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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

231

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-12-17 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

어니 허드슨
Ерні Хадсон
ارنی هادسون

Ernie Hudson

Biography

Earnest Lee Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. He is most known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters film series, Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz, and Sergeant Albrecht in The Crow.

He's had recurring roles on several TV shows including St. Elsewhere, Twin Peaks, Law & Order, HBO's Oz, Desperate Housewives, Heroes, Franklin & Bash, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Modern Family, Graves, Grace and Frankie, APB, LA's Finest, Carl Weber's The Family Business, City on a Hill, and Quantum Leap (2022).

He's been in numerous films, including The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Miss Congeniality and its sequel Miss Congeniality 2, and You're Not You. He has also appeared in a few Hallmark movies.

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Acting

—		Oswald: Down The Rabbit Hole as Oswald Jebediah Coleman
—		Meteor as Gen. Brasser
—		Mr. Beebee as Wayne Proctor
—		Deepest, Darkest
—		Famous
—		Sisters in Italy
—		Beautiful People as Jack

2024		Angry Birds Mystery Island as Marlon (voice)
2024		Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire as Winston Zeddemore

2023		The Retirement Plan as Joseph
2023		Prisoner's Daughter as Hank
2023		Champions as Coach Phil Peretti

2022		Quantum Leap as Herbert 'Magic' Williams
2022		The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022		Sherri as Self - Guest
2022		In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee

2021		Beebo Saves Christmas as Santa Claus (voice)
2021		Ghostbusters: Afterlife as Winston Zeddemore
2021		Star Wars: The Bad Batch as Grini Millegi (voice)
2021		Redemption Day as Ed Paxton

2020		Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Prince Humperdinck
2020		Reunited Apart as Self
2020		Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters as Self

2019		Adventure Force 5
2019		The Movies That Made Us as Winston Zeddemore (archive footage)
2019		The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019		Infinity Train as Atticus (voice)
2019		City on a Hill as Franklin Ward
2019		L.A.'s Finest as Joseph Vaughn
2019		The Masked Singer as Self

2018		Carl Weber's The Family Business as L.C. Duncan
2018		Nappily Ever After as Richard Jones
2018		High & Outside: A Baseball Noir as Sanzone

2017

APB as Ned Conrad

2016		Heaven Sent as Donatello
2016		Infinity Train as Atticus (voice)
2016		Graves as Jacob Mann
2016		MacGyver as Milton Bozer
2016		Lethal Weapon as Hank Peterson
2016		Spaceman as Joe
2016		Ghostbusters as Uncle Bill
2016		Ghostheads as Self
2016		God's Not Dead 2 as Judge Stennis
2016		DC's Legends of Tomorrow as Santa Claus (voice)
2016		Batman: Bad Blood as Lucius Fox (voice)
2016		Angie Tribeca as Pete Tribeca
2016		The Man in the Silo as Marcus Wells

2015		Ballers as Mr. Hagerty
2015		Grace and Frankie as Jacob
2015		Gallows Road as Bob Collins

2014		Merry Ex-Mas as Pastor Ed
2014		You're Not You as John
2014		Touched as Dr. Beck
2014		Scorpion as Brooks
2014		To Hell and Back as Joe
2014		The Grim Sleeper as Detective Gerry Claymar
2014		Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014		Showing Up as Self
2014		The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2014		The Last Song as Guest

2013		Dear Secret Santa as Pastor Avery
2013		Doonby as Leroy Jackson
2013		Ironside as Bludso
2013		Turning Point as Joe Johnson
2013		Call Me Crazy: A Five Film as Percy
2013		Battledogs as Max Stevens
2013		The Last Leg as Self

2012		Ambush at Dark Canyon as Cyrus Parker
2012		Arrow as Roy Stewart
2012		Deer Crossing as Captain Bailey
2012		Guys with Kids as The Judge
2012		Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 as Pedro (voice)
2012		The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy as Ivan Stumpwater
2012		Beautiful People as Jack
2012		Scandal as Commander Randolph Boles
2012		Comic Book Men as Self
2012		Key & Peele as Dad

2011		Once Upon a Time as King Poseidon
2011		Hart of Dixie as Ernie Hayes
2011		Underground Entertainment: The Movie as Ernie
2011		Franklin & Bash as Judge Lawrence Perry
2011		Deep Blue Breath as Lord Vater (voice)
2011		Game of Death as Clarence
2011		Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 as Pedro

2010		Transformers: Prime as Agent William Fowler (voice)
2010		Blue Bloods as Darryl Ward
2010		Stasis as Stranger
2010		Rizzoli & Isles as Admiral Frost
2010		Hot in Cleveland as Ernie Hudson
2010		Machete Joe as Sheriff Taylor
2010		Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball as Anthony Vejar

2009		White Collar as Mr. Jeffries
2009		Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
2009		Modern Family as Miles
2009		Meteor as Gen. Brasser
2009		Pastor Brown as Deacon Harold Todd
2009		Dragonball Evolution as Master Mutaito
2009		Fatal Secrets as Detective Carter
2009		Lonely Street as Captain Morgan

2008		Childrens Hospital as Hubert McGraw
2008		The Secret Life of the American Teenager
2008		Final Approach as Agent Lorenzo Dawson

2007		Private Practice as Captain Frank
2007		All Hat as Jackson Jones
2007		Nobel Son as Sgt. Bill Canega

2006		Torchwood as Stuart Owens
2006		Heroes as Captain Lubbock
2006		The Ron Clark Story as Principal Turner
2006		Psych as William Guster
2006		Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror as Roscoe
2006		Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School as Blake Rische

