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Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004) was an Academy Award-nominated American television and film actor. Winfield was openly gay in his private life, but remained discreet about in the public eye. He was best known for his portrayal of a Louisiana sharecropper who struggles to support his family during the Great Depression in the landmark film Sounder. Image File history File links ClarkTerrell2285. ...
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In the Star Trek science fiction universe, Clark Terrell ( ? - 2183) was a Captain in the United Federation of Planets Starfleet. ...
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Paramount Pictures, 1982; see also 1982 in film) is the second feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ...
May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ...
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ...
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Official language(s) English and French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans at last census; probably Baton Rouge since Hurricane Katrina Area Ranked 31st - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²) - Width 130 miles (210 km) - Length 379 miles (610 km) - % water 16 - Latitude 29°N to 33...
Sharecropping is a system of farming in which employee farmers work a parcel of land in return for a fraction of the parcels crops. ...
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn, starting in 1929 (although its effects were not fully felt until late in 1930) and lasting through most of the 1930s. ...
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Winfield was born in Los Angeles, California. He first became well-known to audiences when he appeared for several years opposite Diahann Carroll on the groundbreaking television series Julia. He also starred as Martin Luther King, Jr. in the miniseries King. In 1973, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Sounder (1972), becoming the third African American to ever earn a nomination for a leading role. The other two were Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier. Though it should be noted that Sounder co-star Cicely Tyson was also nominated that year for a leading role, for Best Actress. He appeared in the 2003 Disney-produced TV remake of Sounder. Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area - City 1,290. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
Diahann Carroll, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935) is an American actress and singer. ...
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Diahann Carroll as Julia, Fred Williamson as Steve in Julia Julia was a groundbreaking television series which was the first to show an African American main character in a non-stereotypical role. ...
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A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ...
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
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An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...
Dorothy Dandridge (1956) Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress. ...
Sidney Poitier Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor. ...
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Winfield also starred in more recent miniseries, including Roots: The Next Generations, Queen: The Story of an American Family and Scarlett. Queen: the story of an American family by Alex Haley and David Stevens is a partly factual historical novel which has served to bring back to the consciousness of many White Americans the plight of the Children of the Plantation - the offspring of black slave women and their white masters...
Scarlett was a novel written in 1991 by Alexandra Ripley as a sequel to Margaret Mitchells Gone with the Wind. ...
Winfield gained many fans for several of his brief but memorable roles in science fiction TV programs and movies. He was Captain Clark Terrell, an unwitting minion of Khan Noonien Singh, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and a friendly but crusty cop partnered with Lance Henriksen in The Terminator. On the small screen, he appeared as General Richard Franklin, father of regular character Dr. Stephen Franklin, on Babylon 5 and as an alien captain who communicates in metaphor in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Darmok." He also provided voices on the cartoons Spider-Man, The Magic School Bus, Batman Beyond, and The Simpsons, on the latter voicing the Don King parody Lucius Sweet. He was The Mirror on the TV show The Charmings, 1987 - 1988. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
In the Star Trek science fiction universe, Clark Terrell ( ? - 2183) was a Captain in the United Federation of Planets Starfleet. ...
Khan Noonien Singh is a villain in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Paramount Pictures, 1982; see also 1982 in film) is the second feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ...
Lance Henriksen (born May 5, 1940 in New York City) is an American actor, painter, and potter. ...
The Terminator (also known as Terminator in some early trailers and posters) is a 1984 science fiction-action film featuring body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger in what would become his best-known role. ...
Stephen Franklin, played by Richard Biggs, is a fictional doctor in the universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ...
Babylon 5 is an epic science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ...
In language, a metaphor (from the Greek: metapherin) is a rhetorical trope defined as a direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects. ...
The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ...
Darmok is an episode of the science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation. ...
A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ...
Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ...
The Magic School Bus was a series of childrens books intended to teach scientific concepts to children. ...
Batman Beyond (Batman of the Future in Europe, Latin America and Australia/New Zealand) was an American animated television series created by WB Network in collaboration with DC Comics as a continuation of the Batman legacy. ...
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox network. ...
Don King (born December 3, 1932), is a flamboyant American boxing promoter who has worked with some of the most famous boxers in the 20th century. ...
In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ...
Lucius Sweet Lucius Sweet is a fictional character on the television series The Simpsons. ...
The Charmings was a 1987–1988 television sitcom series. ...
His first major feature film role was The Lost Man (1969) starring Sidney Poitier . He appeared as gay characters in the films Mike's Murder (1984) and Relax...It's Just Sex (1998). Sidney Poitier Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor. ...
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He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance in the aforementioned 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. An Emmy Award. ...
An Emmy Award. ...
Picket Fences was a 60-minute drama which ran from 1992 to 1996 on the CBS television network in the United States. ...
Throughout his career, Winfield frequently managed to perform in the theater. His only Broadway production, Checkmates, was in 1988, and co-starred Ruby Dee and Denzel Washington, who was also making his Broadway debut. He also appeared in productions at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an African-American actress and activist. ...
Denzel Washington at premiere of The Hurricane, 2000 Berlinale, photo by Michael Weiner Denzel Jermaine Washington, Jr. ...
The Mark Taper Forum is a small (<1000 seats) theater-in-the-round (thrust stage) at the Los Angeles Music Center. ...
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a regional theatre company located in Washington, D.C., that has been called the nations foremost Shakespeare company[1]. It focuses primarily on plays from the Shakespeare canon, but its seasons include works by other classic playwrights such as Euripides, Henrik Ibsen and Oscar...
Winfield died of a heart attack in 2004. He was 64. At the time of his death, he was a narrator for the A&E show City Confidential. His long-time partner of 30 years, architect Charles Gillan Jr. died in 2002. A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Biography is one of A&Es longest-running and most popular programs. ...
Paul Winfield, the original narrator of City Confidential. ...
Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ...
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