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990
as Jim Watson
MOVIE★ 6.8
Presumed Innocent
1990
as Judge Larren Lyttle
TV★ 8.0
The Simpsons
1989
as Lucius Sweet (voice)
TV★ 6.7
Family Matters
1989
as Jimmy Baines
MOVIE★ 6.8
The Women of Brewster Place
1989
as Sam Michael
TV★ 6.0
The Women of Brewster Place
1989
as Sam Michael
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988
as Lucien Celine
MOVIE★ 6.6
Big Shots
1987
as Johnnie Red
TV★ 8.4
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Captain Dathon
TV★ 5.4
The Charmings
1987
as The Mirror
MOVIE★ 4.8
Death Before Dishonor
1987
as Ambassador
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Mighty Pawns
1987
as Mr. Wright
MOVIE★ 6.5
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1987
as George Hairston
TV★ 7.1
L.A. Law
1986
as Derron Holloway
MOVIE★ 4.8
Blue City
1986
as Chief Luther Reynolds
MOVIE★ 7.5
Under Siege
1986
as Andrew Simon
TV★ 6.8
227
1985
as Julian C. Barlow
MOVIE★ 7.7
The Terminator
1984
as Traxler
TV★ 7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Starkey
MOVIE★ 6.3
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
as Gabriel Grimes
MOVIE★ 5.4
Mike's Murder
1984
as Phillip
MOVIE★ 8.0
On the Run
1983
as Harry
MOVIE★ 7.0
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
TV★ 6.7
The Blue and the Gray
1982
as Jonathan Henry
MOVIE★ 6.6
White Dog
1982
as Keys
MOVIE★ 8.0
Sister, Sister
1982
as Eddie Craven
MOVIE★ 7.4
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982
as Captain Clark Terrell
MOVIE★ 6.6
Dreams Don't Die
1982
as Charlie Banks
TV★ 6.6
American Playhouse
1982
as Sampson
TV★ 7.6
The Fall Guy
1981
as Bert Perkins
TV★ 8.5
The Sophisticated Gents
1981
as Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
MOVIE★ 5.9
Carbon Copy
1981
as Bob Garvey
MOVIE
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981
as Himself
MOVIE★ 6.0
Angel City
1980
as Cy
MOVIE★ 9.0
Only the Ball Was White
1980
as Narrator
TV★ 7.4
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
as Dr. Horace Huguley
TV★ 6.1
Backstairs at the White House
1979
as Emmett Rogers Sr.
TV★ 6.6
King
1978
as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
MOVIE★ 5.9
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
1977
as Butler
MOVIE★ 5.1
Damnation Alley
1977
as Keegan
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Greatest
1977
as Draft Lawyer
MOVIE★ 6.5
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
as Willis Powell
MOVIE
Green Eyes
1977
as Lloyd Dubeck
MOVIE★ 9.0
High Velocity
1976
MOVIE★ 5.7
Hustle
1975
as Louis Belgrave
MOVIE★ 6.0
Huckleberry Finn
1974
as Jim
MOVIE★ 6.8
Conrack
1974
as Mad Billy
MOVIE★ 7.3
It's Good to Be Alive
1974
as Roy Campanella
MOVIE★ 6.8
Gordon's War
1973
as Gordon Hudson
MOVIE★ 4.9
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
1973
as Dr. Enkalla
MOVIE★ 6.2
Trouble Man
1972
as Chalky Price
MOVIE★ 7.5
Sounder
1972
as Nathan Lee Morgan
TV★ 6.3
Nichols
1971
as Eddie Joe
MOVIE★ 6.5
Brother John
1971
as Henry Birkardt
MOVIE★ 5.9
R.P.M.
1970
as Steve Dempsey
MOVIE★ 7.3
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 4.3
The Lost Man
1969
as Orville Turner
TV★ 7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
as Barada
TV★ 6.4
Julia
1968
as Paul Cameron
MOVIE
The New Cinema
1968
as Self - Interviewer / Narrator
MOVIE★ 7.1
Who's Minding the Mint?
1967
as Garbage Man
MOVIE★ 4.4
The Perils of Pauline
1967
as African Servant
TV★ 7.6
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Klaus
TV★ 7.1
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as 1st M.P.
TV★ 5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
TV★ 7.7
Perry Mason
1957
as Mitch