Ernie Hudson
Acting
- Born:
- 1945-12-17
- Place of birth:
- Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
Biography
Earnest Lee Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters franchise. Hudson has also acted in the films Leviathan (1989), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The Crow (1994), Airheads (1994), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Congo (1995), Miss Congeniality (2000), and The Ron Clark Story (2006). His most prominent role on television was Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz (1997–2003). Hudson has also appeared in the television shows St. Elsewhere (1984), The Last Precinct (1986), 10-8: Officers on Duty (2003–2004), Desperate Housewives (2006–2007), The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013), Law & Order (2009–2010), the voice of Agent Bill Fowler in Transformers: Prime (2010–2013), Franklin & Bash (2012–2014), Grace and Frankie (2015–2020), and L.A.'s Finest (2019–2020). From 2022 to 2024, Hudson appeared as Herbert "Magic" Williams on the NBC drama Quantum Leap.
Known For
Filmography
Toy Story 5
Boston Blue
John Candy: I Like Me
FEEL
Angry Birds Mystery Island
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The Retirement Plan
Prisoner's Daughter
Darrin's Dance Grooves: The Untold Darrin Henson Story
Champions
Quantum Leap
Sherri
The Jennifer Hudson Show
In Search of Tomorrow
Beebo Saves Christmas
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
Redemption Day
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Reunited Apart
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Adventure Force 5
The Movies That Made Us
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Infinity Train
City on a Hill
L.A.'s Finest
The Masked Singer
Carl Weber's The Family Business
Nappily Ever After
High & Outside: A Baseball Noir
Steve
APB
Heaven Sent
Infinity Train
Graves
MacGyver
Lethal Weapon
Spaceman
Ghostbusters
Ghostheads
God's Not Dead 2
Batman: Bad Blood
Angie Tribeca
The Man in the Silo
Ballers
Grace and Frankie
Gallows Road
Horror Icon: Inside Michael's Mask with Tony Moran
Merry Ex-Mas
You're Not You
Touched
Scorpion
To Hell and Back
The Grim Sleeper
Showing Up
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Last Song
Dear Secret Santa
Doonby
The Millers
Ironside
Turning Point
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Battledogs
The Last Leg
Ambush at Dark Canyon
Arrow
Deer Crossing
Guys with Kids
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!
The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy
Scandal
Comic Book Men
Key & Peele
Once Upon a Time
Hart of Dixie
Underground Entertainment: The Movie
Franklin & Bash
Deep Blue Breath
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
Game of Death
Transformers: Prime
Blue Bloods
Stasis
Rizzoli & Isles
Hot in Cleveland
Machete Joe
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
White Collar
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Modern Family
Meteor
Pastor Brown
Dragonball Evolution
Fatal Secrets
Lonely Street
Childrens Hospital
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Final Approach
Private Practice
All Hat
Nobel Son
Torchwood
Heroes
The Ron Clark Story
Psych
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Halfway Decent
Criminal Minds
How I Met Your Mother
Bones
Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story
Grey's Anatomy
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Robot Chicken
Lackawanna Blues
Confessions of an Action Star
Desperate Housewives
Clifford's Really Big Movie
Cold Case
10-8: Officers on Duty
Las Vegas
Anne B. Real
Without a Trace
Everwood
A Town Without Christmas
Crossing Jordan
Walking Shadow
Miss Congeniality
Paper Bullets
Everything's Jake
The Watcher
Red Letters
Nowhere to Land
Miracle on the 17th Green
A Stranger in the Kingdom
Shark Attack
Interceptors
Hijack
Michael Jordan: An American Hero
Stealth Fighter
October 22
Butter
Best of the Best 4: Without Warning
Mr. Magoo
Clover
The View
Stargate SG-1
Fakin' Da Funk
Oz
Levitation
Operation Delta Force
The Cherokee Kid
Just Your Luck
Superman: The Animated Series
Arli$$
For Which He Stands
Tornado!
The Substitute
Congo
The Basketball Diaries
Speechless
Touched by an Angel
ER
Airheads
The Cowboy Way
The Crow
No Escape
Sugar Hill
Wild Palms
The Ben Stiller Show
Angel Street
Batman: The Animated Series
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Broken Badges
Cop Rock
Law & Order
Twin Peaks
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Ghostbusters II
Tales from the Crypt
Collision Course
Leviathan
Trapper County War
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
The Wrong Guys
Weeds
Full House
The Last Precinct
The Last Precinct
Love on the Run
The Insiders
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
California Girls
On the Scene with the Ghostbusters
Joy of Sex
Ghostbusters
Two of a Kind
Women of San Quentin
Going Berserk
Webster
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
The A-Team
The New Odd Couple
St. Elsewhere
Penitentiary II
Crazy Times
A Matter of Life and Death
Flamingo Road
Underground Aces
The Jazz Singer
Bosom Buddies
The Octagon
White Mama
The $5.20 an Hour Dream
Skag
Detective School
The Main Event
Joni
Highcliffe Manor
Roots: The Next Generations
The White Shadow
Diff'rent Strokes
Taxi
Last of the Good Guys
Fantasy Island
Mad Bull
The Incredible Hulk
Man from Atlantis IV: The Disappearances
The Human Tornado
Leadbelly
Little House on the Prairie
Super Friends
Oswald: Down The Rabbit Hole
Mr. Beebee
Deepest, Darkest
Famous
Sisters in Italy
Hal
Beautiful People