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Ossie Davis

January 07, 2023

Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, director, writer, and activist.[1][2][3] He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his death.[4] He and his wife were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame; were awarded the National Medal of Arts[5] and were recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994.

Ossie Davis
Davis in 2000
Born
Raiford Chatman Davis

(1917-12-18)December 18, 1917
Cogdell, Georgia, U.S.
DiedFebruary 4, 2005(2005-02-04) (aged 87)
Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • poet
  • playwright
  • author
  • activist
Years active1939–2005
Spouse
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(m. 1948)​
Children3, including Guy Davis

Early life

Raiford Chatman Davis was born in Cogdell, Georgia, the son of Kince Charles Davis, a railway construction engineer, and his wife Laura (née Cooper; July 9, 1898 – June 6, 2004).[6][7] He inadvertently became known as "Ossie" when his birth certificate was being filed and his mother's pronunciation of his name as "R. C. Davis" was misheard by the courthouse clerk in Clinch County, Ga.[8] Davis experienced racism from an early age when the KKK threatened to shoot his father, whose job they felt was too advanced for a black man to have. His siblings included scientist William Conan Davis, social worker Essie Davis Morgan, pharmacist Kenneth Curtis Davis, and biology teacher James Davis.[9]

Following the wishes of his parents, he attended Howard University but dropped out in 1939 to fulfill his desire for an acting career in New York after a recommendation by Alain Locke; he later attended Columbia University School of General Studies. His acting career began in 1939 with the Rose McClendon Players in Harlem. During World War II, Davis served in the United States Army in the Medical Corps. He made his film debut in 1950 in the Sidney Poitier film No Way Out.

Career

 
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1951

When Davis wanted to pursue a career in acting, he ran into the usual roadblocks that black people suffered at that time as they generally could only portray stereotypical characters such as Stepin Fetchit. Instead, he tried to follow the example of Sidney Poitier and play more distinguished characters. When he found it necessary to play a Pullman porter or a butler, he played those characters realistically, not as a caricature.

In addition to acting, Davis, along with Melvin Van Peebles and Gordon Parks, was one of the notable black directors of his generation: he directed movies such as Gordon's War, Black Girl and Cotton Comes to Harlem. Along with Bill Cosby and Poitier, Davis was one of a handful of black actors able to find commercial success while avoiding stereotypical roles prior to 1970, which also included a significant role in the 1965 movie The Hill alongside Sean Connery plus roles in The Cardinal and The Scalphunters. However, Davis never had the tremendous commercial or critical success that Cosby and Poitier enjoyed. As a playwright, Davis wrote Paul Robeson: All-American, which is frequently performed in theatre programs for young audiences.

In 1976, Davis appeared on Muhammad Ali's novelty album for children, The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay.[10]

 
Ossie Davis at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.

Davis found recognition late in his life by working in several of director Spike Lee's films, including Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, She Hate Me and Get on the Bus. He also found work as a commercial voice-over artist and served as the narrator of the early-1990s CBS sitcom Evening Shade, starring Burt Reynolds, where he also played one of the residents of a small southern town.

In 1999, Davis appeared as a theater caretaker in the Trans-Siberian Orchestra film The Ghosts of Christmas Eve, which was released on DVD two years later.

For many years, he hosted the annual National Memorial Day Concert from Washington, D.C.

He voiced Anansi the spider on the PBS children's television series Sesame Street in its animation segments.

Davis's last role was a several episode guest role on the Showtime drama series The L Word, as a father struggling with the acceptance of his daughter Bette (Jennifer Beals) parenting a child with her lesbian partner. In his final episodes, his character took ill and died. His wife Ruby Dee was present during the filming of his own death scene. That episode, which aired shortly after Davis's own death, aired with a dedication to the actor.[11] After Davis's passing, actor Dennis Haysbert portrayed him in the 2015 film Experimenter.

