Biography
Earnest Lee Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters franchise. Hudson has also acted in the films Leviathan (1989), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The Crow (1994), Airheads (1994), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Congo (1995), Miss Congeniality (2000), and The Ron Clark Story (2006). His most prominent role on television was Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz (1997–2003). Hudson has also appeared in the television ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Toy Story 5
2026
as Combat Carl (voice)
Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs get exponentially harder when they go head to head with an all-new threat to playtime: tech.

FEEL
2025
as Sitter 10
This avant-garde film is a stained glass window of emotion. 28 different people's feelings are woven into an emotional time capsule that will never ex...

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024
as Winston Zeddemore
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world ...

The Retirement Plan
2023
as Joseph
When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to the only person who can he...

Prisoner's Daughter
2023
as Hank
Released from prison with terminal cancer, Max tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter and the grandson he’s never known. When his daughter’s a...

Champions
2023
as Coach Phil Peretti
A stubborn and hotheaded minor league basketball coach is forced to train a Special Olympics team when he is sentenced to community service.

Ghost in the House
2023
Writer
Jack Johnson's story is a prime example of self-reliance and individuality. It is the quintessential American story. The son of former slaves, he poss...

In Search of Tomorrow
2022
as Self - Interviewee
A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artists who made them and by those who were ins...

Beebo Saves Christmas
2021
as Santa Claus (voice)
When Sprinkles, an efficiency-obsessed elf, decides that Christmas would run better without Santa Claus, Beebo and his friends travel to the North Pol...

Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021
as Winston Zeddemore
When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Gho...

Redemption Day
2021
as Ed Paxton
When his wife is kidnapped by terrorists for ransom, veteran war hero Brad Paxton races against the clock to rescue her in a daring and deadly operati...

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020
as Self
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.

Adventure Force 5
2019
as Dr. Lawrence Abel
When their quiet beach town is invaded by a mysterious threat, five kids - a gamer, comic book geek, inventor, skater and martial artist - must band t...

Nappily Ever After
2018
as Richard Jones
After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.

High & Outside: A Baseball Noir
2018
as Sanzone
A minor league baseball player refuses to believe his career is over and takes desperate measures to keep his dream alive.

Heaven Sent
2016
as Donatello
As Christmas approaches, the end is near for Billy and Marie's marriage until an eight-year-old runaway angel from heaven takes it upon herself to rek...

Infinity Train
2016
as Atticus (voice)
In this non-canon pilot to the animated series 'Infinity Train', Tulip must learn to set her personal interests aside to make her way through a myster...

Spaceman
2016
as Joe
Story of former major league baseball pitcher Bill 'Spaceman' Lee following his release by the Montreal Expos.

Ghostbusters
2016
as Uncle Bill
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Pat...

Ghostheads
2016
as Self
A documentary that explores the extreme side of the Ghostbusters fandom. Join us as we travel the world meeting extreme Ghostbusters fans. Every Ghost...

God's Not Dead 2
2016
as Judge Stennis
When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the publ...

Batman: Bad Blood
2016
as Lucius Fox (voice)
Bruce Wayne is missing. Alfred covers for him while Nightwing and Robin patrol Gotham City in his stead and a new player, Batwoman, investigates Batma...

The Man in the Silo
2016
as Marcus Wells
Racial family conflict results in a horrific car accident that leaves Marcus Wells a successful African American executive, proud husband and father--...

Gallows Road
2015
as Bob Collins
Loss and heartbreak challenges one man to forgive the unforgivable.

Merry Ex-Mas
2014
as Pastor Ed
When misleading photos are published of security company chief Jessie Rogers purportedly caught in a love nest with his rock star client, his humiliat...

You're Not You
2014
as John
A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.

Touched
2014
as Dr. Beck
Acclaimed author and recluse Norma Boswell is reaching the end of her days. She has kept her terminal diagnosis secret from everyone around her, her h...

To Hell and Back
2014
as Joe
Joe Patterson (Ernie Hudson), a wealthy land developer, learns as God and the Devil take a wager on his blessed life that results in a series of trage...

The Grim Sleeper
2014
as Detective Gerry Claymar
Journalist Christine Pelisek helps law enforcement investigate the alleged serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.

