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Ruby Dee Acting Filmography (91)

Poitier's Walter Lee

2018·Self (archive footage)

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Betty and Coretta

A Thousand Words

2012·Annie McCall

Politics of Love

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

2011·Miss Candy

2009·Mrs. Harper

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

2009·Narrator (voice)

American Gangster

2007·Mama Lucas

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

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

2006·Nanna Maria

Discovering William Greaves

The Way Back Home

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

2004·(archive footage)

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Feast of All Saints

2001·Elsie Claviere

Taking Back Our Town

2001·Emelda West

Finding Buck McHenry

2000·Mrs. Henry

A Storm in Summer

2000·Grandmother

1999·Mommit Porter

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

1999·Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

The Unfinished Journey

1999·Narrator (voice)

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

1998·Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")

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

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Sports on the Silver Screen

1997·Self (archive footage)

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

1995·Evangeline Ferguson

Tuesday Morning Ride

1994·Grandmother (voice)

The Ernest Green Story

1993·Lydia Wilson

Color Adjustment

1991·Lucinda Purify

1991·Narrator (voice)

1990·Corrine Dart

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

1990·Jackie's Mother

Zora is My Name!

1990·Zora Neale Hurston

Do the Right Thing

1989·Mother Sister

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1984·Mrs. Grimes

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1982·Mary Tyrone

All God's Children

1980·Irene Whitfield

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1979·Grandmother Baxter

Countdown at Kusini

1976·Leah Matanzima

It's Good to Be Alive

1974·Ruth Campanella

1974·Julia Augustine

1973·Dr. Bianca Pearson

Buck and the Preacher

1972·Netta's mother

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

1972·Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

1972·Narrator (voice)

1971·Sue Ann Lucas

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970·Self (archive footage)

1967·Joan Robinson

Now is the Time

1966·Vicky Kingsbury

Gone Are the Days!

1963·Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

A Raisin in the Sun

1961·Ruth Younger

Take a Giant Step

1959·Christine

St. Louis Blues

1958·Elizabeth

Edge of the City

1957·Lucy Tyler

1954·Irma Jackson

The Tall Target

The Jackie Robinson Story

1950·Rae Robinson

1950·Connie Brooks (uncredited)

The Fight Never Ends

1947·Drugstore Girl

That Man of Mine

Love in Syncopation