Dec 18, 1917 - Cogdell, Georgia, USA
Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, director, writer, and activist.
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| Movie | 1989 | Do the Right Thing | Da Mayor | |
| Movie | 1998 | Doctor Dolittle | Archer Dolittle | |
| Movie | 1991 | Jungle Fever | Reverend Purify | |
| Movie | 2000 | Dinosaur | Yar (voice) | |
| Movie | 2001 | Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1993 | Goin' Back to T-Town | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1990 | Joe Versus the Volcano | Marshall | |
| Movie | 1993 | Grumpy Old Men | Chuck | |
| Movie | 1965 | The Hill | Jacko King | |
| Movie | 1969 | Sam Whiskey | Jed Hooker | |
| Movie | 1968 | The Scalphunters | Joseph Lee | |
| Movie | 1997 | 12 Angry Men | Juror 2 | |
| Movie | 2002 | Bubba Ho-tep | John F. "Jack" Kennedy | |
| Movie | 2004 | Baadasssss! | Granddad | |
| Movie | 1975 | Let's Do It Again | Elder Johnson | |
| Movie | 1996 | I'm Not Rappaport | Midge Carter | |
| Movie | 1985 | Avenging Angel | Capt. Harry Moradian | |
| Movie | 1996 | Get on the Bus | Jeremiah | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Secret Path | Too Tall | |
| Movie | 1984 | Harry & Son | Raymond | |
| Movie | 2001 | Feast of All Saints | Jean-Jacques | |
| Movie | 1984 | The House of God | Dr. Sanders | |
| Movie | 1979 | Hot Stuff | Captain John Geiberger | |
| Movie | 2000 | Finding Buck McHenry | Buck McHenry | |
| Movie | 1992 | Malcolm X | Eulogy Performer (voice) | |
| Movie | 2000 | Here's to Life! | Duncan Cox | |
| Movie | 2005 | The Peace! | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | Miss Evers' Boys | Mr. Evers | |
| Movie | 1960 | John Brown's Raid | Dangerfield Newby | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Red Shoes | ||
| Movie | 1977 | Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid | Dr. Fredericks | |
| Movie | 1966 | A Man Called Adam | Nelson Davis | |
| Movie | 2003 | The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1969 | Teacher, Teacher | Charles Carter | |
| Movie | 1963 | Gone Are the Days! | Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson | |
| Movie | 1976 | The Tenth Level | Reed | |
| Movie | 1968 | Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Soul Collector | Mordecai | |
| Movie | 1963 | The Cardinal | Father Gillis | |
| Movie | 1994 | Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2005 | By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' | Self | |
| Movie | 2005 | Unstoppable | Self | |
| Movie | 1988 | School Daze | Coach Odom | |
| Movie | 1995 | The Android Affair | Dr. Winston | |
| Movie | 1976 | Countdown at Kusini | Ernest Motapo | |
| Movie | 2005 | Deacons for Defense | Reverend 'Rev' Gregory | |
| Movie | 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1984 | Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1969 | Slaves | Luke | |
| Movie | 1951 | Fourteen Hours | Cab Driver (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1950 | No Way Out | John Brooks (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1998 | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Self | |
| Movie | 1967 | The Outsider | Lt. Wagner | |
| Movie | 1997 | 4 Little Girls | Self - Actor and Playwright | |
| Movie | 1972 | Malcolm X | Eulogy (voice) | |
| Movie | 1969 | The Fall | ||
| Movie | 1965 | The Sun... the Sand... the Hill | Jason King (archival footage) | |
| Movie | 1965 | The Sun... the Sand... the Hill | Jason King (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1989 | Making 'Do the Right Thing' | Self | |
| Movie | 1985 | Tyler Texas Black Film Collection | Himself | |
| Movie | 1980 | All God's Children | Blaine Whitfield | |
| Movie | 1979 | Freedom Road | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1979 | Freedom Man | Benjamin Banneker | |
| Movie | 2004 | Beah: A Black Woman Speaks | Self | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Ernest Green Story | Grandfather | |
| Movie | 1992 | Gladiator | Noah | |
| Movie | 1967 | Black Liberation | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2003 | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | Himself | |
| Movie | 1999 | Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve | Caretaker | |
| Movie | 2003 | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | ||
| Movie | 1999 | A Vow to Cherish | Alexander Billman | |
| Movie | 1969 | Night Gallery | Osmond Portifoy | |
| Movie | 1971 | The Sheriff | James Lucas | |
| Movie | 1981 | Death of a Prophet | ||
| Movie | 2002 | Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun' | Self | |
| Movie | 1994 | The Client | Harry Roosevelt | |
| Movie | 1997 | Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self | |
| Movie | 2005 | The History Makers: Success | Self | |
| Movie | 1981 | Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige | Chuffy Russell | |
| Movie | 1975 | Black Shadows on a Silver Screen | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2004 | Proud | Lorenzo DuFau | |
| Movie | 1994 | Malcolm X: Make It Plain | Self | |
| Movie | 2001 | The Legend of the Candy Cane | Julius (voice) | |
| Movie | 1997 | Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough | Self | |
