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Ossie Davis

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Age87
GenderMale
Birthday1917-12-17
Died2005-02-04
BirthplaceCogdell, Georgia, USA

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Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, director, writer, and activist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ossie Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Acting
132

Writing
7

Directing
5

70%

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

2022

Self (archive footage)

36%

Folk Britannia

2006 — 1 episode

Self (archival footage)

45%

The Peace!

2005

Self

0%

The History Makers: Success

2005

Self

0%

Unstoppable

2005

Self

80%

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

2005

Self

61%

She Hate Me

2004

Judge Buchanan

33%

Proud

2004

Lorenzo DuFau

67%

Baadasssss!

2004

Granddad

10%

TV Revolution

2004 — 2 episodes

44%

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

2004

Self

77%

The L Word

2004 — 4 episodes

Melvin Porter

70%

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

2003

Self

60%

The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars

2003

Narrator

70%

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

2003

Himself

88%

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

69%

Deacons for Defense

2003

Reverend 'Rev' Gregory

0%

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

2002

Self

69%

Bubba Ho-tep

2002

John F. "Jack" Kennedy

78%

Feast of All Saints

2001

Jean-Jacques

0%

Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore

2001

Narrator

46%

The Legend of the Candy Cane

2001

Julius (voice)

10%

Here's to Life!

2000

Duncan Cox

67%

Dinosaur

2000

Yar (voice)

45%

Finding Buck McHenry

2000

Buck McHenry

50%

The Unfinished Journey

1999

Narrator (voice)

74%

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

1999

Caretaker

60%

The Soul Collector

1999

Mordecai

81%

Third Watch

1999 — 3 episodes

Mr. Parker

75%

The Secret Path

1999

Too Tall

0%

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

1999

Self

67%

A Vow to Cherish

1999

Alexander Billman

59%

Doctor Dolittle

1998

Archer Dolittle

0%

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

1998

Self

0%

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

1998

Self

79%

12 Angry Men

1997

Juror 2

77%

4 Little Girls

1997

Self - Actor and Playwright

0%

Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers

1997

Narrator

75%

Miss Evers' Boys

1997

Mr. Evers

70%

Thomas Jefferson

1997 — 2 episodes

Narrator (voice)

0%

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

1997

Self

61%

I'm Not Rappaport

1996

Midge Carter

71%

Get on the Bus

1996

Jeremiah

57%

Promised Land

1996 — 3 episodes

Erasmus Jones

75%

The West

1996 — 9 episodes

Self, John R. Gills (voice), Self

0%

Ripper

1996

Ben Dodds

72%

JAG

1995 — 1 episode

Terrence Minnerly

30%

The Client

1995 — 21 episodes

Judge Harry Roosevelt

20%

The Android Affair

1995

Dr. Winston

10%

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

1995

Uncle Phil

68%

Touched by an Angel

1994 — 6 episodes

Erasmus Jones, Gabriel

84%

Baseball

1994 — 9 episodes

Various (voice)

71%

The Client

1994

Harry Roosevelt

10%

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

1994

Uncle Phil

10%

The Stand

1994

Judge Richard Farris

69%

The Stand

1994 — 4 episodes

Judge Richard Farris

63%

The Stand

1994

Judge Richard Farris

0%

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

1994

Self

10%

Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World

1994

Narrator

74%

Grumpy Old Men

1993

Chuck

54%

Cop and ½

1993

Detective in Squad Room

10%

Goin' Back to T-Town

1993

Narrator

66%

Alex Haley's Queen

1993 — 3 episodes

Parson Dick

90%

The Ernest Green Story

1993

Grandfather

37%

Lincoln

1992

Frederick Douglas (voice)

77%

Malcolm X

1992

Eulogy Performer (voice)

