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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 17, 1945
Place of Birth
Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
Also Known As
- 어니 허드슨
- Ерні Хадсон
- ارنی هادسون
- Earnest L. Hudson
Ernie Hudson
2.9 Popularity
Biography
Earnest Lee Hudson (born December 17, 1945) 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
0.0
Combat Carl (voice)
Toy Story 5
2026
6.9
Rev. Edwin Peters
Boston Blue
2025
7.8
Self - Actor (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
0.0
Sitter 10
FEEL
2025
5.2
Marlon (voice)
Angry Birds Mystery Island
2024
6.5
Winston Zeddemore
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024
6.0
Joseph
The Retirement Plan
2023
6.1
Hank
Prisoner's Daughter
2023
6.7
Coach Phil Peretti
Champions
2023
7.1
Herbert 'Magic' Williams
Quantum Leap
2022
Credits
Toy Story 5
as Combat Carl (voice)
2026
0.0
Boston Blue
as Rev. Edwin Peters
2025
6.9
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2025
7.8
FEEL
as Sitter 10
2025
0.0
Angry Birds Mystery Island
as Marlon (voice)
2024
5.2
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
as Winston Zeddemore
2024
6.5
The Retirement Plan
as Joseph
2023
6.0
Prisoner's Daughter
as Hank
2023
6.1
Champions
as Coach Phil Peretti
2023
6.7
Quantum Leap
as Herbert 'Magic' Williams
2022
7.1
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
5.6
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
3.0
In Search of Tomorrow
as Self - Interviewee
2022
6.6
Beebo Saves Christmas
as Santa Claus (voice)
2021
6.5
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
as Winston Zeddemore
2021
7.3
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
as Grini Millegi (voice)
2021
8.2
Redemption Day
as Ed Paxton
2021
5.9
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
as Prince Humperdinck
2020
7.5
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
5.5
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
as Self
2020
6.9
Adventure Force 5
as Dr. Lawrence Abel
2019
5.3
The Movies That Made Us
as Winston Zeddemore (archive footage)
2019
7.2
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Infinity Train
as Atticus (voice)
2019
8.4
City on a Hill
as Franklin Ward
2019
7.2
L.A.'s Finest
as Joseph Vaughn
2019
7.0
The Masked Singer
as Self - Special Guest
2019
7.7
Carl Weber's The Family Business
as L.C. Duncan
2018
8.4
Nappily Ever After
as Richard Jones
2018
7.2
High & Outside: A Baseball Noir
as Sanzone
2018
1.0
APB
as Ned Conrad
2017
6.5
Heaven Sent
as Donatello
2016
6.3
Infinity Train
as Atticus (voice)
2016
8.3
Graves
as Jacob Mann
2016
5.0
MacGyver
as Milton Bozer
2016
7.3
Lethal Weapon
as Hank Peterson
2016
7.3
Spaceman
as Joe
2016
5.8
Ghostbusters
as Uncle Bill
2016
5.4
Ghostheads
as Self
2016
5.9
God's Not Dead 2
as Judge Stennis
2016
6.1
Batman: Bad Blood
as Lucius Fox (voice)
2016
7.0
Angie Tribeca
as Pete Tribeca
2016
6.4
The Man in the Silo
as Marcus Wells
2016
0.0
Ballers
as Mr. Hagerty
2015
6.8
Grace and Frankie
as Jacob
2015
7.7
Gallows Road
as Bob Collins
2015
7.2
Horror Icon: Inside Michael's Mask with Tony Moran
as Self
2015
0.0
Merry Ex-Mas
as Pastor Ed
2014
3.8
You're Not You
as John
2014
7.4
Touched
as Dr. Beck
2014
6.2
Scorpion
as Brooks
2014
8.2
To Hell and Back
as Joe
2014
0.0
The Grim Sleeper
as Detective Gerry Claymar
2014
4.9
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Showing Up
as Self
2014
9.2
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
The Last Song
as Guest
2014
0.0
Dear Secret Santa
as Pastor Avery
2013
6.0
Doonby
as Leroy Jackson
2013
4.3
The Millers
as Walter
2013
5.9
Ironside
as Bludso
2013
5.1
Turning Point
as Joe Johnson
2013
0.0
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
as Percy
2013
6.9
Battledogs
as Max Stevens
2013
4.4
The Last Leg
as Self
2013
5.7
Ambush at Dark Canyon
as Cyrus Parker
2012
4.4
Arrow
as Roy Stewart
2012
6.8
Deer Crossing
as Captain Bailey
2012
2.4
Guys with Kids
as The Judge
2012
5.6
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!
