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Davis, Ossie

LC control no.n 82059429
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LC classificationPS3507.A7444
Personal name headingDavis, Ossie
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1917-12-18
Death date2005-02-04
Place of birthCogdell (Ga.)
Place of deathMiami (Fla.)
AffiliationHoward University Columbia University
Emmalyn II Productions Company
Profession or occupationTelevision actors and actresses Motion picture producers and directors Dramatists Community activists Civil rights workers
Found inHis Purlie victorious, c1961.
LEXIS/NEXIS, Sept. 3, 1997: Celebrity bios, c1997 (Davis, Ossie; actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author; b. Dec. 18, 1917; Cogdell, GA; married actress Ruby Dee in 1948; 1961, wrote and starred in Broadway play, "Purlie Victorious")
National Public Radio (NPR) WWW site, Feb. 4, 2005: (Ossie Davis, 87, actor, activist; d. Feb. 4, 2005, Miami, Fla.)
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Davis, Ossie; Raiford Chatman Davis; his name "Ossie" came from a clerk's misunderstanding the pronunciation of the initials "R. C." when recording his birth; stage / screen actor, television actor, motion picture producer / director, dramatist, community activist, civil rights activist); born 18 December 1917 in Cogdell, Georgia, United States; attended Howard University; in 1942 the World War II draft relocated him to Liberia in West Africa, where he served the military for three years as a surgical technician; in 1946 made his Broadway debut; he not only achieved professional succes, but also visible activism for civil rights working with the Congress of Racial Equality, serving as a host for the March on Washington, and giving the eulogy at the funeral of Malcolm X; died 04 February 2005 in Miami, Florida, United States)
African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Davis, Ossie; stage/ screen actor, television actor, motion picture producer/ director, dramatist, community activist, civil rights activist; born 18 December 1917 in Cogdell, Georgia, United States; studied at Howard University, in Washington, D.C for four years; appeared in four plays (1939-1941); performed in fifteen plays (1948-1957); received a Tony Award nomination for Jamaica (1958); finished playwriting class at Columbia University (1947); his play Purlie Victorious (1961) was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical (9170); film and television work began with the film No Way Out (1950); appeared in more than a hundred films- A Man Called Adam (1966), Malcolm X (1992); starred in numerous television dramas and miniseries- Roots (1979), King (1978); wrote three children's books; winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award; directed his first film Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970); founded his own production company with his wife- Emmalyn II Productions Company; Davis and his wife received the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle Award (1994); was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton (1995); received the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the Life Achievement Award (2000); died 04 February 2005 in Miami, Florida, United States)
Associated languageeng