Biography
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 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 l...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sounder
2003
as The Teacher
This is a coming-of-age story of a boy living in the Depression era of the South. "Boy" (Daniel Lee Robertson III) learns the hard way about the reali...

Second to Die
2002
as Detective Grady
Sara escapes a life of poverty and abuse to marry Jim Bratchett, but her joy is short-lived when she discovers that Jim intends her to be a full-time ...

Vegas, City of Dreams
2001
as Edgar Jones
When the body of Gabrielle Garrett is found on Lake Mead on a Christmas day, the coroner rules it as suicide. However, her three sisters begin their o...

Knockout
2000
as Ron Regent
Bell decides to follow the footsteps of his father, devoted to boxing to become champion. But not only must fight against his opponents but against a ...
The Unfinished Journey
1999
as Narrator (voice)
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.

March to Freedom
1999
as Narrator
Three war veterans tell about their experiences with racism in World War Two.

Strange Justice
1999
as Thurgood Marshall
In this historical drama, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announces his retirement. The White House nominates Clarence Thomas as Marshall...

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
1999
as Harold Williams
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After 22 years, the children are reunited with their...

Assignment Berlin
1998
as Al Spector
Tracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to spend sometime with him in Berlin. While they wer...

Relax... It's Just Sex
1998
as Auntie Mahalia
A tight-knit group of thirty-somethings -- gay, lesbian and straight -- struggle to live, love and stay friends in modern-day Los Angeles as circumsta...

Strategic Command
1997
as Rowan
Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed sold...

Mars Attacks!
1996
as General Casey
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim...

The Legend of Gator Face
1996
as Bob
Small-town Mississippians overreact to the appearance of a mythical swamp monster, partially the work of teen hoaxers.

The Assassination File
1996
as Senator Alan Laskey
An ex-FBI agent gradually uncovers the nature of a conspiracy behind the death of a black presidential candidate

Original Gangstas
1996
as Reverend Dorsey
A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police informati...

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
1996
as Horace
A young boy goes to spend the summer with his aunts in the South. He finds himself drawn to Jessica, who the other aunts describe as "slow," and he ev...

Dead of Night
1996
as Vernon
As a vampire searches for his deceased wife, a homicide detective is hot on his trail.

White Dwarf
1995
as Dr. Akada
In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axi...

Tyson
1995
as Don King
The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the W...

In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
1995
as Papa Joe
Al is caught between his loyalty to the police force and his love for his brother in a tense setting. It seems that his brother, Rudy, was involved in...

Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
1995
as The Old Man
A brave boy named Temba ventures to find food and water for his drought-striken village. But when he is given a set of magical bones, he uses them to ...

In the Flesh
1995
as William Stone
A German woman travels to America with her baby to take up an au pair position with a rich couple. She has no idea that the childless couple are only ...
The Killing Jar
1994
as Judge
A former porn star marries a wealthy criminal defense attorney who enjoys masochistic sex. When the two tire of each other, the husband becomes attrac...

Breathing Lessons
1994
as Daniel Otis
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.

Dennis the Menace
1993
as Chief of Police
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of g...

Cliffhanger
1993
as Walter Wright
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to r...

Irresistible Force
1993
as Commander Toole
A police sergeant is hoping for a few quiet weeks before his impending retirement, but his plans are scuppered when he is joined by an over-enthusiast...

The Wish That Changed Christmas
1991
as Mr. Smith (voice)
Ivy, an orphan wants a grandmother and a doll for Christmas. She mistakes a sign greeting her into a town, she jumps off a bus and shouts, "It's me, I...

83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1990
as Doctor Dantley
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990
as Jim Watson
This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges.

Presumed Innocent
1990
as Judge Larren Lyttle
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fig...

The Women of Brewster Place
1989
as Sam Michael
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988
as Lucien Celine
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his...

Big Shots
1987
as Johnnie Red
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a you...

Death Before Dishonor
1987
as Ambassador
Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to the 'enlightened' views of the Ambassador, the marin...

The Mighty Pawns
1987
as Mr. Wright
Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.

Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
1987
as George Hairston
This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought tha...

Blue City
1986
as Chief Luther Reynolds
Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner learns that his father has been killed. With little help from the police, Billy wil...

Under Siege
1986
as Andrew Simon
Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that detonates a truckload of explosives at an army base in Wash...

Go Tell It on the Mountain
1985
as Gabriel Grimes
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvatio...

The Terminator
1984
as Traxler
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Con...

Mike's Murder
1984
as Phillip
Betty has a crush on her tennis instructor Mike. He promises to call her for a date, but never does – she doesn’t know he sells drugs on the side. Aft...

On the Run
1983
as Harry
1) A man becomes a target after witnessing an assassination. 2) Mr. Payatta is a coldhearted professional hitman who travels the world to take out no...

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the...

White Dog
1982
as Keys
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.

Sister, Sister
1982
as Eddie Craven
Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982
as Captain Clark Terrell
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.

Dreams Don't Die
1982
as Charlie Banks
Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in New...

Carbon Copy
1981
as Bob Garvey
A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be adopte...

Angel City
1980
as Cy
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.

Only the Ball Was White
1980
as Narrator
Throughout the 1900's, before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1946, black baseball talent blossomed in the Negro Leagues. Baseball b...

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
1977
as Butler
A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.

Damnation Alley
1977
as Keegan
Following World War III, four survivors at an desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where ...

The Greatest
1977
as Draft Lawyer
Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of th...

Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977
as Willis Powell
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 u...

Green Eyes
1977
as Lloyd Dubeck
Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.

High Velocity
1976
Ben Gazzara and Paul Winfield play Vietnam veterans turned mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kidnapped executive.

Hustle
1975
as Louis Belgrave
The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that ...

Huckleberry Finn
1974
as Jim
Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him...

Conrack
1974
as Mad Billy
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor ...

It's Good to Be Alive
1974
as Roy Campanella
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile ...

Gordon's War
1973
as Gordon Hudson
A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriate...

The Horror at 37,000 Feet
1973
as Dr. Enkalla
A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.

Trouble Man
1972
as Chalky Price
It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix thin...

Sounder
1972
as Nathan Lee Morgan
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for steali...

Brother John
1971
as Henry Birkardt
An enigmatic man returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.

R.P.M.
1970
as Steve Dempsey
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of ...

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
as Self (archive footage)
Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activi...

The Lost Man
1969
as Orville Turner
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."

The New Cinema
1968
as Self - Interviewer / Narrator
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while...

Who's Minding the Mint?
1967
as Garbage Man
A bumbling government employee accidentally destroys a small fortune and decides to break into the US Mint to replace it, but before long everyone wan...

The Perils of Pauline
1967
as African Servant
Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.