Ernie Hudson

Highest Rated: 100% Batman: Bad Blood (2016)

Lowest Rated: 0% Spaceman (2016)

Birthday: Dec 17, 1945

Birthplace: Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA

Actor Ernie Hudson received his training at Wayne State, Yale School of Drama and the University of Minnesota. Following a hitch with the Marines, Hudson appeared in such stage productions as The Great White Hope, The Cage and Daddy Goodness. He made his earlier film appearance in 1976's Leadbelly. Most of us know Hudson best as Winston Zeddmore in the two Ghostbusters films, a role he repeated in Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" music video. His best--and most controversial--screen assignment was the The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992); Hudson played retarded handyman Solomon, virtually the only character in the film who doesn't buy into the "perfect" facade of homicidal baby-sitter Rebecca DeMornay. On TV, Ernie Hudson has been seen as Smythe in Highcliffe Manor (1977), undercover officer "Night Train" Lane in The Last Precinct (1986), and kleptomaniac cop Toby Baker in Broken Badges (1990). He had a memorable supporting part in the 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and appeared in Heart and Souls as well as the comedy Airheads. In 1994 he was cast in a prominent role in the action film The Crow, and followed that up in 1995 with part in Congo. In 1997 he started work on the HBO drama Oz, playing the warden of the meanest, cruelest inmates imaginable for six seasons. He co-starred with Sandra Bullock in the 2000 comedy Miss Congeniality. He continued to work steadily in projects as diverse as Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror, The Ron Clark Story, and 2010's Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball.