Honors

In 1989, Ossie Davis and his wife, actress/activist Ruby Dee, were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame. In 1995, they were awarded the National Medal of Arts, the nation's highest honor conferred to an individual artist on behalf of the country and presented in a White House ceremony by the President of the United States.[5] In 2004, they were recipients of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors.[12] According to the Kennedy Center Honors:

"The Honors recipients recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts— whether in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures, or television — are selected by the Center's Board of Trustees. The primary criterion in the selection process is excellence. The Honors are not designated by art form or category of artistic achievement; the selection process, over the years, has produced balance among the various arts and artistic disciplines."[13]

In 1994, Davis was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[14]

Activism

 
Davis with activist and opera star Stacey Robinson (left) in 1998

Davis and Dee were well known as civil rights activists during the Civil Rights Movement and were close friends of Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr. and other icons of the era. They were involved in organizing the 1963 civil rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and served as its emcees. Davis, alongside Ahmed Osman, delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Malcolm X.[15] He re-read part of this eulogy at the end of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X. He also delivered a stirring tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, at a memorial in New York's Central Park the day after King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

Personal life

 
Davis and Dee

In 1948, Davis married actress Ruby Dee, whom he had met on the set of Robert Ardrey's 1946 play Jeb. In their joint autobiography With Ossie and Ruby, they described their decision to have an open marriage, later changing their minds.[16] In the mid-1960s they moved to the New York suburb of New Rochelle, where they remained ever after.[17][18] Their son Guy Davis is a blues musician and former actor, who appeared in the film Beat Street (1984) and the daytime soap opera One Life to Live. Their daughters are Nora Davis Day and Hasna Muhammad.

Death

Davis was found dead in a Miami Beach hotel room on February 4, 2005. He was 87 years old. An official cause of death was not released, but he was known to have had heart problems.[19] His ashes were interred at Ferncliff Cemetery.

Davis's funeral was held in New York City on February 12, 2005. The line to enter The Riverside Church, located on the edge of Harlem, stretched for several blocks, with a thousand or more members of the public unable to attend as the church filled to its 2,100 capacity.[20] Speakers included Davis's children and grandchildren, as well as Alan Alda, Burt Reynolds, Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Angela Bassett, Spike Lee, Attallah Shabazz, Tavis Smiley, Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez, Harry Belafonte, and former president Bill Clinton, among many others.[21] Wynton Marsalis performed a musical tribute. Burt Reynolds, who early in his career had worked with Davis, said "Ossie Davis took the bad parts of the South out of me.... I know what a man is because of Ossie Davis." Ms. Shabazz, oldest daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, spoke lovingly of the man she and her five sisters called Uncle Ossie, saying he had provided exceptional support to her and her sisters after her father's assassination. Bill Clinton arrived midway through the service, and said from the pulpit "I asked to be seated in the back. I would proudly ride on the back of Ossie Davis's bus any day," adding that Davis "would have made a great president."[22]

Delivering the eulogy, Harry Belafonte said: Ossie Davis "embraced the greatest forces of our times. Paul Robeson, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Philip Randolph, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and so many, many more. At the time of one of our most anxious and conflicted moments, when 'Our America' was torn apart by seething issues of race, Ossie paused, at the tomb of one of our noblest warriors, and in the eulogy he delivered, insured that history would clearly understand the voice of Black people, and what Malcolm X meant to us in the African-American struggle for freedom.... It is hard to fathom that we will no longer be able to call on his wisdom, his humor, his loyalty and his moral strength to guide us in the choices that are yet to be made and the battles that are yet to be fought. But how fortunate we were to have him as long as we did."[23]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video game

Directing

Theatre

Discography

  • Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 1: (Folkways Records, 1966)
  • Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 2: (Folkways, 1966)
  • Frederick Douglass' The Meaning of July 4 for the Negro: (Folkways, 1975)
  • Frederick Douglass' Speeches inc. The Dred Scott Decision: (Folkways, 1976)

Books

  • Davis, Ossie (1961). Purlie Victorious. New York: Samuel French Inc. Plays. ISBN 978-0-573-61435-4.
  • Davis, Ossie (1977). Escape to Freedom: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass. New York: Samuel French. ISBN 978-0-573-65031-4.
  • Davis, Ossie (1982). Langston. New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN 978-0-440-04634-9.
  • Davis, Ossie; Dee, Ruby (1984). Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears (Audio). Caedmon. ISBN 978-0-694-51187-7.
  • Davis, Ossie (1992). Just Like Martin. New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. ISBN 978-0-671-73202-8.
  • Davis, Ossie; Dee, Ruby (1998). With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-688-15396-0.
  • Davis, Ossie (2006). Dee, Ruby (ed.). Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-416-52549-3.

