Ernie Hudson

**Earnest Lee** "**Ernie**" **Hudson** (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the _Ghostbusters_ movie series, Sergeant Albrecht in _The Crow_, and Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's _Oz_.

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|1976|_Leadbelly_|Archie||
|_The Human Tornado_|Bo|Credited as Louis Hudson|||
|1979|_The Main Event_|Killer|||
|rowspan="3"|1980|_Joni_|Earl||
|_The Octagon_|Quinine||||
|_The Jazz Singer_|Heckler||||
|1981|_Underground Aces_|African General|||
|1982|_Penitentiary II_|Half Dead|||
|rowspan="3"|1983|_Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone_|Washington||
|_Going Berserk_|Muhammed Jerome Willy||||
|_Two of a Kind_|Det. Skaggs||||
|rowspan="2"|1984|_Ghostbusters_|Winston Zeddemore||
|_National Lampoon's Joy of Sex_|Mr. Porter||||
|1987|_Weeds_|Bagdad|||
|1988|_The Wrong Guys_|Dawson|||
|rowspan="4"|1989|_Trapper County War_|Jefferson Carter||
|_Leviathan_|Justin Jones||||
|_Collision Course_|Shortcut||||
|_Ghostbusters II_|Winston Zeddemore||||
|1992|_The Hand That Rocks the Cradle_|Solomon|||
|rowspan="6"|1994|_Sugar Hill_|Lolly Jonas||
|_No Escape_|Hawkins||||
|_The Crow_|Sergeant Albrecht||||
|_The Cowboy Way_|Officer Sam 'Mad Dog' Shaw||||
|_Airheads_|Sergeant O'Malley||||
|_Speechless_|Ventura||||
|rowspan="2"|1995|_The Basketball Diaries_|Reggie||
|_Congo_|Captain Monroe Kelly||||
|rowspan="4"|1996|_Tornado!_|Dr. Joe Branson||
|_The Substitute_|Principal Claude Rolle||||
|_For Which He Stands_|DEA Agent Baxter||||
|_Just Your Luck_|Willie||||
|rowspan="3"|1997|_Fakin' Da Funk_|Joe Lee||
|_Mr. Magoo_|Agent Gus Anders, CIA||||
|_Levitation_|Downbeat||||
|rowspan="4"|1998|_Butter_|Curtis "8 Ball" Harris||
|_Stranger in the Kingdom_|Rev. Walter Andrews||||
|_Best of the Best: Without Warning_|Detective Gresko||||
|_October 22_|Arthur||||
|rowspan="5"|1999|_Lillie_|Larry Miller||
|_Shark Attack_|Lawrence Rhodes||||
|_The Last Siege_|Senator Douglas Wilson||||
|_Interceptors_|Major McKenzie||||
|_Stealth Fighter_|President Westwood||||
|rowspan="5"|2000|_Red Letters_|Detective Glen Teal||
|_The Watcher_|Ibby||||
|_Paper Bullets_|Detective Ron Mills||||
|_Miss Congeniality_|FBI Asst. Director Harry McDonald||||
|_Everything's Jake_|Jake||||
|rowspan="2"|2003|_Anne B. Real_|Principal Davis||
|_10-8: Officers on Duty_|Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes||||
|2004|_Clifford's Really Big Movie_|P.T.|Voice role||
|rowspan="4"|2005|_Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School_|Blake Rische||
|_Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous_|FBI Asst. Director Harry McDonald||||
|_Everwood_|Bill Hoover||||
|_Halfway Decent_|Tom||||
|2006|_Hood of Horror_|Roscoe|||
|rowspan="3"|2007|_Certifiably Jonathan_|Museum Guard||
|_Nobel Son_|Sgt. Bill Canega||||
|_All Hat_|Jackson Jones||||
|rowspan="3"|2008|_The Man in the Silo_|Marcus Wells||
|_Pie'n Burger_|Cedric||||
|_Balancing the Books_|Detective Carter||||
|rowspan="4"|2009|_Dragonball Evolution_|Sifu Norris||
|_Lonely Street_|Capt. Morgan||||
|_Machete Joe_|Sheriff Taylor||||
|_Pastor Brown_|Deacon Harold Todd||||
|rowspan="4"|2010|_Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball_|Anthony Vejar||
|_Stasis_|Stranger|Short film|||
|_Game of Death_|Catholic Priest||||
|_Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial_|Jean-Bot|English Voice Dubbing for 2012|||
|2011|_Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2_|Pedro|Voice role||
|rowspan="3"|2012|_Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta!_|Pedro|Voice role|
|_Turning Point_|Joe Johnson||||
|_Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy_|Ivan Stumpwater||||
|2014|_You're Not You_|John|||
|2015|_Gallows Road_|Bob Collins|||
|rowspan="4"|2016|_Batman: Bad Blood_|Lucius Fox|Voice role|
|_God's Not Dead 2_|Judge Stennis||||
|_Ghostbusters_|Uncle Bill Jenkins|Cameo|||
|_Spaceman_|Joe||||
|2018|_Nappily Ever After_|Richard Jones|||
|2020|_Ghostbusters 2020_|Winston Zeddemore|_Post-production_||

## Other websites

- Interview (March 2008) with Ernie Hudson, by Matthew Waldram

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Ernie Hudson
- **image**: 10.17.09ErnieHudsonByLuigiNovi.jpg
- **caption**: Hudson in October 2009
- **birthname**: Earnest Lee Hudson
- **occupation**: Actor, playwright, producer
- **yearsactive**: 1976–present
- **spouse**: Jeannie Moore (1963–76)
Linda Kingsberg (1985– )