Ruby Dee
Actress
Writer
October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014
Credits:
Books:
My One Good Nerve:
Rhythms, Rhymes, Reasons (1986); Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears / Audio (1984);
With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (1998).
Movies and television:
14th
Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008); 1982 (2013); 2003 Trumpet Awards
(2003); 22nd NAACP Image Awards (1990); 39th NAACP Image Awards (2008); 7th
Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2001); A Certain Magical Pimpdex: Extended
Edition (2019); A Colored Life: The Herb Jeffries Story (2008); A Place Out of
Time: The Bordentown School (2009); A Raisin in the Sun (1961); A Simple Wish
(1997); A Storm in Summer (2000); A Thousand Words (2012); A Time to Dance: The
Life and Work of Norma Canner (1998); A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill
Moyers (1984); A Wealth of Wisdom (2004); Actor's Choice (1970); After Goodbye:
An AIDS Story (1993); Alcoa Premiere (1963); All About Us (2007); All God's
Children (1980); America (2009); America at the Movies (1976); American
Experience (1990); American Gangster (2007); American Masters (1995 / 1999); American
Playhouse (1985–1990); American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
(2013); An Ecstatic Experience (2015); An Evening at the Academy Awards (2008);
An Evening of Stars: A Celebration of Educational Excellence (1998); An Evening
of Stars: Tribute to Stevie Wonder (2006); An Evening with Ossie Davis &
Ruby Dee (2002); And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead (2015); Anyone for Tennyson?
The Master Poets Collection (1976); Armchair Theatre (1966); Baby Geniuses
(1999); Baby of the Family (2002); Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003); Betty and
Coretta (2013); Betty Hughes and Friends (1970); Between the Lions (2001); Bicentennial
Minutes (1975); Biography (2005); Black Girl (1972); Black Girls Rock (2010); Book
TV (2004); Broadway Legends (2002); Buck and the Preacher (1972); Camera Three
(1960–1965); Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996); Cat People (1982); CBC
Show of the Week (1964); Character Studies (2005); Charlie Rose (1997–1998); Chelsea
D.H.O. (1973); China Beach (1990); Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
(2001); Color Adjustment (1992); Cool Red (1976); Cop & ½ (1993); Cosby
(1999); Crossing Over: How Roots Captivated an Entire Nation (2007); Crown Dick
(1987); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2007); Dateline NBC: American Gangster:
First Look (2007); Decoration Day (1990); Def Poetry (2004); Discovering
William Greaves (2006); Do the Right Thing (1989); Domestic Differences (1997);
Dooley's Not Dooby (2018); Dream Street (2010); East Side/West Side (1963); Easy
to Get (1947); Ebony/Jet Showcase (1988); Edge of the City (1957); Entertainment
Tonight (2008 / 2014); Evening Shade (1993); Fatherhood (2004); Finding Buck
McHenry (2000); For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
(2010); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); Freedom
Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore (2001); Freedom Spectacular (1964); Frontiers
of Faith (1961); Go Man Go (1954); Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985); God's
Gonna Trouble the Water (1998); Gone Are the Days! (1963); Great Performances (1982–1998);
Great Performances / Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Guiding Light (1952–2009);
Hands Upon the Heart (1991); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2000);
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999); HBO First Look (2007);
He Said, She Said (1970); History of the Negro People (1965); Homeward Bound (1994);
Hughes' Dream Harlem (2002); I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979); Iconoclasts
(2007); In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
(2007); Inside TV Land (2002); Intimate Portrait (2001); It's Good to Be Alive
(1974); I've Got a Secret (1963); Jazztime Tale (1991); Jungle Fever (1991); Just
Cause (1995); King of Stage: The Woodie King Jr. Story (2018); King: A Filmed
Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1969); La noche de los Oscar (2008); Lady Day:
The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (1990); Legends Ball (2006); Let Freedom Sing:
How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement (2009); Life's Essentials with
Ruby Dee (2014); Lincoln (1988); Little Bill (1999–2004); Little Bill Thinks
Big! (2003); Little Bill: Big Little Bill (2001); Lockdown, USA (2006); Long
Day's Journey Into Night (1982); Look Up and Live (1968); Lorraine Hansberry:
The Black Experience in the Creation of Drama (1975); Love at Large (1990); Love
in Syncopation (1946); Making Do the Right Thing (1989); Maxine's Baby: The
Tyler Perry Story (2023); Meet Mary Pleasant (2008); Middle Ages (1992); Minty
Comedic Arts (2019); Miss Smith of Georgia (1962); Mississippi, America (1996);
Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996); Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2012); Naming
Number Two (2006); Nick Jr. Favorites Holiday (2006); No Way Out (1950); NY TV:
By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); On the Set of No. 2 (2007);
Ossie and Ruby! (1980); Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson (2007); Our Virgin
Island (1958); P.O.V. (2014); Passing Glory (1999); Password (1962); Peyton
Place (1968–1969); Play of the Week (1960–1961); Police Woman (1975); Politics
of Love (2011); Promised Land (1998); Reading Rainbow (1984–2001); Red &
Blue Marbles (2011); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); Seven Times Monday (1962);
Shelly Fisher (1999); Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (2017); Sing Your Song (2011);
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998); Soul! (1970–1972);
Special Collector's Edition (2014); Spenser: For Hire (1987); Sports on the
Silver Screen (1997); St. Louis Blues (1958); Steam (2007); Stories from the
Edge / Segment: Tuesday Morning Ride (1996); Street Gear (1995); Take a Giant
Step (1959); Taking Back Our Town (2001); Tavis Smiley (2008); Tenafly (1973); That
Man of Mine (1946); The 15th Annual Women in Film Crystal Awards (1991); The
16th Annual Diversity Awards (2008); The 16th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1964);
The 16th Annual Tony Awards (1962); The 2006 Black Movie Awards (2006); The
21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2015); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy
Awards (1979); The 43rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1991); The 48th Annual
Tony Awards (1994); The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (2014); The 80th Annual
Academy Awards (2008); The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery (1994);
The Atlanta Child Murders (1985); The Balcony (1963); The Black Movie Awards
(2005); The Bold Ones: The Protectors (1969); The Business of Hunger (1984); The
CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1974); The Court-Martial of
Jackie Robinson (1990); The Defenders (1965); The Dick Cavett Show (1970 / 1990);
The Directors (2000); The Doctors and the Nurses (1963); The DuPont Show of the
Week (1962); The Ernest Green Story (1993); The Feast of All Saints (2001); The
Fight Never Ends (1948); The First Year (1946); The Fugitive (1963); The Golden
Girls (1990); The Great Adventure (1963); The Great American Pastime (1956); The
History Makers (2005); The Incident (1967); The Insider (2004); The Interviews:
An Oral History of Television (2000); The Jackie Robinson Story (1950); The
Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2004); The
Landlord (2009); The Making of American Gangster (2008); The Making of Stephen
King's the Stand (1994); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1968); The Mike Douglas
Show (1965–1971); The Mo'Nique Show (2010); The New Neighbors (2009); The Oprah
Winfrey Show (2008); The Oscars (2015); The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009);
The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993); The Roseanne Show (1998); The Sheriff (1971); The
Sig Sakowicz Show (1972); The Stand (1994); The Tall Target (1951); The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson (1963); The Torture of Mothers (1980); The Tyra
Banks Show (2009); The Unfinished Journey (1999); The Wall / Segment: The Badge
(1998); The Way Back Home (2006); The Wendy Williams Show (2011); Theater Talk
(2014); Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005); To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1972);
To Tell the Truth (1963); Today (1989); Tony Brown's Journal (1978); Touched by
an Angel (1999); Tuesday Morning Ride (1995); Turner Classic Movies Remembers
2014 (2014); TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004); Unchained Memories:
Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003); Unstoppable: Conversation with
Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, and Ossie Davis (2005); Uptight (1968); Video
Girl (2011); Watch Your Mouth (1978); Wattstax (1973); Wedding Band (1974); What
a Guy (1948); What's My Line? (1972); Whitewash (1994); Windmills of the Gods
(1988); Zur Nacht (1970).