Showing Up
2014
as Self
An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe ...

The Last Song
2014
as Guest
Ernie Hudson and Angie Kim star in this short film about a customer not wanting to leave a Karaoke Bar. A night without closure.

Dear Secret Santa
2013
as Pastor Avery
Beverly Hills banker/workaholic Jennifer comes home to her small Northern California town just before Christmas when her dad, Ted, takes a bad fall wh...

Doonby
2013
as Leroy Jackson
A handsome drifter, without a past, gets off an interstate bus in a small Texas town and finds work at Leroy's Country Blues Bar....and the mystery be...

Turning Point
2013
as Joe Johnson
A compelling drama of complacence, karma, moral justifications and redemption. A Nigerian-American playboy deals with the consequences after abandonin...

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
as Percy
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

Battledogs
2013
as Max Stevens
When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of super-sol...

Ambush at Dark Canyon
2012
as Cyrus Parker
U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery. After discovering that his partner is planning to kill his...

Deer Crossing
2012
as Captain Bailey
The film centers around retired police detective Derrick Stanswood (Mann), who is called by a successful doctor about an unsolved case involving his w...

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!
2012
as Pedro (voice)
When Papi, Chloe, the pups, Uncle Pedro, and their owners move to a hotel, the smallest pup Rosa feels like she doesn't fit in, and Papi wants to make...

The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy
2012
as Ivan Stumpwater
When a mythical device from ancient times is rebuilt by a group of Confederates who feel the civil war never ended, Mickey Matson and his newfound fri...

Beautiful People
2012
as Jack
TV movie from Stephen Hopkins

Underground Entertainment: The Movie
2011
as Ernie
On the 20th anniversary of their edgy little 90's cable show Underground Entertainment, the authors, along with many SF, horror and B celebrities in c...

Deep Blue Breath
2011
as Lord Vater (voice)
A boy goes into surgery and battles his disease, which has morphed into a monster in an animated world.

Game of Death
2011
as Clarence
CIA agent Marcus is sent undercover to Detroit to take out an arms dealer and the head of the hedge fund that is financing him. His CIA backup has oth...

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011
as Pedro
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challen...

Stasis
2010
as Stranger
In the future, an Ex-Soldier is placed in virtual exercises to cure his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In the simulations, he sees glimpses of a myst...

Machete Joe
2010
as Sheriff Taylor
A group of out-of-work actors decide to take their careers into their own hands by shooting a low-budget horror film, about an urban myth. With only 1...

Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
2010
as Anthony Vejar
Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins disp...
Meteor
2009
as Gen. Brasser
Following an unparalleled series of meteor fireballs plummeting toward Earth, a renowned scientist, his assistant, and an on-target conspiracy theoris...

Pastor Brown
2009
as Deacon Harold Todd
When her father unexpectedly falls terminally ill, exotic dancer Jessica "Jesse" Brown returns home for the first time in more than a decade. Her fath...

Dragonball Evolution
2009
as Master Mutaito
On his 18th birthday, Goku receives a mystical Dragonball as a gift from his grandfather. There are only six others like it in the whole world, and le...

Fatal Secrets
2009
as Detective Carter
An attractive woman enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a charming man with a secret background who has pushed her to the breaking po...

Lonely Street
2009
as Captain Morgan
Bubba Mabry, a gullible private detective, becomes the prime suspect in a tabloid reporter's murder after being hired to snoop on him by a mysterious ...

Final Approach
2008
as Agent Lorenzo Dawson
FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nigh...

All Hat
2007
as Jackson Jones
An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray Dokes...

Nobel Son
2007
as Sgt. Bill Canega
Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who ...

The Ron Clark Story
2006
as Principal Turner
Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the studen...

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006
as Roscoe
A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighbor...

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
as Blake Rische
Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on...
Halfway Decent
2005
as Tom
When his wife pressures him to have another child, Tom Black retreats from his marriage and takes a stab at living alone. But in light of his crumblin...

Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story
2005
as Perry Beasley
Based on a true story, former parole officer Marilyn Gambrell and a colleague set up a pioneer trial-based program in one of America's toughest high s...

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005
as Harry McDonald
After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sensation -- and the new "face of the FBI". But it's t...

