Acting

Paul Winfield

Born 1939-05-22 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Died 2004-03-07

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.

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A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6
as Shadi(voice)
2003
Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8
as Shadi(voice)
2003
Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10
as Shadi(voice)
2003
The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4
as Shadi(voice)
2003
The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2
as Shadi(voice)
2003
Sounder
as The Teacher
2003
Second to Die
as Detective Grady
2002
Crossing Jordan
as Phillip Sanders
2001
Vegas, City of Dreams
as Edgar Jones
2001
Knockout
as Ron Regent
2000
The Unfinished Journey
as Narrator (voice)
1999
March to Freedom
as Narrator
1999
Strange Justice
as Thurgood Marshall
1999
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
as Harold Williams
1999
Batman Beyond
as Sam Young (voice)
1999
City Confidential
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
Assignment Berlin
as Al Spector
1998
Relax... It's Just Sex
as Auntie Mahalia
1998
Built to Last
as Russell Watkins
1997
Strategic Command
as Rowan
1997
Mars Attacks!
as General Casey
1996
The Legend of Gator Face
as Bob
1996
The Assassination File
as Senator Alan Laskey
1996
Original Gangstas
as Reverend Dorsey
1996
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
as Horace
1996
Dead of Night
as Vernon
1996
White Dwarf
as Dr. Akada
1995
Tyson
as Don King
1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Father (voice)
1995
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
as Papa Joe
1995
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
as The Old Man
1995
In the Flesh
as William Stone
1995
Spider-Man
as Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
1994
Scarlett
as Big Sam
1994
Gargoyles
as Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
1994
Touched by an Angel
as Sam
1994
Baseball
as Various (voice)
1994
Baseball
as (voice)
1994
The Magic School Bus
as Mr. Ruhle (voice)
1994
The Killing Jar
as Judge
1994
Breathing Lessons
as Daniel Otis
1994
Babylon 5
as Gen. Richard Franklin
1994
Dennis the Menace
as Chief of Police
1993
Cliffhanger
as Walter Wright
1993
Irresistible Force
as Commander Toole
1993
Alex Haley's Queen
as Cap'n Jack
1993
Picket Fences
as Judge Harold Nance
1992
Batman: The Animated Series
as Earl Cooper (voice)
1992
The Wish That Changed Christmas
as Mr. Smith (voice)
1991
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
as Doctor Dantley
1990
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
as Jim Watson
1990
Presumed Innocent
as Judge Larren Lyttle
1990
The Simpsons
as Lucius Sweet (voice)
1989
Family Matters
as Jimmy Baines
1989
The Women of Brewster Place
as Sam Michael
1989
The Women of Brewster Place
as Sam Michael
1989
The Serpent and the Rainbow
as Lucien Celine
1988
Big Shots
as Johnnie Red
1987
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Captain Dathon
1987
The Charmings
as The Mirror
1987
Death Before Dishonor
as Ambassador
1987
The Mighty Pawns
as Mr. Wright
1987
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
as George Hairston
1987
L.A. Law
as Derron Holloway
1986
Blue City
as Chief Luther Reynolds
1986
Under Siege
as Andrew Simon
1986
227
as Julian C. Barlow
1985
The Terminator
as Traxler
1984
Murder, She Wrote
as Starkey
1984
Go Tell It on the Mountain
as Gabriel Grimes
1984
Mike's Murder
as Phillip
1984
On the Run
as Harry
1983
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
The Blue and the Gray
as Jonathan Henry
1982
White Dog
as Keys
1982
Sister, Sister
as Eddie Craven
1982
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
as Captain Clark Terrell
1982
Dreams Don't Die
as Charlie Banks
1982
American Playhouse
as Sampson
1982
American Playhouse
as Gabriel
1982