Ossie Davis
Sign in to saveAmerican actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist (1917-2005)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 18 December 1917
- Died
- 04 February 2005
- Works
- 16
Top works
- On trial
- Maggie's American Dream
- With Ossie and Ruby
- Purlie
- Arthur Ashe
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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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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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,394x
- Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 43,128x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 38,885x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,227x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,465x
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Key dates
- Born
- 18 December 1917
- Died
- 4 February 2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Davis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cogdell
- Place of death
- Miami
- Spouse
- Ruby Dee
- Child
- Guy Davis
- Occupation
- playwright
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1917 births2005 deaths20th-century African-American male actors20th-century American male actors21st-century African-American male actors21st-century American male actorsActivists for African-American civil rightsActivists from New York (state)African-American activistsAfrican-American film directorsAfrican-American history of Westchester County, New York