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Ruby Dee

English
Filmography

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

2009
as Narrator

A Raisin in the Sun

1961
as Ruth Younger

A Simple Wish

1997
as Hortence

A Storm in Summer

2000
as Grandmother

A Thousand Words

2012
as Annie McCall

A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

1998
as Narrator

All About Us

2007
as Ms. Ella

America

2009
as Mrs. Harper

American Gangster

2007
as Mama Lucas

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

2013
as Ruby Dee

And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead

2015
as Self (archive footage)

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

2003
as Ruby Dee

Betty and Coretta

2013
as Narrator

Black Girl

1972
as Netta's mother

Buck and the Preacher

1972
as Ruth

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

1996
as Indigo

Cat People

1982
as Female

Color Adjustment

1992
as Narrator

Cop and ½

1993
as Rachel

Countdown at Kusini

1976
as Leah Matanzima

Decoration Day

1990
as Rowena

Discovering William Greaves

2006
as Ruby Dee

Do the Right Thing

1989
as Mother Sister

Edge of the City

1957
as Lucy Tyler

Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore

2001
as Narrator

Go Tell It On The Mountain

1984
as Mrs. Grimes

Gone Are the Days!

1963
as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1979
as Grandmother Baker

In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema

2007
as Ruby Dee

It's Good to Be Alive

1974
as Ruth Campanella

Jungle Fever

1991
as Lucinda Purify

Just Cause

1995
as Evangeline

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970

Lady Day - The Many Faces of Billie Holiday

1990
as Billie Holiday (voice)

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

2014
as Ruby Dee

Little Bill

1999

Lockdown, USA

2006

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

2013
as Herself

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

2017
as Ruby Dee

Love at Large

1990
as Corrine Dart

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

1989
as Herself

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

1996
as Sophia

No. 2

2006
as Nanna Maria

Passing Glory

1999
as Mommit Porter

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

1999
as Ruby Dee

Politics of Love

2011

Roots: The Next Generations

1979
as Queen Haley

St. Louis Blues

1958
as Elizabeth

Steam

2007
as Doris

Take a Giant Step

1959
as Christine

Taking Back Our Town

2001
as Emelda West

The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery

1994
as Self - Narrator

The Atlanta Child Murders

1985
as Faye Williams

The Balcony

1963
as Thief

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

1990
as Jackie's Mother

The Ernest Green Story

1993
as Mrs. Lydia Wilson

The Feast of All Saints

2001
as Elsie Claviere

The Incident

1967
as Joan Robinson

The Jackie Robinson Story

1950
as Rae Robinson

The Sheriff

1971
as Sue Ann Lucas

The Stand

1994
as Mother Abagail Freemantle

The Tall Target

1951
as Rachel, Slave Maid

The Way Back Home

2006
as Maude

Their Eyes Were Watching God

2005
as Nanny

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black

1972
as Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

Tuesday Morning Ride

1995
as Jennie

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

Uptight

1968
as Laurie

Video Girl

2011
as Valerie

Virgin Island

1958
as Ruth

Zora is My Name!

1990
as Zora Neale Hurston

Writer

Movie Uptight 1968

Producer

Movie Uptight 1968

Guest Star

Episode The Dick Cavett Show
B.B. King, George Peppard, Ruby Dee, Bergen Evans 		1970
Episode Between the Lions
Bug Beard 		2001
Episode The Bold Ones: The Protectors
Deadlock 		1969
Episode The Fugitive
Decision in the Ring 		1963
Episode CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Empty Eyes 		2007
Episode Def Poetry
Episode 6 		2004
Episode Armchair Theatre
Neighbours 		1966
Episode East Side/West Side
No Hiding Place 		1963
Episode Cosby
Ol' Betsy 		1999
Episode American Experience
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad 		1990
Episode Soul!
Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis, Lucky Thompson 		1972
Episode Reading Rainbow
Simon's Book 		1984
Episode China Beach
Skylark 		1990
Episode Police Woman
Target Black 		1975
Episode Touched by an Angel
The Christmas Gift 		1999
Episode Evening Shade
They Can't Take That Away From Me (1) 		1993
Episode The Golden Girls
Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy 		1990