Ossie Davis
Biography
Movies 104
Dinosaur
as Yar (voice)
2000
Do the Right Thing
as Da Mayor
1989
Malcolm X
as Eulogy Performer (voice)
1992
The Client
as Harry Roosevelt
1994
Doctor Dolittle
as Archer Dolittle
1998
12 Angry Men
as Juror 2
1997
Gladiator
as Noah
1992
Grumpy Old Men
as Chuck
1993
Joe Versus the Volcano
as Marshall
1990
Jungle Fever
as Reverend Purify
1991
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Hill
as Jacko King
1965
Bubba Ho-tep
as John F. "Jack" Kennedy
2002
She Hate Me
as Judge Buchanan
2004
The Secret Path
as Too Tall
1999
The Cardinal
as Father Gillis
1963
Get on the Bus
as Jeremiah / 'Pop'
1996
Fourteen Hours
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
1951
School Daze
as Coach Odom
1988
Baadasssss!
as Granddad
2004
The Scalphunters
as Joseph Lee
1968
Feast of All Saints
as Jean-Jacques
2001
Avenging Angel
as Capt. Harry Moradian
1985
Let's Do It Again
as Elder Johnson
1975
Night Gallery
as Osmond Portifoy
1969
Cop & ½
as Detective in Squad Room
1993
No Way Out
as John Brooks (uncredited)
1950
4 Little Girls
as Self - Actor and Playwright
1997
A Man Called Adam
as Nelson Davis
1966
Miss Evers' Boys
as Mr. Evers
1997
Sam Whiskey
as Jed Hooker
1969
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
as Self
2004
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
as Self
1989
I'm Not Rappaport
as Midge Carter
1996
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
as Caretaker
1999
Harry & Son
as Raymond
1984
Death of a Prophet
1981
The Soul Collector
as Mordecai
1999
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self
1991
Hot Stuff
as Captain John Geiberger
1979
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
as Narrator
1968
Slaves
as Luke
1969
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
as Self
1998
The House of God
as Dr. Sanders
1984
Freedom Road
as Narrator
1979
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
as Self
2005
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories
as Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)
1986
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
as Uncle Phil
1994
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
as Self
1998
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
as Self
2003
The Real Malcolm X
1992
Gone Are the Days!
as Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson
1963
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
as Narrator
2001
The Unfinished Journey
as Narrator (voice)
1999
The Ernest Green Story
as Grandfather
1993
Wattstax
as Self (uncredited)
1973
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
as Chuffy Russell
1981
The Android Affair
as Dr. Winston
1995
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Himself
2003
A Vow to Cherish
as Alexander Billman
1999
Finding Buck McHenry
as Buck McHenry
2000
Haiti: Killing the Dream
1992
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
as Self
1997
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
as Self
1994
Teacher, Teacher
as Charles Carter
1969
All God's Children
as Blaine Whitfield
1980
The History Makers: Success
as Self
2005
The Tenth Level
as Reed
1976
John Brown's Raid
as Dangerfield Newby
1960
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
as Dr. Fredericks
1977
The Sheriff
as James Lucas
1971
The Outsider
as Lt. Wagner
1967
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Narrator
1975
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
as Uncle Phil
1995
Malcolm X
as Eulogy (voice)
1972
Deacons for Defense
as Reverend 'Rev' Gregory
2005
The Red Shoes
1990
Here's to Life!
as Duncan Cox
2000
The Legend of the Candy Cane
as Julius (voice)
2001
Lincoln
as Frederick Douglas (voice)
1992
The Peace!
as Self
2005
Goin' Back to T-Town
as Narrator
1993
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 Fall
1969
Now is the Time
as Self
1967
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
as Self
1999
Shock Treatment
as Capshaw
1964
Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood
as Narrator
1984
Countdown at Kusini
as Ernest Motapo
1976
Proud
as Lorenzo DuFau
2004
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
as Self
2002
Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World
as Narrator
1994
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers
as Narrator
1997
Tyler Texas Black Film Collection
as Himself
1985
Black Liberation
as Narrator
1967
Kongi's Harvest
as Narrator
1970
The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars
as Narrator
2003
Unstoppable
as Self
2005
Freedom Man
as Benjamin Banneker
1979
Love in Exile
2026
Hands of Inge
as Narrator (voice)
1962
The Man Who Loved the Stars
as Benjamin Banneker
TV Shows 45
JAG
as Terrence Minnerly
1995
Bonanza
as Sam Davis
1959
Hawaii Five-O
as Ramon Borelle
1969
Third Watch
as Mr. Parker
1999
The Fugitive
as Lt. Johnny Gaines
1963
American Experience
as Self - Harlem Resident
1988
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
Touched by an Angel
as Gabriel
1994
Touched by an Angel
as Erasmus Jones
1994
The L Word
as Melvin Porter
2004
American Masters
as Self
1986
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
1961
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
Kraft Television Theatre
as The Emperor Jones
1947
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
The Name of the Game
as Kubani
1968
12 O'Clock High
as Major Glenn Luke
1964
Evening Shade
as Ponder Blue
1990
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
The Stand
as Judge Richard Farris
1994
The Stand
as Judge Richard Farris (credit only)
1994
Promised Land
1996
Promised Land
as Erasmus Jones
1996
The Great Adventure
as John Ross
1963
Baseball
as Various (voice)
1994
Baseball
as (voice)
1994
Roots: The Next Generations
as 'Dad' Jones
1979
The Client
as Judge Harry Roosevelt
1995
The West
as Self
1996
The West
as Self / John R. Gills (voice)
1996
B.L. Stryker
as Oz Jackson
1989
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Charles Carter
1951
Alex Haley's Queen
as Parson Dick
1993
King
as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
1978
TV Revolution
2004
Thomas Jefferson
as Narrator (voice)
1997
Folk Britannia
as Self (archival footage)
2006
Christianity: The First 1000 Years
as Himself - Narrator
1998
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
as Narrator
2002