Ruby Dee
Acting
Biography
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).
As actor 122
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Fugitive
1963
American Playhouse
1982
Great Performances
1971
The Golden Girls
1985
American Experience
1988
Touched by an Angel
1994
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Police Woman
1974
The Defenders
1961
American Gangster
2007
The Oscars
1953
China Beach
1988
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
The Stand
1994
Reading Rainbow
1983
Spenser: For Hire
1985
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
A Thousand Words
2012
Cat People
1982
Do the Right Thing
1989
Hollywood Black
2024
The Great Adventure
1963
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
Just Cause
1995
Little Bill
1999
Edge of the City
1957
Jungle Fever
1991
A Simple Wish
1997
Iconoclasts
2005
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Uptight
1968
Baby Geniuses
1999
Cop & ½
1993
A Raisin in the Sun
1961
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Incident
1967
No Way Out
1950
Lincoln
1988
St. Louis Blues
1958
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Buck and the Preacher
1972
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
1998
Video Girl
2011
The Sheriff
1971
The Wall
1998
The Tall Target
1951
Feast of All Saints
2001
Black Girl
1972
America
2009
A Storm in Summer
2000
Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005
Armchair Theatre
1956
Taking Back Our Town
2001
No. 2
2006
Decoration Day
1990
Color Adjustment
1992
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
Gone Are the Days!
1963
After Goodbye
1993
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
Neighbours
1966
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
Virgin Island
1959
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
2002
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
1996
The Balcony
1963
Whitewash
1994
Diamonds on the Silver Screen
The Way Back Home
2006
Love at Large
1990
Politics of Love
2011
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979
Betty and Coretta
2013
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
1996
Middle Ages
1992
Christianity: The First 1000 Years
1998
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
The Unfinished Journey
1999
Zora is My Name!
1990
It's Good to Be Alive
1974
Love in Syncopation
1946
Finding Buck McHenry
2000
On Merit
1972
Go Man Go
1954
All About Us
2007
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018
Passing Glory
1999
The Fight Never Ends
1948
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
1980
Steam
2007
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
2004
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990
Love in Exile
2026
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
2011
The Ernest Green Story
1993
Wedding Band
1974
Tuesday Morning Ride
1995
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1982
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
2002
That Man of Mine
1946
Chelsea D.H.O.
1973
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998
Deadlock
1969
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
2009
All God's Children
1980
Now is the Time
1967
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
Countdown at Kusini
1976
Discovering William Greaves
2006
What a Guy
1948
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007
Easy to Get
1947
Take a Giant Step
1959
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
2007
Jazztime Tale
1991
