Was an American television, film, and stage 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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Movies
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Captain Clark Terrell
The Terminator
Lieutenant Ed Traxler
Hustle
Louis Belgrave
Presumed Innocent
Judge Larren Lyttle
Trouble Man
Chalky Price
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Lucien Celine
Mike's Murder
Phillip
Damnation Alley
Keegan
Cliffhanger
Walter Wright
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
Dr. Enkalla
Gordon's War
Gordon Hudson
Death Before Dishonor
Ambassador
White Dog
Keys
Carbon Copy
Bob Garvey
Blue City
Chief Luther Reynolds
Huckleberry Finn
Jim
Relax... It's Just Sex
Auntie Mahalia
83 Hours 'Til Dawn
Doctor Dantley
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Willis Powell
Big Shots
Johnnie Red
The Legend of Gator Face
Bob
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Butler
Brother John
Henry Birkardt
It's Good to Be Alive
Roy Campanella
High Velocity
R.P.M.
Steve Dempsey
The Lost Man
Orville Turner
Breathing Lessons
Daniel Otis
The Wish That Changed Christmas
Mr. Smith (voice)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Gabriel Grimes
Second to Die
Detective Grady
Dreams Don't Die
Charlie Banks
Irresistible Force
Commander Toole
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Conrack
Mad Billy
Original Gangstas
Reverend Dorsey
Sounder
Nathan Lee Morgan
Knockout
Ron Regent
Assignment Berlin
Al Spector
Tyson
Don King
The Greatest
Draft Lawyer
Under Siege
Andrew Simon
Green Eyes
Lloyd Dubeck
Angel City
Cy
The New Cinema
Self - Interviewer / Narrator
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Harold Williams
Dead of Night
Vernon
The Killing Jar
Judge
The Mighty Pawns
Mr. Wright
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
Papa Joe
Sister, Sister
Eddie Craven
Only the Ball Was White
Narrator
Strange Justice
Thurgood Marshall
Strategic Command
Rowan
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
George Hairston
Sounder
The Teacher
White Dwarf
Dr. Akada
Dennis the Menace
Chief of Police
March to Freedom
Narrator
Vegas, City of Dreams
Edgar Jones
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
Horace
Mars Attacks!
General Casey
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
The Old Man
The Perils of Pauline
African Servant
The Unfinished Journey
Narrator (voice)
On the Run
Harry
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
The Assassination File
Senator Alan Laskey
The Women of Brewster Place
Sam Michael
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Jim Watson
Who's Minding the Mint?
Garbage Man
Shows
The Simpsons
Lucius Sweet (voice)
227
Julian C. Barlow
The Charmings
The Mirror
Roots: The Next Generations
Dr. Horace Huguley
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Captain Dathon
Spider-Man
Omar Mosley / Black Marvel (voice)
Babylon 5
Gen. Richard Franklin
Julia
Paul Cameron
Scarlett
Alex Haley's Queen
Cap'n Jack
Built to Last
The Sophisticated Gents
Richard 'Bubbles' Wiggins
King
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Baseball
Various (voice)
The Blue and the Gray
Jonathan Henry
Backstairs at the White House
Emmett Rogers Sr.
Crossing Jordan
Dr. Phillip Sanders
Murder, She Wrote
Starkey
Batman: The Animated Series
Earl Cooper (voice)
Nichols
Eddie Joe
The Name of the Game
Barada
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Father (voice)
Batman Beyond
Sam Young (voice)
Gargoyles
Jeffrey Robbins (voice)
The Magic School Bus
(voice)
Perry Mason
Mitch
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The Fall Guy
Bert Perkins
Mission: Impossible
Klaus