Conocido por
Fotos
4
Películas
84
American Gangster
2007
Mama Lucas
Haz lo que debas
1989
Mother Sister
Mil palabras
2012
Annie McCall
Causa justa
1995
Evangeline Ferguson
El beso de la pantera
1982
Female
Unos peques geniales
1999
Margo
Fiebre salvaje
1991
Lucinda Purify
El hada novata
1997
Hortence
Un policía y pico
1993
Rachel
Un lunar en el Sol
1961
Ruth Younger
Un rayo de luz
1950
Connie Brooks (uncredited)
El incidente
1967
Joan Robinson
Buck y el farsante
1972
Ruth
Donde la ciudad termina
1957
Lucy Tyler
El gran objetivo
1951
Rachel
Sueños de Libertad
2005
Nanny
Amor perseguido
1990
Corrine Dart
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950
Rae Robinson
Video Girl
2011
Valerie
Uptight
1968
Laurie
El balcón
1963
Thief
Color Adjustment
1992
Narrator
Feast of All Saints
2001
Elsie Claviere
Vidas paralelas
2013
Narrator
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Self (archive footage)
The Way Back Home
2006
Maude
Black Girl
1972
Netta's mother
Un día de gloria
1990
Rowena
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979
Grandmother Baxter
Take a Giant Step
1959
Christine
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
Mrs. Grimes
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
1996
Sophia
The Ernest Green Story
1993
Lydia Wilson
Steam
2007
Doris
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
2011
Miss Candy
St. Louis Blues
1958
Elizabeth
The Sheriff
1971
Sue Ann Lucas
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
All About Us
2007
Ms. Ella
It's Good to Be Alive
1974
Ruth Campanella
A Storm in Summer
2000
Grandmother
Passing Glory
1999
Mommit Porter
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990
Jackie's Mother
Go Man Go
1954
Irma Jackson
No. 2
2006
Nanna Maria
Tuesday Morning Ride
1995
Jennie
Gone Are the Days!
1963
Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
The Wall
1998
Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
1996
Indigo
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
2007
Herself
The Unfinished Journey
1999
Narrator (voice)
Politics of Love
2011
Isla Virgen
1959
Ruth
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
2009
Narrator (voice)
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
(archive footage)
America
2009
Mrs. Harper
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
Self (archive footage)
Taking Back Our Town
2001
Emelda West
All God's Children
1980
Irene Whitfield
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972
Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
Jazztime Tale
1991
Narrator (voice)
Finding Buck McHenry
2000
Mrs. Henry
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
Self
That Man of Mine
1946
Joan
Deadlock
1969
Lucinda
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1982
Mary Tyrone
Countdown at Kusini
1976
Leah Matanzima
Whitewash
1994
Grandmother (voice)
The Fight Never Ends
1948
What a Guy
1948
Zora is My Name!
1990
Zora Neale Hurston
Discovering William Greaves
2006
Self
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
Self
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999
Self
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
1980
Easy to Get
1947
Drugstore Girl
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998
Self
After Goodbye
1993
Narrator
Love in Syncopation
1946
Wedding Band
1974
Julia Augustine
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
2004
Self
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
2002
Self
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018
Self (archive footage)
Series
29
CSI: Las Vegas
2000
Mary Wilson
Apocalipsis
1994
Mother Abagail Freemantle
Las chicas de oro
1985
Mammy Watkins
Tocados por un ángel
1994
LaBelle Springbelt
The Oscars
1953
Self
El fugitivo
1963
Laura Smith
Reading Rainbow
1983
Self - Narrator (voice)
American Experience
1988
Narrator (voice)
China Beach
1988
Raíces: La nueva generación
1979
Queen Haley
Spenser, detective privado
1985
La mujer policia
1974
Little Bill
1999
Great Performances
1971
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Self - Guest
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985
Faye Williams
Los defensores
1961
Catherine Collins
Lincoln
1988
Elizabeth Keckley
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Grandma (voice)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Rowena Finch
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
Self
American Playhouse
1982
Mrs. Grimes
American Playhouse
1982
Zora Neale Hurston
Armchair Theatre
1956
Vicky Kingsbury
Hollywood Black
2024
Self (archive footage)
Iconoclasts
2005
Self
Middle Ages
1992
Estelle Williams
The Great Adventure
1963
Harriet Tubman
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
2002
Narrator