1. 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.
21 Facts About Paul Winfield
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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 became well known to TV audiences when he appeared in several seasons of the groundbreaking television series Julia opposite Diahann Carroll.
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In 1973, Paul Winfield was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1972 film Sounder,; his co-star, Cicely Tyson, was nominated for Best Actress.
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Paul Winfield appeared in a different role in the 2003 Disney-produced TV remake of Sounder directed by Kevin Hooks, his co-star from the original.
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Paul Winfield played "Jim the Slave" in Huckleberry Finn, a musical based on the Mark Twain novel.
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Paul Winfield would recall later in his career that as a young actor he had played one of the leads in a local repertory production of Of Mice and Men in whiteface - at the time, a black actor playing the role would have been unthinkable.
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Paul Winfield starred in several 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 films.
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Paul Winfield portrayed Starfleet starship 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 wisecracking Magic Mirror.
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Paul Winfield portrayed Julian Barlow in the last two seasons of the TV series 227.
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Paul Winfield took on roles as homosexual characters in the films Mike's Murder in 1984 and the 1998 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 for Spider-Man, The Magic School Bus, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, Gargoyles, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, K10C, and The Simpsons, 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 He was nominated for an Emmy Award for King and Roots: The Next Generations.
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In 1995, Paul Winfield won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his appearance as Judge Harold Nance in the CBS drama Picket Fences.
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Paul Winfield was gay, but remained discreet about it in the public eye.