Ernie Hudson

ActorWriterProducer Dec 17 (age 80) Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA 1973–2026 (53 year career)

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Biography

Earnest Lee Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters franchise. Hudson has also acted in the films Leviathan (1989), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The Crow (1994), Airheads (1994), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Congo (1995), Miss Congeniality (2000), and The Ron Clark Story (2006). His most prominent role on television was Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz (1997–2003). Hudson has also appeared in the television …

Known For

Film

Ghostbusters

Winston Zeddemore

Film

The Crow

Albrecht

Film

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Winston Zeddemore

Film

The Basketball Diaries

Reggie

Film

Ghostbusters II

Winston Zeddemore

Film

Miss Congeniality

Harry McDonald

Film

Oz

Leo Glynn

Film

Transformers: Prime

Agent William Fowler (voice)

Filmography

Acting (243)

Movies (141)

Toy Story 5

2026 Upcoming

as Combat Carl (voice)

Jun 17

John Candy: I Like Me

2025

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

7.9

FEEL

2025

as Sitter 10

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

as Winston Zeddemore

The Retirement Plan

as Joseph

Prisoner's Daughter

as Hank

Champions

as Coach Phil Peretti

6.7

Darrin's Dance Grooves: The Untold Darrin Henson Story

2023

as Self (voiceover)

In Search of Tomorrow

2022

as Self - Interviewee

6.6

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

as Winston Zeddemore

Redemption Day

as Ed Paxton

Beebo Saves Christmas

2021

as Santa Claus (voice)

6.5

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters

as Self

Adventure Force 5

as Dr. Lawrence Abel

Nappily Ever After

as Richard Jones

High & Outside: A Baseball Noir

as Sanzone

Ghostbusters

as Uncle Bill

Batman: Bad Blood

as Lucius Fox (voice)

God's Not Dead 2

as Judge Stennis

Ghostheads

as Self

Spaceman

as Joe

Infinity Train

as Atticus (voice)

Heaven Sent

as Donatello

The Man in the Silo

as Marcus Wells

Gallows Road

2015

as Bob Collins

7.2

Horror Icon: Inside Michael's Mask with Tony Moran

2015

as Self

The Last Song

2014

as Guest

Showing Up

as Self

You're Not You

as John

Touched

as Dr. Beck

The Grim Sleeper

as Detective Gerry Claymar

Merry Ex-Mas

as Pastor Ed

To Hell and Back

as Joe

Doonby

2013

as Leroy Jackson

4.3

Turning Point

2013

as Joe Johnson

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

as Percy

Dear Secret Santa

as Pastor Avery

Battledogs

as Max Stevens

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!

as Pedro (voice)

Deer Crossing

as Captain Bailey

Ambush at Dark Canyon

2012

as Cyrus Parker

4.4

The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy

as Ivan Stumpwater

Game of Death

as Clarence

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

2011

as Pedro

5.9

Deep Blue Breath

2011

as Lord Vater (voice)

Underground Entertainment: The Movie

as Ernie

Machete Joe

as Sheriff Taylor

Stasis

as Stranger

Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball

as Anthony Vejar

Nowhere to Land

as Danny Gorlin

Dragonball Evolution

as Master Mutaito

Pastor Brown

as Deacon Harold Todd

Fatal Secrets

as Detective Carter

Lonely Street

as Captain Morgan

Final Approach

as Agent Lorenzo Dawson

Nobel Son

as Bill Canega

All Hat

as Jackson Jones

The Ron Clark Story

as Principal Turner

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

2006

as Blake Rische

5.9

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

2006

as Roscoe

4.8

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

2005

as Harry McDonald

5.7

Confessions of an Action Star

as Self / Commander

Halfway Decent

as Tom

Lackawanna Blues

as Dick Barrymore

Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story

2005

as Perry Beasley

7.3

Clifford's Really Big Movie

as P.T. (voice)

Anne B. Real

as Principal

A Town Without Christmas

as Ted

Walking Shadow

as Hawk

Miss Congeniality

as Harry McDonald

The Watcher

as FBI Special Agent in Charge Mike Ibby

5.1

Red Letters

2000

as Detective Glen Teal

4.4

Everything's Jake

2000

as Jake

Paper Bullets

2000

as Detective Ron Mills

Interceptors

as Major

Shark Attack

as Lawrence Rhodes

Stealth Fighter

as President Westwood

4.0

Michael Jordan: An American Hero

1999

5.9

Hijack

1999

as Senator Douglas Wilson

4.4

A Stranger in the Kingdom

1999

as Rev. Walter Andrews

2.8

Butter

1998

as Curtis '8-Ball' Harris

3.6

Best of the Best 4: Without Warning

as Detective Gresko

October 22

as Arthur

Mr. Magoo

as Agent CIA Gus Anders

Fakin' Da Funk

as Joe Lee

Clover

as Gaten Hill

Operation Delta Force

as Major Tipton

Levitation

as Downbeat

The Substitute

as Claude Rolle

Tornado!

