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.

Filmography

• 2003A Life and Seth Situation: Commandments 5-6 — Shadi(voice)
• 2003Sounder — The Teacher
• 2003Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts: Commandments 7-8 — Shadi(voice)
• 2003The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2 — Shadi(voice)
• 2003The Rest is Yet to Come: Commandments 3-4 — Shadi(voice)
• 2003Toying with the Truth: Commandments 9-10 — Shadi(voice)
• 2002Second to Die — Detective Grady
• Crossing Jordan — Phillip Sanders
• 2001Vegas, City of Dreams — Edgar Jones
• 2000Knockout — Ron Regent
• Batman Beyond — Sam Young (voice)
• 1999Catfish in Black Bean Sauce — Harold Williams
• 1999March to Freedom — Narrator
• 1999Strange Justice — Thurgood Marshall
• 1999The Unfinished Journey — Narrator (voice)
• 1998Assignment Berlin — Al Spector
• 1998Relax... It's Just Sex — Auntie Mahalia
• Built to Last — Russell Watkins
• 1997Strategic Command — Rowan
• 1996Dead of Night — Vernon
• 1996Mars Attacks! — General Casey
• 1996Original Gangstas — Reverend Dorsey
• 1996Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden — Horace
• 1996The Assassination File — Senator Alan Laskey
• 1996The Legend of Gator Face — Bob
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child — Father (voice)
• 1995In the Flesh — William Stone
• 1995In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King — Papa Joe
• 1995Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale — The Old Man
• 1995Tyson — Don King
• 1995White Dwarf — Dr. Akada
• Babylon 5 — Gen. Richard Franklin
• Baseball — Various (voice)
• 1994Breathing Lessons — Daniel Otis
• Gargoyles — Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
• Scarlett — Big Sam
• Spider-Man — Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
• 1994The Killing Jar — Judge
• The Magic School Bus — Mr. Ruhle (voice)
• Touched by an Angel — Sam
• Alex Haley's Queen — Cap'n Jack
• 1993Cliffhanger — Walter Wright
• 1993Dennis the Menace — Chief of Police
• 1993Irresistible Force — Commander Toole
• Batman: The Animated Series — Earl Cooper (voice)
• Picket Fences — Judge Harold Nance
• 1991The Wish That Changed Christmas — Mr. Smith (voice)
• 199083 Hours 'Til Dawn — Doctor Dantley
• 1990Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn — Jim Watson
• 1990Presumed Innocent — Judge Larren Lyttle
• Family Matters — Jimmy Baines
• The Simpsons — Lucius Sweet (voice)
• 1989The Women of Brewster Place — Sam Michael
• The Women of Brewster Place — Sam Michael
• 1988The Serpent and the Rainbow — Lucien Celine
• 1987Big Shots — Johnnie Red
• 1987Death Before Dishonor — Ambassador
• 1987Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story — George Hairston
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Captain Dathon
• The Charmings — The Mirror
• 1987The Mighty Pawns — Mr. Wright
• 1986Blue City — Chief Luther Reynolds
• L.A. Law — Derron Holloway
• 1986Under Siege — Andrew Simon
• 227 — Julian C. Barlow
• 1984Go Tell It on the Mountain — Gabriel Grimes
• 1984Mike's Murder — Phillip
• Murder, She Wrote — Starkey
• 1984The Terminator — Traxler
• 1983For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
• 1983On the Run — Harry
• American Playhouse — Sampson, Gabriel
• 1982Dreams Don't Die — Charlie Banks
• 1982Sister, Sister — Eddie Craven
• 1982Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan — Captain Clark Terrell
• The Blue and the Gray — Jonathan Henry
• 1982White Dog — Keys
• 1981Carbon Copy — Bob Garvey
• The Fall Guy — Bert Perkins
• The Sophisticated Gents — Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
• 1980Angel City — Cy
• 1980Only the Ball Was White — Narrator
• Backstairs at the White House — Emmett Rogers Sr.
• Roots: The Next Generations — Dr. Horace Huguley
• King — Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1977A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich — Butler
• 1977Damnation Alley — Keegan
• 1977Green Eyes — Lloyd Dubeck
• 1977The Greatest — Draft Lawyer
• 1977Twilight's Last Gleaming — Willis Powell
• 1976High Velocity — Watson
• 1975Hustle — Louis Belgrave
• 1974Conrack — Mad Billy
• 1974Huckleberry Finn — Jim
• 1974It's Good to Be Alive — Roy Campanella
• 1973Gordon's War — Gordon Hudson
• 1973The Horror at 37,000 Feet — Dr. Enkalla
• 1972Sounder — Nathan Lee Morgan
• 1972Trouble Man — Chalky Price
• 1971Brother John — Henry Birkardt
• Nichols — Eddie Joe
• 1970R.P.M. — Steve Dempsey
• 1969The Lost Man — Orville Turner
• The Name of the Game — Barada
• 1967The Perils of Pauline — African Servant
• 1967Who's Minding the Mint? — Garbage Man
• Mission: Impossible — Klaus
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — 1st M.P.
• Perry Mason — Mitch

Appearances as themselves (5)

• City Confidential — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1981Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera — Himself
• 1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis — Self (archive footage)
• 1968The New Cinema — Self - Interviewer / Narrator
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self