Paul Winfield

About Paul Winfield

Who is it?: Actor
Birth Day: May 22, 1939
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, United States, United States
Died On: March 7, 2004(2004-03-07) (aged 64)\nLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Birth Sign: Gemini
Cause of death: Heart attack
Resting place: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills, California)
Other names: Paul E. Winfield
Alma mater: Manual Arts High School University of Portland Stanford University Los Angeles City College University of California, Los Angeles University of Hawaii University of California, Santa Barbara
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1965–2004
Partner(s): Charles Gillan, Jr. (1972–2002; Gillan's death)

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Paul Winfield was born on May 22, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, United States, United States, is Actor. Paul Edward Winfield was an American actor who was well known for the quality roles he portrayed in theatre, television and films. During his career that spanned across four decades, he got the opportunity to play several real life personalities, such as Roy Campanella, Martin Luther King, Jr., Don King and Thurgood Marshall. As a child he watched Mark Robson’s ‘Home of the Brave’, and the film motivated him to become a performer. He began his acting career in theatre, and later shifted to television and films. Though he seldom played the lead character, he managed to play significant roles in successful movies. He earned fame with his appearance in the revolutionary television series ‘Julia’. His talent earned him several prestigious awards and nominations. His unique voice allowed him to be part of voiceover projects for numerous cartoons like the ‘Batman Beyond’, ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘The Simpsons’. During his last years he was a narrator for the crime series ‘City Confidential’. He was a civil rights campaigner and was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.
Paul Winfield is a member of Voice Actors

💰Paul Winfield Net worth: $4 Million

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Biography/Timeline

1957

Winfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lois Beatrice Edwards, a union organizer in the garment industry. His stepfather from the age of eight was Clarence Winfield, a city trash collector and construction worker. He graduated from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles. From there, he attended the University of Portland, 1957–59; Stanford University, 1959; Los Angeles City College, 1959–63; University of California, Los Angeles, 1962–64; University of Hawaii, 1965 and the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1970-71.

1965

A life member of The Actors Studio, Winfield carved out a diverse career in film, television, theater and voiceovers by taking groundbreaking roles at a time when black actors were rarely cast. He first appeared in the 1965 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Runaway Racer," as Mitch, a race car mechanic. His first major feature film role was in the 1969 film The Lost Man starring Sidney Poitier. Winfield first became well-known to television audiences when he appeared for several years opposite Diahann Carroll on the groundbreaking television series Julia. Filmed during a high point of racial tensions in the United States, the show was unique in featuring a black female as the central character. He also starred as Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1978 miniseries King.

1973

In 1973, 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. Prior to their nominations, and Diana Ross for Lady Sings the Blues the same year with Winfield and Tyson, only three other black Americans – Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Poitier and James Earl Jones – had ever been nominated for a leading role. He also 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. Winfield played the part of “Jim the Slave” in Huckleberry Finn (1974) which was a musical based on the novel by Mark Twain. 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. Winfield also 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.

1984

Winfield also took on roles as homosexual characters in the films Mike's Murder in 1984 and again in 1998 in the film Relax...It's Just Sex. He found success off-camera due to his unique voice. He 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. In his voiceover career, he is perhaps best known as the narrator for the A&E true crime series City Confidential, a role he began in 1998 and continued with until his death in 2004. Throughout his career, Winfield frequently managed to perform in the theater. His only Broadway production, Checkmates, in 1988, co-starring Ruby Dee, was also the Broadway debut of Denzel Washington. He also appeared in productions at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. Winfield was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performances in King and Roots: The Next Generations. He 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.

1996

Winfield gained a new segment of fans for his brief but memorable roles in several science fiction television series and movies. He portrayed Starfleet Captain Clark Terrell of the USS Reliant, an unwilling minion of Khan Noonien Singh, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Lieutenant Ed Traxler, a friendly but crusty cop partnered with Lance Henriksen in The Terminator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1996, he was part of the 'name' ensemble cast in Tim Burton's comic homage to 1950s science fiction Mars Attacks!, playing the complacently self-satisfied Lt. General Casey. On the small screen Star Trek franchise, he appeared as an alien captain who communicates in metaphor in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Darmok". He also 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. He also portrayed the character of Julian Barlow in the television series 227 during its last two seasons.

2002

Winfield was gay, but remained discreet about it in the public eye. His partner of 30 years, Architect Charles Gillan Jr., died on March 5, 2002, of bone cancer. Winfield long battled obesity and diabetes. He died of a heart attack in 2004 at age 64, at Queen of Angels – Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. Winfield and Gillan are interred together at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.