Paul Winfield
Born May 22, 1939 · Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
The Terminator
Mars Attacks!
Dennis the Menace
Cliffhanger
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Presumed Innocent
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Damnation Alley
White Dog
Twilight's Last Gleaming
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Hustle
Who's Minding the Mint?
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Sounder
The Greatest
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
The Women of Brewster Place
Relax... It's Just Sex
Carbon Copy
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
In the Flesh
Tyson
The Perils of Pauline
Original Gangstas
Strategic Command
Vegas, City of Dreams
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
R.P.M.
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Blue City
TV Shows
Murder, She Wrote
Crossing Jordan
Touched by an Angel
Babylon 5
L.A. Law
American Playhouse
Mission: Impossible
Batman: The Animated Series
Family Matters
The Name of the Game
Batman Beyond
Spider-Man
Gargoyles
The Fall Guy
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Picket Fences
227
The Magic School Bus
Nichols
Roots: The Next Generations
Baseball
Alex Haley's Queen
Scarlett
The Blue and the Gray
Backstairs at the White House
The Charmings
The Women of Brewster Place
The Sophisticated Gents
King
City Confidential
More Movies
Sounder
The Wish That Changed Christmas
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
It's Good to Be Alive
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
Big Shots
Under Siege
The Assassination File
The Legend of Gator Face
Dreams Don't Die
Mike's Murder
Huckleberry Finn
Second to Die
Conrack
Knockout
The Lost Man
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
Brother John
Trouble Man
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
White Dwarf
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
The Unfinished Journey
Green Eyes
The New Cinema
Breathing Lessons
Sister, Sister
Irresistible Force
Dead of Night
Death Before Dishonor
Angel City
Strange Justice
Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8
The Mighty Pawns
The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2
Gordon's War
High Velocity
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10
The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4
A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6
Assignment Berlin
Only the Ball Was White
On the Run
March to Freedom
