
Age: 80
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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: Reign of The Ripper (1988)
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A year later after Zanorin (David Bowie) was sent back to the underworld and Francine Krueger (Lezlie Deane) was taken to the local asylum after once again, the city was saved by the Ghostbusters. However around May, there have been reports of people going missing at night. Only to turn up brutally murdered and had an inverted pentagram carved in their chest, indicating that a psychotic demon worshipping killer is on the loose, following by a dark presence once again looming over New York. Peter (Bill Murray), Ray (Dan Aykroyd) Egon (Harold Ramis), Winston (Ernie Hudson) along with the new gens such as Andie (Molly Ringwald) Carley (Christine Elise) and Kylie (Winona Ryder) start to investigate the happenings as reports of people dealing with demonic entities taking over people's homes keep popping up. However, things escalate once they started to get letters from someone that's stalking them. The letters get more disturbing as things go on, until they found out that the letters were from serial killer. John Durant (Michael Biehn), who gets possessed by the most notorious killer in history. Jack The Ripper, who found their way through the underworld while Durant was in the midst of his killing spree but another entity has been studying the Ghostbusters for a while, but now it was time to make it's first move as it gave the famous Ripper more power than ever before. Now it's time for the gang to stop Jack once and for all. Will they catch him in time?