Highest rated movie: Do the Right Thing (1989)
Lowest rated movie: Back in the Day (2005)
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Movies starring Paul Benjamin have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
Do the Right Thing - released in 1989 - is Paul Benjamin's highest rated movie, with a score of 84% based on 805 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Paul Benjamin is Back in the Day - released in 2005 - with a score of 39% based on 8 reviews.
Paul Benjamin (born 1938) is an American actor.
Benjamin was born in Pelion, South Carolina. He made his film debut in 1969 as a bartender in Midnight Cowboy. After a small role in Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes, he did extensive television work in the 1970s.
A few notable exceptions were a major role in Barry Shear's Across 110th Street, and smaller parts in Gordon Parks' biopic Leadbelly, Arthur Marks' Friday Foster, and Don Siegel's prison film Escape from Alcatraz. He gave exceptional performances in the TV adaptations of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gideon's Trumpet. He later starred in the HBO movie The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains, based on the novel by Robert E. Burns.
On the big screen in the 1990s, Benjamin worked with some well known directors. He appeared in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, Robert Townsend's The Five Heartbeats, Bill Duke's Hoodlum, and John Singleton's Rosewood.
On television, he appeared in the 1994 pilot episode of ER, which led to his recurring role of homeless man Al Ervin during the next few seasons. Benjamin also worked on the American Masters documentary of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ralph Ellison, which aired on PBS.
After 2000, he appeared primarily in small independent films like Stanley's Gig, The Station Agent, Deacons for Defense, and James Hunter's 2004 drama Back in the Day.
He recently made a special appearance in the independent film The Talk Man, directed by Gene Gallerano.
Paul Benjamin has acted in films with Giancarlo Esposito, Ving Rhames, Jon Voight and Loretta Devine.
Paul Benjamin has worked with these film directors: Bill Duke, Barry Shear, Spike Lee and Sidney Lumet.
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