Paul Winfield

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Winfield was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended four colleges: the University of Portland, Stanford University, Los Angeles City College, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He was openly gay in his private life, though he remained discreet about this fact in public.
Winfield was the cousin of one-time TOS guest star William Marshall. The two appeared together in the 1977 thriller Twilight’s Last Gleaming. Marshall passed away in 2003.

Winfield, who battled obesity and diabetes, died of a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 64 in Los Angeles. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills with his partner of thirty years, architect Charles Gillan, Jr., who died of bone cancer in 2002.