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