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Ossie Davis

Birth Name:Raiford Chatman Davis

Birth Place:Cogdell, Georgia, United States

Profession Actor, playwright, activist

Actor

84 Credits

Touched by an Angel

Stephen King's 'The Stand'

Alex Haley's 'Queen'

Love, American Style

The Name of the Game

12 O'clock High

Shock Treatment

Do the Right Thing

Let's Do It Again

I'm Not Rappaport

Joe Versus the Volcano

The Secret Path

All God's Children

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

Countdown at Kusini

Gone Are the Days!

Death of a Prophet

Purlie Victorious

A Man Called Adam

The Joe Louis Story

Teacher, Teacher

The Ernest Green Story

Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

The Android Affair

Miss Evers' Boys

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige

The Scalphunters

A Vow to Cherish

The Soul Collector

Finding Buck McHenry

Alex Haley's 'Queen'

The Feast of All Saints

Witness of the Law

Deacons for Defense

Chasing Secrets

The House of God

What's My Name: Muhammad Ali

Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 1

The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars

Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 5

Benjamin Banneker: The Man Who Loved the Stars

Remarks by

9 Credits

What's My Name: Muhammad Ali

Independent Lens

Ken Burns American Stories

Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice, An American Masters Special

An Evening with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

Unstoppable: A Conversation with Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks and Ossie Davis

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

Liberia: America's Stepchild

Guest

2 Credits

Kennedy Center Honors

Appearing

13 Credits

Hughes' Dream Harlem

MLB: Jackie Robinson - Breaking Barriers

Bill Moyers' Walk Through the 20th Century: The Second American Revolution

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Making of 'Do the Right Thing'

Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes!

Scandalize My Name: Stories From the Blacklist

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Louis Armstrong's Black and Blues

Voice

18 Credits

For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots

Ken Burns: The West

Ken Burns' Baseball

Storybook Musicals

American Documents

Making of 'Dinosaur'

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Counting on Democracy

J.C. Leyendecker: The Great American Illustrator

Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World

Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Narrator

8 Credits

American Experience

Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS Mason

Struggle and Success: African-Americans in Japan

Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore

Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho

Mississippi, America

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

Subject (person only)

2 Credits

Life's Essentials With Ruby Dee

HistoryMakers on Success, Faith and Courage

Director

6 Credits

Do the Right Thing

Countdown at Kusini

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Kongi's Harvest

Host

13 Credits

National Memorial Day Concert

National Memorial Day Concert

National Memorial Day Concert

National Memorial Day Concert

National Memorial Day Concert 1992

Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes!

Cleveland Orchestra in Performance

National Memorial Day Concert

National Memorial Day Concert

National Memorial Day Concert

National Memorial Day Concert

Health Choices: Sickle Cell Anemia-Battling Pain

National Memorial Day Concert

Performer

1 Credit

Michael and Robert

Screenwriter

4 Credits

Purlie Victorious

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

Countdown at Kusini

Cotton Comes to Harlem