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Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis

American actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist (1917-2005)
December 18, 1917 (February 4, 2005)
U.S. 2003. Chronicle by Mario Van Peebles with Mario Van Peebles, T.K. Carter, Joy Bryant. Documentary about the difficult shooting in 1970 of an independent film by Melvin Van Peebles about the oppression of the American black community.
Runtime: 108 min.
U.S. 2003. Fantasy comedy by Don Coscarelli with Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce. In a nursing home, a sixty-year-old man who claims to be the real Elvis Presley helps another resident fight an evil mummy.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1999. Fantasy comedy by Michael Scott with Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Greenwood, Ossie Davis. Descended to Earth in the form of a man in order to learn compassion, a spirit ends up falling in love with a young widowed farm girl.
U.S. 1999. Psychological drama by John Schmidt with Barbara Babcock, Ken Howard, Ossie Davis. A family finds enough strength in faith to fight their mother's Alzheimer's disease.
U.S. 1998. Biography by Bruce Pittman with Della Reese, Crystal Bernard, Ossie Davis. An African-American couple, though destitute, takes a white girl under their wing who is being abused by her own family.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1996. Dramatic comedy by Herb Gardner with Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis, Amy Irving.
U.S. 1996. Social drama by Spike Lee with Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 1995. Science-fiction by Richard Kletter with Griffin Dunne, Harley Jane Kozak, Ossie Davis.
Runtime: 90 min
U.S. 1994. Crime drama by Joel Schumacher with Brad Renfro, Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones. A lawyer defends a teenager who refuses to tell the police what a mob lawyer told him before he committed suicide.
Runtime: 120 min.
Runtime: 366 min.
U.S. 1992. Social drama by Eric Laneuville with Morris Chestnut, Ossie Davis, CCH Pounder. The story of the first Black man to graduate from a famous Arkansas school.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1992. Sports drama by Rowdy Herrington with James Marshall, Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert Loggia. A young boxer is forced to participate in illegal matches to pay off a gangster to whom his father owes money.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1991. Mores drama by Spike Lee with Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, John Turturro. The romance between a black architect and his young Italian-American secretary takes a toll on the lives of both of them.
Runtime: 132 min.
U.S. 1990. Crime drama by Burt Reynolds with Burt Reynolds, Dana Kaminski, Ossie Davis. A private detective and his assistant escort a little girl to Washington who witnessed her mother's murder.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1990. Crime drama by Hal Needham with Burt Reynolds, Dana Kaminsky, Ossie Davis. A private investigator comes to the aid of his ex-wife and her partner who are being held hostage in a building during a jewel heist.
U.S. 1990. Police comedy by Tony Wharmby with Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Loni Anderson. In the Bahamas, a detective is hired as a security guard by a hotel where a jewelry exhibition is organized.
U.S. 1989. Police comedy by Hal Needham with Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Ned Beatty. A private investigator and an FBI agent investigate the activities of a financier and a young terrorist.
U.S. 1989. Police comedy by Jerry Jameson with Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Austin Pendleton. A private investigator alienates an important judge by helping his secretary's brother who has been wrongfully imprisoned.
U.S. 1989. Crime drama by Alan J. Levi with Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Dana Kaminsky. A private detective investigates the suspicious death of the father of a talented young soccer player.
U.S. 1989. Police comedy by Tony Wharmby with Burt Reynolds, Maureen Stapleton, Ossie Davis. A private investigator discovers that an old aunt is collaborating with emerald smugglers.
U.S. 1989. Police comedy by Stuart Margolin with Burt Reynolds, Dana Kaminski, Ossie Davis. An attractive young woman drags a private investigator into a drug trafficking case.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1989. Social drama by Spike Lee with Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis. During a heat wave, the Italian managers of a Brooklyn pizzeria provoke the aggression of the neighbourhood's Black population.
Runtime: 120 min.

Homicide détective

V.O.: The Dancer's Touch
U.S. 1989. Crime drama by William A. Fraker with Burt Reynolds, Helen Shaver, Ossie Davis. With the help of a psychiatrist, a police officer relieved of his duties searches for the person responsible for several rapes and a murder.
U.S. 1980. Social drama by Jerry Thorpe with Richard Widmark, Ned Beatty, Ossie Davis.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1978. Biography by Abby Mann with Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Ossie Davis.
Runtime: 271 min.
U.S. 1977. Social drama by Steve Gethers with Levar Burton, Michael Constantine, Ossie Davis. The problems of a black teenager in a poor neighborhood.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1973. Crime drama by Ossie Davis with Paul Winfield, Carl Lee, David Downing. Upon learning of his wife's drug-related death, a special forces officer seeks revenge.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1972. Psychological drama by Ossie Davis with Brock Peters, Leslie Uggams, Claudia McNeil. A Black teenager tenaciously pursues her dream of becoming a dancer, despite the taunts of her two half-sisters.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1971. Crime drama by David Lowell Rich with Ossie Davis, Kaz Garas, Ross Martin. A Black sheriff investigates the rape of a young Black girl by a white racist.
Runtime: 73 min.
U.S. 1969. Police comedy by Ossie Davis with Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart. Two Black police officers investigate the theft of a large sum of money raised by a pastor.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1968. Social drama by Herbert Biberman with Stephen Boyd, Ossie Davis, Dionne Warwick. By changing masters, a Black slave falls under the control of a tyrant.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1968. Western by Sydney Pollack with Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Shelley Winters. In the company of a Black slave, a trapper hunts down Native Americans who have stolen his furs.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1963. Comedy by Nicholas Webster with Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Alan Alda. A Black preacher seeks an inheritance to build a church.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1950. Social drama by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell. A racist gangster holds a Black doctor responsible for his brother's death.
Runtime: 106 min.

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