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Filmography

MOVIES

		CREDIT
71%	Nappily Ever After	Richard Jones	—	2018
No Score Yet	Heaven Sent	Donatello	—	2017
0%	Spaceman	Joe	—	2016
74%	Ghostbusters	Uncle Bill	$128.4M	2016
8%	God's Not Dead 2	Judge Stennis	—	2016
No Score Yet	Ghostheads	Actor	—	2016
No Score Yet	The Man In The Silo	Actor	—	2016
100%	Batman: Bad Blood	Lucius Fox	—	2016
No Score Yet	Gallows Road	Bob Collins	—	2015
No Score Yet	To Hell and Back	Joe Patterson	—	2015
45%	You're Not You	John	—	2014
No Score Yet	The Grim Sleeper	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	Merry Ex-Mas	Pastor Ed	—	2014
No Score Yet	Touched	Dr. Beck	—	2014
No Score Yet	Dear Secret Santa	Pastor Avery	—	2013
No Score Yet	Doonby	Leroy	—	2013
No Score Yet	Call Me Crazy: A Five Film	Percy	—	2013
No Score Yet	Battledogs	Max Stevens	—	2013
No Score Yet	Dark Canyon (Ambush at Dark Canyon)	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Deer Crossing	Captain Bailey	—	2012
No Score Yet	Turning Point	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure	Ivan Stumpwater	—	2012
No Score Yet	Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2	Pedro	—	2011
No Score Yet	Game of Death	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	Machete Joe	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball	Anthony Vejar	—	2010
15%	Dragonball Evolution	Sifu Norris	$9.4M	2009
No Score Yet	Pastor Brown	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Meteor	General Brasser	—	2009
25%	Nobel Son	Lasasso	$0.4M	2008
No Score Yet	Fatal Secrets	Det. Carter	—	2008
No Score Yet	Final Approach	Lorenzo Dawson	—	2008
No Score Yet	Lonely Street	Capt. Morgan	—	2008
11%	Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror	Roscoe	—	2007
20%	All Hat	Jackson Jones	—	2007
No Score Yet	The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians	Actor	—	2007
22%	Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School	Blake Rische	$0.2M	2006
No Score Yet	The Ron Clark Story	Principal Turner	—	2006
No Score Yet	Everything's Jake	Jake	—	2006
No Score Yet	Halfway Decent	Tom Black	—	2005
No Score Yet	Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story	Perry Beasley	—	2005
15%	Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed and Fabulous	McDonald	$47.2M	2005
75%	Lackawanna Blues	Dick Barrymore	—	2005
No Score Yet	Confessions of an Action Star	Actor	—	2005
53%	Clifford's Really Big Movie	P.T.	$2.8M	2004
No Score Yet	Anne B. Real	Principal Davis	—	2003
No Score Yet	A Town Without Christmas	Ted Kinkaid	—	2001
No Score Yet	The Last Siege	Actor	—	2001
No Score Yet	Walking Shadow	Hawk	—	2001
42%	Miss Congeniality	McDonald	—	2000
10%	The Watcher	Ibby	$28.6M	2000
No Score Yet	Red Letters	Det. Glen Teal	—	2000
No Score Yet	Nowhere to Land	Danny Gorlin	—	2000
No Score Yet	Stealth Fighter	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	Paper Bullets	Mills	—	1999
No Score Yet	Stranger in the Kingdom	Rev. Walter Andrews	—	1999
No Score Yet	Michael Jordan: An American Hero	James Jordan	—	1999
0%	Shark Attack	Lawrence Rhodes	—	1999
No Score Yet	Interceptors (The Last Line of Defence) (Interceptor Force)	The Major	—	1999
No Score Yet	Wrecking Crew	Actor	—	1999
13%	Candyman: Day of the Dead	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Hijack	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Stealth Fighter	President Westwood	—	1999
No Score Yet	Miracle on the 17th Green	Earl	—	1999
No Score Yet	October 22	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Levitation	Downbeat	—	1998
No Score Yet	Best of the Best: Without Warning (Best of the Best 4)	Detective Gresko	—	1998
No Score Yet	Never 2 Big	Curtis `8-Ball' Harris	—	1998
7%	Mr. Magoo	Agent Gus Anders	—	1997
No Score Yet	Operation Delta Force	Tipton	—	1997
No Score Yet	Fakin' Da Funk	Joe Lee	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Cherokee Kid	Nat Love	—	1996
No Score Yet	Tornado!	Dr. Branson	—	1996
No Score Yet	For Which He Stands	Actor	—	1996
No Score Yet	Just Your Luck	Willie	—	1996
22%	Congo	Monroe Kelly	—	1995
41%	The Substitute	Claude Rolle	—	1995
46%	The Basketball Diaries	Reggie Porter	—	1995
11%	Speechless	Ventura	—	1994
6%	In the Army Now	Actor	—	1994
21%	Airheads	Sergeant O'Malley	—	1994
15%	The Cowboy Way	Officer Sam Shaw	—	1994
50%	No Escape	Hawkins	—	1994
20%	Sugar Hill	Lolly	—	1994
81%	The Crow	Albrecht	—	1994
55%	Heart and Souls	Barry	—	1993
63%	The Hand that Rocks the Cradle	Solomon	—	1992
No Score Yet	Final Approach	Actor	—	1991
53%	Ghostbusters 2	Winston Zeddemore	—	1989
No Score Yet	Trapper County War	Jefferson	—	1989
No Score Yet	Collision Course	Shortcut	—	1989
17%	Leviathan	Jones	—	1989
No Score Yet	The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission	Joe Hamilton	—	1988
No Score Yet	The Wrong Guys	Dawson	—	1988
80%	Weeds	Bagdad	—	1987
No Score Yet	Love on the Run	Lamar	—	1985
No Score Yet	Human Tornado	Bo	—	1984
No Score Yet	Joy of Sex	Mr. Porter	—	1984
97%	Ghostbusters (1984 Original)	Winston Zeddmore	—	1984
No Score Yet	California Girls	Ernie	—	1984
20%	Two of a Kind	Detective Staggs	—	1983
No Score Yet	Going Berserk	Muhammed	—	1983
18%	Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone	Washington	—	1983
No Score Yet	Penitentiary 2	Half Dead	—	1982
No Score Yet	Matter of Life and Death	Mr. Harrison	—	1981
33%	The Octagon	Quinine	—	1980
No Score Yet	White Mama	Counsellor	—	1980
No Score Yet	Underground Aces	African General	—	1980
38%	The Main Event	Killer	—	1979
No Score Yet	Joni	Earl	—	1979
No Score Yet	Mad Bull	Actor	—	1977

