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Ruby Dee
- Department:Acting
- Place of birth:Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Birthday:10/27/1922
- Deathday:6/11/2014
- Popularity:1
- Also known as:Ruby Ann Wallace
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Acting and producing career
Acting
- 2018movie
Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
- 2014movie
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
as Self
- 2013movie
Betty and Coretta
as Narrator
- 2013movie
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
as Self
- 2012movie
A Thousand Words
as Annie McCall
- 2011movie
Video Girl
as Valerie
- 2011movie
Politics of Love
- 2011movie
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
as Miss Candy
- 2009movie
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
as Narrator (voice)
- 2009movie
America
as Mrs. Harper
- 2007movie
Steam
as Doris
- 2007movie
American Gangster
as Mama Lucas
- 2007movie
All About Us
as Ms. Ella
- 2007movie
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
as Herself
- 2007movie
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
as Self
- 2006movie
Discovering William Greaves
as Self
- 2006movie
The Way Back Home
as Maude
- 2006movie
No. 2
as Nanna Maria
- 2005movie
Their Eyes Were Watching God
as Nanny
- 2004movie
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
as Self
- 2004movie
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as (archive footage)
- 2003movie
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
- 2002movie
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
as Self
- 2001movie
Taking Back Our Town
as Emelda West
- 2001movie
Feast of All Saints
as Elsie Claviere
- 2000movie
Finding Buck McHenry
as Mrs. Henry
- 2000movie
A Storm in Summer
as Grandmother
- 1999movie
The Unfinished Journey
as Narrator (voice)
- 1999movie
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
as Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
- 1999movie
Baby Geniuses
as Margo
- 1999movie
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
as Self
- 1999movie
Passing Glory
as Mommit Porter
- 1998movie
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
as Narrator
- 1998movie
The Wall
as Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
- 1998movie
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
as Self
- 1997movie
A Simple Wish
as Hortence
- 1997movie
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
- 1996movie
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
as Indigo
- 1996movie
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
as Sophia
- 1995movie
Just Cause
as Evangeline Ferguson
- 1995movie
Tuesday Morning Ride
as Jennie
- 1994movie
Whitewash
as Grandmother (voice)
- 1993movie
After Goodbye
as Narrator
- 1993movie
Cop & ½
as Rachel
- 1993movie
The Ernest Green Story
as Lydia Wilson
- 1992movie
Color Adjustment
as Narrator
- 1991movie
Jazztime Tale
as Narrator (voice)
- 1991movie
Jungle Fever
as Lucinda Purify
- 1990movie
Decoration Day
as Rowena
- 1990movie
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
as Jackie's Mother
- 1990movie
Love at Large
as Corrine Dart
- 1990movie
Zora is My Name!
as Zora Neale Hurston
- 1989movie
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
as Self
- 1989movie
Do the Right Thing
as Mother Sister
- 1984movie
Go Tell It on the Mountain
as Mrs. Grimes
- 1982movie
Long Day's Journey Into Night
as Mary Tyrone
- 1982movie
Cat People
as Female
- 1980movie
All God's Children
as Irene Whitfield
- 1980movie
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
- 1979movie
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
as Grandmother Baxter
- 1976movie
Countdown at Kusini
as Leah Matanzima
- 1974movie
Wedding Band
as Julia Augustine
- 1974movie
It's Good to Be Alive
as Ruth Campanella
- 1973movie
Chelsea D.H.O.
as Dr. Bianca Pearson
- 1972movie
Black Girl
as Netta's mother
- 1972movie
Buck and the Preacher
as Ruth
- 1972movie
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
as Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
- 1972movie
On Merit
as Narrator (voice)
- 1971movie
The Sheriff
as Sue Ann Lucas
- 1970movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
- 1969movie
Deadlock
as Lucinda
- 1968movie
Uptight
as Laurie
- 1967movie
The Incident
as Joan Robinson
- 1967movie
Now is the Time
as Self
- 1966movie
Neighbours
as Vicky Kingsbury
- 1963movie
Gone Are the Days!
as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
- 1963movie
The Balcony
as Thief
- 1961movie
A Raisin in the Sun
as Ruth Younger
- 1959movie
Take a Giant Step
as Christine
- 1959movie
Virgin Island
as Ruth
- 1958movie
St. Louis Blues
as Elizabeth
- 1957movie
Edge of the City
as Lucy Tyler
- 1954movie
Go Man Go
as Irma Jackson
- 1951movie
The Tall Target
as Rachel
- 1950movie
No Way Out
as Connie Brooks (uncredited)
- 1950movie
The Jackie Robinson Story
as Rae Robinson
- 1948movie
The Fight Never Ends
- 1948movie
What a Guy
- 1947movie
Easy to Get
as Drugstore Girl
- 1946movie
Love in Syncopation
- 1946movie
That Man of Mine
as Joan
- -tv
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Mary Wilson
- -tv
Spenser: For Hire
- -tv
The Great Adventure
as Harriet Tubman
- -tv
The Golden Girls
as Mammy Watkins
- -tv
China Beach
- -tv
Little Bill
- -tv
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rowena Finch
- -tv
The Stand
as Mother Abagail Freemantle
- -tv
Police Woman
- -tv
The Fugitive
as Laura Smith
- -tv
Iconoclasts
as Self
- -tv
Middle Ages
as Estelle Williams
- -tv
The Defenders
as Catherine Collins
- -tv
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
- -tv
Lincoln
as Elizabeth Keckley
- -tv
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
- -tv
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
- -tv
Christianity: The First 1000 Years
as Herself - Narrator
- -tv
The Atlanta Child Murders
as Faye Williams
- -tv
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Grandma (voice)
- -tv
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
- -tv
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
as Narrator
- -tv
Touched by an Angel
as LaBelle Springbelt
- -tv
Great Performances
as Self
- -tv
Roots: The Next Generations
as Queen Haley
- -tv
The Oscars
as Self
- -tv
Armchair Theatre
as Vicky Kingsbury
Producing