References

  1. ^ Ossie Davis – Awards IMDb. 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2012
  2. ^ Ossie Davis Television Credits 2012-04-23 at the Wayback Machine Official Website of Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee. 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2012
  3. ^ Books 2012-04-23 at the Wayback Machine Official Website of Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee. 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2012
  4. ^ Dagan, Carmel Oscar-Nominated Actress Ruby Dee Dies at 91. Variety. June 12, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2016
  5. ^ a b Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts 2013-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Ossie Davis Biography". filmreference. 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
  7. ^ "Davis, Laura Cooper". The Journal News. White Plains, New York. June 9, 2004. Archived from the original on January 30, 2013.
  8. ^ "Ossie Davis Biography". IMDb. 2008. Retrieved 2007-01-11.
  9. ^ Davis, William C. (1 February 2013). (PDF). HistoryMakers.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2017.
  10. ^ Heller, Jason (June 6, 2016). "Remembering Muhammad Ali's Trippy, Anti-Cavity Kids' Record". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 24, 2016.
  11. ^ Severo, Richard; Martin, Douglas (5 February 2005). "Ossie Davis, Actor, Writer and Eloquent Champion of Racial Justice, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-02-06.
  12. ^ Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine Kennedy Center Honors. September 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
  13. ^ 34th Annual Kennedy Center Honors Kennedy Center Honors. 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
  14. ^ "Ossie Davis". The History Makers.
  15. ^ Davis, Ossie (February 27, 1965). . The Official Website of Malcolm X. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
  16. ^ Sheri Stritof; Bob Stritof. . About.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-10. Retrieved 2007-01-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  17. ^ Greene, Donna. "Q&A/Ossie Davis; Involved in a Community Beyond Theater", The New York Times, October 25, 1998.
  18. ^ "Lincoln Avenue Corridor NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK". The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  19. ^ "Ossie Davis found dead in Miami hotel room". Today. Associated Press. February 9, 2005.
  20. ^ url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/celebs-say-goodbye-to-ossie-davis-in-harlem with more than 2,100 people in attendance
  21. ^ url=https://www.democracynow.org/2005/2/14/remembering_ossie_davis_1917_2005_maya
  22. ^ url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/nyregion/thousands-bid-farewell-to-ossie-davis.html
  23. ^ url=https://new.finalcall.com/2005/02/17/ossie-davis-he-belonged-to-all-of-us/
  24. ^ Black shadows on a silver screen. July 11, 1975. OCLC 4186675 – via Open WorldCat.
  25. ^ . Baltimore, Maryland: Enoch Pratt Free Library. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2012-09-21.
  26. ^ Erikson, Hal (2016). . Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2012-09-21.

