Ossie Davis

All Movies of Ossie Davis

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 Year

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  7.0
  Baadasssss!
  Mario Van Peebles's half documentary/half homage to his father Melvin's 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
   2004

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  Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
  Character: Reader

   2003

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  6.0
  Deacons for Defense (TV)
  Character: Reverend 'Rev' Gregory

   2003

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  6.0
  Bubba Ho-tep
  Elvis (Campbell) isn’t dead. He merely swapped places with an impersonator in secret, and is now lying decrepit in a rest home in Texas. But when an Egyptian mummy is revived on the premises, The King teams up with a black resid...
   2002

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  6.0
  Feast of All Saints (TV)
  Magloire Dazincourt, the owner of Bontemps, the largest sugar plantation of the entire South, asks his favorite cousin, Philippe Ferronaire, to marry his daughter Aglae Dazincourt and take over most of its management and family, i...
  Character: Jean-Jacques

   2001

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  The Soul Collector (TV)
   1999

• 
  7.1
  Third Watch (TV Series)
  TV Series (1999-2005). The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics in the fictional 55th Precinct.
  Character:  Mr. Parker 3 episodes, 1999-2000

   1999

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  The Films of Sidney Lumet
  Character: Self

   1999

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  4.0
  Dr. Dolittle
  Dr. John Dolittle has the world in his hands: A beautiful wife at his side, two adorable daughters and a career that could not go better. One night, he nearly runs over a dog with his car. The dog yells "bonehead" and di...
   1998

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  6.6
  Miss Evers' Boys (TV)
  In 1932 Macon County, Alabama, the federal government launched into a medical study called The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis. The study selected 412 men infected with the disease and faked long term treatment, w...
  Character: Mr. Evers

   1997

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  8.0
  Twelve Angry Men (12 Angry Men) (TV)
  Made for cable television version of the 1957 classic about eleven jurors quick to condemn a Latino youth on trial for murdering his father before reviewing the evidence. Juror #8 holds out with a verdict of not guilty, thus setti...
  Character: Juror #2

   1997

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  Ripper
  Jack's back. In 2040, a vicious serial killer stalks the mean streets of New York, eviscerating his victims and vanishing without a trace, leaving no clues to his, or her, identity. Only you, as crime reporter Jake Quinlan, can cr
   1996

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  8.3
  The West
  This documentary covers the history of the American West from the Native American tribes to their encounter with Europeans and how the Europeans conquered them and settled the land. In telling this story, the film takes into the a...
  Character:  Self / ... 3 episodes, 1996

   1996

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  7.0
  Get on the Bus
  Released on the one-year anniversary of the Million Man March, GET ON THE BUS follows nearly 20 African Americans as they ride a bus cross-country to attend the historic event in Washington, DC. The passengers--a diverse group of ...
   1996

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  7.2
  The Stand (TV)
  When a government-run lab accidentally lets loose a deadly virus, most of the population of the world is wiped-out. Survivors begin having dreams about two figures: a mystical old woman, or a foreboding, scary man. As the story tr...
  Character:  Judge Richard Farris 4 episodes, 1994

   1994

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  6.7
  The Client
  In this taut legal drama a trailer park kid witnesses the suicide of a mob lawyer and is pursued by authorities trying to find out if he knows anything. In an attempt to protect himself, the 11 year-old hires a feisty female at...
   1994

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  6.0
  Grumpy Old Men
  John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They're continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street. Both men are attracted to her, an...
   1993

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  6.8
  Alex Haley's Queen (TV)
  A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a light-skinned daughter named Queen. As Queen growns up, she faces the struggle of trying to fit into the troubled world around her. She trie...
  Character:  Parson Dick 3 episodes, 1993

   1993

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  Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
  The life and films of iconic producer. director, and actor Otto Preminger are depicted through clips from his films and interviews with co-workers.
  Character: Self

   1991

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  7.2
  Jungle Fever
  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 worse.
  Character: The Good Reverend Doctor Purify

   1991

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  7.0
  Evening Shade (TV Series)
  (1990-1994). 4 seasons. In this laid-back comedy, Wood Newton is a former pro American Football player who has retired and returned to his childhood home, the small town of Evening Shade, Arkansas.
  Character:  Ponder Blue 99 episodes, 1990-1994

   1990

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  5.3
  Joe versus the Volcano
  Joe versus the Volcano is a fable which opens with somewhat surrealistic scenes of the dehumanization of Joe Bank's job and work environment (at a company whose product rather literally screws people) with imagery that seems to ha...
   1990

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  8.2
  Do the Right Thing
  It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal's delivery boy, manages to ...
  Character: Da Mayor

   1989

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  4.9
  Angel 2 Avenging Angel
  Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. When she learns that Andrews was s...
   1985

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  4.5
  Harry and Son
  Paul Newman directed and stars as a blue-collar widower at odds with his son (Robby Benson). Katie: Ellen Barkin. Tom: Wilford Brimley. Sally: Judith Ivey. Raymond: Ossie Davis. Siemanowski: Morgan Freeman. Newman also co-scripted
  Character: Raymond

   1984

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  Hot Stuff
  Three cops try to set up a sting by establishing their own Fencing operation. They have less than complete support from above and as they begin mingling more and more with the underworld elements decide to finance the operation th...
   1979

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  King (TV)
  The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister up to his assassination in Memphis in 1968.
   1978

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  6.5
  Let's Do It Again
  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 for raising the money involves tra...
  Character: Elder Johnson

   1975

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  5.8
  Cotton Comes to Harlem
  The Charismatic black nationalist leader Rev Deke O'Malley is trying to sell the people of Harlem a dream. Invest $100 in his company and live in Africa. But cops Gravedigger and Coffin know all about Deke and his fraudulent schem...
  Director of the film

   1970

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  Teacher, Teacher (TV)
  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 (an outstanding performance by retarded ...
   1969

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  6.4
  The Scalphunters
  Character: Joseph Lee

   1968

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  The Outsider (TV)
  Darren McGavin playing David Ross, a hard-nosed, private eye/ex-con hired to tail a woman in an embezzling case which takes a turn when he finds himself the prime suspect when the woman is found dead in his own office, by his gun.
   1967

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  A Man Called Adam
  A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
  Character: Nelson Davis

   1966

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  Run for Your Life (TV Series)
  TV Series. 86 episodes. Ben Gazzara plays a successful lawyer who is told in the first episode is told by his doctor that he will die in one to two years. He decides to do all of the things he has never had time for. The program b...
   1965

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  7.8
  The Hill
  In a British Army "glasshouse" (military detention camp) in the Libyan Desert, the prisoners are British soldiers convicted of service offences such as insubordination, drunkenness on duty, or profiteering, and are subje...
  Character: Jacko King

   1965

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  6.0
  Shock Treatment
  A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
  Character: Capshaw

   1964

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  Gone Are the Days!
  An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin to secure the family inheritance. Aiding ...
   1963

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  7.4
  The Cardinal
  An Irish American priest whose strong commitment to social issues leads him through a labyrinth of church politics and eventually to the upper echelons of Catholic hierarchy as Cardinal. Crossing several continents, this epic trac...
  Character: Father Gillis

   1963

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  The Defenders (TV Series)
  TV Series (1961-965). 4 Seasons. 132 Episodes. Recent law school graduate (Robert Reed) joins his father (E.G. Marshall) as the pair tackle challenging legal cases, often involving issues which were highly touchy for the times (ab...
   1961

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  7.6
  No Way Out
  The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident Dr. Luther Brooks. When brother John dies while Luther ...
  Character: John Brooks

   1950