Ossie Davis

AKA: Ozzie Davis, Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis, Raiford Chatman Davis
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1917-12-18

Cogdell, Georgia, USA

Biography

Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, director, writer, and activist. He is best known for his roles in the Spike Lee-directed films Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.

Crew Roles

Gordon's War
Director
Black Girl
Director
Purlie
Musical
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Director
Kongi's Harvest
Director
Gone Are the Days!
Writer
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Screenplay
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Writer
Countdown at Kusini
Director
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Writer
Countdown at Kusini
Screenplay
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Thanks
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {145}

Da Mayor

1989-06-14 7.766

Do the Right Thing

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Bu ...
Genre :Drama

Archer Dolittle

1998-06-26 5.7

Doctor Dolittle

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is sud ...
Genre :Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Reverend Purify

1991-06-07 6.385

Jungle Fever

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Yar (voice)

2000-05-19 6.5

Dinosaur

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home. ...
Genre :Animation, Family, Adventure

Narrator

2001-06-11 0

Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore

From the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning PBS series NEIGHBORHOODS: THE HIDDEN CITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO comes the remarkable story of San Francisco's Fillmore District. Remembered today mainly for its ro ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator

1993-03-01 0

Goin' Back to T-Town

Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation. Torn apart in 1 ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Marshall

1990-03-09 5.755

Joe Versus the Volcano

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious vi ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Chuck

1993-12-25 6.658

Grumpy Old Men

For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes riv ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Jacko King

1965-06-17 7.506

The Hill

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of tortu ...
Genre :Drama, War

Jed Hooker

1969-04-01 5.6

Sam Whiskey

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Joseph Lee

1968-02-29 6.423

The Scalphunters

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Juror 2

1997-08-17 7.7

12 Angry Men

During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

John F. "Jack" Kennedy

2002-06-09 6.546

Bubba Ho-tep

Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator year ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Fantasy

Granddad

2004-05-28 6.519

Baadasssss!

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an un ...
Genre :Drama

Elder Johnson

1975-10-11 6.9

Let's Do It Again

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Midge Carter

1996-12-24 5.6

I'm Not Rappaport

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threat ...
Genre :Comedy

Capt. Harry Moradian

1985-01-11 5

Avenging Angel

Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her life has been murdered, she quickly finds herself pit ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Crime

Jeremiah

1996-10-16 6.4

Get on the Bus

Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whos ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Too Tall

1999-04-02 7.579

The Secret Path

14-year-old Jo Ann Foley lives in squalor in a rural Southern community during World War II. Abused by her bootlegging grandfather Hank, Jo Ann has, like her mother Marie, been forced into a life of p ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Raymond

1984-03-02 5.8

Harry & Son

Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a st ...
Genre :Drama

Jean-Jacques

2001-11-11 4.65

Feast of All Saints

Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppr ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Dr. Sanders

1984-01-01 2.667

The House of God

Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Captain John Geiberger

1979-08-10 7

Hot Stuff

When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take ...
Genre :Comedy

Buck McHenry

2000-04-16 0

Finding Buck McHenry

Jason Ross is an 11-year-old boy whose love for baseball exceeds his talent for the game. When cut from his little league team, Jason's undefeatable spirit leads him to try and create an expansion tea ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Eulogy Performer (voice)

1992-11-18 7.539

Malcolm X

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nati ...
Genre :Drama, History

Duncan Cox

2000-09-18 0

Here's to Life!

Owen is the head administrator of an old age home in Washington. One day, a resident discovers he is cheating on his taxes, and orders that Owen takes him and two others on a road trip to British Colu ...
Genre :

Self

2005-09-20 5

The Peace!

Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and community organizers are getting tough with their question ...
Genre :Documentary

Mr. Evers

1997-02-22 6.3

Miss Evers' Boys

The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed. ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Dangerfield Newby

1960-10-25 0

John Brown's Raid

White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Self

2003-05-20 7.3

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his past successes give us an idea what kind of dedic ...
Genre :Documentary

1990-02-07 0

The Red Shoes

In this animated contemporary interpretation of a Hans Christian Andersen morality tale, a pair of magic slippers help two young African-American girls learn the value of friendship after they are div ...
Genre :Animation

Dr. Fredericks

1977-09-12 0

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the an ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Nelson Davis

1966-03-16 5.962

A Man Called Adam

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life. ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Narrator

2003-02-28 0

The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars

A documentary filmed at Moton Field in Tuskegee Alabama, home to the airmen of the 99th Fighter Squadron. They were the first African American fighter pilots trained to fly in the U.S. Army Air Corps ...
Genre :Documentary

Charles Carter

1969-02-05 0

Teacher, Teacher

Hamilton Cade is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that young Freddie is mentally retarded. A black man who wor ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson

1963-08-09 6.7

Gone Are the Days!

