Paul Edward Winfield was an American stage, film and television actor.
22 Facts About Paul Winfield
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Paul Winfield 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.
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Paul Winfield received four Emmy nominations overall, winning in 1995 for his 1994 guest role in Picket Fences.
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Paul Winfield was the son of Lois Beatrice Edwards, a single mother who was a union organizer in the garment industry.
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Paul Winfield graduated from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles.
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Paul Winfield first appeared in the 1965 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Runaway Racer," as Mitch, a race car mechanic.
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Paul Winfield first became well known to television audiences when he appeared for several years opposite Diahann Carroll on the groundbreaking television series Julia.
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In 1973, Paul Winfield was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1972 film Sounder, and his co-star in that film, Cicely Tyson, was nominated for Best Actress.
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Paul Winfield appeared, in a different role, in the 2003 Disney-produced television remake of Sounder, which was directed by Kevin Hooks, his co-star from the original.
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Paul Winfield played the part of "Jim the Slave" in Huckleberry Finn which was a musical based on the novel by Mark Twain.
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Paul Winfield would recall late in his career that as a young actor he had played one of the two leads in Of Mice and Men in local repertory, made up in whiteface, since a black actor playing it would have been unthinkable.
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Paul Winfield starred in miniseries, including Scarlett, and two based on the works of novelist Alex Haley: Roots: The Next Generations and Queen: The Story of an American Family.
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Paul Winfield gained a new segment of fans for his brief but memorable roles in several science fiction television series and movies.
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Paul Winfield portrayed starship Starfleet Captain Terrell, an unwilling minion of the villain Khan, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Lieutenant Ed Traxler, a friendly but crusty cop partnered with Lance Henriksen in The Terminator.
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Paul Winfield appeared in the second season Babylon 5 episode "Gropos" as General Richard Franklin, the father of regular character Dr Stephen Franklin, and on the fairy tale sitcom The Charmings as The Evil Queen's wise-cracking Magic Mirror.
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Paul Winfield portrayed the character of Julian Barlow in the television series 227 during its last two seasons.
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Paul Winfield took on roles as homosexual characters in the films Mike's Murder in 1984 and again in 1998 in the film Relax.
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Paul Winfield found success off-camera due to his unique voice.
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Paul Winfield provided voices on the cartoons Spider-Man, The Magic School Bus, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, Batman Beyond, Gargoyles, K10C, and The Simpsons, on the latter voicing the Don King parody Lucius Sweet.
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Paul Winfield appeared in productions at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC Winfield was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performances in King and Roots: The Next Generations.
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Paul Winfield won an Emmy Award, in 1995, for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, for his appearance as Judge Harold Nance in an episode of the CBS drama Picket Fences.
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Paul Winfield was gay, but remained discreet about it in the public eye.