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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.
Ernie Hudson
Winston Zeddemore
for Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters: A Nightmare in New York (1986)
Suggested by themaniax
It's October in New York, Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) are still individually recovering from the 1984 incident where Gozer came into their dimension, nearly destroying the city and the world. However, one night changed into something much darker. Reports of some of the local teenagers dying in their sleep start popping up around the city. Ray starts to dig into some research on the ongoing situation, finding similar incidents in Springwood, Ohio and all were connected by one name that stood out, the child murdering dream stalker. Freddy Krueger, later that night Peter Venkman also began to suffer nightmares before The Springwood Slasher began to target Ray, Egon, Winston and everyone around them as now the Ghostbusters have a foe that is more sinister than anything that they have faced. Egon dug into deeper research and found one of the many survivors that Krueger had targeted, Nancy Thompson. (Heather Langenkamp) who just happened to be living in the city away from Springwood, Nancy called for some help back home as well, three individuals who have been holed up in Westin Hills that have encountered Krueger before. Now with the Ghostbusters and the survivor of Krueger's reign of terror in place with the help of some of Elm Street's last children. Can they stop the maniacal dream demon once and for all, or will New York have another Elm Street that Freddy will dwell?..
