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Ossie Davis is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter American born on 17 december 1917 at Georgia (USA)
Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and social activist.
They were well known as civil rights activists, and were close friends of Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other icons of the era. Davis and Dee's deep involvement in the movement is characterized by how instrumental they were in organizing the 1963 civil rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, even to the point of serving as emcee. Davis, alongside Ahmed Osman, delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Malcolm X. He re-read part of this eulogy at the end of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X. He also delivered a stirring tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, at a memorial in New York's Central Park the day after King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Birth name Raiford Chatman Davis
Nationality USA
Birth 17 december 1917 at Georgia (USA)
Death 4 february 2005 (at 87 years) at Miami (USA)
Awards Daytime Emmy Award, National Medal of Arts
Nationality USA
Birth 17 december 1917 at Georgia (USA)
Death 4 february 2005 (at 87 years) at Miami (USA)
Awards Daytime Emmy Award, National Medal of Arts
Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and social activist.
Biography
In 1948, Davis married actress Ruby Dee. In their joint autobiography With Ossie and Ruby, they described their decision to have an open marriage (later changing their minds). In the mid 1960s they moved to the New York suburb of New Rochelle where they remained ever after. Their son Guy Davis is a blues musician and former actor, who appeared in the film Beat Street and the daytime soap opera One Life to Live. Their daughters are Nora Davis Day and Hasna Muhammad.They were well known as civil rights activists, and were close friends of Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other icons of the era. Davis and Dee's deep involvement in the movement is characterized by how instrumental they were in organizing the 1963 civil rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, even to the point of serving as emcee. Davis, alongside Ahmed Osman, delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Malcolm X. He re-read part of this eulogy at the end of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X. He also delivered a stirring tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, at a memorial in New York's Central Park the day after King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Sam Whiskey (1969)
, 1h36Directed by Peter Tewksbury, Arnold Laven
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Heist films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis, Angie Dickinson, William Schallert, Woodrow Parfrey
Roles Jed Hooker
Rating58%
Sam Whiskey (Reynolds), an adventurer and rogue in the Old West, is seduced by widow Laura Breckenridge (Dickinson) into promising to retrieve $250,000 in gold bars from a riverboat that sank in Colorado's Platte River. The gold had been stolen by Laura's late husband from the Denver Mint and replaced by plated fakes. She offers Sam $20,000 to recover and return it before the theft is discovered and her family name is ruined. Sam enlists the help of Jedidiah Hooker (Davis), a local blacksmith, and O. W. Bandy (Walker), an Army friend turned inventor, offering them shares of the reward.
Sam Whiskey (1969)
, 1h36Directed by Arnold Laven
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Angie Dickinson, Ossie Davis, William Schallert, Woodrow Parfrey
Roles Jed Hooker
Rating58%
Sam Whiskey, un aventurier qui passe son temps à jouer et à enchaîner les conquêtes féminines, est engagé par une veuve pour retrouver le magot dérobé puis caché par le défunt mari de cette dernière...
The Scalphunters (1968)
, 1h42Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas, Shelley Winters, Dabney Coleman, Paul Picerni
Roles Joseph Lee
Rating66%
Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster), an American fur trapper, is making his way back home with a full cargo of hides when he encounters a group of Kiowa Indians led by Two Crows (Armando Silvestre), who insist on taking his furs. As "payment" they offer him a slave, Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis), who they had previously taken from a group of Comanches. Reluctantly, realising he cannot fight them, Bass agrees to the trade.
A Man Called Adam (1966)
, 1h39Directed by Leo Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Sammy Davis Jr., Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, Peter Lawford, Johnny Brown, Mel Tormé
Roles Nelson Davis
Rating65%
Adam Johnson is a talented African-American jazz cornetist, plagued by ill health, racism, alcoholism and a short temper, as well as guilt over the deaths years before of his wife and child. The result is a caustic personality that wears even on those who care the most about him, such as his best friend Nelson, and Vincent, a young Caucasian trumpeter whom Adam mentors. Arriving unexpectedly at his New York home drunk after walking out on his jazz quintet, Adam finds prominent Civil Rights worker Claudia Ferguson and her grandfather, Willie, who is himself a well-known jazz trumpeter, in his apartment. The two have been given access to the apartment by Nelson, but despite having authorized this, the drunken Adam is rude to both, that including making a vulgar pass at Claudia.
The Hill (1965)
, 2h3Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Prison films, Political films, Films based on plays, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch
Roles Jacko King
Rating78%
In a British Army "glasshouse" (military detention camp) in the Libyan Desert, prisoners convicted of service offences such as insubordination, being drunk whilst on duty, going AWOL or petty theft etc. are subjected to repetitive drill in the blazing desert heat.
Shock Treatment (1964)
, 1h34Directed by Denis Sanders
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Ossie Davis, Roddy McDowall, Lauren Bacall, Timothy Carey
Roles Capshaw
Rating65%
A crazed gardener (Roddy McDowall) is sent to a mental hospital after he goes berserk and beheads his wealthy boss.