TV

		CREDIT
85%	Arrow 2012	General	2019
No Score Yet	Hot Streets 2016	Jet Jr.	2019
No Score Yet	Carl Weber's The Family Business 2018	L.C. Duncan	2019 2018
No Score Yet	Blue Bloods 2010	Darryl Ward	2018
89%	Lethal Weapon 2016	Peterson	2018 2017
35%	APB 2017	Capt. Ned Conrad	2017
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2016
87%	Modern Family 2009	Miles	2016 2012
80%	Once Upon a Time 2011-2018	Poseidon	2015
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2015
No Score Yet	Comic Book Men 2012-2018	Guest	2014
61%	Franklin & Bash 2011-2014		2014
61%	Scorpion 2014-2018	Brooks	2014
47%	The Millers 2013-2015	Walter	2014
7%	Guys with Kids 2012-2013	The Judge	2013
78%	Last Resort 2012-2013	Conrad Buell	2013
93%	Scandal 2012-2018	Commander Randolph Boles	2013
No Score Yet	The Secret Life of the American Teenager 2008-2013	Dr. Fields Dr. Ken Fields	2013 2012 2010 2009 2008
81%	Hart of Dixie 2011-2015	Lavon's Dad	2012
80%	Grey's Anatomy 2005	Brad McDougall	2011
72%	Rizzoli & Isles 2010-2016		2011
No Score Yet	Children's Hospital 2010-2016	Hubert McGraw	2010
No Score Yet	Criminal Minds 2005	Lt. Al Garner	2010
55%	Heroes 2006-2010		2009
No Score Yet	Law & Order 1990-2010	Frank	2009
52%	Private Practice 2007-2013	Capt. Frank	2008 2007
90%	Bones 2005-2017	David Barron	2007
No Score Yet	Cold Case 2003-2010	Moses Jones	2007
92%	Psych 2006-2014		2007
66%	Desperate Housewives 2004-2012	Det. Ridley	2007 2006 2004
No Score Yet	ER 1994-2009	Col. Gallant	2006
92%	Everwood 2002-2006	Bill Hoover	2004
No Score Yet	Without a Trace 2002-2009	Manny Aybar	2003
89%	Oz 1997-2003	Leo Glynn	2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997
No Score Yet	Grace Under Fire 1993-1998	Thad	1996
82%	Tales from the Crypt 1989-1996	Guest	1993
No Score Yet	Full House 1987-1995	Reggie "The Sandman" Martin	1987
No Score Yet	St. Elsewhere 1982-1988	Jerry	1987 1984
No Score Yet	The A-Team 1983-1987	Cal	1983
No Score Yet	Webster 1983-1989	Rudy	1983
No Score Yet	Dukes of Hazzard 1979-1985	Avery	1983 1982
78%	Bosom Buddies 1980-1982	Rochelle	1982
No Score Yet	Little House on the Prairie 1974-1984	William Thomas	1981
No Score Yet	Taxi 1978-1983	Boxer	1981
No Score Yet	The Incredible Hulk 1978-1982	Lee	1979
No Score Yet	Angel Street 1992	Thurman Nickens
No Score Yet	Delores & Jermaine 2015	Rick
No Score Yet	L.A.'s Finest	Joseph Burnett

QUOTES FROM Ernie Hudson CHARACTERS

Solomon	I won't let you hurt them
Solomon	I won't let you hurt them.

Winston Zeddmore	Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!
Winston Zeddmore	Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say 'YES'!

Albrecht	Don't move. I said don't move!
Eric Draven	I thought the police always said freeze.
Grange	I am the police and I say don't move so the moment you move you're dead.
Eric Draven	And I say I'm dead, and I move.

Winston Zeddmore	Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!
Winston Zeddmore	Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say 'YES'!

Winston Zeddmore	Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, "yes!"
Winston Zeddmore	Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, 'yes!'

Winston Zeddmore

Ray, when some asks you if you're a god, you say YES!

Raymond Stantz	Looks like a giant Jell-O mold.....
Winston Zeddmore	I hate Jell-O.
Peter Venkman	Oh come on, there's always room for Jell-O!

Gozer	[after Ray orders her to re-locate] Are you a God? [Ray looks at Peter and he nods]
Raymond Stantz	.......No.
Raymond Stantz	No.
Gozer	Then... DIE! [Lightning flies from her fingers, driving the Ghostbusters to the edge of the roof and almost off; people below scream]
Gozer	Then... DIE! [lightning flies from her fingers, driving the Ghostbusters to the edge of the roof and almost off; people below scream]
Winston Zeddmore	Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!
Winston Zeddmore	Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say 'YES'!
Peter Venkman	All right! This chick is TOAST!

Winston Zeddmore

And we had the tools, we had the talent!

Gozer	Are you a God?
Raymond Stantz	No.
Gozer	Then Die! [Attacks Ghostbusters]
Gozer	Then Die! [attacks Ghostbusters]
Winston Zeddmore	Ray, if someone asks you if your a God you say "Yes"!
Winston Zeddmore	Ray, if someone asks you if your a God you say 'yes'!

Janine Melnitz	Do you believe in UFO's, Astral Projections, Mental Telepathy, ESP, Clairvoyance, Spirit Photography, Telekinetic Movement, Full-trance Mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Janine Melnitz	Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP , clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Winston Zeddmore	If there's a steady pay-check in it, i'll believe in anything you say.
Winston Zeddmore	Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.

Raymond Stantz	Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon Spengler	Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddmore	The dead rising from the grave!
Peter Venkman	Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!