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Raiford Chatman Ossie Davis December 18 1917 February 4 2005 was an American actor director writer and activist 1 2 3 He was married to Ruby Dee with whom he frequently performed until his death 4 He and his wife were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame were awarded the National Medal of Arts 5 and were recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994 Ossie DavisDavis in 2000BornRaiford Chatman Davis 1917 12 18 December 18 1917Cogdell Georgia U S DiedFebruary 4 2005 2005 02 04 aged 87 Miami Beach Florida U S OccupationsActordirectorpoetplaywrightauthoractivistYears active1939 2005SpouseRuby Dee m 1948 wbr Children3 including Guy Davis Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Honors 4 Activism 5 Personal life 6 Death 7 Filmography 7 1 Film 7 2 Television 7 3 Video game 7 4 Directing 8 Theatre 9 Discography 10 Books 11 References 12 External linksEarly life EditRaiford Chatman Davis was born in Cogdell Georgia the son of Kince Charles Davis a railway construction engineer and his wife Laura nee Cooper July 9 1898 June 6 2004 6 7 He inadvertently became known as Ossie when his birth certificate was being filed and his mother s pronunciation of his name as R C Davis was misheard by the courthouse clerk in Clinch County Ga 8 Davis experienced racism from an early age when the KKK threatened to shoot his father whose job they felt was too advanced for a black man to have His siblings included scientist William Conan Davis social worker Essie Davis Morgan pharmacist Kenneth Curtis Davis and biology teacher James Davis 9 Following the wishes of his parents he attended Howard University but dropped out in 1939 to fulfill his desire for an acting career in New York after a recommendation by Alain Locke he later attended Columbia University School of General Studies His acting career began in 1939 with the Rose McClendon Players in Harlem During World War II Davis served in the United States Army in the Medical Corps He made his film debut in 1950 in the Sidney Poitier film No Way Out Career Edit Photo by Carl Van Vechten 1951 When Davis wanted to pursue a career in acting he ran into the usual roadblocks that black people suffered at that time as they generally could only portray stereotypical characters such as Stepin Fetchit Instead he tried to follow the example of Sidney Poitier and play more distinguished characters When he found it necessary to play a Pullman porter or a butler he played those characters realistically not as a caricature In addition to acting Davis along with Melvin Van Peebles and Gordon Parks was one of the notable black directors of his generation he directed movies such as Gordon s War Black Girl and Cotton Comes to Harlem Along with Bill Cosby and Poitier Davis was one of a handful of black actors able to find commercial success while avoiding stereotypical roles prior to 1970 which also included a significant role in the 1965 movie The Hill alongside Sean Connery plus roles in The Cardinal and The Scalphunters However Davis never had the tremendous commercial or critical success that Cosby and Poitier enjoyed As a playwright Davis wrote Paul Robeson All American which is frequently performed in theatre programs for young audiences In 1976 Davis appeared on Muhammad Ali s novelty album for children The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs Mr Tooth Decay 10 Ossie Davis at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington D C Davis found recognition late in his life by working in several of director Spike Lee s films including Do The Right Thing Jungle Fever She Hate Me and Get on the Bus He also found work as a commercial voice over artist and served as the narrator of the early 1990s CBS sitcom Evening Shade starring Burt Reynolds where he also played one of the residents of a small southern town In 1999 Davis appeared as a theater caretaker in the Trans Siberian Orchestra film The Ghosts of Christmas Eve which was released on DVD two years later For many years he hosted the annual National Memorial Day Concert from Washington D C He voiced Anansi the spider on the PBS children s television series Sesame Street in its animation segments Davis s last role was a several episode guest role on the Showtime drama series The L Word as a father struggling with the acceptance of his daughter Bette Jennifer Beals parenting a child with her lesbian partner In his final episodes his character took ill and died His wife Ruby Dee was present during the filming of his own death scene That episode which aired shortly after Davis s own death aired with a dedication to the actor 11 After Davis s passing actor Dennis Haysbert portrayed him in the 2015 film Experimenter Honors EditIn 1989 Ossie Davis and his wife actress activist Ruby Dee were named to the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame