Paul Winfield

Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 - March 7, 2004) 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...

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...World of Disney aired a new film adaptation, reuniting two actors from the original. Kevin Hooks directed and Paul Winfield played the role of the teacher. Winfield and Hooks played father and son, respectively, in the original version.

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...P. Jacobs (well-known for his role in the production of the Planet of the Apes '' films) and starred Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn and Paul Winfield as Jim . The film contains original music and songs, such as ''Freedom and Cairo, Illinois, by...

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...aired a new film adaptation, reuniting two actors from the original. Kevin Hooks directed and Paul Winfield played the role of the teacher. (Winfield and Hooks played father and son, respectively, in the original version.) Academy Award...

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...folks on the block, and knows how to tell the good guys from the bad guys on either side of the law. T is approached by Chalky (Paul Winfield) and his partner, Pete (Ralph Waite), who run a floating dice game in the neighborhood. Chalky...

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Though other biographical films have been made about King (including the 1978 television miniseries "King," which starred Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson), DreamWorks said this was the first such project about him to be officially...

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...dog, and it is later identified as a "white dog," specifically programmed to attack - and kill - black people. So a black trainer (Paul Winfield) makes it his mission to deprogram the dog. Later, when the animal escapes and kills someone in a...

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...even kill black people. McNichol takes the dog to an animal reserve run by kindly old Burl Ives, where hard-nosed animal trainer Paul Winfield embarks on a passionate crusade to break the dog of its hateful conditioning. White Dog cannily...

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...re-educate the dog, has been substantially altered. In the novel, he retrains the dog to attack whites; the trainer in the film (Paul Winfield) is a nobler figure, driven to cure the savage beast, whose racism he views not as something to be...

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By the time of Paul Winfield's death, black actors were a common sight on TV and in movies. They owe their jobs to predecessors like Winfield, who led the way by distinguishing himself in ground-breaking roles. Paul Winfield was only the...

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