2005		Halfway Decent as Tom
2005		Criminal Minds as Lt. Al Garner
2005		How I Met Your Mother as Ernie Hudson
2005		Bones as David Barron
2005		Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story as Perry Beasley
2005		Grey's Anatomy as Brad McDougall
2005		Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous as Harry McDonald
2005		Robot Chicken as Detective Ernie / Judge Hudson Jr. / Justin's Dad (voice)
2005		Lackawanna Blues as Dick Barrymore
2005		Confessions of an Action Star as Self / Commander

2004		Desperate Housewives as Detective Ridley
2004		Clifford's Really Big Movie as P.T. (voice)

2003		Cold Case as Moses Jones
2003		10-8: Officers on Duty as Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes
2003		Las Vegas as Bob Casey
2003		Anne B. Real as Principal

2002		Without a Trace as Manny Aybar
2002		Everwood as Bill Hoover

2001		A Town Without Christmas as Ted
2001		Crossing Jordan as Colonel Wirth
2001		Walking Shadow as Hawk

2000		Miss Congeniality as Harry McDonald
2000		Paper Bullets as Detective Ron Mills
2000		Everything's Jake as Jake
2000		The Watcher as FBI Special Agent in Charge Mike Ibby
2000		Red Letters as Detective Glen Teal
2000		Nowhere to Land as Danny Gorlin

1999		A Stranger in the Kingdom as Rev. Walter Andrews
1999		Shark Attack as Lawrence Rhodes
1999		Interceptors as Major
1999		Hijack as Senator Douglas Wilson
1999		Michael Jordan: An American Hero
1999		Stealth Fighter as President Westwood

1998		October 22 as Arthur
1998		Butter as Curtis '8-Ball' Harris
1998		Best of the Best 4: Without Warning as Detective Gresko
1998		The Crow: Stairway to Heaven as Albrecht

1997		Mr. Magoo as Agent CIA Gus Anders
1997		Clover as Gaten Hill
1997		The View as Self
1997		Stargate SG-1 as Pernaux
1997		Fakin' Da Funk as Joe Lee
1997		Oz as Leo Glynn
1997		Levitation as Downbeat
1997		Operation Delta Force as Major Tipton

1996		The Cherokee Kid as Nat Love aka Deadwood Dick
1996		Just Your Luck as Willie
1996		Superman: The Animated Series as Professor Felix (voice)
1996		For Which He Stands as DEA Agent Baxter
1996		Tornado! as Dr. Joe Branson
1996		The Substitute as Claude Rolle

1995		Congo as Captain Munro Kelly
1995		The Basketball Diaries as Reggie

1994		Speechless as Ventura
1994		Touched by an Angel as Norm McCloud
1994		ER as Colonel James Gallant
1994		Airheads as Sergeant O'Malley
1994		The Cowboy Way as Officer Sam 'Mad Dog' Shaw
1994		The Crow as Albrecht
1994		No Escape as Hawkins
1994		Sugar Hill as Lolly Jonas

1993

Wild Palms as Tommy Lazlo

1992		The Ben Stiller Show
1992		Batman: The Animated Series as Security Guard (voice)
1992		The Hand That Rocks the Cradle as Solomon

1990		Broken Badges as Toby Baker
1990		Law & Order as Frank Gibson
1990		Twin Peaks as Colonel Davis

1989		The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
1989		Ghostbusters II as Winston Zeddemore
1989		Tales from the Crypt as Zambini
1989		Collision Course as Shortcut
1989		Leviathan as Justin Jones
1989		Trapper County War as Jefferson Carter

1988		The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission as Joe Hamilton
1988		The Wrong Guys as Dawson

1987		Weeds as Bagdad
1987		Full House as Reggie "The Sandman" Martin

1986		The Last Precinct as Sergeant Lane
1986		The Last Precinct as Night Train

1985		Love on the Run as Lamar
1985		The Insiders as Brewster
1985		The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians as Cyborg / Victor Stone (voice)
1985		California Girls as Ernie

1984		Joy of Sex as Mr. Porter
1984		Ghostbusters as Winston Zeddemore

1983		Two of a Kind as Det. Skaggs
1983		Women of San Quentin as Charles Wilson
1983		Going Berserk as Muhammed Jerome Willy
1983		Webster
1983		Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone as Washington
1983		The A-Team as Cal Freeman

1982		The New Odd Couple as Moses Brown
1982		St. Elsewhere
1982		Penitentiary II as Half Dead

1981		Crazy Times as Harold 'Jazzman' Malloy
1981		A Matter of Life and Death as Mr. Harrison
1981		Flamingo Road
1981		Underground Aces as African General

1980		The Jazz Singer as Heckler
1980		Bosom Buddies
1980		The Octagon as Quinine
1980		White Mama as Counsellor
1980		The $5.20 an Hour Dream as Homer Burden
1980		Skag

1979		Detective School
1979		The Main Event as Killer
1979		Joni as Earl
1979		Highcliffe Manor as Smythe

1978		The White Shadow as Johnson
1978		Diff'rent Strokes
1978		Taxi as Terry Carver
1978		Last of the Good Guys as El Coliph
1978		Fantasy Island as Jamu

1977		Mad Bull as Black Bart
1977		The Incredible Hulk as Lee

1976		The Human Tornado as Bo
1976		Leadbelly as Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)

1974

Little House on the Prairie

1973

Super Friends as Cyborg (voice)

Production

2018

Carl Weber's The Family Business as Executive Producer

Writing

2023

Ghost in the House as Writer