as Pedro (voice)
2012
6.3
The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy
as Ivan Stumpwater
2012
5.2
Beautiful People
as Jack
2012
0.0
Scandal
as Commander Randolph Boles
2012
7.2
Comic Book Men
as Self
2012
6.8
Key & Peele
as Dad
2012
7.6
Once Upon a Time
as King Poseidon
2011
7.4
Hart of Dixie
as Ernie Hayes
2011
7.3
Underground Entertainment: The Movie
as Ernie
2011
7.2
Franklin & Bash
as Judge Lawrence Perry
2011
7.2
Deep Blue Breath
as Lord Vater (voice)
2011
0.0
Game of Death
as Clarence
2011
4.9
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
as Pedro
2011
5.9
Transformers: Prime
as Agent William Fowler (voice)
2010
8.1
Nowhere to Land
as Danny Gorlin
2010
5.5
Blue Bloods
as Darryl Ward
2010
7.8
Stasis
as Stranger
2010
2.8
Rizzoli & Isles
as Admiral Frost
2010
7.9
Hot in Cleveland
as Ernie Hudson
2010
7.3
Machete Joe
as Sheriff Taylor
2010
1.5
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
as Anthony Vejar
2010
5.3
White Collar
as Mr. Jeffries
2009
8.2
Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Self
2009
7.3
Modern Family
as Miles
2009
7.9
Meteor
as Gen. Brasser
2009
6.2
Pastor Brown
as Deacon Harold Todd
2009
5.4
Dragonball Evolution
as Master Mutaito
2009
2.9
Fatal Secrets
as Detective Carter
2009
3.4
Lonely Street
as Captain Morgan
2009
4.4
Childrens Hospital
as Hubert McGraw
2008
7.1
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
as Dr. Ken Fields
2008
6.9
Final Approach
as Agent Lorenzo Dawson
2008
5.0
Private Practice
as Captain Frank
2007
7.5
All Hat
as Jackson Jones
2007
3.1
Nobel Son
as Bill Canega
2007
6.0
Torchwood
as Stuart Owens
2006
7.3
Heroes
as Captain Lubbock
2006
7.5
The Ron Clark Story
as Principal Turner
2006
7.5
Psych
as William Guster
2006
7.9
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
as Roscoe
2006
4.8
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Blake Rische
2006
5.9
🎬
Halfway Decent
as Tom
2005
3.5
Criminal Minds
as Lt. Al Garner
2005
8.3
How I Met Your Mother
as Ernie Hudson
2005
8.1
Bones
as David Barron
2005
8.2
Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story
as Perry Beasley
2005
7.3
Grey's Anatomy
as Brad McDougall
2005
8.2
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
as Harry McDonald
2005
5.7
Robot Chicken
as Detective Ernie / Judge Hudson Jr. / Justin's Dad (voice)
2005
7.7
Lackawanna Blues
as Dick Barrymore
2005
5.7
Confessions of an Action Star
as Self / Commander
2005
4.1
Desperate Housewives
as Detective Ridley
2004
7.9
Clifford's Really Big Movie
as P.T. (voice)
2004
5.9
Cold Case
as Moses Jones
2003
7.8
10-8: Officers on Duty
as Senior Deputy John Henry Barnes
2003
7.9
Las Vegas
as Bob Casey
2003
7.0
Anne B. Real
as Principal
2003
3.6
Without a Trace
as Manny Aybar
2002
7.2
Everwood
as Bill Hoover
2002
7.6
A Town Without Christmas
as Ted
2001
5.8
Crossing Jordan
as Colonel Wirth
2001
7.2
Walking Shadow
as Hawk
2001
3.5
Miss Congeniality
as Harry McDonald
2000
6.5
Paper Bullets
as Detective Ron Mills
2000
3.1
Everything's Jake
as Jake
2000
0.0
The Watcher
as FBI Special Agent in Charge Mike Ibby
2000
5.1
Red Letters
as Detective Glen Teal
2000
4.4
A Stranger in the Kingdom
as Rev. Walter Andrews
1999
2.8
Shark Attack
as Lawrence Rhodes
1999
5.1
Interceptors
as Major
1999
4.6
Hijack
as Senator Douglas Wilson
1999
4.4
Michael Jordan: An American Hero
1999
5.9
Stealth Fighter
as President Westwood
1999
4.0
October 22
as Arthur
1998
6.5
Butter
as Curtis '8-Ball' Harris
1998
2.8
Best of the Best 4: Without Warning
as Detective Gresko
1998
5.8
Mr. Magoo
as Agent CIA Gus Anders
1997
4.5
Clover
as Gaten Hill
1997
4.5
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Stargate SG-1
as Pernaux
1997
8.3
Fakin' Da Funk
as Joe Lee
1997
5.7
Oz
as Leo Glynn
1997
8.0
Levitation
as Downbeat
1997
6.0
Operation Delta Force
as Major Tipton
1997
3.7
The Cherokee Kid
as Nat Love aka Deadwood Dick
1996
5.3
Just Your Luck
as Willie
1996
3.5
Superman: The Animated Series
as Professor Felix (voice)
1996
7.6
For Which He Stands
as DEA Agent Baxter
1996
6.0
Tornado!
