Ernie Hudson

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Ernie Hudson
Hudson signing autographs at AdventureCon 2008.
Born	December 17, 1945 (1945-12-17) (age 63) Benton Harbor, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, Playwright, Producer
Years active	1976–present
Spouse(s)	Jeannie Moore (1963-1976) Linda Kingsberg (1985-present)

Ernest Lee "Ernie" Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. He is arguably best known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters film series, Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz and Sergeant Albrecht in the cult movie The Crow.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Hudson was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the son of Maggie Donald,^[1] who died of tuberculosis when Hudson was two months old; Hudson never knew his father. He was subsequently raised by his maternal grandmother, Arrana Donald.^[2] He has a half-brother, Lewis Hudson. After a short time in the Marine Corps, he moved to Detroit where he became the resident playwright at Concept East, the oldest Black Theatre company in the country. In addition, he enrolled at Wayne State University to further develop his writing and acting skills, and found time to establish the Actors' Ensemble Theatre where he and other talented young black writers directed and appeared in their own works, before enrolling and subsequently graduating from Yale School of Drama.^[2]

[edit] Career

One of Hudson's early films was in Penitentiary in the late 1970s starring Leon Isaac Kennedy. Hudson played Winston Zeddemore, a firefighter who enlists with the Ghostbusters in the 1984 film Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel (he auditioned to reprise the role for the animated series but lost to Arsenio Hall), as well as Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz. On Oz, his son Ernie Hudson Jr. co-starred with him as Muslim inmate Hamid Khan. He appeared as the character Munro in Congo, and he starred in the 1994 film The Crow as Sergeant Albrecht. He switched gears when he played a preacher opening the eyes of a small town prejudice in the 50s in Stranger in the Kingdom. He is also known as Harry McDonald, the FBI superior of Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality. He was also in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Ethon" as Pernaux. He had a major supporting role as the mentally challenged Solomon in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. He was on the TV series Fantasy Island as a voodoo man named Jamu in season 1. Hudson also appeared as Reggie in the film Basketball Diaries alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. He is to play the role of Master Mutaito in the 2009 movie Dragonball Evolution.

[edit] Filmography

The handprints of Hudson in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.

• Leadbelly (1976)
• The Human Tornado (1976) .... Bo (as Louis Hudson)
• King (1978) (TV mini-series) .... Jack Corbin
• Fantasy Island (1978) (TV) (episode: Family Reunion/Voodoo) .... Jamu
• The Main Event (1979) .... Killer
• The Octagon (1980) .... Quinine
• The Jazz Singer (1980) .... Heckler
• A Matter of Life and Death (1981) (TV) .... Mr. Harrison
• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) .... Washington
• Two of a Kind (1983) .... Det. Skaggs
• Ghostbusters (1984) .... Winston Zeddemore
• Joy of Sex (1984) .... Mr. Porter
• St. Elsewhere (1984) (TV) .... Jerry Close
• The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (1985) (TV) .... Cyborg (Victor Stone)
• Leviathan (1989) .... Justin Jones
• Collision Course (1989) .... Shortcut
• Ghostbusters II (1989) .... Winston Zeddemore
• Angel Street (1992) (TV) .... Thurman Nickens
• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) .... Solomon
• The Ben Stiller Show (1992) (TV) .... The Tennis Captain
• Wild Palms (1993) (TV mini-series).... Tommy Lazlo
• Tales from the Crypt (1993) (TV) .... Zambini
• Sugar Hill (1994) .... Lolly Jonas
• No Escape (1994) .... Hawkins
• The Crow (1994) .... Sergeant Albrecht
• The Cowboy Way (1994) .... Officer Sam 'Mad Dog' Shaw
• Airheads (1994) .... Sergeant O'Malley
• Speechless (1994) .... Ventura
• The Basketball Diaries (1995) .... Reggie
• Congo (1995) .... Captain Munro Kelly
• The Substitute (1996) .... Principal Claude Rolle
• Tornado! (1996) (TV) .... Dr. Joe Branson
• Fakin' Da Funk (1997) .... Joe Lee
• Mr. Magoo (1997) .... Agent Gus Anders, CIA
• Never too Big (1998) ....Curtis "8 Ball" Harris
• Levitation (1997) ....Downbeat
• Shark Attack (1999) .... Lawrence Rhodes
• The Last Siege (1999) .... Senator Douglas Wilson
• Stealth Fighter (1999) .... President Westwood
• The Watcher (2000) .... Ibby
• Miss Congeniality (2000) .... FBI Asst. Director Harry McDonald
• Everything's Jake (2000) .... Jake
• Oz (1997-2003) (TV) .... Warden Leo Glynn
• Anne B. Real (2003) .... Principal Davis
• 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003) (TV) .... Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes
• Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004) (voice) .... P.T.
• Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005) .... Blake Rische
• Lackawanna Blues (2005) (TV) .... Dick Barrymore
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) .... FBI Asst. Director Harry McDonald
• Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story (2005) .... Perry Beasley
• Hood of Horror (2006) .... Roscoe
• The Ron Clark Story (2006) .... Principal Turner
• Desperate Housewives (2006-2007) (TV) .... Detective Ridley
• Nobel Son (2007) .... Lasasso
• The Man in the Silo (2008) .... Marcus Wells
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008) (TV) .... Dr. Ken Fields
• Private Practice (2008) (TV) .... Captain Frank
• Balancing the Books (2008) .... Detective Carter
• Meteor: Path to Destruction (2009) .... Gen. Brasser
• Dragonball Evolution (2009) .... Sifu Norris
• Lonely Street (2009) .... Capt. Morgan
• Machete Joe (2009) .... Sheriff Taylor
• Pastor Brown (2009) .... Deacon Harold Todd
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009) (voice) .... Winston Zeddemore
• Smokin' Aces Blowback(2009) ... Anthony Vejar

[edit] References

Ghostbusters 3

[edit] External links

• Ernie Hudson at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview (March 2008) with Ernie Hudson, by Matthew Waldram
• Ernie Hudson interviewed by Julian De Backer