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Ernie Hudson

Earnest Lee Hudson is an American actor. His roles include Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters film series, Sergeant Darryl Albrecht in The Crow (1994), and Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz (1997–2003). Hudson has also acted in the films Leviathan (1989), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), Airheads (1994), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Congo (1995), Miss Congeniality (2000) and as Principal Turner in The Ron Clark Story (2006).


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  • Earnest Lee Hudson
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Ghostbusters

1984
as Winston Zeddmore

Ghostbusters II

1989
as Winston Zeddemore

Ghostbusters

2016
as Uncle Bill

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

2005
as FBI Asst. Director Harry McDonald

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2021
as Dr. Winston Zeddmore

Nappily Ever After

2018
as Richard Jones

Miss Congeniality

2000
as Harry McDonald

Dragonball Evolution

2009
as Master Mutaito

Batman: Bad Blood

2016
as Lucius Fox (voice)

The Crow

1994
as Sergeant Albrecht

Tornado!

1996
as Dr. Joe Branson

Hood of Horror

2006
as Roscoe

Sugar Hill

1994
as Lolly Jonas

Stealth Fighter

1999
as President Westwood

Fakin' Da Funk

1997
as Joe Lee

Machete Joe

2010
as Sheriff Taylor

Mr. Beebee

as Wayne Proctor

Speechless

1994
as Ventura

Congo

1995
as Captain Munro Kelly

The Cherokee Kid

1996
as Nat Love aka Deadwood Dick

Nowhere to Land

2000
as Danny Gorlin

Airheads

1994
as Sergeant O'Malley

Interceptors

1999
as Major

Penitentiary II

1982
as Half Dead

October 22

1998
as Arthur

Lackawanna Blues

2005
as Dick Barrymore

Crazy Times

1981
as Harold 'Jazzman' Malloy

Final Approach

2008
as Agent Lorenzo Dawson

Leviathan

1989
as Justin Jones

Gallows Road

2015
as Bob Collins

The Jazz Singer

1980
as Heckler

Just Your Luck

1996
as Willie

Butter

1998
as Curtis '8-Ball' Harris

Game of Death

2010
as Clarence

Ambush at Dark Canyon

2012
as Cyrus Parker

Balancing the Books

2009
as Detective Carter

Deer Crossing

2012
as Captain Bailey

A Stranger in the Kingdom

1999
as Rev. Walter Andrews

No Escape

1994
as Hawkins

Beebo Saves Christmas

2021
as Santa Claus (voice)

The Wrong Guys

1988
as Dawson

God's Not Dead 2

2016
as Judge Stennis

Red Letters

2000
as Detective Glen Teal

The Grim Sleeper

2014
as Detective Gerry Claymar

The Substitute

1996
as Claude Rolle

For Which He Stands

1996
as DEA Agent Baxter

Paper Bullets

1999
as Detective Ron Mills

The Ron Clark Story

2006
as Principal Turner

Hijack

1999
as Senator Douglas Wilson

Heaven Sent

2016
as Donatello

The Watcher

2000
as FBI Special Agent in Charge Mike Ibby

Clover

1997
as Gaten Hill

Two of a Kind

1983
as Det. Skaggs

Ghostheads

2016
as Himself

Joy of Sex

1984
as Mr. Porter

Showing Up

2014
as Himself

Levitation

1997
as Downbeat

Nobel Son

2007
as Sgt. Bill Canega

Reckless

2013
as Frank Wolfe

Shark Attack

1999
as Lawrence Rhodes

Spaceman

2016
as Joe

Trapper County War

1989
as Jefferson Carter

Doonby

2013
as Leroy Jackson

Champions

2023
as Coach Phil Perretti

Leadbelly

1976
as Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)

All Hat

2007
as Jackson Jones

Touched

2014
as Dr. Beck

Stasis

2010
as Stranger

Battledogs

2013
as Max Stevens

The Octagon

1980
as Quinine

The Cowboy Way

1994
as Officer Sam 'Mad Dog' Shaw

Weeds

1987
as Bagdad

Dear Secret Santa

2013
as Pastor Avery

Merry Ex-Mas

2014
as Pastor Ed

The Main Event

1979
as Killer

Redemption Day

2021
as Ed Paxton

Infinity Train

2016
as Atticus (voice)

Operation Delta Force

1997
as Major Tipton

Collision Course

1988
as Shortcut

Going Berserk

1983
as Jerome Willy Muhammed

Pastor Brown

2009
as Deacon Harold Todd

Producer

Movie Everything's Jake 2000