as Dr. Joe Branson

Just Your Luck

as Willie

The Cherokee Kid

as Nat Love aka Deadwood Dick

5.3

For Which He Stands

1996

as DEA Agent Baxter

6.0

The Basketball Diaries

1995

as Reggie

7.4

Congo

1995

as Captain Monroe Kelly

The Crow

as Albrecht

Speechless

as Ventura

No Escape

as Hawkins

Airheads

as Sergeant O'Malley

Sugar Hill

as Lolly Jonas

The Cowboy Way

as Officer Sam 'Mad Dog' Shaw

5.7

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

as Solomon

Ghostbusters II

as Winston Zeddemore

Leviathan

as Justin Jones

Collision Course

as Shortcut

Trapper County War

as Jefferson Carter

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

as Joe Hamilton

The Wrong Guys

as Dawson

Weeds

as Bagdad

The Last Precinct

as Night Train

Love on the Run

as Lamar

California Girls

as Ernie

Ghostbusters

as Winston Zeddemore

Joy of Sex

as Mr. Porter

On the Scene with the Ghostbusters

Two of a Kind

as Det. Skaggs

Women of San Quentin

as Charles Wilson

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

1983

as Washington

5.3

Going Berserk

1983

as Muhammed Jerome Willy

Penitentiary II

as Half Dead

Crazy Times

as Harold 'Jazzman' Malloy

Underground Aces

1981

as African General

4.4

A Matter of Life and Death

1981

as Mr. Harrison

The Octagon

as Quinine

Skag

The Jazz Singer

as Heckler

White Mama

as Counsellor

The $5.20 an Hour Dream

1980

as Homer Burden

Joni

as Earl

The Main Event

as Killer

Last of the Good Guys

1978

as El Coliph

Man from Atlantis IV: The Disappearances

1977

as Minion

7.0

Mad Bull

1977

as Black Bart

The Human Tornado

as Bo

Leadbelly

as Archie

Sisters in Italy

Famous

Oswald: Down The Rabbit Hole

as Oswald Jebediah Coleman

Mr. Beebee

as Wayne Proctor

Deepest, Darkest

Hal

Television (102)

Boston Blue

2025

as Rev. Edwin Peters

6.5

Angry Birds Mystery Island

2024

as Marlon (voice)

5.2

The Jennifer Hudson Show

as Self

Sherri

as Self - Guest

Quantum Leap

as Herbert 'Magic' Williams

7.0

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

2021

as Grini Millegi (voice)

8.2

Reunited Apart

2020

as Self

5.5

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

2020

as Prince Humperdinck

7.5

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019

as Self

6.4

The Masked Singer

2019

as Self - Special Guest

City on a Hill

as Franklin Ward

Infinity Train

as Atticus (voice)

The Movies That Made Us

2019

as Winston Zeddemore (archive footage)

7.2

L.A.'s Finest

2019

as Joseph Vaughn

7.0

Carl Weber's The Family Business

as L.C. Duncan

APB

as Ned Conrad

Lethal Weapon

as Hank Peterson

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

2016

as Santa Claus (voice)

MacGyver

as Milton Bozer

Angie Tribeca

as Pete Tribeca

Graves

as Jacob Mann

Grace and Frankie

as Jacob

Ballers

as Mr. Hagerty

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

Scorpion

as Brooks

The Last Leg

as Self

The Millers

as Walter

Ironside

as Bludso

Arrow

as Roy Stewart

Scandal

as Commander Randolph Boles

Key & Peele

as Dad

Comic Book Men

as Self

Guys with Kids

as The Judge

Once Upon a Time

as King Poseidon

Hart of Dixie

as Ernie Hayes

Franklin & Bash

as Judge Lawrence Perry

Blue Bloods

as Darryl Ward

Rizzoli & Isles

as Admiral Frost

Hot in Cleveland

as Ernie Hudson

Transformers: Prime

as Agent William Fowler (voice)

Modern Family

as Miles

White Collar

as Mr. Jeffries

Celebrity Ghost Stories

as Self

Meteor

as Gen. Brasser

The Secret Life of the American Teenager

as Dr. Ken Fields

Childrens Hospital

as Hubert McGraw

Private Practice

as Captain Frank

Psych

as William Guster

Heroes

as Captain Lubbock

Torchwood

as Stuart Owens

Grey's Anatomy

as Brad McDougall

Bones

as David Barron

Criminal Minds

as Lt. Al Garner

How I Met Your Mother

2005

as Ernie Hudson

8.1

Robot Chicken

2005

as Detective Ernie / Judge Hudson Jr. / Justin's Dad (voice)

Desperate Housewives

as Detective Ridley

Cold Case

as Moses Jones

Las Vegas

as Bob Casey

10-8: Officers on Duty

2003

as Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes

Without a Trace

as Manny Aybar

Everwood

as Bill Hoover

Crossing Jordan

as Colonel Wirth

The Crow: Stairway to Heaven

as Albrecht

Stargate SG-1

as Pernaux

The View

as Self

as Leo Glynn

Arli$$

as Warden Leo Glynn

Superman: The Animated Series

1996

as Professor Felix (voice)

7.6

1994

as Colonel James Gallant

Touched by an Angel

as Norm McCloud

Wild Palms

as Tommy Lazlo

Batman: The Animated Series

1992

as Security Guard (voice)

The Ben Stiller Show

Angel Street

as Thurman Nickens

Law & Order

as Frank Gibson

Twin Peaks

as Colonel Davis

Cop Rock

as Cmdr. Warren Osborne

Broken Badges

as Toby Baker

Tales from the Crypt

as Zambini

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

1989

7.0

Full House

1987

as Reggie "The Sandman" Martin

7.5

The Last Precinct

1986

as Sergeant Lane

5.0

The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

as Cyborg (voice)

The Insiders

as Brewster

The A-Team

as Cal Freeman

Webster

St. Elsewhere

as Jerry Close

The New Odd Couple

as Moses Brown

Flamingo Road

Bosom Buddies

Roots: The Next Generations

as Muslim at Door

Detective School

Highcliffe Manor

as Smythe

Fantasy Island

as Jamu

Taxi

as Terry Carver

The White Shadow

as Johnson

Diff'rent Strokes

The Incredible Hulk

as Lee

Little House on the Prairie

as William Thomas

Super Friends

as Cyborg (voice)

Beautiful People

as Jack

Crew (2)

Movies (1)

Ghost in the House

2023

Writer

Television (1)

Carl Weber's The Family Business

2018

Executive Producer

8.4