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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: Recurring Curses (1987)
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Two months after The Ghostbusters along with help of the famous Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), Kristen Parker(Patricia Arquette), Joey Crusel (Rodney Eastman) and Roland Kincaid (Ken Sagoes) helped them defeat Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), sending him back to Hell. Peter (Bill Murray), Ray (Dan Aykroyd), Egon (Harold Ramis) and Winston. (Ernie Hudson) take time off from their job while Andie Peck (Molly Ringwald) is the local librarian next door ever since the incident with Krueger even shook her father to his very core to finally believing his daughter and the busters themselves. However, evil forces were gradually blooming as stakes were growing higher without anyone knowing. One of the two evils is in the form of the right hand man of Satan himself, Zanorin (David Bowie) and the other is sharp witted yet unhinged serial killer, Francine Krueger. (Lezlie Deane) Freddy's child that's hellbent to bring revenge, chaos and death upon the Ghostbusters, both the legends and new gens. Francine made a deal with Zanorin to give her powers like her father and like that, more deaths start to pile up. Now it's time for the Ghostbusters along with Andie and Kylie, joined by local punker misfit Carley Simmons (Christine Elise) who lived in Springwood prior to moving into the big apple to stop both Satan's right hand man and Krueger's psychopathic offspring, but something more sinister was brewing. Will the saviors of New York stop the oncoming beings of evil in time?..
