
Known for
Acting
Born
February 4, 1935
Birthplace
Pelion, South Carolina, USA
Died
June 28, 2019 (aged 84)
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 Chain...
2016
as Mr. Goodman
2007
as Sam
2005
as Cody
2005
as Otis
2003
as Henry Styles
2002
2001
as Minister
2000
as Teddy Branson
1999
1999
as Fez
1999
as Clerk
1997
as Whispers
1997
as James Carrier
1997
as Mose, Snake Wrangler
1994
as Wellington Cosbie
1994
1994
as Del Reston
1992
as Henry Brown
1991
as Gilliam
1991
as Mr. King
1990
1989
as ML
1989
as Rashad
1987
as Harry Harrison
1987
as Big Sam