The Cardinal (1963)
, 2h55Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Tom Tryon, Raf Vallone, Jill Haworth, John Saxon, Romy Schneider, Carol Lynley
Roles Father Gillis
Rating66%
A newly ordained Irish Catholic priest, Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon) returns home to Boston in 1917. He discovers that his parents are upset about daughter Mona (Carol Lynley) having become engaged to marry a Jewish boy, Benny Rampell (John Saxon). Mona seeks Stephen's counsel as a priest.
The Emperor Jones (1955)
, 1hOrigin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ossie Davis, Rex Ingram
Fourteen Hours (1951)
, 1h32Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about suicide, Children's films
Actors Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Keith
Roles Cab Driver (uncredited)
Rating70%
Early one morning, a room service waiter at a New York City hotel is horrified to discover that the young man to whom he has just delivered breakfast (Richard Basehart) is standing on the narrow ledge outside his room on the fifteenth floor. Charlie Dunnigan (Paul Douglas), a policeman on traffic duty in the street below, tries to talk him off the ledge to no avail. He is ordered back to traffic patrol by police emergency services deputy chief Moksar (Howard Da Silva). But he is ordered to return when the man on the ledge will not speak to psychiatrists summoned to the scene. Coached by a psychiatrist (Martin Gabel), Dunnigan tries to relate to the man on the ledge as one human to another.
No Way Out (1950)
, 1h46Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about racism, Children's films
Actors Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Ruby Dee, Stephen McNally, Amanda Randolph, Sidney Poitier
Roles John Brooks (uncredited)
Rating73%
Dr. Luther Brooks (Sidney Poitier), an intern who has just passed the state board examination to qualify for his license to practice, is the first African-American doctor at the urban county hospital at which he trained. Because he lacks self-confidence, Luther requests to work as a junior resident at the hospital for another year. Johnny (Dick Paxton) and Ray Biddle (Richard Widmark), brothers who were both shot in the leg by a policeman as they attempted a robbery, are brought to the hospital's prison ward. As Luther tends to the disoriented Johnny, he is bombarded with racist slurs by Ray, who grew up in Beaver Canal, the white working class section of the city. Believing that Johnny has a brain tumor, Luther administers a spinal tap, but Johnny dies during the procedure. Wondering if Ray's antagonism may have caused him to be careless, Luther consults his mentor, chief medical resident Dr. Daniel Wharton (Stephen McNally), and Wharton concedes that a brain tumor was only one possibility. Feeling that he must prove the accuracy of his diagnosis, Luther requests an autopsy, but Wharton informs him that according to state law, they cannot proceed without the permission of the deceased's family. When Ray refuses, as he does not want his brother's body to be cut up, Wharton confers with the head of the hospital, Dr. Sam Moreland (Stanley Ridges), about requisitioning an autopsy.
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Countdown at Kusini (1976)
, 1h41Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin Nigeria
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Greg Morris, Tom Aldredge, Funsho Adeolu
Rating54%
Story of the transition of an African country from colonialism to independence.
Gordon's War (1973)
, 1h30Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Paul Winfield, Carl Lee, David Downing, Gilbert Lewis, Carl Gordon, Grace Jones
Rating63%
A Vietnam veteran returns home to find drug dealers and addicts now rule his old neighborhood, and that even his own wife has fallen victim to drugs. Together with three of his buddies from Vietnam, he fights back.
Black Girl (1972)
, 1h37Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Leslie Uggams, Brock Peters, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Erik Kilpatrick
Rating67%
A family drama about a young woman who defies the low expectations thrust upon her and pursues her dream of becoming a dancer. An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Kongi's Harvest (1970)
, 1h25Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin Nigeria
Genres Drama
Actors Orlando Martins, Ossie Davis
Rating66%
President Kongi (Soykina), the dictator of an African developing nation, is trying to modernize his nation after deposing King Oba Danlola (Onikoyi). The different tribes are resisting unification, so he tries to reach his goal by any means necessary, including forcing government officials to wear traditional African outfits and seeking advice from the man he deposed. He demands tribute from Danlola in the form of a yam, an important food in the culture. Danlola's former lover Segi brings the dictator the head of her father as sacrifice.
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
, 1h37Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Raymond St. Jacques, Godfrey Cambridge, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx, John Anderson
Rating64%
Reverend Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) arrives to fanfare at a rally in Harlem. Meanwhile, two Harlem detectives, Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and "Coffin" Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) catch a pickpocket, Early Riser, among the crowd and run him off. O'Malley is selling shares in a Back-to-Africa movement ship to be called The Black Beauty. Uncle Budd (Redd Foxx) doesn't have the $100 minimum down payment, but O'Malley accepts his $20 for a share. Some men from the District Attorney's office arrive and ask O'Malley to come downtown. O'Malley agrees to leave as several masked gunman jump out a meat truck and begin shooting. They steal $87,000 in cash from the back of an armored car. O'Malley and two assistants chase the meat truck in the armored car; the detectives chase them both in their car. A bale of cotton falls out of the during the chase. The detectives lose them avoiding some youngsters in the street. Riser is hit by the meat truck while fleeing a pickpocketing attempt, which causes the truck and armored car to crash.