Cast: Ossie Davis

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ossie Davis. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Twelve Angry Men (12 Angry Men) (TV)

1997 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Jack Lemmon · Courtney B. Vance · Ossie Davis · George C. Scott

Plot Made for cable television version of the 1957 classic about eleven jurors quick to condemn a Latino youth on trial for murdering his father before reviewing the evidence. Juror #8...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

The Hill

1965 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Sean Connery · Harry Andrews · Ian Bannen · Alfred Lynch

Plot In a British Army "glasshouse" (military detention camp) in the Libyan Desert, the prisoners are British soldiers convicted of service offences such as insubordination, drunkenness on duty, or profiteering, and...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Roots: The Next Generations (TV Miniseries)

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ernest Kinoy · Georg Stanford Brown · Charles S. Dubin · John Erman

Cast Georg Stanford Brown · Olivia de Havilland · Henry Fonda · Marlon Brando

Plot 14 Episodes -one hour each-. This series continues the story of Alex Haley's family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley's genealogical search to discover his...

7.4

161 votes

7.4

161 votes

Do the Right Thing

1989 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Danny Aiello · Ossie Davis · Ruby Dee · Giancarlo Esposito

Plot It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria....

7.3

12K votes

7.3

12K votes

The Cardinal

1963 · Movie · 175 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Tom Tryon · John Huston · Romy Schneider · Patrick O'Neal

Plot An Irish American priest whose strong commitment to social issues leads him through a labyrinth of church politics and eventually to the upper echelons of Catholic hierarchy as Cardinal. Crossing...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

No Way Out

1950 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Richard Widmark · Sidney Poitier · Linda Darnell · Stephen McNally

Plot The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident...

6.8

731 votes

6.8

731 votes

Jungle Fever

1991 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Annabella Sciorra · Wesley Snipes · Spike Lee · Debi Mazar

Plot A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship...

6.6

7K votes

6.6

7K votes

The Client

1994 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Joel Schumacher

Cast Brad Renfro · Susan Sarandon · Tommy Lee Jones · Mary-Louise Parker

Plot In this taut legal drama a trailer park kid witnesses the suicide of a mob lawyer and is pursued by authorities trying to find out if he knows anything. In...

6.5

28K votes

6.5

28K votes

Baadasssss!

2004 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Mario Van Peebles

Cast Mario Van Peebles · Khleo Thomas · Terry Crews · T.K. Carter

Plot Mario Van Peebles's half documentary/half homage to his father Melvin's 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.

6.5

110 votes

6.5

110 votes

Night Gallery (TV)

1969 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal · Barry Shear · Steven Spielberg

Cast Joan Crawford · Ossie Davis · Richard Kiley · Roddy McDowall

Plot In the pilot of the television series "Night Gallery" (1970), Rod Serling introduces three separate paintings, each with its own story of uncanny vengeance against evil to tell. The first...

6.5

203 votes

6.5

203 votes

Third Watch (TV Series)

1999 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction John Wells · Edward Allen Bernero · Jesús Salvador Treviño · Félix Enríquez Alcalá

Cast Coby Bell · Anthony Ruivivar · Molly Price · Skipp Sudduth

Plot TV Series (1999-2005). The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics in the fictional 55th Precinct.

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Get on the Bus

1996 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Richard Belzer · De'aundre Bonds · André Braugher · Isaiah Washington

Plot Released on the one-year anniversary of the Million Man March, GET ON THE BUS follows nearly 20 African Americans as they ride a bus cross-country to attend the historic event...

6.3

947 votes

6.3

947 votes

The Scalphunters

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

6.1

775 votes

6.1

775 votes

Gladiator

1992 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Miss Evers' Boys (TV)

1997 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Alfre Woodard · Thom Gossom · Von Coulter · Laurence Fishburne

Plot In 1932 Macon County, Alabama, the federal government launched into a medical study called The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis. The study selected 412 men infected with the...

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6.1

37 votes

6.1

37 votes

Harry and Son

1984 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

5.8

724 votes

5.8

724 votes

Bubba Ho-tep

2002 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Don Coscarelli

Cast Bruce Campbell · Ossie Davis · Ella Joyce · Heidi Marnhout

Plot Elvis (Campbell) isn’t dead. He merely swapped places with an impersonator in secret, and is now lying decrepit in a rest home in Texas. But when an Egyptian mummy is...

5.8

3K votes

5.8

3K votes

I'm Not Rappaport

1996 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Herb Gardner

Cast Walter Matthau · Ossie Davis · Amy Irving · Craig T. Nelson

Plot Nat Moyer (Walter Matthau) and Midge Carter (Ossie Davis) are a comically mismatched duo of geriatric New Yorkers, who observe the idiosyncrasies of modern urban life while seated on a...

5.8

156 votes

5.8

156 votes

The Stand (TV Miniseries)

1994 · Series · 366 min. · United States

Direction Mick Garris

Cast Gary Sinise · Molly Ringwald · Jamey Sheridan · Laura San Giacomo

Plot When a government-run lab accidentally lets loose a deadly virus, most of the population of the world is wiped-out. Survivors begin having dreams about two figures: a mystical old woman,...

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes

Grumpy Old Men

1993 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Donald Petrie

Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · Ann-Margret · Daryl Hannah

Plot John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They're continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day,...

5.7

4K votes

5.7

4K votes