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 121
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Fugitive
1963
Great Performances
1971
American Experience
1988
The Golden Girls
1985
Touched by an Angel
1994
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
American Playhouse
1982
The Defenders
1961
The Oscars
1953
Police Woman
1974
Reading Rainbow
1983
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
China Beach
1988
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
The Stand
1994
Spenser: For Hire
1985
American Gangster
2007
The Great Adventure
1963
Little Bill
1999
Iconoclasts
2005
A Thousand Words
2012
Cat People
1982
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
Hollywood Black
2024
Just Cause
1995
Do the Right Thing
1989
Jungle Fever
1991
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
A Simple Wish
1997
Armchair Theatre
1956
Baby Geniuses
1999
No. 2
2006
Lincoln
1988
Buck and the Preacher
1972
America
2009
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005
Cop & ½
1993
Feast of All Saints
2001
No Way Out
1950
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
2011
A Raisin in the Sun
1961
Color Adjustment
1992
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
1996
Video Girl
2011
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
Uptight
1968
The Incident
1967
Middle Ages
1992
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
The Unfinished Journey
1999
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
Edge of the City
1957
Decoration Day
1990
Christianity: The First 1000 Years
1998
The Ernest Green Story
1993
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998
Betty and Coretta
2013
Gone Are the Days!
1963
Love at Large
1990
The Tall Target
1951
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
1996
Zora is My Name!
1990
Taking Back Our Town
2001
Neighbours
1966
It's Good to Be Alive
1974
All About Us
2007
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
2004
St. Louis Blues
1958
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999
Politics of Love
2011
On Merit
1972
The Sheriff
1971
Love in Exile
2026
The Fight Never Ends
1948
The Balcony
1963
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990
Easy to Get
1947
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
2002
Go Man Go
1954
Steam
2007
All God's Children
1980
Finding Buck McHenry
2000
Whitewash
1994
The Way Back Home
2006
Tuesday Morning Ride
1995
A Storm in Summer
2000
Black Girl
1972
Chelsea D.H.O.
1973
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
The Wall
1998
Take a Giant Step
1959
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
What a Guy
1948
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
Countdown at Kusini
1976
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972
Passing Glory
1999
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007
Deadlock
1969
Virgin Island
1959
After Goodbye
1993
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
Love in Syncopation
1946
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
2002
That Man of Mine
1946
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1982
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
1980
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
2009
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018
Discovering William Greaves
2006
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
1998
Now is the Time
1967
Wedding Band
1974
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
2007
Jazztime Tale
1991