In 1995 they were awarded the National Medal of Arts the nation s highest honor conferred to an individual artist on behalf of the country and presented in a White House ceremony by the President of the United States 5 In 2004 they were recipients of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors 12 According to the Kennedy Center Honors The Honors recipients recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts whether in dance music theater opera motion pictures or television are selected by the Center s Board of Trustees The primary criterion in the selection process is excellence The Honors are not designated by art form or category of artistic achievement the selection process over the years has produced balance among the various arts and artistic disciplines 13 In 1994 Davis was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame 14 Activism Edit Davis with activist and opera star Stacey Robinson left in 1998 Davis and Dee were well known as civil rights activists during the Civil Rights Movement and were close friends of Malcolm X Jesse Jackson Martin Luther King Jr and other icons of the era They were involved in organizing the 1963 civil rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and served as its emcees Davis alongside Ahmed Osman delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Malcolm X 15 He re read part of this eulogy at the end of Spike Lee s film Malcolm X He also delivered a stirring tribute to Dr Martin Luther King Jr at a memorial in New York s Central Park the day after King was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee Personal life Edit Davis and Dee In 1948 Davis married actress Ruby Dee whom he had met on the set of Robert Ardrey s 1946 play Jeb In their joint autobiography With Ossie and Ruby they described their decision to have an open marriage later changing their minds 16 In the mid 1960s they moved to the New York suburb of New Rochelle where they remained ever after 17 18 Their son Guy Davis is a blues musician and former actor who appeared in the film Beat Street 1984 and the daytime soap opera One Life to Live Their daughters are Nora Davis Day and Hasna Muhammad Death EditDavis was found dead in a Miami Beach hotel room on February 4 2005 He was 87 years old An official cause of death was not released but he was known to have had heart problems 19 His ashes were interred at Ferncliff Cemetery Davis s funeral was held in New York City on February 12 2005 The line to enter The Riverside Church located on the edge of Harlem stretched for several blocks with a thousand or more members of the public unable to attend as the church filled to its 2 100 capacity 20 Speakers included Davis s children and grandchildren as well as Alan Alda Burt Reynolds Amiri Baraka Avery Brooks Angela Bassett Spike Lee Attallah Shabazz Tavis Smiley Maya Angelou Sonia Sanchez Harry Belafonte and former president Bill Clinton among many others 21 Wynton Marsalis performed a musical tribute Burt Reynolds who early in his career had worked with Davis said Ossie Davis took the bad parts of the South out of me I know what a man is because of Ossie Davis Ms Shabazz oldest daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz spoke lovingly of the man she and her five sisters called Uncle Ossie saying he had provided exceptional support to her and her sisters after her father s assassination Bill Clinton arrived midway through the service and said from the pulpit I asked to be seated in the back I would proudly ride on the back of Ossie Davis s bus any day adding that Davis would have made a great president 22 Delivering the eulogy Harry Belafonte said Ossie Davis embraced the greatest forces of our times Paul Robeson Dr W E B DuBois Eleanor Roosevelt A Philip Randolph Fannie Lou Hamer Ella Baker Thurgood Marshall Dr Martin Luther King Jr Nelson Mandela and so many many more At the time of one of our most anxious and conflicted moments when Our America was torn apart by seething issues of race Ossie paused at the tomb of one of our noblest warriors and in the eulogy he delivered insured that history would clearly understand the voice of Black people and what Malcolm X meant to us in the African American struggle for freedom It is hard to fathom that we will no longer be able to call on his wisdom his humor his loyalty and his moral strength to guide us in the choices that are yet to be made and the battles that are yet to be fought But how fortunate we were to have him as long as we did 23 Filmography EditFilm Edit No Way Out 1950 as John Brooks uncredited Fourteen Hours 1951 as Cab Driver uncredited The Joe Louis Story 1953 as Bob uncredited Gone Are the Days aka Purlie Victorious 1963 as Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson The Cardinal 1963 as Father Gillis Shock Treatment 1964 as Capshaw The Hill 1965 as Jacko King A Man