Ruby Dee

acting

1. Hollywood Black (TV) → Self (archive footage)
2. Poitier's Walter Lee → Self (archive footage)
3. Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee → Self
4. Betty and Coretta → Narrator
5. Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal → Self
6. A Thousand Words → Annie McCall
7. Video Girl → Valerie
8. The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll → Miss Candy
9. Politics of Love
10. America → Mrs. Harper
11. A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School → Narrator (voice)
12. American Gangster → Mama Lucas
13. All About Us → Ms. Ella
14. Steam → Doris
15. Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson → Self
16. In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema → Herself
17. No. 2 → Nanna Maria
18. The Way Back Home → Maude
19. Discovering William Greaves → Self
20. Iconoclasts (TV) → Self
21. Their Eyes Were Watching God → Nanny
22. TV in Black: The First Fifty Years → (archive footage)
23. Beah: A Black Woman Speaks → Self
24. Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
25. Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years (TV) → Narrator
26. Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun' → Self
27. Feast of All Saints → Elsie Claviere
28. Taking Back Our Town → Emelda West
29. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV) → Mary Wilson
30. A Storm in Summer → Grandmother
31. Finding Buck McHenry → Mrs. Henry
32. Little Bill (TV)
33. Baby Geniuses → Margo
34. The Unfinished Journey → Narrator (voice)
35. Paul Robeson: Here I Stand → Self
36. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years → Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
37. Passing Glory → Mommit Porter
38. The Wall → Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
39. Christianity: The First 1000 Years (TV) → Herself - Narrator
40. Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood → Self
41. A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner → Narrator
42. Sports on the Silver Screen → Self (archive footage)
43. A Simple Wish → Hortence
44. Captive Heart: The James Mink Story → Indigo
45. Mr. and Mrs. Loving → Sophia
46. Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV) → Grandma (voice)
47. Just Cause → Evangeline Ferguson
48. Tuesday Morning Ride → Jennie
49. Touched by an Angel (TV) → LaBelle Springbelt
50. The Stand (TV) → Mother Abagail Freemantle
51. Whitewash → Grandmother (voice)
52. Cop & ½ → Rachel
53. The Ernest Green Story → Lydia Wilson
54. After Goodbye → Narrator
55. Middle Ages (TV) → Estelle Williams
56. Color Adjustment → Narrator
57. Jungle Fever → Lucinda Purify
58. Jazztime Tale → Narrator (voice)
59. Love at Large → Corrine Dart
60. Decoration Day → Rowena
61. The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson → Jackie's Mother
62. Zora is My Name! → Zora Neale Hurston
63. Do the Right Thing → Mother Sister
64. Making 'Do the Right Thing' → Self
65. American Experience (TV) → Narrator (voice)
66. China Beach (TV)
67. Lincoln (TV) → Elizabeth Keckley
68. The Golden Girls (TV) → Mammy Watkins
69. Spenser: For Hire (TV)
70. The Atlanta Child Murders (TV) → Faye Williams
71. Go Tell It on the Mountain → Mrs. Grimes
72. Reading Rainbow (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
73. Cat People → Female
74. Long Day's Journey Into Night → Mary Tyrone
75. All God's Children → Irene Whitfield
76. The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
77. Roots: The Next Generations (TV) → Queen Haley
78. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings → Grandmother Baxter
79. The Kennedy Center Honors (TV) → Self
80. Countdown at Kusini → Leah Matanzima
81. Police Woman (TV)
82. It's Good to Be Alive → Ruth Campanella
83. Wedding Band → Julia Augustine
84. Chelsea D.H.O. → Dr. Bianca Pearson
85. Buck and the Preacher → Ruth
86. To Be Young, Gifted and Black → Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
87. Black Girl → Netta's mother
88. On Merit → Narrator (voice)
89. Great Performances (TV) → Self
90. The Sheriff → Sue Ann Lucas
91. King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis → Self (archive footage)
92. Deadlock → Lucinda
93. The Dick Cavett Show (TV) → Self - Guest
94. Uptight → Laurie
95. The Incident → Joan Robinson
96. Now is the Time → Self
97. Neighbours → Vicky Kingsbury
98. The Fugitive (TV) → Laura Smith
99. The Great Adventure (TV) → Harriet Tubman
100. The Balcony → Thief
101. Gone Are the Days! → Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
102. The Defenders (TV) → Catherine Collins
103. A Raisin in the Sun → Ruth Younger
104. Take a Giant Step → Christine
105. Virgin Island → Ruth
106. St. Louis Blues → Elizabeth
107. Edge of the City → Lucy Tyler
108. Armchair Theatre (TV) → Vicky Kingsbury
109. Go Man Go → Irma Jackson
110. The Oscars (TV) → Self
111. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Rowena Finch
112. The Tall Target → Rachel
113. No Way Out → Connie Brooks (uncredited)
114. The Jackie Robinson Story → Rae Robinson
115. What a Guy
116. The Fight Never Ends
117. Easy to Get → Drugstore Girl
118. Love in Syncopation
119. That Man of Mine → Joan