PAUL WINFIELD - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 188586

PAUL WINFIELD
Color publicity photograph of Winfield as seen in Huckleberry Finn 1974
Photograph signed: "Paul/Winfield". Color, 10x8 overall, image 10x7½ (one surface). Still from the 1974 film, Huckleberry Finn, in which Winfield starred as runaway slave Jim. He is pictured here with Jeff East, who co-starred as Huckleberry Finn. ©1974, United Artists Corporation. Captioned at lower margin. This Reader's Digest musical adaptation of the Mark Twain classic followed the success of their production of a musical adaptation of Twain's Tom Sawyer the previous year. Huckleberry Finn, which featured original songs by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, who wrote songs for Disney films (including Mary Poppins), also starred Harvey Korman, Odessa Cleveland, Kim O'Brien and Jean Fay. Winfield would reprise his role as Jim Watson in the 1990 made-for-TV film, Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Stage, screen and television actor Paul Winfield (1941-2004) was nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award (Sounder, 1972) and two Emmy Awards (for the 1978 mini-series, King, based on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Roots: The Next Generation, 1979), and he won the 1995 Emmy for his role as Judge Harold Nance on Picket Fences. Trained for the stage, Winfield got his big break playing Paul Cameron on the ground-breaking TV series, Julia (1968-1971). After making his film debut in 1969 (The Lost Man), Winfield starred in a long list of feature films, including Huckleberry Finn (1974), Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), The Terminator (1984), Presumed Innocent (1990), Dennis the Menace (1993) and Mars Attacks! (1996). He was just as prolific on the small screen, appearing in dozens of made-for-TV movies, miniseries and documentaries, and Winfield appeared as a guest star in series ranging from Perry Mason (1965) to Touched By An Angel (2003). He was also a regular on several TV series, including The Charmings (1987, voice of the Magic Mirror), Wiseguy (1989) and 227 (1989-1990). Minor surface creases (not evident head on), 1 at the "d" of Winfield. Staple holes at corners. Ink mark at lower left margin. Overall, fine condition.