A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cou ...
Genre :Drama

Reed

1976-08-26 5.1

The Tenth Level

Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horr ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Narrator

1968-01-02 0

Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class

The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET Journal documentary. ...
Genre :Documentary

Mordecai

1999-10-24 7.15

The Soul Collector

Zachariah, makes a few mistakes and it is decided that he is to live as a human being for thirty days. Mordecai is his supervisor. Rebecca's husband died and Zachariah the soul collector, or, the ange ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie

Father Gillis

1963-12-12 6.5

The Cardinal

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal. ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Narrator

1994-01-01 0

Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World

Join tennis greats John McEnroe and Billie Jean King and world leader Nelson Mandela as they pay homage to the life and work of Arthur Ashe, the sports legend who transcended his athletic gifts and gr ...
Genre :

Self

2005-02-08 5

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X." ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2005-02-13 0

Unstoppable

An interview/overview on the influential careers of Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis, and Melvin Van Peebles. ...
Genre :Documentary

Coach Odom

1988-02-12 5.726

School Daze

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music

Dr. Winston

1995-04-12 5

The Android Affair

Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his memory erased.) She soon realizes that Teach is muc ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Ernest Motapo

1976-04-16 0

Countdown at Kusini

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa. ...
Genre :Drama

Reverend 'Rev' Gregory

2005-04-05 6.167

Deacons for Defense

Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still treated like third-class citiz ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Self (archive footage)

2022-10-27 6.6

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documenta ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator

1984-02-07 0

Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood

A documentary, combining archival material and live interviews with Marcus Garvey, Jr., and others, which introduces the life and work of the pioneer Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. ...
Genre :Documentary

Luke

1969-07-02 5.7

Slaves

A Kentucky slave (Davis) fights for his freedom from a cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins him and the other slaves in their revolt. ...
Genre :Drama

Cab Driver (uncredited)

1951-04-01 7.167

Fourteen Hours

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicid ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

John Brooks (uncredited)

1950-08-16 6.923

No Way Out

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Self

1998-01-01 7.7

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles on radio, television, and stage. It begins in Harle ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Lt. Wagner

1967-11-21 6

The Outsider

Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary susp ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, TV Movie

Self - Actor and Playwright

1997-07-09 7.245

4 Little Girls

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Eulogy (voice)

1972-05-24 6.462

Malcolm X

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources. ...
Genre :Documentary

1969-01-15 7

The Fall

"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a very personal documentary, and Whitehead appears in ...
Genre :Documentary

Jason King (archival footage)

1965-07-01 1

The Sun... the Sand... the Hill

Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill." ...
Genre :Documentary

Jason King (archive footage)

1965-07-01 1

The Sun... the Sand... the Hill

Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill." ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1989-11-03 6.714

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing. ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

1985-01-08 7

Tyler Texas Black Film Collection

"Tyler Texas Black Film Collection" (1985) is a promotional film hosted by Ossie Davis. ...
Genre :

Blaine Whitfield

1980-04-28 4

All God's Children

Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white, one black -- and their sons, who are buddies, pr ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Narrator

1979-10-29 4.8

Freedom Road

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enfor ...
Genre :Drama

Benjamin Banneker

1979-01-01 0

Freedom Man

The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the Underground Railroad to elude vicious slave catcher ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Self

2004-02-25 0

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it won the Documentary Award at the AFI Los Angeles Int ...
Genre :Documentary

Grandfather

1993-01-17 6.9

The Ernest Green Story

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Noah

1992-03-06 7.6

Gladiator

Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal undergro ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Narrator

1967-01-01 0

Black Liberation

Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty, shot-on-the-streets-of-New York footage of African- ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

