Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
2/4/1935
Place of Birth
Pelion, South Carolina, USA
Paul Benjamin
Biography
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 Ca...
Known For
Rosewood
as James Carrier
Escape from Alcatraz
as English
The Station Agent
as Henry Styles
The Five Heartbeats
as Mr. King
Hoodlum
as Whispers
The Breaks
as Clerk
Deadly Force
as Lester
Friday Foster
as Senator David Lee Hart
The Anderson Tapes
as Jimmy
Some Kind of Hero
as Leon
The Deadly Trackers
as Jacob
Nuts
as Harry Harrison
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
as Big Sam
Across 110th Street
as Jim Harris
Friendly Persuasion
as Swan Stebeney
Born to Win
as Fixer
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Ramsey
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
as Freeman
Midnight Cowboy
as Bartender
Back in the Day
as Cody