Ernie Hudson Biography

Birthday: 1945-12-17
Place of Birth: Benton Harbor, Michigan USA
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Wiki Biography: As a child growing up in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Ernie Hudson wrote short stories, poems and songs, always thinking that his words might one day come to life on stage. After a short stint in the Marine Corps, he moved to Detroit where he became the resident playwright at Concept East, the oldest black theatre 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' Emsemble Theatre, where he and other talented young black writers directed and appeared in their own works. After graduating with a B.A. from Wayne State, he was rewarded a full scholarship to the M.F.A. program at the prestigious Yale School of Drama. While performing with the school's repertory company, he was asked to appear in the Los Angeles production of Lonne Elder III's musical "Daddy Goodness," which led to his meeting Gordon Parks, who gave Hudson the costarring role in his first feature film, Leadbelly (1976). Unfortunately, all that followed "Leadbelly" was a year of "bit parts and some harsh lessons about Hollywood," which led Hudson to enroll in another academic program at the University of Minnesota that would lead to a Ph.D. Through his experience, he learned another vital lesson: "There are those who spend their lives studying it and those who spend their lives doing it." Hudson definitely wanted to be in the second group. Keeping in mind this self-revelation, Hudson accepted the starring role of Jack Jefferson in the Minneapolis Theatre In The Round's production of "The Great White Hope," a role that he put "everything he had into," including shaving his head. A series of starring and guest roles followed on such television shows as "Fantasy Island" (1977), "The Incredible Hulk" (1978), "Little House on the Prairie" (1974), "Diff'rent Strokes" (1978), "Taxi" (1978), "One Day at a Time" (1975), "Gimme a Break!" (1981), "The A-Team" (1983) and "Webster" (1983), as well as costarring roles in the TV movies White Mama (1980) (TV) with Bette Davis, "Roots: The Next Generations" (1979), Women of San Quentin (1983) (TV), California Girls (1985) (TV), Mad Bull (1977) (TV) and Love on the Run (1985) (TV). Other feature film credits include The Jazz Singer (1980), The Main Event (1979), Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), Penitentiary II (1982), Going Berserk (1983), Joy of Sex (1984) and, of course, the mega-hit Ghostbusters (1984).
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Oz | Warden Leo Glynn | Crime | |
Highcliffe Manor | 1979 | Comedy | |
Two of a Kind | 1983 | Comedy | |
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians | Cyborg (Victor Stone) | 1985 | Adventure |
The Last Precinct | 1986 | Comedy | |
Ghostbusters | Winston Zeddemore | 1986 - 1988 | |
Wild Palms | 1993 | Drama | |
The Watcher | 2000 | Crime | |
Celebrity Paranormal Project | 2006 | Reality Tv | |
Transformers Prime | Agent William Fowler | 2010 | Animation |
Transformers: Prime | Agent William Fowler | 2010 | Animation |
Twist Of Fate | Det. Skaggs | 2011 | |
The Substitute | Principal Claude Rolle | 2011 | Family |
The Paranormal Project | Himself | 2013 | Drama |
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film | Percy | 2013 | Drama |
APB | Ned Conrad | 2017 | Crime |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Tornado | 1917 | ||
Oz | Warden Leo Glynn | 1976 | 0, 0 |
The Human Tornado | 1976 | 0, 0 | |
White Mama | 1980 | Drama | |
Going Berserk | 1983 | ||
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | 1983 | 0, Sport | |
Two of a Kind | 1983 | Comedy, Romance, Fantasy | |
Joy of Sex | Mr. Porter | 1984 | Comedy, Romance |
Weeds | Bagdad | 1987 | Drama |
The Wrong Guys | Dawson | 1988 | Comedy |
Ghostbusters II | Winston Zeddemore | 1989 | 0, 0 |
Trapper County War | Jefferson Carter | 1989 | Action, Adventure |
Leviathan | Justin Jones | 1989 | Adventure, Horror, Mystery |
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle | Solomon | 1992 | 0 |
Airheads | Sergeant O'Malley | 1994 | 0, Comedy |
The Crow | Sergeant Albrecht | 1994 | Action, Fantasy, Thriller |
The Cowboy Way | 1994 | Action, Comedy, Drama | |
Speechless | 1994 | Comedy, Romance | |
Congo | Captain Munro Kelly | 1995 | Action, Adventure, Mystery |
Tornado! | 1996 | ||
For Which He Stands | DEA Agent Baxter | 1996 | Crime, Drama |
The Cherokee Kid | 1996 | Comedy | |
Levitation | Downbeat | 1997 | Drama |
Butter | Curtis '8-Ball' Harris | 1998 | Action, Thriller |
Best of the Best: Without Warning | Detective Gresko | 1998 | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
October 22 | Arthur | 1999 | Action, Drama, Thriller |
Interceptor Force | Major | 1999 | Action, Drama |
A Stranger in the Kingdom | Rev. Walter Andrews | 1999 | Drama |
The Watcher | 2000 | ||
Stealth Fighter | President Westwood | 2000 | Action, Drama |
Fakin' Da Funk | Joe Lee | 2000 | |
Paper Bullets | Detective Ron Mills | 2000 | Action, Crime |
Red Letters | Detective Glen Teal | 2000 | Crime, Drama |
Miss Congeniality | 2000 | Action, Comedy, Crime | |
Hijack | Senator Douglas Wilson | 2002 | Action, Thriller |
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | FBI Asst. Director Harry McDonald | 2005 | Biography, Game Show, 0, 0 |
Lackawanna Blues | 2005 | Drama, Music | |
Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story | 2005 | Drama | |
Halfway Decent | Tom | 2005 | Comedy, Drama |
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror | Roscoe Lee | 2006 | |
The Ron Clark Story | 2006 | ||
Everything's Jake | Jake | 2006 | Comedy, Drama |
Nobel Son | Sgt. Bill Canega | 2007 | 0, Comedy, 0 |
Hood of Horror | 2007 | Comedy, Horror | |
Lonely Street | 2008 | ||
Confessions of an Action Star | Himself / Commander | 2009 | Action, Comedy, Musical |
Pastor Brown | Deacon Harold Todd | 2009 | Drama, Family |
Fatal Secrets | Detective Carter | 2010 | Drama, Thriller |
Machete Joe | Sheriff Taylor | 2010 | Horror |
Game of Death | Clarence | 2010 | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
Underground Entertainment: The Movie | Ernie | 2011 | Comedy |
Doonby | Leroy | 2012 | Mystery, Thriller |
Deer Crossing | Captain Bailey | 2012 | Crime, Drama, Horror |
The Man in the Silo | Marcus Wells | 2012 | Drama |
Ghostbusters III | Winston Zeddmore | 2013 | |
Dark Canyon | Cyrus Parker | 2013 | |
The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure | Ivan Stumpwater | 2013 | Family |
High and Outside | Sanzone | 2014 | Drama, Sport |
Wizardream | Lieutenant Schwieger | 2014 | |
The Grim Sleeper | Detective Gerry Claymar | 2014 | Biography, Drama |
No Escape | 2015 | 0, Game Show | |
Heaven Sent | Donatello | 2016 | Family |
Ghostbusters | Winston Zeddmore | 2016 | 0, 0, Reality Tv, Sport |
God's Not Dead 2 | Judge Stennis | 2016 | Drama |
The Substitute | Principal Claude Rolle | 2017 |