Ossie Davis

Countdown at Kusini

1976

Ernest Motapo · Director · Screenplay

Le Casse de l'oncle Tom

1970

Director · Screenplay

Love in Exile

2026

Writer

Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

2024

Writer

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

1983

Writer

Gone Are the Days!

1963

Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson · Writer

Gordon's War

1973

Director

Black Girl

1972

Director

Kongi's Harvest

1970

Narrator · Director

Légitime défense

2005

Reverend 'Rev' Gregory

She Hate Me

2004

Judge Buchanan

Proud

2004

Lorenzo DuFau

Baadasssss!

2004

Granddad

The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars

2003

Narrator

Bubba Ho-tep

2002

John F. "Jack" Kennedy

Les racines du destin

2001

Jean-Jacques

Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore

2001

Narrator

The Legend of the Candy Cane

2001

Julius (voice)

Here's to Life!

2000

Duncan Cox

Dinosaure

2000

Yar (voice)

Finding Buck McHenry

2000

Buck McHenry

The Unfinished Journey

1999

Narrator (voice)

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

1999

Caretaker

L'Ange de l'Amour

1999

Mordecai

The Secret Path

1999

Too Tall

Un Voeu qu'il Faut Chérir

1999

Alexander Billman

Docteur Dolittle

1998

Archer Dolittle

Douze hommes en colère

1997

Juror 2

Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers

1997

Narrator

La Couleur du sang

1997

Mr. Evers

Les Complices De Central Park

1996

Midge Carter

Get on the Bus

1996

Jeremiah / 'Pop'

The Android Affair

1995

Dr. Winston

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

1995

Uncle Phil

Le Client

1994

Harry Roosevelt

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

1994

Uncle Phil

Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World

1994

Narrator

Les Grincheux

1993

Chuck

Un Flic et demi

1993

Detective in Squad Room

Goin' Back to T-Town

1993

Narrator

The Ernest Green Story

1993

Grandfather

Lincoln

1992

Frederick Douglas (voice)

Malcolm X

1992

Eulogy Performer (voice)

Gladiator

1992

Noah

Jungle Fever

1991

Reverend Purify

Joe Contre le Volcan

1990

Marshall

Do the Right Thing

1989

Da Mayor

School Daze

1988

Coach Odom

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

1986

Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)

Angel 2 : La vengeance de l'ange

1985

Capt. Harry Moradian

L'affrontement

1984

Raymond

Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood

1984

Narrator

The House of God

1984

Dr. Sanders

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

1981

Chuffy Russell

All God's Children

1980

Blaine Whitfield

Les Routes de la Liberté

1979

Narrator

Hot Stuff

1979

Captain John Geiberger

Freedom Man

1979

Benjamin Banneker

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

1977

Dr. Fredericks

The Tenth Level

1976

Reed

Le coup à refaire

1975

Elder Johnson

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

1975

Narrator

Malcolm X

1972

Eulogy (voice)

The Sheriff

1971

James Lucas

Night Gallery

1969

Osmond Portifoy

Esclaves

1969

Luke

Sam Whiskey, le dur

1969

Jed Hooker

Teacher, Teacher

1969

Charles Carter

Les Chasseurs de scalps

1968

Joseph Lee

Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class

1968

Narrator

The Outsider

1967

Lt. Wagner

Black Liberation

1967

Narrator

A man called Adam

1966

Nelson Davis

The Sun... the Sand... the Hill

1965

Jason King (archival footage) · Jason King (archive footage)

La Colline des hommes perdus

1965

Jacko King

Shock Treatment

1964

Capshaw

Le Cardinal

1963

Father Gillis

Hands of Inge

1962

Narrator (voice)

John Brown's Raid

1960

Dangerfield Newby

Quatorze Heures

1951

Cab Driver (uncredited)

La porte s'ouvre

1950

John Brooks (uncredited)

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

1998

Self · Thanks

Purlie

1981

Musical

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

2022

Self (archive footage)

The Peace!

2005

Self

The History Makers: Success

2005

Self

Unstoppable

2005

Self

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

2005

Self

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

2004

Self

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

2003

Self

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

2003

Himself

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

2002

Self

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

1999

Self

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

1998

Self

4 Little Girls

1997

Self - Actor and Playwright

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

1997

Self

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

1994

Self

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

Self

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

1989

Self

Tyler Texas Black Film Collection

1985

Himself

Wattstax

1973

Self (uncredited)

Now is the Time

1967

Self

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

The Real Malcolm X

1992

The Red Shoes

1990

Death of a Prophet

1981

The Fall

1969

Haiti: Killing the Dream

American Playhouse

1982

Writer

East Side/West Side

1963

Writer

JAG

1995

Terrence Minnerly

Hawaï police d'État

1968

Ramon Borelle

Le Fugitif

1963

Lt. Johnny Gaines

New York 911

1999

Mr. Parker

Bonanza

1959

Sam Davis

The L Word

2004

Melvin Porter

Les Anges du bonheur

1994

Gabriel · Erasmus Jones

Le Fléau

1994

Judge Richard Farris · Judge Richard Farris (credit only)

Evening Shade

1990

Ponder Blue

The Name of the Game

1968

Kubani

Sauve qui peut

1965

Frankie Morton · Dave Corbett · Sgt. Dave Corbett

12 O'Clock High

1964

Major Glenn Luke

The Defenders

1961

Nixie · Officer Bond · District Attorney · Assistant District Attorney · District Attorney Daniel Jackson

Kraft Television Theatre

1947

The Emperor Jones

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

2002

Narrator

Thomas Jefferson

1997

Narrator (voice)

Promised Land

1996

Erasmus Jones

The Client

1995

Judge Harry Roosevelt

Baseball

1994

Various (voice) · (voice)

Alex Haley's Queen

1993

Parson Dick

Un Privé Nommé Stryker

1989

Oz Jackson

Racines : Les Nouvelles Générations

1979

'Dad' Jones

King

1978

Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

The Great Adventure

1963

John Ross

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

Charles Carter

Tony Awards

1956

Self - Presenter

American Experience

1988

Self - Harlem Resident

American Masters

1986

Self

Reading Rainbow

1983

Self - Narrator (voice)

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978

Self

Folk Britannia

2006

Self (archival footage)

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

1998

Himself - Narrator

The West

1996

Self · Self / John R. Gills (voice)

TV Revolution

2004