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Ossie Davis

Birth Name:Raiford Chatman Davis

Birth Place:Cogdell, Georgia, United States

Profession Actor, Writer, Director, Composer

Director

5 Credits
Countdown at Kusini
Gordon's War
Black Girl
Kongi's Harvest
Cotton Comes to Harlem

playwright

1 Credit
Great Performances

Writer

1 Credit
American Playhouse

play "Purlie Victorious"

2 Credits
Purlie
Purlie Victorious

screenplay

2 Credits
Countdown at Kusini
Cotton Comes to Harlem

story

1 Credit
East Side/West Side

Actor

96 Credits
The L Word
Proud
She Hate Me
JAG
Baadasssss!
Deacons for Defense
Touched by an Angel
Presidio Med
Bubba Ho-Tep
Philly
The Feast of All Saints
Legend of the Candy Cane
Between the Lions
J.C. Leyendecker: The Great American Illustrator
Here's to Life
Dinosaur
Finding Buck McHenry
Third Watch
City of Angels
A Vow to Cherish
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
The Soul Collector
The Secret Path
Cosby
Promised Land
Dr. Dolittle
12 Angry Men
Ken Burns: American Lives
Miss Evers' Boys
I'm Not Rappaport
Get on the Bus
John Grisham's 'The Client'
The Android Affair
Sesame Street
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
The Client
Evening Shade
Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice
Stephen King's 'The Stand'
Grumpy Old Men
Cop & 1/2
American Experience
Alex Haley's 'Queen'
The Ernest Green Story
Malcolm X
Gladiator
Jungle Fever
B.L. Stryker
Joe Versus the Volcano
The Red Shoes
Do the Right Thing
School Daze
Avenging Angel
Harry & Son
The House of God
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
All God's Children
Freedom Road
Hot Stuff
Roots: The Next Generations
King
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
The Tenth Level
Countdown at Kusini
Let's Do It Again
Hawaii Five-O
Love, American Style
The Sheriff
Night Gallery
Slaves
Bonanza
The Name of the Game
Sam Whiskey
Teacher, Teacher
N.Y.P.D.
The Scalphunters
The Outsider
Run for Your Life
12 O'clock High
The Fugitive
A Man Called Adam
Slattery's People
The Hill
The Defenders
Nurses
Shock Treatment
The Cardinal
Chronicle
The Great Adventure
Purlie Victorious
Car 54, Where Are You?
The Play of the Week
Playhouse 90
The Joe Louis Story
Fourteen Hours
No Way Out

lyrics

1 Credit
Cotton Comes to Harlem

performer

1 Credit
Car 54, Where Are You?

Self

66 Credits
American Masters
American Experience
For Love of Liberty: The Stories of America's Black Patriots
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Character Studies
Tavis Smiley
Unstoppable: A Conversation with Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks and Ossie Davis
Apollo at 70: Hot Night in Harlem
Book TV
Independent Lens
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
National Memorial Day Concert
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
That's Black Entertainment
Hughes' Dream Harlem
Intimate Portrait
Jazz
The Directors
Great Books
The Unfinished Journey
The Century: America's Time
Charlie Rose
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
The Roseanne Show
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
Thomas Jefferson
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
4 Little Girls
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The West
Reading Rainbow
Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World
Baseball
The Arsenio Hall Show
60 Minutes
Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Eyes on the Prize
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Today
ET Entertainment Tonight
Ebony/Jet Showcase
Nightlife
Working in the Theatre
Death of a Prophet
Tony Brown's Journal
Black Journal
Black Shadows on the Silver Screen
Brothers and Sisters in Concert
Wattstax
Phil Donahue
Malcolm X
SOUL
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Fall
Like It Is
Look Up and Live
The Merv Griffin Show
The Price Is Right
The Mike Douglas Show
To Tell the Truth
Missing Links
Accent on an American Summer
The Shari Lewis Show
Camera Three
Showtime, U.S.A.

Archive_sound

2 Credits
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem

writer

1 Credit
Malcolm X