Lackawanna Blues
2005
as Dick Barrymore
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he liv...

Confessions of an Action Star
2005
as Self / Commander
A 'mockumentary' on the rise and fall of Chip and Dales dancer turned martial arts action star, Francis Allen Sledgewick, AKA Frank Sledge. When fame ...

Clifford's Really Big Movie
2004
as P.T. (voice)
Fearing that he costs too much to feed, Clifford decides to join a traveling carnival so he can enter a talent contest in hopes of winning a lifetime ...

Anne B. Real
2003
as Principal
Anne B. Real is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.

A Town Without Christmas
2001
as Ted
In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child's letter to Santa Claus captures the nation's attention. When the little boy, Chris, writes that he wish...

Walking Shadow
2001
as Hawk
Spenser attends a play at his girlfriend's insistence to meet a director who is allegedly being stalked. During the performance, the lead actor in a h...

Miss Congeniality
2000
as Harry McDonald
When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at t...

Paper Bullets
2000
as Detective Ron Mills
Alcoholic cop John Rourke finds a trail of corruption after a gunman opens fire on a police conference.

Everything's Jake
2000
as Jake
A homeless man takes a newly homeless man under his wing and teaches him how to survive on the streets.

The Watcher
2000
as FBI Special Agent in Charge Mike Ibby
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. ...

Red Letters
2000
as Detective Glen Teal
A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.

Nowhere to Land
2000
as Danny Gorlin
A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.

A Stranger in the Kingdom
1999
as Rev. Walter Andrews
A Vermont town in the 1950s hires a new minister based on his war record, but are shocked, when he shows up, to find that he is black.

Shark Attack
1999
as Lawrence Rhodes
When an accidental death verdict is given on discovery of the remains of a top scientist, within the stomach of a hammerhead shark his closest friend ...

Interceptors
1999
as Major
In the near future the US Government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained for action in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A m...

Hijack
1999
as Senator Douglas Wilson
A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.

Michael Jordan: An American Hero
1999
Michael Jordan: An American Hero is an American television film that aired on April 18, 1999 on Fox. It stars Michael Jace as Michael Jordan.

Stealth Fighter
1999
as President Westwood
A navy pilot fakes his own death and steals a stealth fighter plane from a U.S.A.F base. He then acts as a mercenary, targeting military installations...

October 22
1998
as Arthur
A wounded man makes a desperate call, reporting that a gunman is holding a coffee shop hostage and shooting anyone he pleases -- but when the SWAT tea...

Butter
1998
as Curtis '8-Ball' Harris
Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. Th...

Best of the Best 4: Without Warning
1998
as Detective Gresko
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When...

Mr. Magoo
1997
as Agent CIA Gus Anders
Mr. Magoo, a man with terrible eyesight, gets caught up in a museum robbery.

Clover
1997
as Gaten Hill
Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, C...

Fakin' Da Funk
1997
as Joe Lee
Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee -- and Asian exchange student May-Ling, who is housed with a black fa...

Levitation
1997
as Downbeat
Sarah Paulson stars as a pregnant teenager who searches for her biological mother, with the help of a guardian angel.

Operation Delta Force
1997
as Major Tipton
A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.

The Cherokee Kid
1996
as Nat Love aka Deadwood Dick
Isaih Turner didn’t want to be a hero-all he wanted was revenge. Orphaned when both his parents were cruelly murdered by the wealthy and powerful Cyru...

Just Your Luck
1996
as Willie
Six million dollars suddenly goes up for grabs when an aged diner's heart fails after he discovers that he has won the lottery. Which of the remaining...

For Which He Stands
1996
as DEA Agent Baxter
To save his family he'll risk losing everything. Fame, fortune, his life... even his soul.

Tornado!
1996
as Dr. Joe Branson
An accountant sent to produce an evaluation of a tornado research project, and the scientist running the project pursue tornadoes and each other.

The Substitute
1996
as Claude Rolle
When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend g...

Congo
1995
as Captain Munro Kelly
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone bers...

The Basketball Diaries
1995
as Reggie
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Speechless
1994
as Ventura
In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for cand...

Airheads
1994
as Sergeant O'Malley
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold ...