2003-02-16 6.1

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual execution of 55 rebels and the retribution lynching of ...
Genre :Documentary

Caretaker

1999-12-14 9

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

Enchanting holiday tale of a young runaway who has broken into an old movie palace, looking for shelter on a snow-filled Christmas Eve. Closed for decades, the building is filled with countless discar ...
Genre :Fantasy, Music, TV Movie

2003-02-10 4.786

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Cong ...
Genre :History, Documentary

Alexander Billman

1999-01-01 6.2

A Vow to Cherish

John and Ellen have a picture-perfect life: while John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they've raised two beautiful children. But that picture is shattered when Ellen i ...
Genre :TV Movie

Osmond Portifoy

1969-11-08 7.1

Night Gallery

This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed ...
Genre :TV Movie, Thriller, Horror

James Lucas

1971-03-30 6

The Sheriff

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Crime

1981-01-01 4.083

Death of a Prophet

After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed in. Despite death threats and intimidation, Malcolm m ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2002-06-14 0

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun." ...
Genre :Documentary

Harry Roosevelt

1994-07-20 6.702

The Client

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he te ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Narrator

1997-06-23 10

Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers

Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers celebrates the ground-breaking career of the first-ever African-American to join the major leagues, talented athlete Jackie Robinson. The video commemorates the 50th ...
Genre :

Self

1991-10-28 7.7

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laur ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2005-02-15 0

The History Makers: Success

Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first installment of this series about African-American his ...
Genre :Documentary

Chuffy Russell

1981-05-31 6

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues wit ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Narrator

1975-04-19 0

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience. ...
Genre :Documentary

Lorenzo DuFau

2004-07-02 4.4

Proud

The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II. ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1994-01-26 10

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Islam, to ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Julius (voice)

2001-06-01 0

The Legend of the Candy Cane

The night a mysterious stranger rode into the lonely prairie town of West Sage, no one realized their lives would never be the same. ...
Genre :Animation, TV Movie, Comedy

Self

1997-01-01 6.5

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau. ...
Genre :Documentary

Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)

1986-01-01 0

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The video was re-released with different segments under t ...
Genre :Family

Narrator (voice)

1962-01-01 0

Hands of Inge

The work of sculptor Inge Hardison is the subject of this beautiful short portrait of an artist. Hardison is perhaps best known for "Negro Giants in History," her important series of busts made during ...
Genre :Documentary

Judge Buchanan

2004-07-30 5.2

She Hate Me

Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Narrator

1970-05-01 6

Kongi's Harvest

An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial yam at the upcoming harvest festival. ...
Genre :Drama

Capshaw

1964-07-22 6.7

Shock Treatment

A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Narrator (voice)

1999-12-31 6

The Unfinished Journey

A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration. ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Self

1999-02-24 0

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic champion of the rights of the poor working man, the ...
Genre :Documentary

Uncle Phil

1995-03-20 0

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

Ray investigates the murder of a judge. ...
Genre :Mystery, TV Movie

Uncle Phil

1994-05-13 0

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist. ...
Genre :Mystery, TV Movie

Detective in Squad Room

1993-04-02 4.457

Cop & ½

When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Family

Frederick Douglas (voice)

1992-12-26 6.8

Lincoln

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1998-02-10 0

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their contributions to Hollywood filmmaking. Spectacular ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (uncredited)

1973-02-04 7

Wattstax

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living condit ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

0

Haiti: Killing the Dream

A documentary focusing on the the events in Haiti following the coup of September 30, 1991. The program includes interviews with exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide, his cabinet, dissident clergy, ...
Genre :Documentary

Mr. Parker

1999-09-23 7.927

Third Watch

The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Th ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Ponder Blue

1990-09-21 5.6

Evening Shade

Evening Shade is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from 1990 to 1994. The series stars Burt Reynolds as Wood Newton, an ex-professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers ...
Genre :Comedy

John Ross

1963-09-27 0

The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodger ...
Genre :Drama

Gabriel

1994-09-21 7.2

Touched by an Angel

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Family

Ramon Borelle

1968-09-20 7.122

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Melvin Porter

2004-01-18 7.644

The L Word

A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles. ...
Genre :Drama

Terrence Minnerly

1995-09-23 7.332

JAG

Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of m ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Charles Carter

