Beah Richards

acting

1. Beah: A Black Woman Speaks → Self (archive footage)
2. Beloved → Baby Suggs
3. The Practice (TV) → Gertrude Turner
4. ER (TV) → Mae Benton
5. Out of Darkness → Mrs. Cooper
6. The John Larroquette Show (TV) → Emma
7. Hearts Afire (TV) → Miss Lula
8. One Special Victory → Cora Simms
9. Capital News (TV) → Etta Mays
10. Zora is My Name!
11. Family Matters (TV) → Helen
12. Drugstore Cowboy → Drug Counselor
13. Homer and Eddie → Linda Cervi
14. CBS Summer Playhouse (TV) → Katherine
15. Frank's Place (TV)
16. Big Shots → Miss Hanks
17. Beauty and the Beast (TV) → Narcissa
18. Inside Out → Verna
19. L.A. Law (TV) → Eleanor Williams
20. Matlock (TV) → Martha Jordan
21. Designing Women (TV)
22. Acceptable Risks → Sally Framm
23. As Summers Die → Elvira Backus
24. 227 (TV)
25. Generation → Edna
26. And the Children Shall Lead → Miss Annie
27. Murder, She Wrote (TV) → Ola Mae
28. Murder, She Wrote (TV) → Emma Coop
29. Highway to Heaven (TV)
30. Hunter (TV) → Ella Mae Fuller / Pockets
31. Punky Brewster (TV)
32. The Hitchhiker (TV) → Serita
33. St. Elsewhere (TV) → Regina
34. Hill Street Blues (TV)
35. The Sophisticated Gents (TV) → Mae Porter
36. Palmerstown, U.S.A. (TV)
37. A Christmas Without Snow → Wendell's Grandma
38. The Facts of Life (TV)
39. Roots: The Next Generations (TV) → Cynthia Palmer
40. Banjo the Woodpile Cat → Zazu (voice)
41. Vega$ (TV)
42. Ring of Passion → Lilly Brooks
43. Just an Old Sweet Song → Grandma
44. Mahogany → Florence
45. The Magician (TV) → Mrs. Thatcher
46. A Dream for Christmas → Grandma Bessie
47. Outrage! → Thelma
48. Sanford and Son (TV)
49. The Biscuit Eater → Charity Tomlin
50. Footsteps → Jessie Blake
51. The Great White Hope → Mama Tiny
52. Room 222 (TV)
53. The Bill Cosby Show (TV) → Rose Kincaid
54. Hawaii Five-O (TV) → Mama Grant
55. It Takes a Thief (TV) → Sister Martha Gowen
56. Ironside (TV)
57. In the Heat of the Night → Mama Caleba
58. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner → Mrs. Prentice
59. Hurry Sundown → Rose Scott
60. The Big Valley (TV) → Hannah
61. Gone Are the Days! → Idella Landy
62. The Miracle Worker → Viney (uncredited)
63. Dr. Kildare (TV) → Alice
64. Take a Giant Step → May Scott
65. The Mugger → Grecco Maid