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Ernie Hudson (b. December 17 1945, Benton Harbor, Michigan) is an American actor.

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 company 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, before enrolling and subsequently graduating from Yale School of Drama.

He played Winston Zeddemore, a firefighter who enlists with the Ghostbusters in the 1984 film Ghostbusters, as well as Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz. On Oz, his son Ernie Hudson Jr. co-starred with him as Muslim inmate Hamid Khan. He is also known as Harry McDonald, the FBI superior of Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality.

One of Mr. Hudson's early films was in 'Penitentiary' in the late '70s starring Leon Issac Kennedy.

He was also in the Stargate episode Ethon as "Pernaux".

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