Paul Winfield
Born in Los Angeles, California, USA — May 22 1939
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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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The Simpsons
Lucius Sweet (voice)
Babylon 5
Gen. Richard Franklin
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Captain Dathon
Murder, She Wrote
Starkey
Perry Mason
Mitch
Mission: Impossible
Klaus
Crossing Jordan
Phillip Sanders
Batman: The Animated Series
Earl Cooper (voice)
Family Matters
Jimmy Baines
L.A. Law
Derron Holloway
The Terminator
Traxler
Touched by an Angel
Sam
Spider-Man
Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
Batman Beyond
Sam Young (voice)
The Name of the Game
Barada
Gargoyles
Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
The Fall Guy
Bert Perkins
Picket Fences
Judge Harold Nance
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Father (voice)
227
Julian C. Barlow
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1st M.P.
Baseball
Various (voice)
Nichols
Eddie Joe
The Magic School Bus
Mr. Ruhle (voice)
Julia
Paul Cameron
Scarlett
Big Sam
Mars Attacks!
General Casey
Roots: The Next Generations
Dr. Horace Huguley
Cliffhanger
Walter Wright
The Charmings
The Mirror
Dennis the Menace
Chief of Police
Alex Haley's Queen
Cap'n Jack
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Captain Clark Terrell
The Blue and the Gray
Jonathan Henry
Relax... It's Just Sex
Auntie Mahalia
Presumed Innocent
Judge Larren Lyttle
City Confidential
Self - Narrator (voice)
Built to Last
The Sophisticated Gents
Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
King
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Backstairs at the White House
Emmett Rogers Sr.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Lucien Celine
R.P.M.
Steve Dempsey
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Willis Powell
Sounder
Nathan Lee Morgan
Damnation Alley
Keegan
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
White Dog
Keys
Hustle
Louis Belgrave
Conrack
Mad Billy
The Women of Brewster Place
Sam Michael
Big Shots
Johnnie Red
Tyson
Don King
Mike's Murder
Phillip
Blue City
Chief Luther Reynolds
Strange Justice
Thurgood Marshall
The Greatest
Draft Lawyer
Carbon Copy
Bob Garvey
The Unfinished Journey
Narrator (voice)
Irresistible Force
Commander Toole
The Assassination File
Senator Alan Laskey
Under Siege
Andrew Simon
Dreams Don't Die
Charlie Banks
The Perils of Pauline
African Servant
The Lost Man
Orville Turner
Brother John
Henry Birkardt
Sister, Sister
Eddie Craven
The New Cinema
Self - Interviewer / Narrator
Breathing Lessons
Daniel Otis
Knockout
Ron Regent
Original Gangstas
Reverend Dorsey
White Dwarf
Dr. Akada
Huckleberry Finn
Jim
Who's Minding the Mint?
Garbage Man
In the Flesh
William Stone
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Jim Watson
High Velocity
Dead of Night
Vernon
Second to Die
Detective Grady
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
Dr. Enkalla
Angel City
Cy
Sounder
The Teacher
It's Good to Be Alive
Roy Campanella
Trouble Man
Chalky Price
Green Eyes
Lloyd Dubeck
Strategic Command
Rowan
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
Papa Joe
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Butler
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Gabriel Grimes
Gordon's War
Gordon Hudson
The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2
Shadi(voice)
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
The Old Man
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
Doctor Dantley
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Harold Williams
The Women of Brewster Place
Sam Michael
Vegas, City of Dreams
Edgar Jones
Death Before Dishonor
Ambassador
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
George Hairston
The Legend of Gator Face
Bob
The Mighty Pawns
Mr. Wright
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
Horace
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Assignment Berlin
Al Spector
On the Run
Harry
The Wish That Changed Christmas
Mr. Smith (voice)
A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6
Shadi(voice)
The Killing Jar
Judge
Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10
Shadi(voice)
Only the Ball Was White
Narrator
The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4
Shadi(voice)
Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8
Shadi(voice)
March to Freedom
Narrator
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Himself