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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

Known For: Acting

Born: Cogdell, Georgia, USA, 1917-12-17

Died: 2005-02-04

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	No Way Out	John Brooks (uncredited)	69
2	1951	Fourteen Hours	Cab Driver (uncredited)	72
3	1960	John Brown's Raid	Dangerfield Newby	0
4	1962	Hands of Inge	Narrator (voice)	0
5	1963	Gone Are the Days!	Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson	67
6	1963	The Cardinal	Father Gillis	65
7	1964	Shock Treatment	Capshaw	67
8	1965	The Hill	Jacko King	75
9	1965	The Sun... the Sand... the Hill	Jason King (archival footage)	10
10	1965	The Sun... the Sand... the Hill	Jason King (archive footage)	10
11	1966	A Man Called Adam	Nelson Davis	60
12	1967	Black Liberation	Narrator	0
13	1967	The Outsider	Lt. Wagner	60
14	1968	Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class	Narrator	0
15	1968	The Scalphunters	Joseph Lee	64
16	1969	The Fall		70
17	1969	Teacher, Teacher	Charles Carter	0
18	1969	Sam Whiskey	Jed Hooker	56
19	1969	Slaves	Luke	57
20	1969	Night Gallery	Osmond Portifoy	71
21	1970	Kongi's Harvest	Narrator	60
22	1971	The Sheriff	James Lucas	60
23	1972	Malcolm X	Eulogy (voice)	64
24	1973	Wattstax	Self (uncredited)	68
25	1975	Black Shadows on a Silver Screen	Narrator	0
26	1975	Let's Do It Again	Elder Johnson	69
27	1976	Countdown at Kusini	Ernest Motapo	0
28	1976	The Tenth Level	Reed	51
29	1977	Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid	Dr. Fredericks	0
30	1979	Freedom Man	Benjamin Banneker	0
31	1979	Hot Stuff	Captain John Geiberger	70
32	1979	Freedom Road	Narrator	48
33	1980	All God's Children	Blaine Whitfield	40
34	1981	Death of a Prophet		41
35	1981	Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige	Chuffy Russell	60
36	1984	The House of God	Dr. Sanders	27
37	1984	Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood	Narrator	0
38	1984	Harry & Son	Raymond	58
39	1985	Tyler Texas Black Film Collection	Himself	70
40	1985	Avenging Angel	Capt. Harry Moradian	50
41	1986	Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories	Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)	0
42	1988	School Daze	Coach Odom	57
43	1989	Do the Right Thing	Da Mayor	78
44	1989	Making 'Do the Right Thing'	Self	67
45	1990	The Red Shoes		0
46	1990	Joe Versus the Volcano	Marshall	58
47	1991	Jungle Fever	Reverend Purify	64
48	1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	Self	77
49	1992	Gladiator	Noah	76
50	1992	Malcolm X	Eulogy Performer (voice)	75
51	1992	Lincoln	Frederick Douglas (voice)	68
52	1993	The Ernest Green Story	Grandfather	69
53	1993	Goin' Back to T-Town	Narrator	0
54	1993	Cop & ½	Detective in Squad Room	45
55	1993	Grumpy Old Men	Chuck	66
56	1994	Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World	Narrator	0
57	1994	Malcolm X: Make It Plain	Self	100
58	1994	The Stand	Judge Richard Farris	0
59	1994	Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice	Uncle Phil	0
60	1994	The Client	Harry Roosevelt	67
61	1995	Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder	Uncle Phil	0
62	1995	The Android Affair	Dr. Winston	50
63	1996	Get on the Bus	Jeremiah	64
64	1996	I'm Not Rappaport	Midge Carter	56
65	1997	Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough	Self	65
66	1997	Miss Evers' Boys	Mr. Evers	63
67	1997	Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers	Narrator	100
68	1997	4 Little Girls	Self - Actor and Playwright	73
69	1997	12 Angry Men	Juror 2	77
70	1998	Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist	Self	77
71	1998	Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood	Self	0
