Ruby Dee
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).
119 acting credits
Acting · 119
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Fugitive
1963
American Experience
1988
Great Performances
1971
Touched by an Angel
1994
The Golden Girls
1985
Police Woman
1974
The Defenders
1961
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Oscars
1953
Reading Rainbow
1983
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
China Beach
1988
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Stand
1994
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
The Great Adventure
1963
Iconoclasts
2005
American Gangster
2007
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
Little Bill
1999
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hollywood Black
2024
A Thousand Words
2012
Cat People
1982
Do the Right Thing
1989
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
Just Cause
1995
A Simple Wish
1997
Armchair Theatre
1956
Lincoln
1988
Jungle Fever
1991
Baby Geniuses
1999
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Cop & ½
1993
The Unfinished Journey
1999
Middle Ages
1992
Buck and the Preacher
1972
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
2002
The Tall Target
1951
A Raisin in the Sun
1961
No Way Out
1950
Feast of All Saints
2001
Edge of the City
1957
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
1996
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950
No. 2
2006
The Incident
1967
Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005
All About Us
2007
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
Decoration Day
1990
Love at Large
1990
The Sheriff
1971
Video Girl
2011
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
Uptight
1968
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
Steam
2007
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
2004
Christianity: The First 1000 Years
1998
America
2009
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
A Storm in Summer
2000
Betty and Coretta
2013
Deadlock
1969
Black Girl
1972
It's Good to Be Alive
1974
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
2007
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
The Balcony
1963
All God's Children
1980
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
1996
The Wall
1998
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
2011
Color Adjustment
1992
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979
Virgin Island
1959
The Ernest Green Story
1993
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999
Zora is My Name!
1990
Taking Back Our Town
2001
Tuesday Morning Ride
1995
The Way Back Home
2006
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
1998
Finding Buck McHenry
2000
Take a Giant Step
1959
Passing Glory
1999
Politics of Love
2011
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998
St. Louis Blues
1958
Countdown at Kusini
1976
Chelsea D.H.O.
1973
Wedding Band
1974
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
1980
Whitewash
1994
Go Man Go
1954
Gone Are the Days!
1963
Discovering William Greaves
2006
Easy to Get
1947
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1982
Neighbours
1966
That Man of Mine
1946
Now is the Time
1967
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
2009
The Fight Never Ends
1948
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
2002
On Merit
1972
What a Guy
1948
Jazztime Tale
1991
After Goodbye
1993
Love in Syncopation
1946