Paul Benjamin

Paul Benjamin (4 Februari 1935 – 28 Juni 2019) adalah seorang aktor Amerika. Benjamin lahir di Pelion, Carolina Selatan. Dia membuat debut filmnya pada tahun 1969 sebagai bartender di Midnight Cowboy. Setelah peran kecil dalam The Anderson Tapes karya Sidney Lumet, ia terutama melakukan pekerjaan televisi pada tahun 1970-an. Beberapa pengecualian penting adalah peran utama dalam Across 110th Street karya Barry Shear, dan bagian-bagian kecil dalam film biografi Leadbelly karya Gordon Parks, Friday Foster karya Arthur Marks, dan film penjara Escape from Alcatraz karya Don Siegel. Dia memberikan penampilan luar biasa dalam adaptasi TV dari I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings dan Gideon's Trumpet. Dia kemudian membintangi film HBO The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains, berdasarkan novel karya Robert E. Burns. Di layar lebar tahun 1990-an, Benjamin bekerja sama dengan beberapa sutradara ternama. Dia muncul di Do The Right Thing karya Spike Lee, The Five Heartbeats karya Robert Townsend, Hoodlum karya Bill Duke, dan Rosewood karya John Singleton. Di televisi, ia muncul dalam episode percontohan ER tahun 1994, yang menyebabkan perannya berulang sebagai tunawisma Al Ervin selama beberapa musim berikutnya. Benjamin juga mengerjakan film dokumenter American Masters karya penulis pemenang Hadiah Pulitzer, Ralph Ellison, yang ditayangkan di PBS. Setelah tahun 2000, ia muncul terutama dalam film-film independen kecil seperti Stanley's Gig, The Station Agent, Deacons For Defense, dan drama James Hunter tahun 2004 Back in the Day. Dia baru-baru ini membuat penampilan khusus dalam film independen The Talk Man, yang disutradarai oleh Gene Gallerano. Deskripsi di atas dari artikel Wikipedia Paul Benjamin, berlisensi CC-BY-SA, daftar lengkap kontributor di Wikipedia.

Paul Benjamin (February 4, 1935 – June 28, 2019) was 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.