Paul Winfield

Actor May 22 (age 86) Los Angeles, California, USA 1957–2003 (46 year career)

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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 cont…

Known For

Film

The Terminator

Traxler

Film

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Captain Clark Terrell

Film

Mars Attacks!

General Casey

Film

Cliffhanger

Walter Wright

Film

Presumed Innocent

Judge Larren Lyttle

Film

Dennis the Menace

Chief of Police

Film

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Lucien Celine

Film

White Dog

Keys

Filmography

Acting (115)

Movies (78)

Sounder

2003

as The Teacher

7.0

A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6

2003

as Shadi(voice)

Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10

2003

as Shadi(voice)

10.0

Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8

2003

as Shadi(voice)

The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4

2003

as Shadi(voice)

10.0

The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2

as Shadi(voice)

Second to Die

as Detective Grady

Vegas, City of Dreams

as Edgar Jones

Knockout

as Ron Regent

March to Freedom

as Narrator

The Unfinished Journey

as Narrator (voice)

Strange Justice

as Thurgood Marshall

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

1999

as Harold Williams

5.0

Relax... It's Just Sex

as Auntie Mahalia

Assignment Berlin

as Al Spector

Strategic Command

as Rowan

Mars Attacks!

as General Casey

The Legend of Gator Face

as Bob

Dead of Night

as Vernon

Original Gangstas

as Reverend Dorsey

The Assassination File

1996

as Senator Alan Laskey

5.2

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

1996

as Horace

Tyson

as Don King

White Dwarf

as Dr. Akada

In the Flesh

as William Stone

In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King

1995

as Papa Joe

2.7

Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale

as The Old Man

The Killing Jar

as Judge

Breathing Lessons

as Daniel Otis

Cliffhanger

as Walter Wright

Dennis the Menace

as Chief of Police

Irresistible Force

as Commander Toole

The Wish That Changed Christmas

1991

as Mr. Smith (voice)

7.2

Presumed Innocent

1990

as Judge Larren Lyttle

6.8

83 Hours 'Til Dawn

1990

as Doctor Dantley

6.5

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

1990

as Jim Watson

6.1

The Women of Brewster Place

1989

as Sam Michael

6.6

The Serpent and the Rainbow

as Lucien Celine

The Mighty Pawns

as Mr. Wright

Big Shots

as Johnnie Red

Death Before Dishonor

1987

as Ambassador

4.6

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

1987

as George Hairston

Blue City

1986

as Chief Luther Reynolds

Under Siege

as Andrew Simon

The Terminator

as Traxler

Go Tell It on the Mountain

as Gabriel Grimes

Mike's Murder

as Phillip

On the Run

as Harry

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

1983

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

1982

as Captain Clark Terrell

7.4

Sister, Sister

1982

as Eddie Craven

White Dog

as Keys

Dreams Don't Die

as Charlie Banks

Carbon Copy

as Bob Garvey

Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera

1981

as Himself

Angel City

1980

as Cy

5.8

Only the Ball Was White

as Narrator

The Greatest

as Draft Lawyer

Damnation Alley

as Keegan

Green Eyes

as Lloyd Dubeck

Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977

as Willis Powell

6.4

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

as Butler

High Velocity

Hustle

as Louis Belgrave

Huckleberry Finn

as Jim

Conrack

as Mad Billy

It's Good to Be Alive

as Roy Campanella

Gordon's War

as Gordon Hudson

The Horror at 37,000 Feet

as Dr. Enkalla

Sounder

as Nathan Lee Morgan

Trouble Man

as Chalky Price

Brother John

as Henry Birkardt

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970

as Self (archive footage)

R.P.M.

as Steve Dempsey

The Lost Man

as Orville Turner

The New Cinema

as Self - Interviewer / Narrator

Who's Minding the Mint?

1967

as Garbage Man

7.0

The Perils of Pauline

1967

as African Servant

3.5

Television (37)

Crossing Jordan

as Phillip Sanders

Batman Beyond

as Sam Young (voice)

City Confidential

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.0

Built to Last

1997

3.0

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

1995

as Father (voice)

6.0

Babylon 5

1994

as Gen. Richard Franklin

8.0

Gargoyles

1994

as Jeffrey Robbins (voice)

8.1

Spider-Man

1994

as Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)

Touched by an Angel

as Sam

Baseball

as (voice)

The Magic School Bus

as Mr. Ruhle (voice)

Scarlett

as Big Sam

Alex Haley's Queen

as Cap'n Jack

Batman: The Animated Series

1992

as Earl Cooper (voice)

8.6

Picket Fences

1992

as Judge Harold Nance

7.4

The Simpsons

1989

as Lucius Sweet (voice)

8.0

Family Matters

1989

as Jimmy Baines

6.8

The Women of Brewster Place

1989

as Sam Michael

5.0

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Captain Dathon

The Charmings

as The Mirror

L.A. Law

as Derron Holloway

227

as Julian C. Barlow

Murder, She Wrote

as Starkey

The Blue and the Gray

as Jonathan Henry

The Fall Guy

as Bert Perkins

The Sophisticated Gents

1981

as Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins

7.0

Roots: The Next Generations

1979

as Dr. Horace Huguley

7.5

Roots: The Next Generations

1979

as Dr. Horace Huguley

7.5

Backstairs at the White House

1979

as Emmett Rogers Sr.

5.9

King

1978

as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Nichols

as Eddie Joe

The Name of the Game

as Barada

Julia

as Paul Cameron

Mission: Impossible

as Klaus

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964

as 1st M.P.

7.1

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

Perry Mason

as Mitch