Paul Winfield
Acting • Born 1939-05-22
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
115 credits
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Movie • 1982
Captain Clark Terrell
The Terminator
Movie • 1984
Traxler
The Women of Brewster Place
Movie • 1989
Sam Michael
Hustle
Movie • 1975
Louis Belgrave
Presumed Innocent
Movie • 1990
Judge Larren Lyttle
Trouble Man
Movie • 1972
Chalky Price
Mike's Murder
Movie • 1984
Phillip
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Movie • 1988
Lucien Celine
Damnation Alley
Movie • 1977
Keegan
Cliffhanger
Movie • 1993
Walter Wright
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
Movie • 1973
Dr. Enkalla
Sounder
Movie • 1972
Nathan Lee Morgan
Gordon's War
Movie • 1973
Gordon Hudson
Death Before Dishonor
Movie • 1987
Ambassador
White Dog
Movie • 1982
Keys
Tyson
Movie • 1995
Don King
Carbon Copy
Movie • 1981
Bob Garvey
Blue City
Movie • 1986
Chief Luther Reynolds
Huckleberry Finn
Movie • 1974
Jim
Relax... It's Just Sex
Movie • 1998
Auntie Mahalia
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
Movie • 1990
Doctor Dantley
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie • 1977
Willis Powell
Big Shots
Movie • 1987
Johnnie Red
The Legend of Gator Face
Movie • 1996
Bob
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Movie • 1977
Butler
Brother John
Movie • 1971
Henry Birkardt
Knockout
Movie • 2000
Ron Regent
The Unfinished Journey
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
It's Good to Be Alive
Movie • 1974
Roy Campanella
R.P.M.
Movie • 1970
Steve Dempsey
The Lost Man
Movie • 1969
Orville Turner
Breathing Lessons
Movie • 1994
Daniel Otis
The Wish That Changed Christmas
Movie • 1991
Mr. Smith (voice)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Movie • 1984
Gabriel Grimes
Second to Die
Movie • 2002
Detective Grady
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Movie • 1990
Jim Watson
Dreams Don't Die
Movie • 1982
Charlie Banks
On the Run
Movie • 1983
Harry
Assignment Berlin
Movie • 1998
Al Spector
Irresistible Force
Movie • 1993
Commander Toole
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie • 1970
Self (archive footage)
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Movie • 1983
Who's Minding the Mint?
Movie • 1967
Garbage Man
Conrack
Movie • 1974
Mad Billy
Original Gangstas
Movie • 1996
Reverend Dorsey
The Greatest
Movie • 1977
Draft Lawyer
Under Siege
Movie • 1986
Andrew Simon
The Assassination File
Movie • 1996
Senator Alan Laskey
Green Eyes
Movie • 1977
Lloyd Dubeck
Angel City
Movie • 1980
Cy
The New Cinema
Movie • 1968
Self - Interviewer / Narrator
In the Flesh
Movie • 1995
William Stone
High Velocity
Movie • 1976
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Movie • 1999
Harold Williams
Dead of Night
Movie • 1996
Vernon
The Killing Jar
Movie • 1994
Judge
The Mighty Pawns
Movie • 1987
Mr. Wright
Sister, Sister
Movie • 1982
Eddie Craven
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
Movie • 1995
Papa Joe
Only the Ball Was White
Movie • 1980
Narrator
Strange Justice
Movie • 1999
Thurgood Marshall
Strategic Command
Movie • 1997
Rowan
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
Movie • 1987
George Hairston
Sounder
Movie • 2003
The Teacher
White Dwarf
Movie • 1995
Dr. Akada
Dennis the Menace
Movie • 1993
Chief of Police
March to Freedom
Movie • 1999
Narrator
Vegas, City of Dreams
Movie • 2001
Edgar Jones
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
Movie • 1996
Horace
Mars Attacks!
Movie • 1996
General Casey
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
Movie • 1995
The Old Man
The Perils of Pauline
Movie • 1967
African Servant
A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6
Movie • 2003
Shadi(voice)
Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8
Movie • 2003
Shadi(voice)
The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4
Movie • 2003
Shadi(voice)
Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10
Movie • 2003
Shadi(voice)
The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2
Movie • 2003
Shadi(voice)
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Movie • 1981
Himself
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Lucius Sweet (voice)
Spider-Man
TV • 1994
Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Captain Dathon
227
TV • 1985
Julian C. Barlow
Babylon 5
TV • 1994
Gen. Richard Franklin
The Charmings
TV • 1987
The Mirror
Julia
TV • 1968
Paul Cameron
Roots: The Next Generations
TV • 1979
Dr. Horace Huguley
Built to Last
TV • 1997
Alex Haley's Queen
TV • 1993
Cap'n Jack
Gargoyles
TV • 1994
Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
Batman: The Animated Series
TV • 1992
Earl Cooper (voice)
The Sophisticated Gents
TV • 1981
Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
Nichols
TV • 1971
Eddie Joe
The Magic School Bus
TV • 1994
Mr. Ruhle (voice)
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Mitch
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Barada
King
TV • 1978
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV • 1995
Father (voice)
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Baseball
TV • 1994
Various (voice)
The Fall Guy
TV • 1981
Bert Perkins
Batman Beyond
TV • 1999
Sam Young (voice)
The Blue and the Gray
TV • 1982
Jonathan Henry
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Klaus
Backstairs at the White House
TV • 1979
Emmett Rogers Sr.
Crossing Jordan
TV • 2001
Phillip Sanders
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Sam
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Starkey
Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
1st M.P.
The Women of Brewster Place
TV • 1989
Sam Michael
Picket Fences
TV • 1992
Judge Harold Nance
City Confidential
TV • 1998
Self - Narrator (voice)
Scarlett
TV • 1994
Big Sam
Family Matters
TV • 1989
Jimmy Baines
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Derron Holloway