
Paul Benjamin
Known for ActingBorn 1935-02-04Died 2019-06-28Pelion, South Carolina, USA
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 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.Read more
Movies & web series
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DMX: Angel
2001 · Movie
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
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The Fence
1994 · Movie
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The Shield
2002 · Series
★ 8.0View details →
The Meeting
1989 · Movie
★ 7.9View details →
Angel
1999 · Series
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ER
1994 · Series
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Do the Right Thing
1989 · Movie
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The Station Agent
2003 · Movie
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Escape from Alcatraz
1979 · Movie
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976 · Movie
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Friendly Persuasion
1975 · Movie
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The Five Heartbeats
1991 · Movie
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Midnight Cowboy
1969 · Movie
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Law & Order
1990 · Series
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Starsky & Hutch
1975 · Series
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Kojak
1973 · Series
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A Stranger Waits
1987 · Movie
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Night Heat
1985 · Series
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Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
1973 · Movie
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Police Story
1973 · Series
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Knots Landing
1979 · Series
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The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
1987 · Movie
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Rosewood
1997 · Movie
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Deacons for Defense
2005 · Movie
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The Breaks
1999 · Movie
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Across 110th Street
1972 · Movie
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Hoodlum
1997 · Movie
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Last Rites
1999 · Movie
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Distance
1975 · Movie
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Nuts
1987 · Movie
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Stanley's Gig
2000 · Movie
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Gideon's Trumpet
1980 · Movie
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Police Woman
1974 · Series
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Leadbelly
1976 · Movie
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Back to the Streets of San Francisco
1992 · Movie
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One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
1978 · Movie
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The Super
1991 · Movie
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Occupy, Texas
2016 · Movie
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The Anderson Tapes
1971 · Movie
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Friday Foster
1975 · Movie
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The Deadly Trackers
1973 · Movie
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The Atlanta Child Murders
1985 · Series
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Vanishing Point
1997 · Movie
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The Education of Sonny Carson
1974 · Movie
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Some Kind of Hero
1982 · Movie
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Back in the Day
2005 · Movie
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Born to Win
1971 · Movie