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Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee

American actress (1922-2014)
October 27, 1922 (June 11, 2014)
U.S. 2012. Biography by Yves Simoneau with Mary J. Blige, Angela Bassett, Ruby Dee. In the 1960s, Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King, widows of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, continue the social struggle initiated by their late husbands together.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Brian Robbins with Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Clark Duke. A verbose and unscrupulous literary agent realizes that every word he utters causes a leaf to fall from an Indian tree, and that when the last one falls, his death will follow.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 2001. Social drama by Sam Pillsbury with Laura Innes, Ruby Dee, Christopher Bauer. In a small town in Louisiana, a group of women fight against the managers of a polluting petrochemical plant.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1999. Biography by Lynne Littman with Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Amy Madigan. Two African-American sisters, ages 101 and 103, tell a reporter about the milestones in their lives.
Runtime: 366 min.
U.S. 1993. Police comedy by Henry Winkler with Burt Reynolds, Norman D. Golden II, Ruby Dee. A kid who dreams of becoming a police officer assists the detective in charge of the investigation.
Runtime: 93 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. Biography by Larry Peerce with Andre Braugher, Ruby Dee, Stan Shaw. The story of future baseball player Jackie Robinson who was a victim of racial discrimination during World War II.
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.
U.S. 1985. Crime drama by John Erman with Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn. The circumstances surrounding the arrest and trial of the killer of several Black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s.
Runtime: 245 min.
U.S. 1982. Fantasy by Paul Schrader with Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard. In New Orleans, a young woman discovers that she belongs to a family whose members have the ability to transform into murderous beasts after making love.
Runtime: 118 min.
U.S. 1974. Biography by Michael Landon with Paul Winfield, Louis Gossett Jr., Ruby Dee. The rehabilitation efforts of baseball player Roy Campanella, paralyzed after a car accident.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1971. Western by Sidney Poitier with Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee. After the Civil War, former Black slaves try to make their way to Colorado to settle, in spite of mercenaries.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1968. Psychological drama by Jules Dassin with Julian Mayfield, Raymond St. Jacques, Roscoe Lee Browne. A worker gives the police information about a militant involved in a burglary.
Runtime: 104 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. 1961. Social drama by Daniel Petrie with Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee. The story of a poor but courageous black family who dream of a better social condition.
Runtime: 125 min.
U.S. 1959. Psychological drama by Philip Leacock with Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee. The problems faced by a Black teenager.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1950. Biography by Alfred E. Green with Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson. The story of future baseball player Jackie Robinson who was a victim of racial discrimination during World War II.
Runtime: 76 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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