Paul Winfield
Acting
116
Acting Credits
Biography
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 cont...
Known For
Filmography
Sounder
2003
as The Teacher
A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6
2003
as Shadi(voice)
Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8
2003
as Shadi(voice)
The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4
2003
as Shadi(voice)
Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10
2003
as Shadi(voice)
The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2
2003
as Shadi(voice)
Second to Die
2002
as Detective Grady
Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
as Edgar Jones
Crossing Jordan
2001
as Phillip Sanders
Knockout
2000
as Ron Regent
The Unfinished Journey
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
1999
as Harold Williams
Strange Justice
1999
as Thurgood Marshall
March to Freedom
1999
as Narrator
Batman Beyond
1999
as Sam Young (voice)
Relax... It's Just Sex
1998
as Auntie Mahalia
Assignment Berlin
1998
as Al Spector
City Confidential
1998
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Strategic Command
1997
as Rowan
Built to Last
1997
as Russell Watkins
The Legend of Gator Face
1996
as Bob
Original Gangstas
1996
as Reverend Dorsey
The Assassination File
1996
as Senator Alan Laskey
Dead of Night
1996
as Vernon
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
1996
as Horace
Mars Attacks!
1996
as General Casey
Tyson
1995
as Don King
In the Flesh
1995
as William Stone
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
1995
as Papa Joe
White Dwarf
1995
as Dr. Akada
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
1995
as The Old Man
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Father (voice)
Breathing Lessons
1994
as Daniel Otis
The Killing Jar
1994
as Judge
Spider-Man
1994
as Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
Babylon 5
1994
as Gen. Richard Franklin
Gargoyles
1994
as Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
The Magic School Bus
1994
as Mr. Ruhle (voice)
Baseball
1994
as Various (voice)
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Sam
Baseball
1994
as (voice)
Scarlett
1994
as Big Sam
Cliffhanger
1993
as Walter Wright
Irresistible Force
1993
as Commander Toole
Dennis the Menace
1993
as Chief of Police
Alex Haley's Queen
1993
as Cap'n Jack
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
as Earl Cooper (voice)
Picket Fences
1992
as Judge Harold Nance
The Wish That Changed Christmas
1991
as Mr. Smith (voice)
Presumed Innocent
1990
as Judge Larren Lyttle
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1990
as Doctor Dantley
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990
as Jim Watson
The Women of Brewster Place
1989
as Sam Michael
The Simpsons
1989
as Lucius Sweet (voice)
The Women of Brewster Place
1989
as Sam Michael
Family Matters
1989
as Jimmy Baines
The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988
as Lucien Celine
Death Before Dishonor
1987
as Ambassador
Big Shots
1987
as Johnnie Red
The Mighty Pawns
1987
as Mr. Wright
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1987
as George Hairston
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Captain Dathon
The Charmings
1987
as The Mirror
Blue City
1986
as Chief Luther Reynolds
Under Siege
1986
as Andrew Simon
L.A. Law
1986
as Derron Holloway
227
1985
as Julian C. Barlow
The Terminator
1984
as Traxler
Mike's Murder
1984
as Phillip
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
as Gabriel Grimes
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Starkey
On the Run
1983
as Harry
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982
as Captain Clark Terrell
White Dog
1982
as Keys
Dreams Don't Die
1982
as Charlie Banks
Sister, Sister
1982
as Eddie Craven
The Blue and the Gray
1982
as Jonathan Henry
American Playhouse
1982
as Sampson
American Playhouse
1982
as Gabriel
Carbon Copy
1981
as Bob Garvey
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
1981
as Himself
The Sophisticated Gents
1981
as Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
The Fall Guy
1981
as Bert Perkins
Angel City
1980
as Cy
Only the Ball Was White
1980
as Narrator
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
as Dr. Horace Huguley
Backstairs at the White House
1979
as Emmett Rogers Sr.
King
1978
as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Damnation Alley
1977
as Keegan
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
as Willis Powell
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
1977
as Butler
The Greatest
1977
as Draft Lawyer
Green Eyes
1977
as Lloyd Dubeck
High Velocity
1976
as Watson
Hustle
1975
as Louis Belgrave
Huckleberry Finn
1974
as Jim
It's Good to Be Alive
1974
as Roy Campanella
Conrack
1974
as Mad Billy
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
1973
as Dr. Enkalla
Gordon's War
1973
as Gordon Hudson
Trouble Man
1972
as Chalky Price
Sounder
1972
as Nathan Lee Morgan
Brother John
1971
as Henry Birkardt
Nichols
1971
as Eddie Joe
R.P.M.
1970
as Steve Dempsey
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
as Self (archive footage)
The Lost Man
1969
as Orville Turner
The New Cinema
1968
as Self - Interviewer / Narrator
The Name of the Game
1968
as Barada
Who's Minding the Mint?
1967
as Garbage Man
The Perils of Pauline
1967
as African Servant
Mission: Impossible
1966
as Klaus
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as 1st M.P.
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Perry Mason
1957
as Mitch