| Movie | 1986 | Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories | Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice) | |
| Movie | 1962 | Hands of Inge | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2004 | She Hate Me | Judge Buchanan | |
| Movie | 1970 | Kongi's Harvest | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1964 | Shock Treatment | Capshaw | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Unfinished Journey | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1999 | Paul Robeson: Here I Stand | Self | |
| Movie | 1995 | Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder | Uncle Phil | |
| Movie | 1994 | Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice | Uncle Phil | |
| Movie | 1993 | Cop & ½ | Detective in Squad Room | |
| Movie | 1992 | Lincoln | Frederick Douglas (voice) | |
| Movie | 1998 | Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood | Self | |
| Movie | 1973 | Wattstax | Self (uncredited) | |
| Movie | N/A | Haiti: Killing the Dream | ||
| TV Show | 1999 | Third Watch | Mr. Parker | 3 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Evening Shade | Ponder Blue | 100 |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Great Adventure | John Ross | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Gabriel | 2 |
| TV Show | 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Ramon Borelle | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | The L Word | Melvin Porter | 4 |
| TV Show | 1995 | JAG | Terrence Minnerly | 1 |
| TV Show | 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Charles Carter | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | The Stand | Judge Richard Farris | 2 |
| TV Show | 1965 | Run for Your Life | Frankie Morton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Fugitive | Lt. Johnny Gaines | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Promised Land | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1979 | Roots: The Next Generations | Dad Jones | 7 |
| TV Show | 2004 | TV Revolution | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1993 | Alex Haley's Queen | Parson Dick | 3 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Defenders | Nixie | 1 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Defenders | Officer Bond | 1 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Defenders | District Attorney | 2 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Defenders | Assistant District Attorney | 1 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Defenders | District Attorney Daniel Jackson | 3 |
| TV Show | 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | The West | Self | 9 |
| TV Show | 1995 | The Client | Judge Harry Roosevelt | 21 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Thomas Jefferson | Narrator (voice) | 2 |
| TV Show | 1989 | B.L. Stryker | Oz Jackson | 12 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Folk Britannia | Self (archival footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre | The Emperor Jones | 1 |
| TV Show | 1983 | Reading Rainbow | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Christianity: The First 1000 Years | Himself - Narrator | 4 |
| TV Show | 1968 | The Name of the Game | Kubani | 1 |
| TV Show | 1978 | King | Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. | 3 |
| TV Show | 1965 | Run for Your Life | Dave Corbett | 1 |
| TV Show | 1965 | Run for Your Life | Sgt. Dave Corbett | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Erasmus Jones | 4 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Promised Land | Erasmus Jones | 2 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Baseball | Various (voice) | 0 |
| TV Show | 1996 | The West | Self / John R. Gills (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Bonanza | Sam Davis | 1 |
| TV Show | 1986 | American Masters | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years | Narrator | 2 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | The Stand | Judge Richard Farris (credit only) | 2 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Baseball | (voice) | 7 |
| TV Show | 1988 | American Experience | Self - Harlem Resident | 1 |
| TV Show | 1964 | 12 O'Clock High | Major Glenn Luke | 1 |
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| Movie | 1973 | Gordon's War | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1972 | Black Girl | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1981 | Purlie | Musical | Writing |
| Movie | 1970 | Cotton Comes to Harlem | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1970 | Kongi's Harvest | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1963 | Gone Are the Days! | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1970 | Cotton Comes to Harlem | Screenplay | Writing |
| Movie | 1983 | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1976 | Countdown at Kusini | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 2024 | Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1976 | Countdown at Kusini | Screenplay | Writing |
| Movie | 1998 | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Thanks | Crew |
| TV Show | 1963 | East Side/West Side | Writer | Writing |
