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Actors
Ruby Dee
Oct 27, 1922 (103 years old) in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Known For
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Great Performances
American Experience
The Fugitive
Touched by an Angel
Credits
2018 ·
Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
2014 ·
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
as Self
2013 ·
Betty and Coretta
as Narrator
2013 ·
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
as Self
2012 ·
A Thousand Words
as Annie McCall
2011 ·
Video Girl
as Valerie
2011 ·
Politics of Love
as
2011 ·
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
as Miss Candy
2009 ·
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
as Narrator (voice)
2009 ·
America
as Mrs. Harper
2007 ·
Steam
as Doris
2007 ·
American Gangster
as Mama Lucas
2007 ·
All About Us
as Ms. Ella
2007 ·
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
as Herself
2007 ·
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
as Self
2006 ·
Discovering William Greaves
as Self
2006 ·
The Way Back Home
as Maude
2006 ·
No. 2
as Nanna Maria
2005 ·
Iconoclasts
as Self
2005 ·
Their Eyes Were Watching God
as Nanny
2004 ·
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
as Self
2004 ·
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as (archive footage)
2003 ·
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
as
2002 ·
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
as Self
2002 ·
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
as Narrator
2001 ·
Taking Back Our Town
as Emelda West
2001 ·
Feast of All Saints
as Elsie Claviere
2000 ·
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Mary Wilson
2000 ·
Finding Buck McHenry
as Mrs. Henry
2000 ·
A Storm in Summer
as Grandmother
1999 ·
The Unfinished Journey
as Narrator (voice)
1999 ·
Little Bill
as
1999 ·
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
as Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
1999 ·
Baby Geniuses
as Margo
1999 ·
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
as Self
1999 ·
Passing Glory
as Mommit Porter
1998 ·
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
as Narrator
1998 ·
Christianity: The First 1000 Years
as Herself - Narrator
1998 ·
The Wall
as Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
1998 ·
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
as Self
1997 ·
A Simple Wish
as Hortence
1997 ·
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1996 ·
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
as Indigo
1996 ·
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
as Sophia
1995 ·
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Grandma (voice)
1995 ·
Just Cause
as Evangeline Ferguson
1995 ·
Tuesday Morning Ride
as Jennie
1994 ·
Touched by an Angel
as LaBelle Springbelt
1994 ·
Whitewash
as Grandmother (voice)
1994 ·
The Stand
as Mother Abagail Freemantle
1993 ·
After Goodbye
as Narrator
1993 ·
Cop & ½
as Rachel
1993 ·
The Ernest Green Story
as Lydia Wilson
1992 ·
Middle Ages
as Estelle Williams
1992 ·
Color Adjustment
as Narrator
1991 ·
Jazztime Tale
as Narrator (voice)
1991 ·
Jungle Fever
as Lucinda Purify
1990 ·
Decoration Day
as Rowena
1990 ·
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
as Jackie's Mother
1990 ·
Love at Large
as Corrine Dart
1990 ·
Zora is My Name!
as Zora Neale Hurston
1989 ·
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
as Self
1989 ·
Do the Right Thing
as Mother Sister
1988 ·
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988 ·
China Beach
as
1988 ·
Lincoln
as Elizabeth Keckley
1985 ·
Spenser: For Hire
as
1985 ·
The Golden Girls
as Mammy Watkins
1985 ·
The Atlanta Child Murders
as Faye Williams
1985 ·
Go Tell It on the Mountain
as Mrs. Grimes
1983 ·
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982 ·
Long Day's Journey Into Night
as Mary Tyrone
1982 ·
Cat People
as Female
1980 ·
All God's Children
as Irene Whitfield
1980 ·
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
as
1979 ·
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
as Grandmother Baxter
1979 ·
Roots: The Next Generations
as Queen Victoria Haley
1978 ·
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1976 ·
Countdown at Kusini
as Leah Matanzima
1974 ·
Police Woman
as
1974 ·
Wedding Band
as Julia Augustine
1974 ·
It's Good to Be Alive
as Ruth Campanella
1972 ·
Black Girl
as Netta's mother
1972 ·
Buck and the Preacher
as Ruth
1972 ·
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
as Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
1972 ·
On Merit
as Narrator (voice)
1971 ·
The Sheriff
as Sue Ann Lucas
1971 ·
Great Performances
as Self
1970 ·
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1969 ·
Deadlock
as Lucinda
1968 ·
Uptight
as Laurie
1968 ·
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1967 ·
The Incident
as Joan Robinson
1966 ·
Neighbours
as Vicky Kingsbury
1963 ·
The Great Adventure
as Harriet Tubman
1963 ·
The Fugitive
as Laura Smith
1963 ·
Gone Are the Days!
as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
1963 ·
The Balcony
as Thief
1961 ·
The Defenders
as Catherine Collins
1961 ·
A Raisin in the Sun
as Ruth Younger
1959 ·
Take a Giant Step
as Christine
1959 ·
Virgin Island
as Ruth
1958 ·
St. Louis Blues
as Elizabeth
1957 ·
Edge of the City
as Lucy Tyler
1954 ·
Go Man Go
as Irma Jackson
1951 ·
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rowena Finch
1951 ·
The Tall Target
as Rachel
1950 ·
No Way Out
as Connie Brooks (uncredited)
1950 ·
The Jackie Robinson Story
as Rae Robinson
1948 ·
The Fight Never Ends
as
1948 ·
What a Guy
as
1947 ·
Easy to Get
as Drugstore Girl
1946 ·
Love in Syncopation
as
1946 ·
That Man of Mine
as Joan
