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Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 - June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun. Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Do the Right Thing (1989) and American Gangster (2007).

Known For: Acting

Born: Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1922-10-27

Died: 2014-06-11

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1946	That Man of Mine	Joan	0
2	1946	Love in Syncopation		0
3	1947	Easy to Get	Drugstore Girl	0
4	1948	What a Guy		0
5	1948	The Fight Never Ends		0
6	1950	The Jackie Robinson Story	Rae Robinson	64
7	1950	No Way Out	Connie Brooks (uncredited)	69
8	1951	The Tall Target	Rachel	68
9	1954	Go Man Go	Irma Jackson	57
10	1957	Edge of the City	Lucy Tyler	71
11	1958	St. Louis Blues	Elizabeth	78
12	1959	Virgin Island	Ruth	50
13	1959	Take a Giant Step	Christine	52
14	1961	A Raisin in the Sun	Ruth Younger	77
15	1963	The Balcony	Thief	52
16	1963	Gone Are the Days!	Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins	67
17	1966	Neighbours	Vicky Kingsbury	0
18	1967	The Incident	Joan Robinson	73
19	1968	Uptight	Laurie	65
20	1969	Deadlock	Lucinda	0
21	1970	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis	Self (archive footage)	71
22	1971	The Sheriff	Sue Ann Lucas	60
23	1972	On Merit	Narrator (voice)	0
24	1972	To Be Young, Gifted and Black	Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters	50
25	1972	Buck and the Preacher	Ruth	63
26	1972	Black Girl	Netta's mother	61
27	1974	It's Good to Be Alive	Ruth Campanella	66
28	1974	Wedding Band	Julia Augustine	0
29	1976	Countdown at Kusini	Leah Matanzima	0
30	1979	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Grandmother Baxter	42
31	1980	The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six		0
32	1980	All God's Children	Irene Whitfield	40
33	1982	Cat People	Female	60
34	1982	Long Day's Journey Into Night	Mary Tyrone	60
35	1985	Go Tell It on the Mountain	Mrs. Grimes	64
36	1989	Do the Right Thing	Mother Sister	78
37	1989	Making 'Do the Right Thing'	Self	67
38	1990	Zora is My Name!	Zora Neale Hurston	0
39	1990	Love at Large	Corrine Dart	49
40	1990	The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson	Jackie's Mother	70
41	1990	Decoration Day	Rowena	70
42	1991	Jungle Fever	Lucinda Purify	64
43	1991	Jazztime Tale	Narrator (voice)	0
44	1992	Color Adjustment	Narrator	69
45	1993	The Ernest Green Story	Lydia Wilson	69
46	1993	Cop & ½	Rachel	45
47	1993	After Goodbye	Narrator	0
48	1994	The Stand	Mother Abagail Freemantle	0
49	1994	Whitewash	Grandmother (voice)	60
50	1995	Tuesday Morning Ride	Jennie	63
51	1995	Just Cause	Evangeline Ferguson	62
52	1996	Mr. and Mrs. Loving	Sophia	56
53	1996	Captive Heart: The James Mink Story	Indigo	38
54	1997	Sports on the Silver Screen	Self (archive footage)	100
55	1997	A Simple Wish	Hortence	55
56	1998	Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood	Self	0
57	1998	The Wall	Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")	57
58	1998	A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner	Narrator	0
59	1999	Passing Glory	Mommit Porter	58
60	1999	Paul Robeson: Here I Stand	Self	0
61	1999	Baby Geniuses	Margo	41
62	1999	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years	Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany	75
63	1999	The Unfinished Journey	Narrator (voice)	60
64	2000	A Storm in Summer	Grandmother	58
65	2000	Finding Buck McHenry	Mrs. Henry	0
66	2001	Feast of All Saints	Elsie Claviere	47
67	2001	Taking Back Our Town	Emelda West	10
68	2002	Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'	Self	0
69	2003	Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives		48
70	2004	TV in Black: The First Fifty Years	(archive footage)	40
71	2004	Beah: A Black Woman Speaks	Self	0
72	2005	Their Eyes Were Watching God	Nanny	55
73	2006	No. 2	Nanna Maria	60
74	2006	Discovering William Greaves	Self	70
75	2007	Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson	Self	0
76	2007	In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema	Herself	65
77	2007	All About Us	Ms. Ella	44
78	2007	American Gangster	Mama Lucas	76
79	2007	Steam	Doris	31
80	2009	America	Mrs. Harper	35
81	2009	A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School	Narrator (voice)	73
82	2011	The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll	Miss Candy	54
83	2011	Politics of Love		33
84	2011	Video Girl	Valerie	63
85	2012	A Thousand Words	Annie McCall	61
86	2013	Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal	Self	100
87	2013	Betty and Coretta	Narrator	72
88	2014	Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee	Self	15
89	2018	Poitier's Walter Lee	Self (archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Rowena Finch	86
2	1961	The Defenders	Catherine Collins	62
3	1963	The Fugitive	Laura Smith	72
4	1963	The Great Adventure	Harriet Tubman	0
5	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
6	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
7	1974	Police Woman		63
8	1978	The Kennedy Center Honors	Self	74
9	1979	Roots: The Next Generations	Queen Victoria Haley	75
10	1983	Reading Rainbow	Herself - Narrator (voice)	84
11	1985	The Atlanta Child Murders	Faye Williams	60
12	1985	The Golden Girls	Mammy Watkins	75
13	1985	Spenser: For Hire		67
14	1988	Lincoln	Elizabeth Keckley	72
15	1988	China Beach		74
16	1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)	74
17	1992	Middle Ages	Estelle Williams	60
18	1994	The Stand	Mother Abagail Freemantle	68
19	1994	Touched by an Angel	LaBelle Springbelt	72
20	1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Grandma (voice)	60
21	1998	Christianity: The First 1000 Years	Herself - Narrator	0
22	1999	Little Bill		66
23	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Mary Wilson	76
24	2002	Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years	Narrator	60
25	2005	Iconoclasts	Self	60