1951-12-24 8.571

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of tel ...
Genre :Drama

Judge Richard Farris

1994-05-08 6.8

The Stand

After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Frankie Morton

1965-09-13 7.2

Run for Your Life

Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had p ...
Genre :Drama

Lt. Johnny Gaines

1963-09-17 7.207

The Fugitive

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery

1996-09-17 6.083

Promised Land

Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel. ...
Genre :Drama

Dad Jones

1979-02-18 7.469

Roots: The Next Generations

Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdal ...
Genre :Drama

2004-05-23 0

TV Revolution

By blending history with the portrayal of sex, violence, minorities, women and homosexuality on television, "TV Revolution" touches on some of the greatest and most controversial moments of the small ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Parson Dick

1993-02-14 7.2

Alex Haley's Queen

Queen is the story about Easter, the illegitimate daughter of James Jackson, III and her lifelong affair with plantation owner Tim Daly, which would result in the birth of Queen. Queen's story revolve ...
Genre :Drama

Nixie

1961-09-16 5.9

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

Officer Bond

1961-09-16 5.9

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

District Attorney

1961-09-16 5.9

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

Assistant District Attorney

1961-09-16 5.9

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

District Attorney Daniel Jackson

1961-09-16 5.9

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1978-12-28 7.4

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture. ...
Genre :

Self

1996-09-15 8.389

The West

The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film orig ...
Genre :Documentary

Judge Harry Roosevelt

1995-09-17 6.8

The Client

The Client is an American television series that aired on CBS from September 18, 1995 to August 16, 1996. The series was based on the 1994 film The Client, itself adapted from the 1993 John Grisham no ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1997-02-18 8

Thomas Jefferson

The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this probing documentary. Covering Jefferson's diplomat ...
Genre :Documentary

Oz Jackson

1989-02-13 6

B.L. Stryker

B.L. Stryker is an American detective drama that aired on ABC from February 13, 1989 to May 5, 1990 as part of the ABC Mystery Movie along with Gideon Oliver, Columbo and Kojak. The series was executi ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Self (archival footage)

2006-02-03 0

Folk Britannia

Three 1-hour films exploring British folk music from the rebirth of English romance to the latter day revival. ...
Genre :

The Emperor Jones

1947-05-07 7.5

Kraft Television Theatre

Kraft Television Theater is an American, well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas. ...
Genre :Drama

Self - Narrator (voice)

1983-06-06 8.333

Reading Rainbow

Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of s ...
Genre :Kids

Himself - Narrator

1998-11-29 0

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

The incredible story of the people who, despite persecution, grew Christianity from an obscure movement to one of the world's largest religions. ...
Genre :Documentary

Kubani

1968-09-20 6.8

The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering w ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

1978-02-12 6.417

King

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in Memphis in 1968. ...
Genre :Drama

Sgt. Dave Corbett

1965-09-13 7.2

Run for Your Life

Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had p ...
Genre :Drama

Dave Corbett

1965-09-13 7.2

Run for Your Life

Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had p ...
Genre :Drama

Erasmus Jones

1996-09-17 6.083

Promised Land

Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel. ...
Genre :Drama

Erasmus Jones

1994-09-21 7.2

Touched by an Angel

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Family

Various (voice)

1994-09-18 7.3

Baseball

The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in each era. Writers, historians, players, baseball pers ...
Genre :Documentary

Self / John R. Gills (voice)

1996-09-15 8.389

The West

The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film orig ...
Genre :Documentary

Sam Davis

1959-09-12 7.512

Bonanza

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community. ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Family

Self

1986-06-23 7.4

American Masters

American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impr ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator

2002-06-01 6

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

A two-series set produced by the A&E network which explores the history of Christianity and its impact on the world from the year 0 to 2000. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self - Presenter

1956-04-01 5.917

Tony Awards

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and Th ...
Genre :

Judge Richard Farris (credit only)

1994-05-08 6.8

The Stand

After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

(voice)

1994-09-18 7.3

Baseball

The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in each era. Writers, historians, players, baseball pers ...
Genre :Documentary

Self - Harlem Resident

1988-10-04 7.4

American Experience

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today. ...
Genre :Documentary

Major Glenn Luke

1964-09-18 7.15

12 O'Clock High

This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and late ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics