Filmografía de Ossie Davis como actor
Películas protagonizadas por Ossie Davis
🎭 Self (archive footage)
6.6
2022
Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life from his perspective. From musical phenom to civil rights activist to world-renowned artist, t ...
🎭 Reverend 'Rev' Gregory
6.2
2005
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still treated like third-class ...
🎭 Self
0
2005
Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first installment of this series about African-America ...
🎭 Self
5
2005
A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X." ...
🎭 Judge Buchanan
5.2
2004
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit. ...
🎭 Self
0
2004
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it won the Documentary Award at the AFI Los Angele ...
🎭 Self
7.3
2003
Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his past successes give us an idea what kind of ...
🎭 Narrator
0
2003
A documentary filmed at Moton Field in Tuskegee Alabama, home to the airmen of the 99th Fighter Squadron. They were the first African American fighter pilots trained to fly in the U.S. Army Air C ...
🎭 Himself
6.1
2003
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual execution of 55 rebels and the retribution lynchi ...
4.8
2003
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of ...
🎭 Self
0
2002
Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun." ...
🎭 John F. "Jack" Kennedy
6.5
2002
Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator ...
🎭 Jean-Jacques
4.7
2001
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black ...
🎭 Narrator
0
2001
From the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning PBS series NEIGHBORHOODS: THE HIDDEN CITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO comes the remarkable story of San Francisco's Fillmore District. Remembered today mainly for i ...
🎭 Julius (voice)
0
2001
The night a mysterious stranger rode into the lonely prairie town of West Sage, no one realized their lives would never be the same. ...
🎭 Duncan Cox
0
2000
Owen is the head administrator of an old age home in Washington. One day, a resident discovers he is cheating on his taxes, and orders that Owen takes him and two others on a road trip to British ...
🎭 Yar (voice)
6.5
2000
Prehistoria, hace 65 millones de años, al final del periodo cretáceo. Un iguanodonte de tres toneladas llamado Aladar se cría separado de los de su especie y crece en una isla paradisiaca al a ...
🎭 Buck McHenry
0
2000
Jason Ross is an 11-year-old boy whose love for baseball exceeds his talent for the game. When cut from his little league team, Jason's undefeatable spirit leads him to try and create an expansio ...
🎭 Narrator (voice)
6
1999
A multimedia short created for the U.S. millennium celebrations, The Unfinished Journey reflects on America’s history and spirit through six chapters—immigration, war, culture, civil rights, ...
🎭 Caretaker
9
1999
Enchanting holiday tale of a young runaway who has broken into an old movie palace, looking for shelter on a snow-filled Christmas Eve. Closed for decades, the building is filled with countless d ...
🎭 Mordecai
7.2
1999
Zachariah, makes a few mistakes and it is decided that he is to live as a human being for thirty days. Mordecai is his supervisor. Rebecca's husband died and Zachariah the soul collector, or, the ...
🎭 Too Tall
7.4
1999
14-year-old Jo Ann Foley lives in squalor in a rural Southern community during World War II. Abused by her bootlegging grandfather Hank, Jo Ann has, like her mother Marie, been forced into a life ...
🎭 Self
0
1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic champion of the rights of the poor working man, ...
🎭 Alexander Billman
6.2
1999
John and Ellen have a picture-perfect life: while John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they've raised two beautiful children. But that picture is shattered when El ...
🎭 Archer Dolittle
5.7
1998
Un cirujano que posee la facultad de entender el lenguaje de los animales intentará solucionar sus problemas personales y los de los más diversos animales que acuden a su consulta. ...
🎭 Self
0
1998
Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their contributions to Hollywood filmmaking. Specta ...
🎭 Self
7.7
1998
A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in ...
🎭 Juror 2
7.7
1997
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices. ...
🎭 Self - Actor and Playwright
7.2
1997
On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining mo ...
🎭 Narrator
10
1997
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers celebrates the ground-breaking career of the first-ever African-American to join the major leagues, talented athlete Jackie Robinson. The video commemorates the ...
🎭 Mr. Evers
6.3
1997
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed. ...
🎭 Self
6.5
1997
A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau. ...
🎭 Midge Carter
5.6
1996
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is t ...
🎭 Jeremiah
6.4
1996
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man ...
🎭 Dr. Winston
5
1995
Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his memory erased.) She soon realizes that Teach i ...
🎭 Uncle Phil
0
1995
Ray investigates the murder of a judge. ...
🎭 Harry Roosevelt
6.7
1994
Mark Sway es un niño de once años que, tras haber sido testigo del suicidio de un abogado de la mafia, ha quedado traumatizado, porque sabe que si revela lo que ha visto su vida se verá gravem ...
🎭 Uncle Phil
0
1994
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist. ...
🎭 Self
10
1994
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Is ...
