Ossie Davis

...racial satire centered on a "new-fangled preacher man" from Waycross. When the community theater company in Waycross produced the play in 2001, Davis came to see it. Later in life, Davis distinguished himself in a string of Spike Lee...

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...room as D.J. Mister Senor Love Daddy. No. 169 was where Mother Sister, played by Ruby Dee, leaned out her window and yelled at Da Mayor, Dee's real-life husband Ossie Davis, who lived at No. 178. On the corner, the faint outline of the...

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...and film that they were almost a package deal. Their credits include Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever," and the stage and film versions of Davis' play "Purlie Victorious." After studying drama in college, Holbrook toured...

In this article: Ruby Dee, Hal Holbrook, Academy Awards, American Gangster, Into the Wild, Sean Penn, Harlem, Cleveland, and Los Angeles

...but it is an engrossing one thanks to superb direction from Lee and various excellent supporting performances from the likes of Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Bill Nunn, Samuel L. Jackson, Frankie Faison, and Robin...

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...the film revealed, more subconsciously than consciously? What is the "right thing" that Ossie Davis's street sage Da Mayor counsels Lee's pizza-boy protagonist Mookie to always do? It's the brilliance of this movie, which Lee produced,...

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...on the Bus. He also found work as a commercial voice-over artist and served as the narrator of the early-1990s CBS sitcom Evening Shade, starring Burt Reynolds, where he also played one of the residents of a small southern town. Davis at the...

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...and film that they were almost a package deal. Their credits including Spike Lee's ''Do the Right Thing'' and ''Jungle Fever,'' and the stage and film versions of Davis' play ''Purlie Victorious.'' An Emmy winner for the TV movie ''Decoration...

In this article: Ruby Dee, Hal Holbrook, Academy Awards, American Gangster, Into the Wild, Emmy, Sean Penn, Harlem, and Cleveland