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Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Potts in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

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Ernie Hudson, Nanrisa Lee, Raymond Lee, Mason Alexander Park, and Caitlin Bassett in Quantum Leap (2022)

Ernie Hudson and Nanrisa Lee in Quantum Leap (2022)

Ernie Hudson in The Basketball Diaries (1995)

Ernie Hudson and Lily Tomlin in Grace and Frankie (2015)

Ernie Hudson in The Man in the Silo (2016)

Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, and Billy Bryan in Ghostbusters (1984)

Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, William Atherton, Joe Cirillo, David Margulies, Norman Matlock, and Joe Schmieg in Ghostbusters (1984)

Ernie Hudson, Justin Kirk, and Caitlin Stasey in APB (2017)

Ernie Hudson and Justin Kirk in APB (2017)

Ernie Hudson, Justin Kirk, Abraham Benrubi, and Caitlin Stasey in APB (2017)

Ernie Hudson, Justin Kirk, Taylor Handley, Nestor Serrano, Caitlin Stasey, Natalie Martinez, and Tamberla Perry in APB (2017)

Rebecca De Mornay and Ernie Hudson in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)

Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Henry J. Deutschendorf II, and William T. Deutschendorf in Ghostbusters II (1989)

Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson in Ghostbusters (1984)

Ernie Hudson and Robin Givens in God's Not Dead 2 (2016)

Mira Sorvino, Peter Fonda, Ernie Hudson, Amy Aquino, Neil Brown Jr., Tommy Davidson, Col Needham, and O'Shea Jackson Jr. in IMDb on the Scene (2015)

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' Ensemble 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 doctorate program at the University of Minnesota. He did not complete the program. 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 (1977), The Incredible Hulk (1977), 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) with Bette Davis, Roots: The Next Generations (1979), Women of San Quentin (1983), California Girls (1985), Mad Bull (1977) and Love on the Run (1985). 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 Ghostbusters (1984).

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