as Dr. Joe Branson
1996
5.8
The Substitute
as Claude Rolle
1996
6.9
Congo
as Captain Monroe Kelly
1995
5.6
The Basketball Diaries
as Reggie
1995
7.4
Speechless
as Ventura
1994
5.9
Touched by an Angel
as Norm McCloud
1994
7.2
ER
as Colonel James Gallant
1994
7.8
Airheads
as Sergeant O'Malley
1994
6.2
The Cowboy Way
as Officer Sam 'Mad Dog' Shaw
1994
5.7
The Crow
as Albrecht
1994
7.5
No Escape
as Hawkins
1994
6.3
Sugar Hill
as Lolly Jonas
1994
5.6
Wild Palms
as Tommy Lazlo
1993
6.2
The Ben Stiller Show
1992
4.7
Angel Street
as Thurman Nickens
1992
6.0
Batman: The Animated Series
as Security Guard (voice)
1992
8.6
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
as Solomon
1992
6.9
Broken Badges
as Toby Baker
1990
6.0
Cop Rock
as Cmdr. Warren Osborne
1990
4.0
Law & Order
as Frank Gibson
1990
7.4
Twin Peaks
as Colonel Davis
1990
8.3
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
1989
7.0
Ghostbusters II
as Winston Zeddemore
1989
6.6
Tales from the Crypt
as Zambini
1989
8.0
Collision Course
as Shortcut
1989
4.1
Leviathan
as Justin Jones
1989
6.0
Trapper County War
as Jefferson Carter
1989
3.5
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
as Joe Hamilton
1988
5.1
The Wrong Guys
as Dawson
1988
5.5
Weeds
as Bagdad
1987
5.1
Full House
as Reggie "The Sandman" Martin
1987
7.6
The Last Precinct
as Sergeant Lane
1986
5.0
The Last Precinct
as Night Train
1986
0.0
Love on the Run
as Lamar
1985
1.0
The Insiders
as Brewster
1985
5.0
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
as Cyborg (voice)
1985
8.2
California Girls
as Ernie
1985
3.4
Joy of Sex
as Mr. Porter
1984
4.0
Ghostbusters
as Winston Zeddemore
1984
7.5
Two of a Kind
as Det. Skaggs
1983
5.9
Women of San Quentin
as Charles Wilson
1983
1.0
Going Berserk
as Muhammed Jerome Willy
1983
5.0
Webster
1983
5.8
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
as Washington
1983
5.3
The A-Team
as Cal Freeman
1983
7.5
The New Odd Couple
as Moses Brown
1982
5.0
St. Elsewhere
as Jerry Close
1982
5.6
Penitentiary II
as Half Dead
1982
4.0
Crazy Times
as Harold 'Jazzman' Malloy
1981
0.0
A Matter of Life and Death
as Mr. Harrison
1981
0.0
Flamingo Road
1981
6.1
Underground Aces
as African General
1981
4.4
The Jazz Singer
as Heckler
1980
5.9
Bosom Buddies
1980
6.4
The Octagon
as Quinine
1980
5.0
White Mama
as Counsellor
1980
8.0
The $5.20 an Hour Dream
as Homer Burden
1980
0.0
Skag
1980
0.0
Detective School
1979
5.5
The Main Event
as Killer
1979
5.3
Joni
as Earl
1979
5.9
🎬
Highcliffe Manor
as Smythe
1979
5.0
Roots: The Next Generations
as Muslim at Door
1979
7.5
The White Shadow
as Johnson
1978
7.1
Diff'rent Strokes
1978
7.1
Taxi
as Terry Carver
1978
7.2
🎬
Last of the Good Guys
as El Coliph
1978
0.0
Fantasy Island
as Jamu
1978
6.4
Mad Bull
as Black Bart
1977
0.0
The Incredible Hulk
as Lee
1977
7.2
Man from Atlantis IV: The Disappearances
as Minion
1977
7.0
The Human Tornado
as Bo
1976
6.1
Leadbelly
as Archie
1976
6.1
Little House on the Prairie
as William Thomas
1974
7.9
Super Friends
as Cyborg (voice)
1973
7.6
🎬
Famous
N/A
0.0
🎬
Sisters in Italy
N/A
0.0
Mr. Beebee
as Wayne Proctor
N/A
0.0
🎬
Beautiful People
as Jack
N/A
0.0
Oswald: Down The Rabbit Hole
as Oswald Jebediah Coleman
N/A
0.0
🎬
Deepest, Darkest
N/A
0.0