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 contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series · 1995
- Emmy Award
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1973 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Batman: The Animated Series
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Spider-Man
Batman Beyond
Gargoyles
Babylon 5
The Simpsons
City Confidential
The Magic School Bus
The Terminator
Perry Mason
The Fall Guy
Mission: Impossible
Baseball
Picket Fences
Murder, She Wrote
Sounder
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Roots: The Next Generations
It's Good to Be Alive
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Crossing Jordan
Touched by an Angel
L.A. Law
Who's Minding the Mint?
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Queen
The Mighty Pawns
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Presumed Innocent
The Women of Brewster Place
Family Matters
227
Scarlett
Big Shots
Dreams Don't Die
King
Cliffhanger
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
Brother John
Mars Attacks!
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Trouble Man
White Dwarf
Tyson
Angel City
Huckleberry Finn