Paul Winfield is an American broad-based actor

Paul Winfield is an American broad-based actor: theater, film, television and film scoring. Usually such diversity does not benefit the actor if he tries to excel at once in several genres. As a result, the quality of work leaves much to be desired in all his endeavors, but Paul Winfield some miracle managed to cope with all of his characters. In any case, the directors were always happy. However, Paul Winfield also had a weak spot: he could not restructure during one day of shooting from a comedic character to a dramatic one. The producers knew this and tried to build roles for Paul in a certain order - dramatic separately, comedy - separately.

Paul Winfield: Biography

The actor was born in Los Angeles, May 22, 1939. He was brought up by a single mother. Paul's foster father, Clarence Winfield, a simple worker, garbage collector, appeared in the family when the boy was already eight years old. He gave his child his name.

Paul Winfield received his secondary education at the Los Angeles school, and higher education at several universities, the last of which were Stanford and California. And the main and most significant in terms of obtaining knowledge was Portland. Exam Paul had to endure only one, in the last university.

First Shooting

To shoot Paul Winfield began on television, performing several small roles in the series "Perry Mason." And on the big screen first appeared in some low-budget film, where his name was not even indicated in the credits. This was in 1967.

In 1969, Paul Winfield received the first prominent role in the film "Lost". Despite the fact that the television character remained unnoticed, the actor had to rebuild to play on the big screen. Then Paul went to the theater for a long time. For several years he played in various theatrical performances, but on Broadway he acted as a performer in only one production called "The Complete Crash", 1988. After this performance, Winfield again returned to the big cinema.

Activities of the actor

During his career, the actor was filming quite a lot. Paul Winfield, whose filmography numbers more than thirty films, forty-two television series and voice acting of six multi-episode animated films, worked actively. Below is a short list of films with his participation. Paul Winfield, films with which participation have already found the audience, tried to strengthen the reputation.

• "The Difficult Man" (1972), the role of Chuckey Price.
• "Saunder" (1972), the role of Nathan Lee Morgan.
• "Conrak" (1974), The Mad Billy.
• "Huckleberry Finn" (1974), the role of the fugitive slave Jim.
• "Dirty business" (1975), Sergeant Louis Belgrave.
• "The Damned Valley" (1977), the role of Kigan.
• "The Last Reflection of Twilight" (1977), Willis Powell.
• "Copy in the negative" (1981), the role of Bob Garvey.
• "White Dog" (1982), the role of Keith.
• "Terminator" (1984), the role of Lieutenant Ed Trexler.
• "Blue City" (1986), Luther Reynolds.
• "Major Specialists" (1987), the role of Johnny Reda.
• "The Serpent and the Rainbow" (1988), Celine.
• "The presumption of innocence" (1990), the role of Larren Little.
• "Climber" (1993), Walter Wright.
• "Dennis the tormentor" (1993), the role of police commissioner.
• "Hot City" (1996), Reverend Dorsey.
• "Mars attacks" (1996), the role of General Casey.
• "Vegas is a city of dreams" (2001), Edgar Jones.
• "Second to Death" (2002), the role of Detective Grady.

Roles on TV

• "Perry Mason" (1971), the role of Mitch.
• "Daktari" (1966), the role of Kimba.
• "Roots" (1979), Dr. Horatio Hugi.
• "Gray and blue" (1982), the role of Jonathan Henry.
• "Family affairs" (1991), the role of Jimmy Bayens.
• "Star Trek" (1991), the role of Captain Daton.
• "White Dwarf" (1995), Dr. Akada.
• "Second Noah" (1996), the role of Ramses.
• "Investigation of Jordan" (2002), Philip Sanders.

Voice acting

• "Fairy-tale stories for all children" (1995), the role of the Father.
• "Gargoyles" (1996), Jeffrey Robbins.
• "The Magic School Bus" (1996), Mr. Ruhl.
• "The Simpsons" (1998), Lucius.
• "Spider-Man" (1997), Omar Mosley.
• "Batman" (2000), Sam Young.

Awards

1. Nomination for "Oscar" in the category "The most notable male role" in the movie "Saunder".
2. Award "Emmy" in the nomination "One of the best male roles" in the film "Martin Luther King."
3. Prime Time Prize "Emmy", nomination "The most notable male role" in the miniseries "Roots".
4. In 1982, the Image Award, the nomination "Best actor of a TV movie, drama or series."
5. 1995 - prime-time prize "Emmy" for the best guest actor in the drama-psychological series "Fencing wardens".
6. In 1997 - the Emmy prize in the nomination "The best participation in children's films" Legendary narrative about the man-alligator. "
7. In 1999 - "Lifetime reward for special achievements in the profession." Place of delivery - film festival in St. Louis.
8. In 2004 - the Award in the nomination "The Best Actor of Television of the Second Plan". The film "Saunder".

Personal life

Winfield Paul never had a family, he did not have a wife and children. He was an open homosexual and did not hide it. For a long time he was in intimate contact with a certain Charles Jilann, an architect who died in 2002 from a bone disease.

Paul Winfield survived his partner for only two years. Recently, the actor suffered from diabetes and obesity. On May 7, 2004, he died suddenly from an extensive heart attack and was buried in the Hollywood Hills cemetery.