Paul Winfield
Biography
Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004) 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.
Known For
Captain Clark Terrell
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Traxler
The Terminator
Sam Michael
The Women of Brewster Place
Louis Belgrave
Hustle
Judge Larren Lyttle
Presumed Innocent
Chalky Price
Trouble Man
Phillip
Mike's Murder
Lucien Celine
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Keegan
Damnation Alley
Walter Wright
Cliffhanger
Dr. Enkalla
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
Nathan Lee Morgan
Sounder
Gordon Hudson
Gordon's War
Ambassador
Death Before Dishonor
Keys
White Dog
Don King
Tyson
Bob Garvey
Carbon Copy
Chief Luther Reynolds
Blue City
Jim
Huckleberry Finn
Auntie Mahalia
Relax... It's Just Sex
Doctor Dantley
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
Willis Powell
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Johnnie Red
Big Shots
Bob
The Legend of Gator Face
Butler
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Henry Birkardt
Brother John
Ron Regent
Knockout
Narrator (voice)
The Unfinished Journey
Roy Campanella
It's Good to Be Alive
Steve Dempsey
R.P.M.
Orville Turner
The Lost Man
Daniel Otis
Breathing Lessons
Mr. Smith (voice)
The Wish That Changed Christmas
Gabriel Grimes
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Detective Grady
Second to Die
Jim Watson
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Charlie Banks
Dreams Don't Die
Harry
On the Run
Al Spector
Assignment Berlin
Commander Toole
Irresistible Force
Self (archive footage)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Garbage Man
Who's Minding the Mint?
Mad Billy
Conrack
Reverend Dorsey
Original Gangstas
Draft Lawyer
The Greatest
Andrew Simon
Under Siege
Senator Alan Laskey
The Assassination File
Lloyd Dubeck
Green Eyes
Cy
Angel City
Self - Interviewer / Narrator
The New Cinema
William Stone
Im Sog des Bösen
High Velocity
Harold Williams
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Vernon
Dead of Night
Judge
The Killing Jar
Mr. Wright
The Mighty Pawns
Eddie Craven
Sister, Sister
Papa Joe
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
Narrator
Only the Ball Was White
Thurgood Marshall
Strange Justice
Rowan
Strategic Command
George Hairston
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
The Teacher
Sounder
Dr. Akada
White Dwarf
Chief of Police
Dennis the Menace
Narrator
March to Freedom
Edgar Jones
Vegas, City of Dreams
Horace
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
General Casey
Mars Attacks!
The Old Man
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
African Servant
The Perils of Pauline
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
72
Gender
Male
Birthday
1939-05-22
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
Paul Edward Winfield