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Ruby Dee

English
Filmography

American Gangster

2007
as Mama Lucas

A Thousand Words

2012
as Annie McCall

Tuesday Morning Ride

1995
as Jennie

America

2009
as Mrs. Harper

Betty and Coretta

2013
as Narrator

A Storm in Summer

2000
as Grandmother

Buck and the Preacher

1972
as Ruth

Go Tell It On The Mountain

1984
as Mrs. Grimes

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

2007
as Ruby Dee

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

1989
as Herself

Passing Glory

1999
as Mommit Porter

Black Girl

1972
as Netta's mother

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

2013
as Herself

Love at Large

1990
as Corrine Dart

Zora is My Name!

1990
as Zora Neale Hurston

Virgin Island

1958
as Ruth

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

2017
as Ruby Dee

It's Good to Be Alive

1974
as Ruth Campanella

Politics of Love

2011

Video Girl

2011
as Valerie

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

1996
as Indigo

Uptight

1968
as Laurie

Color Adjustment

1992
as Narrator

A Raisin in the Sun

1961
as Ruth Younger

No. 2

2006
as Nanna Maria

The Incident

1967
as Joan Robinson

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

1996
as Sophia

Edge of the City

1957
as Lucy Tyler

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970

A Simple Wish

1997
as Hortence

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

1998
as Narrator

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

1999
as Ruby Dee

The Ernest Green Story

1993
as Mrs. Lydia Wilson

Jungle Fever

1991
as Lucinda Purify

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

2003
as Ruby Dee

The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery

1994
as Self - Narrator

Lady Day - The Many Faces of Billie Holiday

1990
as Billie Holiday (voice)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1979
as Grandmother Baker

All About Us

2007
as Ms. Ella

Just Cause

1995
as Evangeline

And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead

2015
as Self (archive footage)

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black

1972
as Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

The Tall Target

1951
as Rachel, Slave Maid

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

2013
as Ruby Dee

Lockdown, USA

2006

Do the Right Thing

1989
as Mother Sister

Their Eyes Were Watching God

2005
as Nanny

Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore

2001
as Narrator

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

2009
as Narrator

St. Louis Blues

1958
as Elizabeth

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

1990
as Jackie's Mother

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

2014
as Ruby Dee

Countdown at Kusini

1976
as Leah Matanzima

Taking Back Our Town

2001
as Emelda West

Take a Giant Step

1959
as Christine

Cop and ½

1993
as Rachel

The Way Back Home

2006
as Maude

The Jackie Robinson Story

1950
as Rae Robinson

Decoration Day

1990
as Rowena

Gone Are the Days!

1963
as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

Cat People

1982
as Female

Discovering William Greaves

2006
as Ruby Dee

The Balcony

1963
as Thief

Steam

2007
as Doris

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

The Sheriff

1971
as Sue Ann Lucas

Writer

Movie Uptight 1968

Producer

Movie Uptight 1968