
Paul Benjamin
Known for: Acting
Born: February 4, 1935
Died: June 28, 2019
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 fi…
Known for

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979

Distance
1975

Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
1973

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
1978

Ascension Day
2007

DMX: Angel
2001

The Meeting
1989

The Education of Sonny Carson
1974

Across 110th Street
1972

A Stranger Waits
1987

Stanley's Gig
2000

Last Rites
1999

The Station Agent
2003

Escape from Alcatraz
1979

The Deadly Trackers
1973

Back to the Streets of San Francisco
1992

Some Kind of Hero
1982

The Fence
1994

Leadbelly
1976

Friendly Persuasion
1975

The Super
1991

Vanishing Point
1997

Do the Right Thing
1989

Deacons for Defense
2005

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
1987

Friday Foster
1975

Occupy, Texas
2016

The Anderson Tapes
1971

Nuts
1987

Back in the Day
2005

Hoodlum
1997

Rosewood
1997

The Breaks
1999

Deadly Force
1983

Born to Win
1971

Gideon's Trumpet
1980

Midnight Cowboy
1969

Drop Squad
1994

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976

The Five Heartbeats
1991

The Shield
2002

Starsky & Hutch
1975

Angel
1999

Knots Landing
1979

Kojak
1973

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

ER
1994

Police Woman
1974

Police Story
1973

The Atlanta Child Murders
1985

Night Heat
1985

Law & Order
1990