Paul Winfield

Paul Winfield (born May 22, 1939, Dallas, Texas, U.S.—died March 7, 2004, Los Angeles, California) was an American film and television actor who became widely known for his performance in the film Sounder (1972), which earned him an Oscar nomination. In an interview with author Dennis Brown that was published in 1999, Winfield said that he had been born in Dallas in 1939 and rejected the claim that he had been born in Los Angeles...