Ernie Hudson

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthday

Dec 17, 1945(79 years old)

Place of Birth

Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA

Biography

Earnest Lee Hudson 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

75%

Ghostbusters

08 Jun 1984

65%

Miss Congeniality

22 Dec 2000

58%

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

11 Mar 2005

63%

Joni

01 Jun 1979

56%

Congo

09 Jun 1995

51%

The Watcher

08 Sep 2000

74%

The Basketball Diaries

21 Apr 1995

66%

Ghostbusters II

16 Jun 1989

31%

All Hat

11 Sep 2007

69%

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

10 Jan 1992

56%

The Wrong Guys

13 May 1988

41%

Stealth Fighter

01 Jan 1999

65%

October 22

04 Nov 1998

50%

Going Berserk

30 Sep 1983

50%

The Octagon

14 Aug 1980

Everything's Jake

25 Sep 2000

62%

The Human Tornado

02 Oct 1976

75%

The Ron Clark Story

13 Aug 2006

74%

You're Not You

10 Oct 2014

75%

The Crow

11 May 1994

53%

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

20 May 1983

62%

Airheads

05 Aug 1994

58%

A Town Without Christmas

16 Dec 2001

29%

Dragonball Evolution

12 Mar 2009

52%

Shark Attack

09 Nov 1999

58%

Best of the Best 4: Without Warning

10 Oct 1998

52%

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

10 Nov 1988

53%

Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball

19 Jan 2010

60%

Leviathan

17 Mar 1989

65%

Beebo Saves Christmas

01 Dec 2021

58%

Tornado!

06 May 1996

59%

Michael Jordan: An American Hero

18 Apr 1999

59%

Speechless

16 Dec 1994

48%

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

27 Jun 2006

61%

Nobel Son

28 Apr 2007

28%

Stasis

08 Sep 2010

54%

Pastor Brown

26 Jun 2009

41%

Confessions of an Action Star

23 Jan 2005

57%

Fakin' Da Funk

20 Jul 1997

48%

Interceptors

11 Sep 1999

50%

Final Approach

24 May 2008

43%

Penitentiary II

02 Apr 1982

32%

Fatal Secrets

03 Jan 2009

57%

Sugar Hill

25 Feb 1994

59%

Clifford's Really Big Movie

20 Feb 2004

57%

The Cowboy Way

03 Jun 1994

61%

Prisoner's Daughter

30 Jun 2023

41%

Joy of Sex

03 Aug 1984

60%

The Retirement Plan

24 Aug 2023

65%

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

20 Mar 2024

53%

Weeds

16 Oct 1987

73%

Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story

22 Aug 2005

42%

Collision Course

27 Apr 1989

63%

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!

