
Ruby Dee
Born October 27, 1922 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun. Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Do the Right Thing (1989) and American Gangster (2007).
Movies

American Gangster

Do the Right Thing

A Thousand Words

Jungle Fever

Cat People

Baby Geniuses

A Simple Wish

Just Cause

Edge of the City

A Raisin in the Sun

Cop & ½

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six

Buck and the Preacher

Feast of All Saints

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

No Way Out

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

The Ernest Green Story

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Their Eyes Were Watching God
TV Shows

The Fugitive

The Dick Cavett Show

American Experience

The Golden Girls

The Defenders

Police Woman

The Oscars

Reading Rainbow

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

China Beach

The Kennedy Center Honors

Spenser: For Hire

The Great Adventure

The Stand

Roots: The Next Generations

Hollywood Black

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Iconoclasts

Little Bill

The Atlanta Child Murders

Armchair Theatre

Middle Ages

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
More Movies

Sports on the Silver Screen

The Incident

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

Zora is My Name!

The Tall Target

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

Love at Large

The Jackie Robinson Story

Taking Back Our Town

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Video Girl

Take a Giant Step

All God's Children

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

A Storm in Summer

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

Uptight

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Color Adjustment

No. 2

The Way Back Home

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

It's Good to Be Alive

Gone Are the Days!

America

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

All About Us

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

St. Louis Blues

Steam

Poitier's Walter Lee

The Unfinished Journey

Decoration Day

Betty and Coretta

Wedding Band

After Goodbye

Black Girl

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Passing Glory

Virgin Island

The Fight Never Ends

The Wall

Finding Buck McHenry

The Balcony

Deadlock

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

The Sheriff

Long Day's Journey Into Night

That Man of Mine

Tuesday Morning Ride

Whitewash

Politics of Love

Easy to Get

What a Guy

Go Man Go

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

Countdown at Kusini

Love in Syncopation

Discovering William Greaves




