Paul Winfield

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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.

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Known For

The Terminator

Traxler

The Simpsons

Lucius Sweet (voice)

Mars Attacks!

General Casey

Cliffhanger

Walter Wright

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Captain Clark Terrell

Batman: The Animated Series

Earl Cooper (voice)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Captain Dathon

Dennis the Menace

Chief of Police

Full Filmography

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

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