Ruby Dee

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Oct 27, 1922 (102 years old)
Death date
Jun 11, 2014

Ruby Dee

Known For

Poitier's Walter Lee
0h 24m
Movie 2018

Poitier's Walter Lee

An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited.

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
1h 30m
Movie 2014

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism.

Betty and Coretta
1h 30m
Movie 2013

Betty and Coretta

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2h 0m
Movie 2013

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Steam
2h 0m
Movie 2007

Steam

Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.

American Gangster
2h 37m
Movie 2007

American Gangster

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
0h 59m
Movie 2007

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

This documentary captures the sounds and images of a nearly forgotten era in film history when African American filmmakers and studios created “race movies” exclusively for black audiences. The best of these films attempted to counter the demeaning stereotypes of black Americans prevalent in the popular culture of the day. About 500 films were produced, yet only about 100 still exist. Filmmaking pioneers like Oscar Micheaux, the Noble brothers, and Spencer Williams, Jr. left a lasting influence on black filmmakers, and inspired generations of audiences who finally saw their own lives reflected on the silver screen.

Discovering William Greaves
1h 1m
Movie 2006

Discovering William Greaves

A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair Bourne, and film scholar Scott MacDonald. Released within Criterion's Symbiopsychotaxiplasm set.

No. 2
1h 34m
Movie 2006

No. 2

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
6h 6m
TV Show 2002

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.

Biography

Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 - June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun. Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Do the Right Thing (1989) and American Gangster (2007).

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