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Paul Winfield

Born 1939-05-22

📍 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.

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Filmography 114

A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6

as Shadi(voice)

Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8

as Shadi(voice)

Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10

as Shadi(voice)

The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4

as Shadi(voice)

The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2

as Shadi(voice)

as Detective Grady

Crossing Jordan

as Phillip Sanders

Vegas, City of Dreams

The Unfinished Journey

as Narrator (voice)

March to Freedom

Strange Justice

as Thurgood Marshall

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

as Harold Williams

as Sam Young (voice)

City Confidential

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Assignment Berlin

Relax... It's Just Sex

as Auntie Mahalia

Strategic Command

as General Casey

The Legend of Gator Face

The Assassination File

as Senator Alan Laskey

Original Gangstas

as Reverend Dorsey

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

as Father (voice)

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

Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale

as William Stone

as Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)

as Jeffrey Robbins (voice)

Touched by an Angel

as Various (voice)

The Magic School Bus

as Mr. Ruhle (voice)

The Killing Jar

Breathing Lessons

as Gen. Richard Franklin

Dennis the Menace

as Chief of Police

as Walter Wright

Irresistible Force

as Commander Toole

Alex Haley's Queen

as Judge Harold Nance

Batman: The Animated Series

as Earl Cooper (voice)

The Wish That Changed Christmas

as Mr. Smith (voice)

83 Hours 'Til Dawn

as Doctor Dantley

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

Presumed Innocent

as Judge Larren Lyttle

as Lucius Sweet (voice)

as Jimmy Baines

The Women of Brewster Place

The Women of Brewster Place

The Serpent and the Rainbow

as Lucien Celine

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Captain Dathon

Death Before Dishonor

The Mighty Pawns

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story

as George Hairston

as Derron Holloway

as Chief Luther Reynolds

as Andrew Simon

as Julian C. Barlow

Murder, She Wrote

Go Tell It on the Mountain

as Gabriel Grimes

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

The Blue and the Gray

as Jonathan Henry

as Eddie Craven

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

as Captain Clark Terrell

Dreams Don't Die

as Charlie Banks

as Bert Perkins

The Sophisticated Gents

as Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins

Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera

Only the Ball Was White

Roots: The Next Generations

as Dr. Horace Huguley

Backstairs at the White House

as Emmett Rogers Sr.

as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich

Damnation Alley

as Draft Lawyer

Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Willis Powell

as Lloyd Dubeck

as Louis Belgrave

Huckleberry Finn

It's Good to Be Alive

as Roy Campanella

as Gordon Hudson

The Horror at 37,000 Feet

as Chalky Price

as Nathan Lee Morgan

as Henry Birkardt

as Steve Dempsey

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

as Self (archive footage)

as Orville Turner

The Name of the Game

as Paul Cameron

as Self - Interviewer / Narrator

Who's Minding the Mint?

The Perils of Pauline

as African Servant

Mission: Impossible

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

The Mike Douglas Show