Paul Benjamin
Acting
Paul Benjamin (February 4, 1935 – June 28, 2019) was an American actor. 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 primarily did 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…
Filmography
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Occupy, Texas
2016
Ascension Day
2007
Back in the Day
2005
Deacons for Defense
2005
The Station Agent
2003
The Shield
2002
DMX: Angel
2001
Stanley's Gig
2000
Angel
1999
Last Rites
1999
The Breaks
1999
Hoodlum
1997
Rosewood
1997
Vanishing Point
1997
Drop Squad
1994
ER
1994
The Fence
1994
Back to the Streets of San Francisco
1992
The Super
1991
The Five Heartbeats
1991
Law & Order
1990
Do the Right Thing
1989
The Meeting
1989
Nuts
1987
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
1987
A Stranger Waits
1987
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
Night Heat
1985
Deadly Force
1983
Some Kind of Hero
1982
Gideon's Trumpet
1980
Knots Landing
1979
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
1978
Leadbelly
1976
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
Friday Foster
1975
Distance
1975
Starsky & Hutch
1975
Friendly Persuasion
1975
Police Woman
1974
The Education of Sonny Carson
1974
The Deadly Trackers
1973
Kojak
1973
Police Story
1973
Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
1973
Across 110th Street
1972
Born to Win
1971
The Anderson Tapes
1971
Midnight Cowboy
1969
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951