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Paul Benjamin

Paul Benjamin

Paul Benjamin (born 1938) is an American actor. Benjamin was born in Pelion, South Carolina. He made his film debut in 1969 as a bartender in Midnight Cowboy. After a small role in Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes, he did extensive television work in the 1970s. A few notable exceptions were a major role in Barry Shear's Across 110th Street, and smaller parts in Gordon Parks' biopic Leadbelly, Arthur Marks' Friday Foster, and Don Siegel's prison film Escape from Alcatraz. He gave exceptional performances in the TV adaptations of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and Gideon's Trumpet. He later starred in the HBO movie The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains, based on the novel by Robert E. Burns. On the big screen in the 1990s, Benjamin worked with some well known directors. He appeared in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, Robert Townsend's The Five Heartbeats, Bill Duke's Hoodlum, and John Singleton's Rosewood. On television, he appeared in the 1994 pilot episode of ER, which led to his recurring role of homeless man Al Ervin during the next few seasons. Benjamin also worked on the American Masters documentary of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ralph Ellison, which aired on PBS. After 2000, he appeared primarily in small independent films like Stanley's Gig, The Station Agent, Deacons For Defense, and James Hunter's 2004 drama Back in the Day. He recently made a special appearance in the independent film The Talk Man, directed by Gene Gallerano. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Benjamin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal information

Birthday

1938-02-04

Birth Place

Pelion, South Carolina, USA

Movies and TV shows :

A Stranger Waits

A Stranger Waits

1987

5.0

Movie
Across 110th Street

Across 110th Street

1972

6.8

Movie
poster

Angel

1999

7.9

TV
Ascension Day

Ascension Day

2007

0.0

Movie
Back in the Day

Back in the Day

2005

5.1

Movie
Back to the Streets of San Francisco

Back to the Streets of San Francisco

1992

5.3

Movie
Born to Win

Born to Win

1971

5.3

Movie
Deacons for Defense

Deacons for Defense

2003

6.1

Movie
Deadly Force

Deadly Force

1983

5.1

Movie
Distance

Distance

1975

5.0

Movie
DMX: Angel

DMX: Angel

2001

0.0

Movie
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

1989

7.8

Movie
poster

ER

1994

7.8

TV
Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz

1979

7.5

Movie
Friday Foster

Friday Foster

1975

5.9

Movie
Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion

1975

0.0

Movie
Gideon's Trumpet

Gideon's Trumpet

1980

6.2

Movie
poster

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

8.7

TV
Hoodlum

Hoodlum

1997

6.4

Movie
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1979

3.7

Movie
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

1976

6.0

Movie
poster

Knots Landing

1979

6.8

TV
poster

Kojak

1973

6.9

TV
poster

Law & Order

1990

7.4

TV
Leadbelly

Leadbelly

1976

6.2

Movie
Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy

1969

7.5

Movie
Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside

Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside

1973

0.0

Movie
poster

Night Heat

1985

6.6

TV
Nuts

Nuts

1987

6.3

Movie
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

1978

5.5

Movie
poster

Police Story

1973

7.1

TV
poster

Police Woman

1974

6.2

TV
Rosewood

Rosewood

1997

6.5

Movie
Some Kind of Hero

Some Kind of Hero

1982

5.5

Movie
Stanley's Gig

Stanley's Gig

2000

5.8

Movie
poster

Starsky & Hutch

1975

7.2

TV
The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes

1971

6.1

Movie
poster

The Atlanta Child Murders

1985

5.9

TV
The Breaks

The Breaks

1999

6.4

Movie
The Deadly Trackers

The Deadly Trackers

1973

5.6

Movie
The Education of Sonny Carson

The Education of Sonny Carson

1974

4.9

Movie
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

1987

6.6

Movie
The Meeting

The Meeting

1989

0.0

Movie
poster

The Shield

2002

8.1

TV
The Station Agent

The Station Agent

2003

7.3

Movie