Paul Winfield
Birthplace: Los Angeles
Born: 1939-05-22
Died: 2004-03-07
Occupations recorded in source
actor; film actor; stage actor; television actor; voice actor
Biography from Wikipedia
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 (1972), which earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, making him the first openly gay nominee. Winfield portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1978 television miniseries King, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. Winfield was also known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Terminator, L.A. Law,, the Magic Mirror in The Charmings, and Julian c. Barlow in the final season of 227. Winfield received four Emmy nominations overall, winning in 1995 for his 1994 guest role in Picket Fences.
Sources & attribution
Wikidata · revision
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Films in Cinema Hound
Acting
- Second to Die (2002)
- Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000)
- Knockout (2000) — Ron Regent
- Assignment Berlin (1998)
- Relax...It's Just Sex (1998)
- Strategic Command (1997) — Rowan
- Assassination File: Operation Laskey (1996)
- Mars Attacks! (1996) — General Casey
- Original Gangstas (1996) — Reverend Dorsey
- Tyson (1995) — Don King
- White Dwarf (1995)
- Cliffhanger (1993) — Walter Wright
- Dennis the Menace (1993) — Polizeichef
- Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990)
- Presumed Innocent (1990) — Judge Larren L. Lyttle
- The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) — Lucien Celine
- Death Before Dishonor (1987) — Botschafter
- Blue City (1986)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (1984)
- The Terminator (1984) — Lieutenant Ed Traxler
- On the Run (1982)
- Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982) — Captain Clark Terrell
- White Dog (1982) — Keys
- Carbon Copy (1981) — Bob Garvey
- A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich (1978)
- Damnation Alley (1977) — Keegan
- Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) — Powell
- High Velocity (1976) — Watson
- Hustle (1975) — Louis Belgrave
- Conrack (1974) — Mad Billy
- Huckleberry Finn (1974)
- It's Good to Be Alive (1974)
- Gordon's War (1973)
- Trouble Man (1973) — Chalky Price
- Sounder (1972) — Nathan Lee Morgan
- Brother John (1971)
- R. P. M. (1970)
- The Lost Man (1969) — Orville Turner
Frequent collaborators
Shared films in this catalogue.
- Cicely Tyson · 2 films
- Jim Brown · 2 films
- Martin Ritt · 2 films
- Mitchell Anderson · 2 films
- Pam Grier · 2 films
- Ralph Waite · 2 films
Catalogue credits: Wikidata and Open Media Database. Sources & licences.