Biography
Was an American television, film, and stage 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.
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Filmography
all 106
Movies 76
TV Shows 30
Voice 9
self 4
Narrator 2
Shadi
The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4 (2003)
Movie
Shadi
Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10 (2003)
Movie
Shadi
A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6 (2003)
Movie
Shadi
The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2 (2003)
Movie
The Teacher
Sounder (2003)
Movie
Detective Grady
Second to Die (2002)
Movie
Dr. Phillip Sanders
Crossing Jordan (2001)
TV
5.95
Edgar Jones
Vegas, City of Dreams (2001)
Movie
Ron Regent
Knockout (2000)
Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Unfinished Journey (1999)
Movie
Narrator
City Confidential (1999)
TV
Self - Narrator
March to Freedom (1999)
Movie
Thurgood Marshall
Strange Justice (1999)
Movie
Harold Williams
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
Movie
Sam Young (voice)
Batman Beyond (1999)
TV
6.55
Al Spector
Assignment Berlin (1998)
Movie
Auntie Mahalia
Relax... It's Just Sex (1998)
Movie
Russell Watkins
Built to Last (1997)
TV
Rowan
Strategic Command (1997)
Movie
General Casey
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Movie
6.2
Bob
The Legend of Gator Face (1996)
Movie
Senator Alan Laskey
The Assassination File (1996)
Movie
Reverend Dorsey
Original Gangstas (1996)
Movie
Horace
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996)
Movie
Vernon
Dead of Night (1996)
Movie
Dr. Akada
White Dwarf (1995)
Movie
Don King
Tyson (1995)
Movie
Father (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
TV
Papa Joe
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King (1995)
Movie
Old Man
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale (1995)
Movie
Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
Spider-Man (1994)
TV
6.17
Scarlett (1994)
TV
6
Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
Gargoyles (1994)
TV
5.83
Sam
Touched by an Angel (1994)
TV
8
Various (voice)
Baseball (1994)
TV
(voice)
The Magic School Bus (1994)
TV
7.75
Judge
The Killing Jar (1994)
Movie
Daniel Otis
Breathing Lessons (1994)
Movie
Gen. Richard Franklin
Babylon 5 (1994)
TV
6.44
Chief of Police
Dennis the Menace (1993)
Movie
5
Walter Wright
Cliffhanger (1993)
Movie
6.35
Commander Toole
Irresistible Force (1993)
Movie
Cap'n Jack
Alex Haley's Queen (1993)
TV
4
Narrarator
At the River I Stand (1993)
Movie
Earl Cooper (voice)
Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
TV
5.56
Mr. Smith
The Wish That Changed Christmas (1991)
Movie
Doctor Dantley
83 Hours 'Til Dawn (1990)
Movie
Jim Watson
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990)
Movie
Judge Larren Lyttle
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Movie
3.25
Lucius Sweet (voice)
The Simpsons (1989)
TV
6.75
Sam Michael
The Women of Brewster Place (1989)
Movie
Lucien Celine
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Movie
6.25
Johnnie Red
Big Shots (1987)
Movie
Captain Dathon
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
TV
6.47
The Mirror
The Charmings (1987)
TV
Ambassador
Death Before Dishonor (1987)
Movie
Mr. Wright
The Mighty Pawns (1987)
Movie
George Hairston
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story (1987)
Movie
Chief Luther Reynolds
Blue City (1986)
Movie
Andrew Simon
Under Siege (1986)
Movie
Julian C. Barlow
227 (1985)
TV
6
Gabriel Grimes
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985)
Movie
Traxler
The Terminator (1984)
Movie
6.19
Starkey
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
TV
7
Phillip
Mike's Murder (1984)
Movie
Harry
On the Run (1983)
Movie
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983)
Movie
Jonathan Henry
The Blue and the Gray (1982)
TV
Keys
White Dog (1982)
Movie
6
Eddie Craven
Sister, Sister (1982)
Movie
Captain Clark Terrell
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Movie
5.35
Charlie Banks
Dreams Don't Die (1982)
Movie
Bert Perkins
The Fall Guy (1981)
TV
Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
The Sophisticated Gents (1981)
TV
Bob Garvey
Carbon Copy (1981)
Movie
4
Cy
Angel City (1980)
Movie
Narrator
Only the Ball Was White (1980)
Movie
Dr. Horace Huguley
Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
TV
6
Emmett Rogers Sr.
Backstairs at the White House (1979)
TV
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
King (1978)
TV
Butler
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1977)
Movie
Keegan
Damnation Alley (1977)
Movie
10
Draft Lawyer
The Greatest (1977)
Movie
Willis Powell
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Movie
Lloyd Dubeck
Green Eyes (1977)
Movie
Watson
High Velocity (1976)
Movie
Sgt. Louis Belgrave
Hustle (1975)
Movie
Jim
Huckleberry Finn (1974)
Movie
Mad Billy
Conrack (1974)
Movie
Roy Campanella
It's Good to Be Alive (1974)
Movie
Gordon Hudson
Gordon's War (1973)
Movie
Dr. Enkalla
The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)
Movie
Chalky
Trouble Man (1972)
Movie
Nathan Lee
Sounder (1972)
Movie
Eddie Joe
Nichols (1971)
TV
Henry Birkardt
Brother John (1971)
Movie
Steve Dempsey
R.P.M. (1970)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
Movie
Orville Turner
The Lost Man (1969)
Movie
Barada
The Name of the Game (1968)
TV
Paul Cameron
Julia (1968)
TV
Himself / Narrator
The New Cinema (1968)
Movie
Garbage Man
Who's Minding the Mint? (1967)
Movie
African Servant
The Perils of Pauline (1967)
Movie
Self
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
TV
Mitch
Perry Mason (1957)
TV
4.33
Ratings
Average 5.93
Based on 2.58 Million movie and tv ratings over time
1957
1979
1987
1981
2003
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1939-05-22
Deathday2004-03-07 (64 years old)
Birth PlaceLos Angeles, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsPaul Edward Winfield, Paul E. Winfield, Пол Уинфилд
AwardsEmmy Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
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