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    Ruby Dee (born Ruby Ann Wallace; October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress. She was married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed...
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    was an American actor, director, writer, and activist. He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his death. He received numerous...
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  • written and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro and Samuel...
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  • with co-stars Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ruby Dee, Lymari Nadal and Cuba Gooding Jr. Development for the film initially began...
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    American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his...
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    interview that she had never thought about casting Brown. On June 11, 2014, Ruby Dee died from natural causes. Bassett had previously worked with her on Betty...
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  • Lloyd Richards, the cast comprised: Sidney Poitier – Walter Lee Younger Ruby Dee – Ruth Younger Ivan Dixon – Joseph Asagai Lonne Elder III – Bobo John Fiedler...
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  • semi-autobiographical. The film marked the final appearance of actress and activist Ruby Dee before her death in 2014. The film is set in Philadelphia 1982. Hill Harper...
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    for Darryl F. Zanuck in the film No Way Out (1950). His performance with Ruby Dee and Maude Simmons in No Way Out, as a doctor treating a white bigot (played...
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  • Spike Lee. Starring Lee, Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, Tim Robbins...
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  • Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, and Ruby Dee. The film has the distinction of being the first full-length feature to...
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    signed over his portion of the royalties to Shabazz.) Actor and activist Ruby Dee and Juanita Poitier (married to Sidney Poitier until 1965) established...
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  • William Corrington. The film stars James Garner, Judith Ivey, Bill Cobbs, Ruby Dee, and Laurence Fishburne. It follows Albert Sidney Finch, a retired Georgia...
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  • directed by Kyle Schickner, produced by FenceSitter Films, and starring Ruby Dee, Ally Sheedy and Kate Siegel. A college student, a single middle aged mother...
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  • reading was held by Davis and theater producer Jeffrey Richards, cast with Ruby Dee in the role of Idella Landy, Harold Perrineau ("Oz") as Purlie Victorious...
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    day. The film's cast included Lee, Danny Aiello, Bill Nunn, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, John Turturro, Martin Lawrence and Samuel...
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    gravediggers' shovels to complete the burial themselves. Actor and activist Ruby Dee and Juanita Poitier (wife of Sidney Poitier) established the Committee...
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  • roles and features Gary Sinise, Miguel Ferrer, Rob Lowe, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo, Molly Ringwald, Corin Nemec, Adam Storke...
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  • City Subway car, played by an ensemble cast that includes Beau Bridges, Ruby Dee, Jack Gilford, Ed McMahon, Gary Merrill, Donna Mills, Brock Peters, Thelma...
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  • Poitier. Poitier also stars in the film alongside Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee. This is the first film Sidney Poitier directed. Vincent Canby of The New...
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  • Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Godfrey Cambridge. It is based on the 1961 Broadway play Purlie Victorious, which was written by Davis. Davis, Dee, Cambridge...
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  • playwright and film director. His first feature film, No. 2, starring Ruby Dee won the Audience Award (World Dramatic) at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival...
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  • Ed Harris as Blair Sullivan Christopher Murray as Detective J.T. Wilcox Ruby Dee as Evangeline Ferguson Scarlett Johansson as Katie Armstrong Daniel J....
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    Values: America's Moral Crisis – Jimmy Carter / With Ossie and Ruby – Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (2006) The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama and Jacob Bronstein...
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  • Now" — as the lead character, Spencer "Spence" Scott. Co-stars included Ruby Dee as the Scott family's housekeeper, Estelle Hemsley as Grandma Martin (Hemsley...
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  • Baldwin's 1953 novel of the same name. It stars Paul Winfield, Rosalind Cash, Ruby Dee, Alfre Woodard, Douglas Turner Ward, CCH Pounder, Kadeem Hardison, Giancarlo...
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    scoring the winning run in the deciding game. Jackie Robinson as Himself Ruby Dee as Rae Robinson Minor Watson as Branch Rickey Louise Beavers as Jackie's...
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    Hansberry's classic play, A Raisin in the Sun, opposite Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett Jr., Lonne Elder III, John Fiedler...
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  • produced and directed by Michael Sporn with a screenplay by Ntozake Shange. Ruby Dee and Linda Lavin provide voices for the animated characters. The family...
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  • dumps several tons of iron ore over his body. Raymond St. Jacques as B.G. Ruby Dee as Laurie Frank Silvera as Kyle Roscoe Lee Browne as Clarence "Daisy" Julian...
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