Paul Winfield
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 10.242 |
Birthday | 1939-05-22 |
Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Also Known As | Paul Edward Winfield, Paul E. Winfield, Пол Уинфилд, |
1982
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
7.4/1911
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1984
The Terminator
7.7/13208
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Con...
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The Terminator
1989
The Women of Brewster Place
6.9/16
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
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The Women of Brewster Place
1975
Hustle
5.7/58
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...
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Hustle
1990
Presumed Innocent
6.8/685
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...
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Presumed Innocent
1972
Trouble Man
6.2/32
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...
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Trouble Man
1984
Mike's Murder
5.6/24
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...
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Mike's Murder
1988
The Serpent and the Rainbow
6.379/501
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...
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
1977
Damnation Alley
5.1/97
Following World War III, four survivors at an desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where...
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Damnation Alley
1993
Cliffhanger
6.5/2358
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...
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Cliffhanger
1973
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
5.077/26
A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.
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The Horror at 37,000 Feet
1972
Sounder
7.4/48
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...
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Sounder
1973
Gordon's War
5.7/3
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...
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Gordon's War
1987
Death Before Dishonor
4.4/14
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...
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Death Before Dishonor
1982
White Dog
6.665/261
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
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White Dog
1995
Tyson
6.109/46
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...
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Tyson
1981
Carbon Copy
5.713/54
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...
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Carbon Copy
1986
Blue City
4.9/26
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...
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Blue City
1974
Huckleberry Finn
5.9/12
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...
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Huckleberry Finn
1998
Relax... It's Just Sex
6.1/20
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...
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Relax... It's Just Sex
1990
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
6.7/9
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.
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83 Hours 'Til Dawn
1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
6.4/61
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...
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
1987
Big Shots
6.3/13
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...
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Big Shots
1996
The Legend of Gator Face
4.375/8
Small-town Mississippians overreact to the appearance of a mythical swamp monster, partially the work of teen hoaxers.
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The Legend of Gator Face
1977
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
5.9/8
A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
1971
Brother John
6.3/12
An enigmatic man returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.
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Brother John
2000
Knockout
2.8/4
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...
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Knockout
1999
The Unfinished Journey
6/2
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.
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The Unfinished Journey
1974
It's Good to Be Alive
6.6/4
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile...
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It's Good to Be Alive
1970
R.P.M.
6.3/9
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...
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R.P.M.
1969
The Lost Man
4/3
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."
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The Lost Man
1994
Breathing Lessons
5.4/5
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
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Breathing Lessons
1991
The Wish That Changed Christmas
7.2/4
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...
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The Wish That Changed Christmas
1985
Go Tell It on the Mountain
5/4
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...
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
2002
Second to Die
3.7/6
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...
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Second to Die
1990
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
6.1/19
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.
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Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1982
Dreams Don't Die
6.2/6
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...
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Dreams Don't Die
1983
On the Run
0/0
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...
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On the Run
1998
Assignment Berlin
4/1
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...
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Assignment Berlin
1993
Irresistible Force
5.5/11
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...
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Irresistible Force
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
7/9
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...
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1983
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
0/0
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...
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1967
Who's Minding the Mint?
7/10
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...
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Who's Minding the Mint?
1974
Conrack
6.662/34
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor...
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Conrack
1996
Original Gangstas
5.6/30
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...
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Original Gangstas
1977
The Greatest
5.6/18
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...
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The Greatest
1986
Under Siege
7.5/2
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...
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Under Siege
1996
The Assassination File
5/2
An ex-FBI agent gradually uncovers the nature of a conspiracy behind the death of a black presidential candidate
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The Assassination File
1977
Green Eyes
0/0
Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.
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Green Eyes
1980
Angel City
6/2
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.
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Angel City
1968
The New Cinema
0/0
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while...
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The New Cinema
1995
In the Flesh
0/0
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...
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In the Flesh
1976
High Velocity
0/0
Ben Gazzara and Paul Winfield play Vietnam veterans turned mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kidnapped executive.
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High Velocity
1999
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
5.4/9
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited wi...
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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
1996
Dead of Night
3/2
As a vampire searches for his deceased wife, a homicide detective is hot on his trail.
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Dead of Night
1994
The Killing Jar
2.5/2
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...
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The Killing Jar
1987
The Mighty Pawns
6/1
Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.
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The Mighty Pawns
1982
Sister, Sister
0/0
Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.
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Sister, Sister
1995
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
3.5/2
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...
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In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
1980
Only the Ball Was White
0/0
Throughout the 1900's, before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1946, black baseball talent blossomed in the Negro Leagues. Baseball b...
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Only the Ball Was White
1999
Strange Justice
6/1
"Fact-based story about the sexual harassment suit filed by Anita Hill during the appointment trials of Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court during t...
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Strange Justice
1997
Strategic Command
5.3/15
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...
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Strategic Command
1987
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
0/0
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...
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Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
2003
Sounder
7/2
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...
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Sounder
1995
White Dwarf
5.9/9
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...
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White Dwarf
1993
Dennis the Menace
5.8/1450
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...
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Dennis the Menace
1999
March to Freedom
0/0
Three war veterans tell about their experiences with racism in World War Two.
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March to Freedom
2001
Vegas, City of Dreams
2.3/3
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...
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Vegas, City of Dreams
1996
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
0/0
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...
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Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
1996
Mars Attacks!
6.411/5391
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...
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Mars Attacks!
1995
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
2/1
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...
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Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
1967
The Perils of Pauline
4.3/3
Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.
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