أوسي ديفيس

Love in Exile

2026

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

2022 · Self (archive footage)

The Peace!

2005 · Self

Deacons for Defense

2005 · Reverend 'Rev' Gregory

The History Makers: Success

2005 · Self

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

2005 · Self

Unstoppable

2005 · Self

She Hate Me

2004 · Judge Buchanan

Proud

2004 · Lorenzo DuFau

Baadasssss!

2004 · Granddad

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

2004 · Self

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

2003 · Himself

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

2003 · Self

The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars

2003 · Narrator

Bubba Ho-tep

2002 · John F. "Jack" Kennedy

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

2002 · Self

Feast of All Saints

2001 · Jean-Jacques

The Legend of the Candy Cane

2001 · Julius (voice)

Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore

2001 · Narrator

ديناصور

2000 · Yar (voice)

Finding Buck McHenry

2000 · Buck McHenry

Here's to Life!

2000 · Duncan Cox

The Secret Path

1999 · Too Tall

The Unfinished Journey

1999 · Narrator (voice)

The Soul Collector

1999 · Mordecai

A Vow to Cherish

1999 · Alexander Billman

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

1999 · Self

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

1999 · Caretaker

دكتور دوليتل

1998 · Archer Dolittle

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist

1998 · Self

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

1998 · Self

١٢ رجلاً غاضباً

1997 · Juror 2

4 Little Girls

1997 · Self - Actor and Playwright

Miss Evers' Boys

1997 · Mr. Evers

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

1997 · Self

Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers

1997 · Narrator

Get on the Bus

1996 · Jeremiah / 'Pop'

I'm Not Rappaport

1996 · Midge Carter

The Android Affair

1995 · Dr. Winston

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

1995 · Uncle Phil

The Client

1994 · Harry Roosevelt

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

1994 · Uncle Phil

Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World

1994 · Narrator

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

1994 · Self

Grumpy Old Men

1993 · Chuck

Cop & ½

1993 · Detective in Squad Room

The Ernest Green Story

1993 · Grandfather

Goin' Back to T-Town

1993 · Narrator

Gladiator

1992 · Noah

مالكولم إكس

1992 · Eulogy Performer (voice)

The Real Malcolm X

1992

Lincoln

1992 · Frederick Douglas (voice)

Jungle Fever

1991 · Reverend Purify

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991 · Self

Joe Versus the Volcano

1990 · Marshall

The Red Shoes

1990

Do the Right Thing

1989 · Da Mayor

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

1989 · Self

School Daze

1988 · Coach Odom

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

1986 · Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)

Avenging Angel

1985 · Capt. Harry Moradian

Tyler Texas Black Film Collection

1985 · Himself

Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood

1984 · Narrator

Harry & Son

1984 · Raymond

The House of God

1984 · Dr. Sanders

Death of a Prophet

1981

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

1981 · Chuffy Russell

All God's Children

1980 · Blaine Whitfield

Freedom Road

1979 · Narrator

Hot Stuff

1979 · Captain John Geiberger

Freedom Man

1979 · Benjamin Banneker

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

1977 · Dr. Fredericks

The Tenth Level

1976 · Reed

Countdown at Kusini

1976 · Ernest Motapo

Let's Do It Again

1975 · Elder Johnson

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

1975 · Narrator

Wattstax

1973 · Self (uncredited)

Malcolm X

1972 · Eulogy (voice)

The Sheriff

1971 · James Lucas

Kongi's Harvest

1970 · Narrator

Night Gallery

1969 · Osmond Portifoy

Slaves

1969 · Luke

Teacher, Teacher

1969 · Charles Carter

Sam Whiskey

1969 · Jed Hooker

The Fall

1969

The Scalphunters

1968 · Joseph Lee

Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class

1968 · Narrator

Black Liberation

1967 · Narrator

The Outsider

1967 · Lt. Wagner

Now is the Time

1967 · Self

A Man Called Adam

1966 · Nelson Davis

The Hill

1965 · Jacko King

The Sun... the Sand... the Hill

1965 · Jason King (archival footage)

Shock Treatment

1964 · Capshaw

Gone Are the Days!

1963 · Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson

The Cardinal

1963 · Father Gillis

Hands of Inge

1962 · Narrator (voice)

John Brown's Raid

1960 · Dangerfield Newby

Fourteen Hours

1951 · Cab Driver (uncredited)

No Way Out

1950 · John Brooks (uncredited)

Haiti: Killing the Dream

Folk Britannia

2006 · Self (archival footage)

The L Word

2004 · Melvin Porter

TV Revolution

2004

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

2002 · Narrator

Third Watch

1999 · Mr. Parker

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

1998 · Himself - Narrator

Thomas Jefferson

1997 · Narrator (voice)

Promised Land

1996

الغرب

1996 · Self

JAG

1995 · Terrence Minnerly

The Client

1995 · Judge Harry Roosevelt

Touched by an Angel

1994 · Gabriel

The Stand

1994 · Judge Richard Farris

Baseball

1994 · Various (voice)

Alex Haley's Queen

1993 · Parson Dick

Evening Shade

1990 · Ponder Blue

B.L. Stryker

1989 · Oz Jackson

American Experience

1988 · Self - Harlem Resident

American Masters

1986 · Self

Reading Rainbow

1983 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Roots: The Next Generations

1979 · 'Dad' Jones

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978 · Self

King

1978 · Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

Hawaii Five-O

1968 · Ramon Borelle

The Name of the Game

1968 · Kubani

Run for Your Life

1965 · Frankie Morton

12 O'Clock High

1964 · Major Glenn Luke

The Fugitive

1963 · Lt. Johnny Gaines

The Great Adventure

1963 · John Ross

The Defenders

1961 · Nixie

Bonanza

1959 · Sam Davis

Tony Awards

1956 · Self - Presenter

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · Charles Carter

Kraft Television Theatre

1947 · The Emperor Jones