03 Sep 2012

45%

Doonby

01 Nov 2013

44%

Underground Aces

02 Jan 1981

36%

Anne B. Real

01 Jan 2003

60%

For Which He Stands

17 May 1996

25%

Butter

13 Oct 1998

59%

Lackawanna Blues

12 Feb 2005

24%

Deer Crossing

25 Sep 2012

45%

Clover

10 Sep 1997

31%

Paper Bullets

23 Oct 2000

45%

Battledogs

05 Apr 2013

70%

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

20 Apr 2013

Mad Bull

21 Dec 1977

35%

Walking Shadow

26 Aug 2001

45%

Ambush at Dark Canyon

24 Oct 2012

80%

White Mama

05 Mar 1980

68%

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters

07 Jan 2020

60%

Levitation

01 Apr 1997

92%

Showing Up

25 Feb 2014

To Hell and Back

04 Apr 2014

49%

The Grim Sleeper

15 Mar 2014

32%

A Stranger in the Kingdom

23 Nov 1999

Deep Blue Breath

30 Apr 2011

50%

Red Letters

09 Jun 2000

The $5.20 an Hour Dream

26 Jan 1980

69%

The Substitute

19 Apr 1996

60%

Dear Secret Santa

30 Nov 2013

10%

Love on the Run

21 Oct 1985

The Last Precinct

26 Jan 1986

37%

Operation Delta Force

01 Jan 1997

The Man in the Silo

09 Jan 2016

55%

Nowhere to Land

12 Mar 2000

42%

Hijack

31 Aug 1999

61%

Leadbelly

28 May 1976

15%

Machete Joe

29 Jan 2010

49%

Game of Death

31 Mar 2011

Skag

06 Jan 1980

62%

No Escape

29 Apr 1994

67%

Champions

09 Mar 2023

69%

Gallows Road

22 Apr 2015

Crazy Times

10 Apr 1981

52%

The Main Event

22 Jun 1979

62%

Touched

04 Oct 2014

A Matter of Life and Death

13 Jan 1981

Oswald: Down The Rabbit Hole

61%

God's Not Dead 2

01 Apr 2016

70%

Batman: Bad Blood

19 Jan 2016

36%

Merry Ex-Mas

05 Dec 2014

58%

Spaceman

19 Aug 2016

53%

The Cherokee Kid

14 Dec 1996

53%

Ghostbusters

14 Jul 2016

59%

Two of a Kind

13 Dec 1983

34%

California Girls

24 Mar 1985

59%

Ghostheads

23 Apr 2016

82%

Infinity Train

02 Nov 2016

63%

Heaven Sent

03 Dec 2016

35%

Trapper County War

01 Jan 1989

59%

The Jazz Singer

17 Dec 1980

Mr. Beebee

72%

Nappily Ever After

21 Sep 2018

35%

Just Your Luck

29 Nov 1996

53%

The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy

10 May 2012

58%

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

12 Jan 2006

Turning Point

24 May 2013

Last of the Good Guys

07 Mar 1978

73%

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

18 Nov 2021

72%

Underground Entertainment: The Movie

06 Jun 2011

53%

Adventure Force 5

19 Dec 2019

44%

Lonely Street

01 Jan 2009

65%

In Search of Tomorrow

19 Feb 2022

The Last Song

01 Jan 2014

45%

Mr. Magoo

25 Dec 1997

10%

High & Outside: A Baseball Noir

28 Feb 2018

59%

Redemption Day

08 Jan 2021

10%

Women of San Quentin

23 Oct 1983

59%

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

01 Feb 2011

35%

Halfway Decent

20 Oct 2005

Deepest, Darkest

Famous

Beautiful People

01 May 2012

Sisters in Italy

Toy Story 5

17 Jun 2026

FEEL

16 May 2025

56%

St. Elsewhere

48%

The Ben Stiller Show

81%

How I Met Your Mother

74%

Law & Order

79%

Psych

79%

Desperate Housewives

75%

The A-Team

79%

Little House on the Prairie

75%

Heroes

82%

Bones

78%

Cold Case

80%

Tales from the Crypt

76%

Everwood

72%

Crossing Jordan

71%

Diff'rent Strokes

60%

Flamingo Road

43%

The View

68%

Comic Book Men

63%

Wild Palms

58%

Webster

64%

Bosom Buddies

73%

Without a Trace

75%

Private Practice

76%

Superman: The Animated Series

75%

Full House

83%

Stargate SG-1

71%

The Secret Life of the American Teenager

84%

Infinity Train

73%

MacGyver

78%

71%

The White Shadow

82%

The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians

91%

10-8: Officers on Duty

50%

The Last Precinct

50%

Highcliffe Manor

77%

Super Friends

86%

Batman: The Animated Series

62%

Meteor

55%

Detective School

81%

Transformers: Prime

60%

Broken Badges

80%

Beautiful People

82%

White Collar

53%

Late Night with Seth Meyers

79%

Modern Family

79%

Rizzoli & Isles

65%

APB

51%

Graves

73%

Taxi

71%

Childrens Hospital

82%

Scorpion

75%

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

78%

Blue Bloods

74%

Once Upon a Time

69%

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

65%

The Kelly Clarkson Show

72%

Scandal

73%

Lethal Weapon

83%

Carl Weber's The Family Business

72%

Franklin & Bash

64%

Angie Tribeca

71%

Quantum Leap

73%

City on a Hill

73%

Celebrity Ghost Stories

83%

Twin Peaks

38%

Sherri

59%

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

70%

Las Vegas

82%

Grey's Anatomy

72%

The Movies That Made Us

76%

Robot Chicken

70%

L.A.'s Finest

73%

Torchwood

72%

The Incredible Hulk

60%

The Jennifer Hudson Show

68%

Ballers

68%

Arrow

82%

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

51%

Ironside

73%

Hart of Dixie

74%

Hot in Cleveland

55%

Reunited Apart

77%

Grace and Frankie

50%

The Insiders

72%

Touched by an Angel

83%

Criminal Minds

56%

Guys with Kids

52%

Angry Birds Mystery Island

50%

The New Odd Couple

64%

Fantasy Island

56%

The Last Leg

76%

Key & Peele

76%

The Masked Singer

Boston Blue

58%

The Millers