Ossie+Davis

=Ossie Davis= Bibliography: Ossie Davis Biography - Grew Up Poor in the South, Began Acting as Research, Noted Poor Treatment of Blacks

"Biography: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee," //Indiana University,// http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/200.html (March 11, 2005).

"Remembrances: Ossie Davis," //National Public Radio,// [|www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4486027] (March 11, 2005).

"Biography: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee," //Kennedy Center,// [|www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=12124&source_type=A] (March 11, 2005).

"Ossie Davis Found Dead in Miami Hotel Room," //MSNBC,// http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/6914059/ (March 11, 2005).

Bogle, Donald, //Blacks in American Film and Television//, Garland, 1988.

Funke, Lewis, //The Curtain Rises—The Story of Ossie Davis//, Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. = = =His Life Story:=

===Ossie Davis was an actor, activist, playwright, and director. He was born on the morning of December 18, 1917 in Cogdell, Georgia. He attended Howard University after turning down offers to Savannah State College and Tuskegee Institute. His acting career began when he started working for a Harlem theatre company. he also was an active campaigner for civil rights. His first debut was in Broadway in the play "Jeb", about a soldier coming home from war. He co-starred with Ruby Dee real name (Ruby Ann Wallace) which made a love spark on the set, they married two years later which expanded for more than 50 years. They were the two most powerful couples in their time. they attended civil rights meetings and marches, they were involved in many big projects in help to save african victims in poverty. It was a tragedy when he was found dead in a Miami hotel while he was working on a movie, he died on February 4. 2005.===

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Ossie Davis writings brought him real sucess it was not until 1961 that he realized his talent of writing, so from there on he began to write plays and films. One of his most successful films was "Cotton Comes to Harlem" where he made his first debut as a film diresctor, the film was a landmark of black cinema. Davis was known to make a comical of films like these it was one of the first black films to make money it opened the way for a wave of picture about blacks, which davis took it in a way to make a comical out of it, it was called what it is now known today as "blaxplotation" films. Mostly through the 1960's that's when he started to earn his money doing movies, episodes, and in t.v. shows the included "School Daze (1988)", "Do the Right Thing (1989)", "Grumpy Old Men (1993)", "She Hate Me ( 2004)", and many others. Through this time he was now known to be called one of the most serious black directors of his era.======

He was a well known leader, devoted father, journalist and activist to all. His soul will still be known today all his graeatest achievements have paved the way to all young people in the world to look up to. Ossie Davis works of arts are appreciated in a memoir book written by his wife Ruby Dee of 55 years. I have learned a lot from researching him because he has taught me to have goals and to be a leader in what I do, so Ossie Davis life will still be remembered.

=In Memory Of=

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=//Ossie Davis 1917-2005// By: Shanice Lee=