71%

Gladiator

1992

Noah

40%

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

Self

66%

Jungle Fever

1991

Reverend Purify

53%

Evening Shade

1990 — 100 episodes

Ponder Blue

64%

Joe Versus the Volcano

1990

Marshall

30%

The Red Shoes

1990

65%

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

1989

Self

78%

Do the Right Thing

1989

Da Mayor

44%

B.L. Stryker

1989 — 12 episodes

Oz Jackson

70%

School Daze

1988

Coach Odom

71%

American Masters

1986 — 1 episode

Self

10%

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

1986

Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)

54%

Avenging Angel

1985

Capt. Harry Moradian

0%

Tyler Texas Black Film Collection

1985

Himself

50%

Harry & Son

1984

Raymond

10%

Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood

1984

Narrator

27%

The House of God

1984

Dr. Sanders

78%

Reading Rainbow

1983 — 1 episode

Himself - Narrator (voice)

45%

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

1981

Chuffy Russell

39%

Death of a Prophet

1981

10%

All God's Children

1980

Blaine Whitfield

50%

Freedom Road

1979

Narrator

64%

Hot Stuff

1979

Captain John Geiberger

68%

Roots: The Next Generations

1979 — 7 episodes

Dad Jones

0%

Freedom Man

1979

Benjamin Banneker

24%

King

1978 — 3 episodes

Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

76%

King

1978

Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

0%

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

1977

Dr. Fredericks

75%

The Tenth Level

1976

Reed

0%

Countdown at Kusini

1976

Ernest Motapo

77%

Let's Do It Again

1975

Elder Johnson

0%

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

1975

Narrator

76%

Malcolm X

1972

Eulogy (voice)

10%

The Sheriff

1971

James Lucas

72%

Night Gallery

1970 — 1 episode

Osmund Portifoy

35%

Kongi's Harvest

1970

Narrator

65%

Night Gallery

1969

Osmond Portifoy

30%

Slaves

1969

Luke

60%

Sam Whiskey

1969

Jed Hooker

40%

Teacher, Teacher

1969

Charles Carter

70%

The Fall

1969

71%

Hawaii Five-O

1968 — 1 episode

Ramon Borelle

71%

The Scalphunters

1968

Joseph Lee

10%

The Name of the Game

1968 — 1 episode

Kubani

10%

Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class

1968

Narrator

40%

The Outsider

1967

Lt. Wagner

55%

Black Liberation

1967

Narrator

73%

A Man Called Adam

1966

Nelson Davis

16%

Run for Your Life

1965 — 3 episodes

Frankie Morton, Dave Corbett, Sgt. Dave Corbett

10%

The Sun... the Sand... the Hill

1965

Jason King (archival footage), Jason King (archive footage)

76%

The Hill

1965

Jacko King

53%

Shock Treatment

1964

Capshaw

66%

The Cardinal

1963

Father Gillis

10%

The Great Adventure

1963 — 1 episode

John Ross

74%

The Fugitive

1963 — 1 episode

Lt. Johnny Gaines

35%

Gone Are the Days!

1963

Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson

10%

Hands of Inge

1962

Narrator (voice)

33%

The Defenders

1961 — 8 episodes

Nixie, Officer Bond, District Attorney, Assistant District Attorney, District Attorney Daniel Jackson

10%

John Brown's Raid

1960

Dangerfield Newby

71%

Bonanza

1959 — 1 episode

Sam Davis

52%

Tony Awards

1956 — 1 episode

Self - Presenter

44%

Hallmark Hall Of Fame

1951 — 1 episode

Charles Carter

66%

Fourteen Hours

1951

Cab Driver (uncredited)

73%

No Way Out

1950

John Brooks (uncredited)

10%

Kraft Television Theatre

1947 — 1 episode

The Emperor Jones

0%

Lena Horne: In her Own Words

Released

himself

0%

Countdown at Kusini

1976

Director

61%

Gordon's War

1973

Director

60%

Black Girl

1972

Director

66%

Cotton Comes to Harlem

1970

Director

35%

Kongi's Harvest

1970

Director