The Cowboy Way
1994
as Officer Sam 'Mad Dog' Shaw
Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.

The Crow
1994
as Albrecht
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a...

No Escape
1994
as Hawkins
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle is...

Sugar Hill
1994
as Lolly Jonas
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner and brother to lead a straight life with his girl...

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1992
as Solomon
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize P...

Ghostbusters II
1989
as Winston Zeddemore
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

Collision Course
1989
as Shortcut
A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.

Leviathan
1989
as Justin Jones
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The cre...

Trapper County War
1989
as Jefferson Carter
A pair of city boys get in trouble with a backwoods North Carolina family, when the boys try to stop the abuse of the family's step daughter. A pair o...

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
1988
as Joe Hamilton
A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy within their midst, they're up against German warti...

The Wrong Guys
1988
as Dawson
Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group...

Weeds
1987
as Bagdad
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

The Last Precinct
1986
as Night Train
In this spoof of TV cop shows, which served as the pilot to the subsequent short-lived series, a bunch of bumbling misfits and rejects from the police...

Love on the Run
1985
as Lamar
A criminal lawyer goes on the run with her new lover — a convict she had as a client and whom she helped escape from prison.

California Girls
1985
as Ernie
A New Jersey auto mechanic travels to California to find the girl of his dreams and woos a bikini fashion model while the time quarreling with her hig...

Joy of Sex
1984
as Mr. Porter
Mistakenly believing that she has just weeks to live, teenager Leslie Hindenberg tries to lose her virginity before she dies.

Ghostbusters
1984
as Winston Zeddemore
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who...

Two of a Kind
1983
as Det. Skaggs
God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all over. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank t...

Women of San Quentin
1983
as Charles Wilson
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.

Going Berserk
1983
as Muhammed Jerome Willy
John Bourgignon, a drummer-chauffeur engaged to the daughter of a United States senator, encounters a sleazy film director, the leader of an aerobics ...

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
1983
as Washington
On a distant planet inhabited by mutants, two bounty hunters race to rescue three Earth female captives from the clutches of an evil warlord.

Penitentiary II
1982
as Half Dead
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his g...

Crazy Times
1981
as Harold 'Jazzman' Malloy
Follows the exploits of three teenage friends sharing the good times back at Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York during the summer of 1955.

A Matter of Life and Death
1981
as Mr. Harrison
The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients.

Underground Aces
1981
as African General
The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.

The Jazz Singer
1980
as Heckler
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

The Octagon
1980
as Quinine
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninj...

White Mama
1980
as Counsellor
A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial...

The $5.20 an Hour Dream
1980
as Homer Burden
A debt-ridden divorced mother and factory worker strives to get a higher-paying job on the traditionally all-male main assembly line.

Skag
1980
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life...

The Main Event
1979
as Killer
A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring — an idea h...

Joni
1979
as Earl
Based on Joni Eareckson's autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope with her new l...
Last of the Good Guys
1978
as El Coliph
Comedy-drama about a bunch of police rookies who conspire to convince their hard-nosed sergeant that a seriously ill fellow officer, two weeks away fr...

Mad Bull
1977
as Black Bart
An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has...

The Human Tornado
1976
as Bo
Dolemite comes to the rescue of Queen Bee, whose nightclub is threatened by the Mafia.

Leadbelly
1976
as Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of th...

Oswald: Down The Rabbit Hole
N/A
as Oswald Jebediah Coleman
Art and some of his closest friends help track down his long-lost family lineage. When they find his Great-Grandpa Oswald’s abandoned home, they end u...

Mr. Beebee
N/A
as Wayne Proctor
A small town Sheriff investigates the sudden disappearances of local children who all seem to share the same imaginary friend.
Deepest, Darkest
N/A
Deepest, Darkest is an anthology movie with each segment revolving around that most human of impulses: the keeping of secrets.

Famous
N/A
Lance Dunkquist has one asset that’s about to change his life—he has the face of a movie star. And not just any movie star—Lance is the spitting image...
Sisters in Italy
N/A
Two estranged sisters, after their mother’s death, are called to Italy to discover that their mom owned a bed and breakfast in the Italian countryside...