Paul Benjamin
Acting
Born 1935-02-04
Died 2019-06-28
Pelion, South Carolina, USA
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
49 credits
Law & Order
ER
The Shield
American Playhouse
Angel
Knots Landing
Kojak
Midnight Cowboy
Escape from Alcatraz
Hoodlum
Do the Right Thing
The Station Agent
The Atlanta Child Murders
The Anderson Tapes
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Super
Across 110th Street
Nuts
The Breaks
Friday Foster
The Deadly Trackers
Vanishing Point
Rosewood
Born to Win
Some Kind of Hero
The Five Heartbeats
Gideon's Trumpet
Leadbelly
Back in the Day
Deadly Force
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Drop Squad
The Education of Sonny Carson
Deacons for Defense
Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
A Stranger Waits
Back to the Streets of San Francisco
Distance
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
Last Rites
Friendly Persuasion
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
Ascension Day
Stanley's Gig
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Occupy, Texas
The Meeting
DMX: Angel
The Fence
Other credits
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