Birthday: Dec 17, 1917
Place of Birth: Cogdell, Georgia, USA

Ossie Davis

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

Filmography

Movie	Cast	Year
Do the Right Thing	Da Mayor	1989
Doctor Dolittle	Archer Dolittle	1998
Jungle Fever	Reverend Purify	1991
Dinosaur	Yar (voice)	2000
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore	Narrator	2001
Joe Versus the Volcano	Marshall	1990
Goin' Back to T-Town	Narrator	1993
Grumpy Old Men	Chuck	1993
The Hill	Jacko King	1965
Sam Whiskey	Jed Hooker	1969
The Scalphunters	Joseph Lee	1968
12 Angry Men	Juror 2	1997
Bubba Ho-tep	John F. "Jack" Kennedy	2002
Baadasssss!	Granddad	2004
Let's Do It Again	Elder Johnson	1975
I'm Not Rappaport	Midge Carter	1996
Avenging Angel	Capt. Harry Moradian	1985
Get on the Bus	Jeremiah	1996
The Secret Path	Too Tall	1999
Harry & Son	Raymond	1984
Feast of All Saints	Jean-Jacques	2001
The House of God	Dr. Sanders	1984
Hot Stuff	Captain John Geiberger	1979
Finding Buck McHenry	Buck McHenry	2000
Malcolm X	Eulogy Performer (voice)	1992
Here's to Life!	Duncan Cox	2000
The Peace!	Self	2005
Miss Evers' Boys	Mr. Evers	1997
John Brown's Raid	Dangerfield Newby	1960
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker	Self	2003
The Red Shoes		1990
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid	Dr. Fredericks	1977
A Man Called Adam	Nelson Davis	1966
The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars	Narrator	2003
Teacher, Teacher	Charles Carter	1969
Gone Are the Days!	Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson	1963
The Tenth Level	Reed	1976
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class	Narrator	1968
The Soul Collector	Mordecai	1999
The Cardinal	Father Gillis	1963
Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World	Narrator	1994
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'	Self	2005
Unstoppable	Self	2005
School Daze	Coach Odom	1988
The Android Affair	Dr. Winston	1995
Countdown at Kusini	Ernest Motapo	1976
Deacons for Defense	Reverend 'Rev' Gregory	2003
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues	Self (archive footage)	2022
Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood	Narrator	1984
Slaves	Luke	1969
Fourteen Hours	Cab Driver (uncredited)	1951
No Way Out	John Brooks (uncredited)	1950
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist	Self	1998
The Outsider	Lt. Wagner	1967
4 Little Girls	Self - Actor and Playwright	1997
Malcolm X	Eulogy (voice)	1972
The Fall		1969
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill	Jason King (archive footage)	1965
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill	Jason King (archival footage)	1965
Making 'Do the Right Thing'	Self	1989
Tyler Texas Black Film Collection	Himself	1985
All God's Children	Blaine Whitfield	1980
Freedom Road	Narrator	1979
Freedom Man	Benjamin Banneker	1979
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks	Self	2004
The Ernest Green Story	Grandfather	1993
Gladiator	Noah	1992
Black Liberation	Narrator	1967
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property	Himself	2003
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve	Caretaker	1999
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives		2003
A Vow to Cherish	Alexander Billman	1999
Night Gallery	Osmond Portifoy	1969
The Sheriff	James Lucas	1971
Death of a Prophet		1981
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'	Self	2002
The Client	Harry Roosevelt	1994
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers	Narrator	1997
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	Self	1991
The History Makers: Success	Self	2005
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige	Chuffy Russell	1981
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen	Narrator	1975
Proud	Lorenzo DuFau	2004
Malcolm X: Make It Plain	Self	1994
The Legend of the Candy Cane	Julius (voice)	2001
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough	Self	1997
Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories	Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)	1986
Hands of Inge	Narrator (voice)	1962
She Hate Me	Judge Buchanan	2004
Kongi's Harvest	Narrator	1970
Shock Treatment	Capshaw	1964
The Unfinished Journey	Narrator (voice)	1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand	Self	1999
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder	Uncle Phil	1995
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice	Uncle Phil	1994
Cop and ½	Detective in Squad Room	1993
Lincoln	Frederick Douglas (voice)	1992
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood	Self	1998
The Stand	Judge Richard Farris	1994
Series	Cast	Year
Third Watch	Mr. Parker	1999
Evening Shade	Ponder Blue	1990
The Great Adventure	John Ross	1963
Touched by an Angel	Gabriel	1994
Hawaii Five-O	Ramon Borelle	1968
The L Word	Melvin Porter	2004
JAG	Terrence Minnerly	1995
Hallmark Hall of Fame	Charles Carter	1951
The Stand	Judge Richard Farris	1994
Run for Your Life	Frankie Morton	1965
The Fugitive	Lt. Johnny Gaines	1963
Promised Land		1996
Roots: The Next Generations	Dad Jones	1979
TV Revolution		2004
Alex Haley's Queen	Parson Dick	1993
The Defenders	Nixie	1961
The Defenders	Officer Bond	1961
The Defenders	District Attorney	1961
The Defenders	Assistant District Attorney	1961
The Defenders	District Attorney Daniel Jackson	1961
The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	1978
The West	Self	1996
The Client	Judge Harry Roosevelt	1995
Thomas Jefferson	Narrator (voice)	1997
B.L. Stryker	Oz Jackson	1989
Night Gallery	Osmund Portifoy	1970
Folk Britannia	Self (archival footage)	2006
Kraft Television Theatre	The Emperor Jones	1947
Reading Rainbow	Himself - Narrator (voice)	1983
Christianity: The First 1000 Years	Himself - Narrator	1998
The Name of the Game	Kubani	1968
King	Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.	1978
Run for Your Life	Sgt. Dave Corbett	1965
Run for Your Life	Dave Corbett	1965
Promised Land	Erasmus Jones	1996
Touched by an Angel	Erasmus Jones	1994
Baseball	Various (voice)	1994
The West	Self / John R. Gills (voice)	1996
Bonanza	Sam Davis	1959
American Masters	Self	1986
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years	Narrator	2002
Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	1956

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