Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

146

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-12-17

Deathday

2005-02-04 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Cogdell, Georgia, USA

Also Known As

Ozzie Davis
Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis
Raiford Chatman Davis

Ossie Davis

Biography

Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, director, writer, and activist.

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Known For

5.7%

Doctor Dolittle

Jun 26, 1998

6.5%

Dinosaur

May 19, 2000

7.7%

Do the Right Thing

Jun 14, 1989

7.5%

Malcolm X

Nov 18, 1992

6.7%

The Client

Jul 20, 1994

7.6%

The L Word

Jan 18, 2004

6.6%

Grumpy Old Men

Dec 25, 1993

6.5%

Bubba Ho-tep

Jun 9, 2002

5.8%

Joe Versus the Volcano

Mar 9, 1990

6.8%

The Stand

May 8, 1994

6.8%

The Stand

May 8, 1994

7.5%

Bonanza

Sep 12, 1959

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Acting

2022

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues as Self (archive footage)

2006

Folk Britannia as Self (archival footage)

2005		The Peace! as Self
2005		The History Makers: Success as Self
2005		Unstoppable as Self
2005		By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' as Self

2004		She Hate Me as Judge Buchanan
2004		Proud as Lorenzo DuFau
2004		Baadasssss! as Granddad
2004		TV Revolution
2004		Beah: A Black Woman Speaks as Self
2004		The L Word as Melvin Porter

2003		The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
2003		The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars as Narrator
2003		Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property as Himself
2003		Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003		Deacons for Defense as Reverend 'Rev' Gregory

2002		Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun' as Self
2002		Bubba Ho-tep as John F. "Jack" Kennedy
2002		Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years as Narrator

2001		Feast of All Saints as Jean-Jacques
2001		Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore as Narrator
2001		The Legend of the Candy Cane as Julius (voice)

2000		Here's to Life! as Duncan Cox
2000		Dinosaur as Yar (voice)
2000		Finding Buck McHenry as Buck McHenry

1999		The Unfinished Journey as Narrator (voice)
1999		Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve as Caretaker
1999		The Soul Collector as Mordecai
1999		Third Watch as Mr. Parker
1999		The Secret Path as Too Tall
1999		Paul Robeson: Here I Stand as Self
1999		A Vow to Cherish as Alexander Billman

1998		Christianity: The First 1000 Years as Himself - Narrator
1998		Doctor Dolittle as Archer Dolittle
1998		Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood as Self
1998		Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist as Self

1997		12 Angry Men as Juror 2
1997		4 Little Girls as Self - Actor and Playwright
1997		Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers as Narrator
1997		Miss Evers' Boys as Mr. Evers
1997		Thomas Jefferson as Narrator (voice)
1997		Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough as Self

1996		I'm Not Rappaport as Midge Carter
1996		Get on the Bus as Jeremiah
1996		Promised Land
1996		Promised Land as Erasmus Jones
1996		The West as Self
1996		The West as Self / John R. Gills (voice)

1995		JAG as Terrence Minnerly
1995		The Client as Judge Harry Roosevelt
1995		The Android Affair as Dr. Winston
1995		Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder as Uncle Phil

1994		Touched by an Angel as Gabriel
1994		Touched by an Angel as Erasmus Jones
1994		Baseball as Various (voice)
1994		Baseball as (voice)
1994		The Client as Harry Roosevelt
1994		Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice as Uncle Phil
1994		The Stand as Judge Richard Farris
1994		The Stand as Judge Richard Farris (credit only)
1994		The Stand as Judge Richard Farris
1994		Malcolm X: Make It Plain as Self
1994		Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World as Narrator

1993		Grumpy Old Men as Chuck
1993		Cop & ½ as Detective in Squad Room
1993		Goin' Back to T-Town as Narrator
1993		Alex Haley's Queen as Parson Dick
1993		The Ernest Green Story as Grandfather

1992		Lincoln as Frederick Douglas (voice)
1992		Malcolm X as Eulogy Performer (voice)
1992		Gladiator as Noah

1991		Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self
1991		Jungle Fever as Reverend Purify

1990		Evening Shade as Ponder Blue
1990		Joe Versus the Volcano as Marshall
1990		The Red Shoes

1989		Making 'Do the Right Thing' as Self
1989		Do the Right Thing as Da Mayor
1989		B.L. Stryker as Oz Jackson

1988		American Experience as Self - Harlem Resident
1988		School Daze as Coach Odom

1986		American Masters as Self
1986		Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories as Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)

1985		Avenging Angel as Capt. Harry Moradian
1985		Tyler Texas Black Film Collection as Himself

1984		Harry & Son as Raymond
1984		Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood as Narrator
1984		The House of God as Dr. Sanders

1983

Reading Rainbow as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1981		Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige as Chuffy Russell
1981		Death of a Prophet

1980

All God's Children as Blaine Whitfield

1979		Freedom Road as Narrator
1979		Hot Stuff as Captain John Geiberger
1979		Roots: The Next Generations as Dad Jones
1979		Freedom Man as Benjamin Banneker

1978		The Kennedy Center Honors as Self
1978		King as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

1977

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid as Dr. Fredericks

1976		The Tenth Level as Reed
1976		Countdown at Kusini as Ernest Motapo

1975		Let's Do It Again as Elder Johnson
1975		Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Narrator

1973

Wattstax as Self (uncredited)

1972

Malcolm X as Eulogy (voice)

1971

The Sheriff as James Lucas

1970		Night Gallery as Osmund Portifoy
1970		Kongi's Harvest as Narrator

1969		Night Gallery as Osmond Portifoy
1969		Slaves as Luke
1969		Sam Whiskey as Jed Hooker
1969		Teacher, Teacher as Charles Carter
1969		The Fall

1968		Hawaii Five-O as Ramon Borelle
1968		The Name of the Game as Kubani
1968		The Scalphunters as Joseph Lee
1968		Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class as Narrator

1967		The Outsider as Lt. Wagner
1967		Black Liberation as Narrator

1966

A Man Called Adam as Nelson Davis

1965		Run for Your Life as Frankie Morton
1965		Run for Your Life as Dave Corbett
1965		Run for Your Life as Sgt. Dave Corbett
1965		The Sun... the Sand... the Hill as Jason King (archival footage)
1965		The Sun... the Sand... the Hill as Jason King (archive footage)
1965		The Hill as Jacko King

1964		12 O'Clock High as Major Glenn Luke
1964		Shock Treatment as Capshaw

1963		The Cardinal as Father Gillis
1963		The Great Adventure as John Ross
1963		The Fugitive as Lt. Johnny Gaines
1963		Gone Are the Days! as Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson

1962

Hands of Inge as Narrator (voice)

1961		The Defenders as Nixie
1961		The Defenders as Officer Bond
1961		The Defenders as District Attorney
1961		The Defenders as Assistant District Attorney
1961		The Defenders as District Attorney Daniel Jackson