Cast: Ossie Davis
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ossie Davis. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 61
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
Direction Sydney Pollack
Cast Burt Lancaster · Shelley Winters · Telly Savalas · Ossie Davis
6.1
775 votes
6.1
775 votes
Gladiator
1992 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Rowdy Herrington
Cast James Marshall · Cuba Gooding Jr. · Robert Loggia · Ossie Davis
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...
6.1
37 votes
6.1
37 votes
Harry and Son
1984 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Paul Newman
Cast Paul Newman · Robby Benson · Joanne Woodward · Ossie Davis
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