The episode, “Ghost Stories,” aired in April 1982, with special guest, respected This variety series features Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. The episode, “Ghost Stories,” aired in April 1982, with special ...

This Valentine's Day, we're celebrating some of the cutest Black stories from Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee to A$AP Rocky and ...

a 1940s-era drama about Doc Craft, a dining car waiter who realizes his company wants him to retire. This variety series features Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. In “Solo Song for Doc,” it’s man versus “the ...

R. C. Davis is the given name of a renowned American actor, writer, and activist. An inattentive county clerk (or family affection) morphed the baby’s name into Ossie. It didn’t seem to harm Ossie ...

Film and stage actor Ossie Davis was found dead Friday in his Miami hotel room. Davis, the husband and partner of actress Ruby Dee, was 87. Davis was in Florida where he had just started making the ...

Meanwhile came the revivals of the nonmusical “Purlie Victorious” (one recent famous one running on Broadway, 2023-24, and in a PBS version in 2024, both with Leslie Odom Jr. as Purlie).

Ossie Davis, the imposing, unshakable actor who championed racial justice on stage, on screen and in real life, often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee, has died at age 87. Davis was found dead Friday ...

NEW YORK Ossie Davis, the imposing, unshakable actor who championed racial justice on stage, on screen and in real life, often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee, has died. He was 87. Davis was found ...

Actor Ossie Davis has died at 87. He was found this morning in a hotel room in Miami, where he was making a film called Retirement. The cause of death was not immediately known. Davis was a ...