Called Adam 1966 as Nelson Davis Silent Revolution 1967 The Scalphunters 1968 as Joseph Lee Sam Whiskey 1969 as Jed Hooker Slaves 1969 as Luke Wattstax 1973 as Himself uncredited Let s Do It Again 1975 as Elder Johnson Black Shadows on a Silver Screen 1975 a documentary 24 Countdown at Kusini 1976 as Ernest Motapo Hot Stuff 1979 as Captain John Geiberger Benjamin Banneker The Man Who Loved the Stars 1979 25 Harry amp Son 1984 as Raymond The House of God 1984 as Dr Sanders Avenging Angel 1985 as Captain Harry Moradian From Dreams To Reality A Tribute to Minority Inventors 1986 Documentary as Himself School Daze 1988 as Coach Odom Do the Right Thing 1989 as Da Mayor Joe Versus the Volcano 1990 as Marshall Preminger Anatomy of a Filmmaker 1991 Documentary as Himself Jungle Fever 1991 as The Good Reverend Doctor Purify Gladiator 1992 as Noah Malcolm X 1992 as Eulogy Performer voice Cop and a Half 1993 as Detective in Squad Room uncredited Grumpy Old Men 1993 as Chuck The Client 1994 as Harry Roosevelt Get on the Bus 1996 as Jeremiah I m Not Rappaport 1996 as Midge Carter 4 Little Girls 1997 Documentary as Himself Actor and Playwright Dr Dolittle 1998 as Archer Dolittle Alyson s Closet 1998 Short as Postman Extraordinaire The Unfinished Journey 1999 Documentary Short as Narration voice The Gospel According to Mr Allen 2000 Documentary as Narrator Dinosaur 2000 as Yar voice Here s to Life 2000 as Duncan Cox Voice of the Voiceless 2001 Documentary as Himself Why Can t We Be a Family Again 2002 Documentary Short as Narrator voice Bubba Ho Tep 2002 as Jack Unchained Memories 2003 Documentary as Reader 6 Nat Turner A Troublesome Property 2003 Documentary as Himself Beah A Black Woman Speaks 2003 Documentary as Himself BAADASSSSS 2003 as Granddad She Hate Me 2004 as Judge Buchanan Proud 2004 as Lorenzo DuFau A Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho 2005 Documentary Television Edit The Emperor Jones 1955 TV Movie as Brutus Jones Seven Times Monday 1962 TV Movie as Will Car 54 Where Are You 1962 1963 as Officer Omar Anderson The Fugitive 1966 as Lieutenant Johnny Gaines 12 O Clock High 1967 as Major Glenn Luke Bonanza The Wish 1969 as Sam Davis Night Gallery 1969 as Osmund Portifoy Hawaii Five O 1974 as Ramon Borelle The Sheriff 1971 TV Movie as Sheriff James Lucas The Tenth Level 1976 TV Movie as Reed Billy Portrait of a Street Kid 1977 TV Movie as Dr Fredericks King 1978 TV Mini Series as Reverend Martin Luther King Sr Roots The Next Generations 1979 TV Mini Series as Dad Jones Freedom Road 1979 TV Movie as Narrator All God s Children 1980 TV Movie as Blaine Whitfield Ossie and Ruby 1980 as Co host 1980 1981 Don t Look Back The Story of Leroy Satchel Paige 1981 TV Movie as Chuffy Russell Death of a Prophet 1981 TV Movie as Himself Benjamin Banneker The Man Who Loved the Stars 1989 26 B L Stryker 1989 1990 as Oz Jackson We ll Take Manhattan 1990 TV Movie as Man in Subway Evening Shade 1990 1994 as Ponder Blue Alex Haley s Queen 1993 TV Mini Series as Parson Dick The Ernest Green Story 1993 TV Movie as Grandfather The Stand 1994 TV Mini Series as Judge Richard Farris Ray Alexander 1995 TV Movie as Uncle Phil The Android Affair 1995 TV Movie as Dr Winston The Client 1995 1996 as Judge Harry Roosevelt Home of the Brave 1996 TV Movie as Erasmus Jones Promised Land 1996 1998 as Erasmus Jones Touched By An Angel 1996 2002 as Erasmus Jones Gabriel Gabe Miss Evers Boys 1997 TV Movie as Mr Evers 12 Angry Men 1997 TV Movie as Juror 2 The Secret Path 1999 TV Movie as Too Tall The Soul Collector 1999 TV Movie as Mordecai The Ghosts of Christmas Eve 1999 TV Movie as The Caretaker A Vow to Cherish 1999 TV Movie as Alexander Billman Between the Lions 1999 2005 Finding Buck McHenry 2000 TV Movie as Buck McHenry Legend of the Candy Cane 2001 TV Movie as Julius voice The Feast of All Saints 2001 TV Movie as Jean Jacques Persidio Med 2002 as Otis Clayton Deacons for Defense 2003 TV Movie as Reverend Gregory JAG 2003 as Terrence Minnerly The L Word 2004 2005 as Melvin Porter final appearance Video game Edit Ripper 1996 as Ben DoddsDirecting Edit Cotton Comes to Harlem 1970 Black Girl 1972 Gordon s War 1973 Kongi s Harvest 1973 Countdown at Kusini 1976 Crown Dick 1987 TV movie Theatre EditJoy Exceeding Glory 1939 On Strivers Row 1940 Booker T Washington 1940 Black Women in White 1941 Jeb 1946 Anna Lucasta 1946 replacement for Earle Hyman The Leading Lady 1948 The Washington Years 1948 The Smile of the World 1949 Stevedore 1949 The Wisteria Trees 1950 The Royal Family 1951 The Green Pastures 1951 Remains to Be Seen 1951 Touchstone 1953 The Wisteria Trees 1955 No Time for Sergeants 1956 replacement for Earle Hyman Jamaica 1957 A Raisin in the Sun 1959 replacement for Sidney Poitier Purlie Victorious 1961 Ballad for Bimshire 1963 A Treasury of Negro World Writing 1964 The Talking Skull 1965 The Zulu and the Zayda 1965 Ain t Supposed