72	1998	Doctor Dolittle	Archer Dolittle	57
73	1999	A Vow to Cherish	Alexander Billman	62
74	1999	Paul Robeson: Here I Stand	Self	0
75	1999	The Secret Path	Too Tall	74
76	1999	The Soul Collector	Mordecai	72
77	1999	Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve	Caretaker	90
78	1999	The Unfinished Journey	Narrator (voice)	60
79	2000	Finding Buck McHenry	Buck McHenry	0
80	2000	Dinosaur	Yar (voice)	65
81	2000	Here's to Life!	Duncan Cox	0
82	2001	The Legend of the Candy Cane	Julius (voice)	0
83	2001	Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore	Narrator	0
84	2001	Feast of All Saints	Jean-Jacques	47
85	2002	Bubba Ho-tep	John F. "Jack" Kennedy	65
86	2002	Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'	Self	0
87	2003	Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives		48
88	2003	Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property	Himself	61
89	2003	The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars	Narrator	0
90	2003	The Evolution of an American Filmmaker	Self	73
91	2004	Beah: A Black Woman Speaks	Self	0
92	2004	Baadasssss!	Granddad	65
93	2004	Proud	Lorenzo DuFau	44
94	2004	She Hate Me	Judge Buchanan	52
95	2005	By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'	Self	50
96	2005	Unstoppable	Self	0
97	2005	The History Makers: Success	Self	0
98	2005	Deacons for Defense	Reverend 'Rev' Gregory	62
99	2005	The Peace!	Self	50
100	2022	Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues	Self (archive footage)	66
101		Haití: Killing the Dream		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Kraft Television Theatre	The Emperor Jones	75
2	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Charles Carter	86
3	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
4	1959	Bonanza	Sam Davis	75
5	1961	The Defenders	Nixie	62
6	1961	The Defenders	Officer Bond	62
7	1961	The Defenders	District Attorney	62
8	1961	The Defenders	Assistant District Attorney	62
9	1961	The Defenders	District Attorney Daniel Jackson	62
10	1963	The Fugitive	Lt. Johnny Gaines	72
11	1963	The Great Adventure	John Ross	0
12	1964	12 O'Clock High	Major Glenn Luke	73
13	1965	Run for Your Life	Frankie Morton	72
14	1965	Run for Your Life	Dave Corbett	72
15	1965	Run for Your Life	Sgt. Dave Corbett	72
16	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Ramon Borelle	71
17	1968	The Name of the Game	Kubani	68
18	1978	King	Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.	69
19	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
20	1979	Roots: The Next Generations	Dad Jones	75
21	1983	Reading Rainbow	Himself - Narrator (voice)	84
22	1986	American Masters	Self	74
23	1988	American Experience	Self - Harlem Resident	74
24	1989	B.L. Stryker	Oz Jackson	60
25	1990	Evening Shade	Ponder Blue	56
26	1993	Alex Haley's Queen	Parson Dick	72
27	1994	The Stand	Judge Richard Farris	68
28	1994	The Stand	Judge Richard Farris (credit only)	68
29	1994	Baseball	Various (voice)	73
30	1994	Baseball	(voice)	73
31	1994	Touched by an Angel	Gabriel	72
32	1994	Touched by an Angel	Erasmus Jones	72
33	1995	The Client	Judge Harry Roosevelt	60
34	1995	JAG	Terrence Minnerly	73
35	1996	The West	Self	84
36	1996	The West	Self / John R. Gills (voice)	84
37	1996	Promised Land		66
38	1996	Promised Land	Erasmus Jones	66
39	1997	Thomas Jefferson	Narrator (voice)	80
40	1998	Christianity: The First 1000 Years	Himself - Narrator	0
41	1999	Third Watch	Mr. Parker	79
42	2002	Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years	Narrator	60
43	2004	The L Word	Melvin Porter	76
44	2004	TV Revolution		0
45	2006	Folk Britannia	Self (archival footage)	0