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Ernie Hudson
Age
67
Birthday
Dec. 17th, 1945
Born in
Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
Height
6'
Ernie Hudson's Main TV Roles |
Main Movie Roles2012 - Ghostbusters III2009 - Dragonball Evolution 2009 - Lonely Street 2007 - All Hat 2007 - Nobel Son 2006 - Hood Of Horror 2004 - Clifford's Really Big Movie 2003 - Anne B. Real 2000 - Miss Congeniality 1999 - Stealth Fighter 1998 - October 22 1998 - Best of the Best: Without Warning 1997 - Mr. Magoo 1996 - The Substitute 1995 - The Basketball Diaries 1995 - Congo 1994 - Airheads 1994 - The Cowboy Way 1994 - The Crow 1994 - Speechless 1994 - No Escape 1992 - The Hand that Rocks the Cradle 1989 - Leviathan 1989 - Ghostbusters II 1988 - The Wrong Guys 1984 - Ghostbusters 1983 - Spacehunter : Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 1983 - Two of a Kind 1983 - Going Berserk 1980 - The Octagon 1980 - The Jazz Singer 1979 - The Main Event |
As a child growing up in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Ernie Hudson wrote short stories, poems and songs, always thinking that his words might one day come to life on stage. After a short stint in the Marine Corps, he moved to Detroit where he became the resident playwright at Concept East, the oldest black theatre in the country. In addition, he enrolled at Wayne State University to further develop his writing and acting skills and found time to establish the Actors' Emsemble Theatre, where he and other talented young black writers directed and appeared in their own works. After graduating with a B.A. from Wayne State, he was rewarded a full scholarship to the M.F.A. program at the prestigious Yale School of Drama. While performing with the school's repertory company, he was asked to appear in the Los Angeles production of Lonne Elder III's musical "Daddy Goodness," which led to his meeting Gordon Parks, who gave Hudson the costarring role in his first feature film, Leadbelly (1976). Unfortunately, all that followed "Leadbelly" was a year of "bit parts and some harsh lessons about Hollywood," which led Hudson to enroll in another academic program at the University of Minnesota that would lead to a Ph.D. Through his experience, he learned another vital lesson: "There are those who spend their lives studying it and those who spend their lives doing it." Hudson definitely wanted to be in the second group. Keeping in mind this self-revelation, Hudson accepted the starring role of Jack Jefferson in the Minneapolis Theatre In The Round's production of "The Great White Hope," a role that he put "everything he had into," including shaving his head. A series of starring and guest roles followed on such television shows as "Fantasy Island" (1978), "The Incredible Hulk" (1978), "Little House on the Prairie" (1974), "Diff'rent Strokes" (1978), "Taxi" (1978), "One Day at a Time" (1975), "Gimme a Break!" (1981), "The A-Team" (1983) and "Webster" (1983), as well as costarring roles in the TV movies White Mama (1980) (TV) with Bette Davis, "Roots: The Next Generations" (1979), Women of San Quentin (1983) (TV), California Girls (1985) (TV), Mad Bull (1977) (TV) and Love on the Run (1985) (TV). Other feature film credits include The Jazz Singer (1980), The Main Event (1979), Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), Penitentiary II (1982), Going Berserk (1983), Joy of Sex (1984) and, of course, the mega-hit Ghost Busters (1984).
TRIVIA:
- Enjoys writing.
- Hosted Cinemax's "Summer of a Thousand Movies".
- Graduated from Wayne State University.
- Father of actor 'Ernie Hudson Jr.' (qv). Father and son have appeared together in the HBO series "Oz".
- Admits that two of his heroes growing up were Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee. He later went on to star with the late Brandon Lee in The Crow.
- Raised by his grandmother.
- His mother died when he was two months old.
- He was also involved with the U.S. Marine Corps.
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