Birthday
1938/02/04
Day of death
2019/06/28 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Pelion, South Carolina, USA
Also know as
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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 p...Read more
(1989) Do the Right Thing
as ML
(2003) The Station Agent
as Henry Styles
(1979) Escape from Alcatraz
as English
(1971) The Anderson Tapes
as Jimmy
(1976) Leadbelly
as Wes Ledbetter
(1974) The Education of Sonny Carson
as Pops
(2003) Deacons for Defense
as Otis
(1975) Friendly Persuasion
as Swan Stebeney
(1979) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
as Freeman
(1973) Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
as Lt. Valentine
(1987) The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
as Big Sam
(1980) Gideon's Trumpet
as Artis
(1978) One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
as John LeFlore
(1973) The Deadly Trackers
as Jacob
(2007) Ascension Day
as Sam
(2000) Stanley's Gig
as Teddy Branson
(1997) Hoodlum
as Whispers
(1992) Back to the Streets of San Francisco
as Henry Brown
(1983) Deadly Force
as Lester
(1969) Midnight Cowboy
as Bartender
(1997) Rosewood
as James Carrier
(1982) Some Kind of Hero
as Leon
(1975) Distance
as Sgt. Elwood Horne
(1972) Across 110th Street
as Jim Harris
(1999) The Breaks
as Clerk
(2005) Back in the Day
as Cody
(2001) DMX: Angel
as Minister
(1976) Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Ramsey
(1971) Born to Win
as Fixer
(1975) Friday Foster
as Senator David Lee Hart
(1987) A Stranger Waits
as Cooper
(1987) Nuts
as Harry Harrison
(1989) The Meeting
as Rashad
(2002) The Shield
as Perry
(1975) Starsky & Hutch
as ---
(1999) Angel
as Fellow Resident
(1979) Knots Landing
as Mr. Carter
(1973) Kojak
as Willie Daniels
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Arlis
(1994) ER
as Al Ervin
(1974) Police Woman
as ---
(1973) Police Story
as ---
(1985) The Atlanta Child Murders
as Homer Williams
(1985) Night Heat
as ---
(1990) Law & Order
as Lonnie Jackson