🎭 Narrator
0
1994
Join tennis greats John McEnroe and Billie Jean King and world leader Nelson Mandela as they pay homage to the life and work of Arthur Ashe, the sports legend who transcended his athletic gifts a ...
🎭 Chuck
6.7
1993
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stake ...
🎭 Detective in Squad Room
4.5
1993
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new pa ...
🎭 Narrator
0
1993
Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation. Torn apa ...
🎭 Grandfather
6.9
1993
Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school. ...
🎭 Frederick Douglas (voice)
0
1992
CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the nation. The film intercuts archival footage of M ...
🎭 Eulogy Performer (voice)
7.5
1992
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the ...
🎭 Noah
7.6
1992
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal und ...
🎭 Self
7.7
1991
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, ...
🎭 Reverend Purify
6.4
1991
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even w ...
🎭 Marshall
5.8
1990
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterio ...
0
1990
In this animated contemporary interpretation of a Hans Christian Andersen morality tale, a pair of magic slippers help two young African-American girls learn the value of friendship after they ar ...
🎭 Self
6.7
1989
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing. ...
🎭 Da Mayor
7.8
1989
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actor ...
🎭 Coach Odom
5.7
1988
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend. ...
🎭 Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)
0
1986
Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The video was re-released with different segments un ...
🎭 Capt. Harry Moradian
5
1985
Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her life has been murdered, she quickly finds hersel ...
🎭 Himself
7
1985
"Tyler Texas Black Film Collection" (1985) is a promotional film hosted by Ossie Davis. ...
🎭 Raymond
5.8
1984
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has ...
🎭 Narrator
0
1984
A documentary, combining archival material and live interviews with Marcus Garvey, Jr., and others, which introduces the life and work of the pioneer Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. ...
🎭 Dr. Sanders
2.7
1984
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'. ...
🎭 Chuffy Russell
6
1981
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major league ...
4.1
1981
After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed in. Despite death threats and intimidation, Malc ...
🎭 Blaine Whitfield
4
1980
Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white, one black -- and their sons, who are buddie ...
🎭 Narrator
4.8
1979
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law ...
🎭 Captain John Geiberger
7
1979
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They ...
🎭 Benjamin Banneker
0
1979
The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the Underground Railroad to elude vicious slave ca ...
🎭 Dr. Fredericks
0
1977
A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all t ...
🎭 Reed
5.1
1976
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do ...
🎭 Ernest Motapo
0
1976
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa. ...
🎭 Elder Johnson
6.9
1975
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method ...
🎭 Narrator
0
1975
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience. ...
🎭 Self (uncredited)
7
1973
Una película documental sobre el concierto afroamericano de Woodstock celebrado en Los Ángeles siete años después de los disturbios de Watts. El director Mel Stuart mezcla imágenes del conci ...
🎭 Eulogy (voice)
6.5
1972
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources. ...
🎭 James Lucas
🎭 Narrator
6
1970
An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial yam at the upcoming harvest festival. ...
0
A documentary focusing on the the events in Haiti following the coup of September 30, 1991. The program includes interviews with exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide, his cabinet, dissident cl ...
🎭 Osmond Portifoy
6.8
1969
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," dir ...
🎭 Jed Hooker
5.6
1969
Una atractiva viuda llamada Laura (Angie Dickinson) requiere los servicios de Sam Whiskey (Burt Reynolds) para recuperar unas barras de oro que robó su difunto marido y que se encuentran en un b ...
🎭 Charles Carter
0
1969
Hamilton Cade is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that young Freddie is mentally retarded. A black man wh ...
🎭 Joseph Lee
6.4
1968
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them. ...
🎭 Narrator
0
1968
The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET Journal documentary. ...
🎭 Lt. Wagner
🎭 Narrator
0
1967
Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty, shot-on-the-streets-of-New York footage of Afr ...
🎭 Nelson Davis
6
1966
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life. ...
🎭 Jason King (archival footage)
1
1965
Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill." ...
🎭 Jason King (archive footage)
1
1965
Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill." ...
🎭 Jacko King
7.5
1965
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of ...
🎭 Capshaw
6.7
1964
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot. ...
🎭 Father Gillis
6.6
1963
Un sacerdote de Boston comienza a ascender en la jerarquía eclesiástica. Sin embargo, tendra que superar situaciones muy delicadas y peligrosas, como cuando se enfrenta a los nazis en Austria. ...
🎭 Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson
6.7
1963
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really hi ...
🎭 Narrator (voice)
0
1962
The work of sculptor Inge Hardison is the subject of this beautiful short portrait of an artist. Hardison is perhaps best known for "Negro Giants in History," her important series of busts made d ...
🎭 Dangerfield Newby
0
1960
White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events. ...
🎭 Cab Driver (uncredited)
7.2
1951
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing s ...
🎭 John Brooks (uncredited)
6.9
1950
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder. ...
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