to Die a Natural Death 1972 Take It from the Top 1979 Zora is My Name 1983 I m Not Rappaport 1986 replacement for Cleavon Little A Celebration of Paul Robeson 1988 benefit concert Two Hah Hahs and a Homeboy 1995 Discography EditAutobiography of Frederick Douglass Vol 1 Folkways Records 1966 Autobiography of Frederick Douglass Vol 2 Folkways 1966 Frederick Douglass The Meaning of July 4 for the Negro Folkways 1975 Frederick Douglass Speeches inc The Dred Scott Decision Folkways 1976 Books EditDavis Ossie 1961 Purlie Victorious New York Samuel French Inc Plays ISBN 978 0 573 61435 4 Davis Ossie 1977 Escape to Freedom The Story of Young Frederick Douglass New York Samuel French ISBN 978 0 573 65031 4 Davis Ossie 1982 Langston New York Delacorte Press ISBN 978 0 440 04634 9 Davis Ossie Dee Ruby 1984 Why Mosquitos Buzz in People s Ears Audio Caedmon ISBN 978 0 694 51187 7 Davis Ossie 1992 Just Like Martin New York Simon amp Schuster Children s Publishing ISBN 978 0 671 73202 8 Davis Ossie Dee Ruby 1998 With Ossie and Ruby In This Life Together New York William Morrow ISBN 978 0 688 15396 0 Davis Ossie 2006 Dee Ruby ed Life Lit by Some Large Vision Selected Speeches and Writings New York Simon and Schuster ISBN 978 1 416 52549 3 References Edit Ossie Davis Awards IMDb 2012 Retrieved March 17 2012 Ossie Davis Television Credits Archived 2012 04 23 at the Wayback Machine Official Website of Ossie Davis amp Ruby Dee 2012 Retrieved March 17 2012 Books Archived 2012 04 23 at the Wayback Machine Official Website of Ossie Davis amp Ruby Dee 2012 Retrieved March 17 2012 Dagan Carmel Oscar Nominated Actress Ruby Dee Dies at 91 Variety June 12 2014 Retrieved March 30 2016 a b Lifetime Honors National Medal of Arts Archived 2013 08 26 at the Wayback Machine Ossie Davis Biography filmreference 2008 Retrieved 2009 01 22 Davis Laura Cooper The Journal News White Plains New York June 9 2004 Archived from the original on January 30 2013 Ossie Davis Biography IMDb 2008 Retrieved 2007 01 11 Davis William C 1 February 2013 The HistoryMakers Video Oral History Interview with William Davis PDF HistoryMakers org Archived from the original PDF on 13 December 2017 Heller Jason June 6 2016 Remembering Muhammad Ali s Trippy Anti Cavity Kids Record Rolling Stone Retrieved July 24 2016 Severo Richard Martin Douglas 5 February 2005 Ossie Davis Actor Writer and Eloquent Champion of Racial Justice Dies at 87 The New York Times Retrieved 2007 02 06 Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Archived 2012 03 25 at the Wayback Machine Kennedy Center Honors September 2004 Retrieved March 17 2012 34th Annual Kennedy Center Honors Kennedy Center Honors 2011 Retrieved March 17 2012 Ossie Davis The History Makers Davis Ossie February 27 1965 Malcolm X s Eulogy The Official Website of Malcolm X Archived from the original on October 6 2014 Retrieved September 6 2009 Sheri Stritof Bob Stritof Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee on Open Marriage About com Archived from the original on 2007 02 10 Retrieved 2007 01 11 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Greene Donna Q amp A Ossie Davis Involved in a Community Beyond Theater The New York Times October 25 1998 Lincoln Avenue Corridor NEW ROCHELLE NEW YORK The Cultural Landscape Foundation Retrieved December 27 2021 Ossie Davis found dead in Miami hotel room Today Associated Press February 9 2005 url https www foxnews com story celebs say goodbye to ossie davis in harlem with more than 2 100 people in attendance url https www democracynow org 2005 2 14 remembering ossie davis 1917 2005 maya url https www nytimes com 2005 02 13 nyregion thousands bid farewell to ossie davis html url https new finalcall com 2005 02 17 ossie davis he belonged to all of us Black shadows on a silver screen July 11 1975 OCLC 4186675 via Open WorldCat Benjamin Banneker The Man Who Loved the Stars Baltimore Maryland Enoch Pratt Free Library Archived from the original on 2015 09 24 Retrieved 2012 09 21 Erikson Hal 2016 Review Summary Benjamin Banneker The Man Who Loved the Stars 1989 Movies amp TV Dept The New York Times Archived from the original on 2016 03 25 Retrieved 2012 09 21 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ossie Davis The official site of Ossie Davis amp Ruby Dee Life s Essentials with Ruby Dee Ossie Davis at the Internet Broadway Database Ossie Davis at the Internet Off Broadway Database Ossie Davis at IMDb Ossie Davis at Find a Grave Ossie Davis at the TCM Movie Database Eulogy of Malcolm X Ossie Davis oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project Ossie Davis at Smithsonian Folkways Ossie Davis at The Interviews An Oral History of Television Appearances on C SPAN Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ossie Davis amp oldid 1128225726, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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