Ossie Davis

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1917 age 0

   Born

2. 1950 age 33

   CreditNo Way Out

3. 1963 age 46

   CreditThe Cardinal

4. 1965 age 48

   CreditThe Hill

5. 1968 age 51

   CreditThe Scalphunters

6. 1984 age 67

   CreditHarry & Son

7. 1989 age 72

   CreditDo the Right Thing

8. 1990 age 73

   CreditJoe Versus the Volcano

9. 1991 age 74

   CreditJungle Fever

10. 1992 age 75

    CreditGladiator

    CreditMalcolm X

11. 1993 age 76

    CreditGrumpy Old Men

12. 1994 age 77

    CreditThe Client

    CreditThe Stand

13. 1997 age 80

    Credit12 Angry Men

    Credit4 Little Girls

14. 1998 age 81

    CreditDr. Dolittle

15. 1999 age 82

    CreditThe Soul Collector

16. 2002 age 85

    CreditBubba Ho-tep

17. 2004 age 87

    CreditShe Hate Me

18. 2005 age 87

    Died

• SLSpike Lee5 titles
• RDRuby Dee4 titles
• TBTerence Blanchard4 titles
• RCRuth E. Carter3 titles
• JTJohn Turturro3 titles
• WTWynn Thomas3 titles
• NTNicholas Turturro3 titles
• BBBarry Alexander Brown3 titles
• EDErnest Dickerson3 titles
• LMLonette McKee3 titles

• Spouse

  • RDRuby Dee

• Children

  • GDGuy Davis

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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• Performing artists are less political today than they were years ago because they're not called on to be political

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• We have freedom. What we don't have is equality!

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• They knew what to say because it fell into the existing rhetoric

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• The struggle and the arts are connected almost by definition

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• I had a sense of certainty that no matter how dark it is now, one of these days it'll change.

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• Optimism is small and personal

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