Ossie Davis

Person · Open Library

Born

18 December 1917

Died

04 February 2005

Works

16

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Film & TV

Acting · Cogdell, Georgia, USA

Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, director, writer, and activist. He may be best known for his roles in Spike Lee-directed films such as School Daze (1988) and Do the Right Thing (1989). Other films Davis acted in include The Hill (1965), A Man Called Adam (1966), Let's Do It Again (1975), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), Grumpy Old Men…

Known for

• Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self (archive footage)2022
• Folk Britannia — Self (archival footage)2006
• The Peace! — Self2005
• By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' — Self2005
• Unstoppable — Self2005
• Deacons for Defense — Reverend 'Rev' Gregory2005
• The History Makers: Success — Self2005
• Baadasssss! — Granddad2004
• Beah: A Black Woman Speaks — Self2004
• Proud — Lorenzo DuFau2004

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1917

Active to

2005

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,206

Total plays

2,681

Ossie Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist. Davis was born Raiford Chatman Davis in Cogdell, Clinch County, Georgia. The name Ossie came from a county clerk who misheard his mother's pronunciation of his initials "R.C." when he was born.[1] Following the wishes of his parents, he attended Howard University but dropped out in 1939 to pursue his acting career in New York; he later attended Columbia Univers

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 51,083x

2. Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology

   · 1989 · cited 45,525x

3. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

   · 2009 · cited 39,702x

4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,910x

5. User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1

   · 2003 · cited 31,120x

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Quotes

• “Performing artists are less political today than they were years ago because they're not called on to be political”
• “We have freedom. What we don't have is equality!”
• “They knew what to say because it fell into the existing rhetoric”
• “The struggle and the arts are connected almost by definition”
• “I had a sense of certainty that no matter how dark it is now, one of these days it'll change.”
• “Optimism is small and personal”

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Key facts

Born

Raiford Chatman Davis , ( 1917-12-18 ) December 18, 1917, Cogdell, Georgia , U.S.

Died

February 4, 2005 (2005-02-04) (aged 87), Miami Beach , Florida , U.S.

Education

Columbia University

Occupations

Actor director poet playwright author activist

Years active

1939–2005

Spouse

Ruby Dee ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1948 ) ​

Children

3, including Guy Davis

via Wikipedia infobox